Review http://www.slipstick.com/calendar/ but I can't comment further since you left crucial details about Outlook (any version) as to CW or IMO mode and not a word about an Exchange Server.
Best of luck,
Bob
All right, so here is what is going on. I work on the IT staff for a small financial group. They need to be able to schedule meetings and send invitation requests. Some of them are using Outlook 2002 and others- most others- are using Outlook 2000. When someone sends an invitation request to someone who is running Outlook 2000 they simply get it as an email with no accept/decline buttons and a bunch of code in the mail.
Copy of the code: (*'s have been applied to items like IP addresses, computer names, company email address's, employee names, etc. for the sake of privacy and security.)
Received: from **************** ([**.***.**.**])
by mail.*************.com (Merak 7.6.4) with ESMTP id LPC74557
for <********@********.com>; Wed, 20 Jul 2005 16:48:43 -0600
From: "**** *******" <********@********.com>
To: "'**** ******'" <********@********.com>
Subject: ********
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 16:50:39 -0600
Message-ID: <***************************************@****************>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/calendar; method=REQUEST;
charset="utf-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Priority: 3 (Normal)
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.6626
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180
Importance: Normal
BEGIN:VCALENDAR
PRODID:-//Microsoft Corporation//Outlook 10.0 MIMEDIR//EN
VERSION:2.0
METHOD:REQUEST
BEGIN:VEVENT
ATTENDEE;CN="**** ******";ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;RSVP=TRUE:MAILTO:********@********.com
ORGANIZER:MAILTO:********@********.com
DTSTART:20050721T163000Z
DTEND:20050721T173000Z
TRANSP:OPAQUE
SEQUENCE![]()
UID:040000008200E00074C5B7101A82E00800000000501B2C284B8DC5010000000000000000100
00000733F80476730624C8BBA90BA2D4B4E1E
DTSTAMP:20050720T225038Z
DESCRIPTION:When: Thursday\, July 21\, 2005 10:30 AM-11:30 AM (GMT-07:00)
Mountain Time (US & Canada).\n\n*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*\n\n ***** ****** ***** ** ****** *** *****\n
SUMMARY:*******
PRIORITY:5
CLASS:PUBLIC
BEGIN:VALARM
TRIGGER:-PT5M
ACTION:DISPLAY
DESCRIPTION:Reminder
END:VALARM
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR
I have researched this issue. A lot of people are saying if the sender unchecks the reminder checkbox that the Outlook 2000 clients will be able to recieve the message. That might be true, but not in this case. I have tried that and the problem still exists. Not only that, to further troubleshoot the issue I installed Outlook 2000 on my own machine. I updated it to SP3 (as I have done with the other 2000 machiens in the office) and I recieved invitations just fine. With or without the reminder box being checked. So, it is working on my system but no one elses and I have no idea why. I also have SP2 installed for XP though and some of these outlook 2000 machines may not have that. Could that be it? To my knowledge I haven't installed any extra updates to my machine that haven't been applied to the others. (With the exception of Windows XP SP2). If you have possible suggestions please reply. ![]()

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