Outlook Calendar Invite

[thamadness]

Does anyone know how to get an outlook calendar invite to show when you receive an email from your pop client? This is not using the gmail client. This is when you use the other pop email client that you can set up. I receive the email, but the email is blank and I dont have the ability to accept or decline the appointment. Is there an app for this? Any help is appreciated! Thanks

 

[thamadness]

anyone??

 

[SaltheTech]

you must go to your calendar under agenda or monthly view. thats what works for me on exchange. unless the person sent an actual message in the calendar appointment you will not see the message.

 

[WasatchRocks]

Does anyone know how to get an outlook calendar invite to show when you receive an email from your pop client? This is not using the gmail client. This is when you use the other pop email client that you can set up. I receive the email, but the email is blank and I dont have the ability to accept or decline the appointment. Is there an app for this? Any help is appreciated! Thanks

I have the same issue when my wife sends me a meeting request using Outlook 2010 and looking at the meeting request in the stock email app.

If I forward the email via the webmail client to my work email account, which uses Outlook 2007, I can then accept the meeting request without any issues.

Is your meeting request coming from a user generating the request from Outlook 2010?

I am wondering if there is an Outlook 2010 compatibility issue with the stock email app

 

[thamadness]

Not sure if it was from 2010 or 2007. It's crazy to me that you cant accept or even see the calendar invite in the stock mail or that theres not an app that allows you to see this. Tons of people still use outlook. I thought this would be the reason to have another mail client on the phone besides gmail. This is a huge problem for me.

 

[FrankXS]

Not sure if it was from 2010 or 2007. It's crazy to me that you cant accept or even see the calendar invite in the stock mail or that theres not an app that allows you to see this. Tons of people still use outlook. I thought this would be the reason to have another mail client on the phone besides gmail. This is a huge problem for me.

Honestly, MS Outlook compatibility is a huge problem for a lot of people on all Android phones. Even the various 3rd party syncing programs don't' get it 100 percent right. Unfortunate, but true. It is one of my gripes too. But this is the penalty you pay for sidestepping the Windows Phone 7. Having the MS Office 2010 Suite and MS Outlook 2010 apps pre-installed on a Windows Phone 7 is something MS is very proud of.

Also, the "syncing" thing has moved away from local hardware syncing (i.e. phone to Laptop or PC) and it now pretty much is cloud based, even with Windows Phone 7. Believe it or not, Windows Phone 7 does NOT support syncing to MS Outlook on your Laptop or PC. It only syncs to the "cloud" via the Internet. Just thought you'd be interested to know that. Maybe not

-Frank

 

[robrecht]

Honestly, MS Outlook compatibility is a huge problem for a lot of people on all Android phones. Even the various 3rd party syncing programs don't' get it 100 percent right. Unfortunate, but true. It is one of my gripes too. But this is the penalty you pay for sidestepping the Windows Phone 7. Having the MS Office 2010 Suite and MS Outlook 2010 apps pre-installed on a Windows Phone 7 is something MS is very proud of. ...

+1 I would not even consider an Android phone until there was Exchange sync support, which was only first advertized out of the box with the Dinc IIRC. I don't know how much momentum there is to continue to improve the integration and work out the many little incompatibilities. I wonder if there's a list somewhere. We should make some noise about this.

 

[robrecht]

Does anyone know how to get an outlook calendar invite to show when you receive an email from your pop client? This is not using the gmail client. This is when you use the other pop email client that you can set up. I receive the email, but the email is blank and I dont have the ability to accept or decline the appointment. Is there an app for this? Any help is appreciated! Thanks

I'm assuming you sync to a MS Exchange server at work for emails, calendar, and contacts. I just tried a test and I see all the details of the meeting. I thought I've had the ability to accept/decline meetings, but now I'm not so sure. Will perform some more tests at work with colleagues if I can find the time. In the meantime, I contacted a developer of related software to ask who is working on some of these problems. Will contact some more (again, if I can find the time). Suggest others here do the same. We need to find the developers who are working in this area and support them.

 

[Bakerboy2253]

I have read many complaints about Outlook sync issues, all of them. I was also having the issues. I am currently testing TOUCHDOWN. It?s a 30 days free trail and then $14.95 if you like. So far it?s been the best app for syncing everything from outlook to the TB. I would highly recommend testing it.

 

[FrankXS]

+1 I would not even consider an Android phone until there was Exchange sync support, which was only first advertized out of the box with the Dinc IIRC. I don't know how much momentum there is to continue to improve the integration and work out the many little incompatibilities. I wonder if there's a list somewhere. We should make some noise about this.

I'm sure you know this, but JFTR, MS Outlook is not Exchange, of course. I'd venture to say that well over 50 percent of the MS Outlook usage is NOT with MS Exchange. It's a very good email client in its own right.

-Frank

 

[thamadness]

thanks for the input guys. Frustrating. One of the things I miss about blackberry, but the benefits outweigh the negative. Im not using outlook on an exhange server. I will take a look at touchdown and see what I can find. If I run into anything else, I'll post it here.

 

[robrecht]

I'm sure you know this, but JFTR, MS Outlook is not Exchange, of course. I'd venture to say that well over 50 percent of the MS Outlook usage is NOT with MS Exchange. It's a very good email client in its own right.

-Frank

Outlook is fine, and I have no idea of what the percentages are, but it always seemed to me as if the Exchange business community threw around a lot weight in getting Windows Mobile up to speed. Now that the new Windows Phone platform seems to have abandoned the business user, I'm hoping that someone will help bring Android aboard for business users.

 

[yoen]

If the meeting request is an ICS file, there are third party apps for that. I use a good one - ICS 2 Calendar
https://forums.androidcentral.com/e.../details?id=com.pdac.icsparser&token=rBGKhPK4, it's a free app.