One of the office people I support is having problems with meeting requests.  When he accepts the meeting, Outlook 2003 automatically tags it as a recurring meeting indefinitely.  This is the case whether it is supposed to be recurring or not.  I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling Outlook 2003 as well as the entire Office 2003 suite.  I have deleted his Outlook profile and recreated it.  Any ideas?  This is a new machine, with new installs and this is the only incident in our office of 80+ users.

 

Hi Mike

After asking around, I learned that some have experienced this with a new Dell machine. Dell has preinstalled some utilities on certain hardware (such as a Cyberlink utility for Dell's MediaDirect feature).

What you might look for is "Outlookaddinsetup" in Add/Remove programs. You can safely remove this and new appointments will not have the recurring bug. Appointments already affected would have to be changed manually.

Dell's MediaDirect feature wants access to Outlook's contacts and calendar: http://www.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/odg/media_direct_jump?c=us&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd

William

I also have a problem with outlook appointments, on a Dell Latitude D630, I can't create an appointment in the calendar, taking in consideration that my Outlook 2003 is synchronized with a blackberry.When I double click on the calendar nothing happens.