Outlook calendar has gone mad!

[bigwilliestyle]

Hi,

First time caller, long time listener...

Never had much luck with DI and Outlook Exchange 2003 calendar sync. With 2.1, it would sync successfully about once a week. Unfortunately not horribly useful as my calendar can be quite dynamic.

Moving on to Froyo flavor, this was the one area I was hoping for better stability/support (Outlook 2003 Exchange sync). Everything else was just gravy.

Instead ends up wrecking havoc with my calendar. Duplicating many entries many times for the same time slot (though not necessarily all... don't see a pattern; some are recurring, some are one-time, some were created by me, some by others...)

Even more maddening, ends up continuously re-posting reminders for past events (from many years ago to current). 100s at a time, every couple seconds, results in crashing Outlook after a few dismissals.

Disabling Exchange calendar sync on the phone restores order to the world.

Anyone share my pain?

 

[anon(39328)]

Oh GOD yes. I definitely do share your pain. I have a post similar to yours in the general chat board, but I'm going to copy/paste it here:


So today, I decided to do a factory reset on my Dinc after a failed attempt with the leaked RUU (Same USB failure that many others are talking about in the Dinc board). Probably wasn't necessary to do a factory reset, but figured it would be nice to have everything fairly fresh before finally receiving the OTA. I've done factory resets before with no problem, but this one didn't go so well. When the phone finally booted up and dialed *228 to activate, I found myself on the US Cellular network instead of Verizon. After fiddling with it for awhile and getting nowhere, I finally went to the Verizon store for help. They had it fixed within a few minutes (apparently *22800 fixes this, in case it happens to anybody else), but that's when everything went south.

I began getting a lot of meeting request messages from many different corporate contacts from work to my Gmail address, which has never happened before. Took me awhile to figure out what was going on, but it became clear once I got back home.

I use Google Calendar Sync program on my work computer to sync my Outlook Calendar with my Gmail Calendar. Up until now, it has been a nifty tool that prevents me from being late for meetings. It's supposed to be a one way sync from Outlook to Gmail, but today it wasn't for some reason. After my phone restored and found itself back on the Verizon network, my Gmail calendar began sending out meeting requests for all meetings in my calendar (future and past). Even if I wasn't the meeting organizer, it changed me to be the meeting organizer and emailed requests to everyone originally invited. I don't mean just a few requests were sent out... HUNDREDS were sent out all across North America, including a few to the CEO and VP. I really dread going to work Monday to hear from so many people about how I borked their Outlook calendar.

Anyways... Over and done with until Monday, I suppose. Will not be using the Calendar sync tool anymore. LOL If anybody has any idea why this happened, please let me know.

After checking into this, it's apparently a known issue with Google Cal Sync. Just a heads up for you guys in case you decide to give it a try... don't! LOL

Google Calendar Sync sending erroneous notifications! - Calendar Help

 

[krelvinaz]

I switched to touchdown for exchange 2.x and have never looked back.

Syncing cal, contacts and mail just works as does searching the gal etc.

 

[bigwilliestyle]

Diggity; different issue, but has similarities. Good luck with that.

Mine is over ActiveSync. Doesn't actually send new events (especially to others), just duplicates and reminders, over and over and over.

 

[bigwilliestyle]

I am thinking of trying Touchdown. I think it's generally BS. Enough of the world is still on exchange 2003, that it should be supported better.

 

[krelvinaz]

I look at it this way...

A major hunk of my job is simply answering questions about problems. Most of those questions are trivial to me, but to the person asking like my boss, a coworker or a client, very important to them. I'm on call basically 7x24. My phone gives me the ability to do that part of my job from just about anywhere I happen to be, without having to drop what I'm doing, either go home to login or worse, go into work, just to answer a question...

That gives me a lot of freedom in schedules, when I need to be places etc...

That freedom is worth a LOT to me... and as a result, if I have to pay a measly $20 to get a tool that gives me excellent email, calendar/appointments and contact management, it is certainly worth it.

Free, included apps don't mean much to me if they don't work, are hard to use or I have to fix them all the time. MY time is worth much more than that.

Just because the HTC Mail app is "free" and comes with the phone doesn't mean much to me if it doesn't work or is hard to use.

Should it have better support for Exchange.. sure it should, but I've been past that since about the day after I got my Pre-Launched ordered phone. It has been a non-issue, all for a measly $20.

The key to touchdown is to make sure you get the correct version. If you search for touchdown, you will most likely see the wrong one. Search for "Exchange for Android 2.X" by NitroDesk.

 

[anon(39328)]

Diggity; different issue, but has similarities. Good luck with that.

Mine is over ActiveSync. Doesn't actually send new events (especially to others), just duplicates and reminders, over and over and over.

My bad. I guess I was spot reading last night and was thinking it was basically the same issue. Hope you get it figured out.

 

[wckesq]

Touchdown is well worth the money. I got my Dinc yesterday, used the HTC activesync for a day and bought Touchdown today. I came from a Storm2 and am loving Droid and Touchdown. Works great.