Comments on: Getting SharePoint Calendar Reminders in Outlook

By: BL in Boise

BL in Boise — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 03:01:01 +0000

Never mind, I figured it out. It was showing all of my events because I created a calendar just to test this out. As it turns out, the time zone is off. When I added the “StartTime” column to my view, my all-day events showed as starting at 6:00pm the day before. I have no access to the server side of things, so I just changed the events to start at 8:00am.

By: BL in Boise

BL in Boise — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 02:47:38 +0000

I am running into an issue with the filter. I can't get it to filter out events on other days. Instead, it just shows all of the events in the calendar. I created the column and it seems to be working correctly, so I think the problem is in my filter. Should I be using “[Today]” as the filter or is there some other value that should be there? I am using WSS and Office 2007.

By: Paul Liebrand

Paul Liebrand — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 07:32:22 +0000

Lisa,

Unfortunately the views you setup on a SharePoint calendar are not translated in anyway to Outlook once you have connected the calendar. This is by design.

Paul Liebrand

By: Lisa

Lisa — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 03:36:47 +0000

I know that this was an older blog, but several of the issues noted with RSS subscription, etc. still appear to be issues. I am trying to take a filtered calendar view and show it via a calendar in Outlook, but the filters in the view don't seem to copy over. Any suggestions?

By: skvcmail

skvcmail — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 23:43:40 +0000

Hi Paul, Very good,,,, man…you are very smart and have good brain to think a work around like this. This problem both time difference and automated reminder handling is faced by all the clients of Microsoft who use of Sharepoint. Hope you highlighted this issue directly to them. I had escalated a mapping issue in MSCRM and outlook Contact field , company , in crm 3.0 which they solved very quickly and informed me. Calendar is of no use without Reminders. So pls escalate this issue . Thank you, Sir

By: skvcmail

skvcmail — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:43:40 +0000

By: Alysson

Alysson — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:38:09 +0000

Hi…
My SP use SSL and password. The RSS don’t connect with sites with SSL and password?
In this case, i don’t have solution for my reminder?
What’s the use of calendars if i don’t have reminders?

Thanks for the help..

Alysson

By: liebrand

liebrand — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:46:56 +0000

Nobody from Microsoft has contact me regarding the time difference issue with alerts, etc., so I have no idea if they are listening. My guess is a support incident will have to be opened with them for any action to take place. Microsoft in the past has been really good about resolving issues they consider bugs. I am just surprised that after two service packs and a number of hot fixes this issue has not been addressed.

I am starting to wonder if there is truly a problem or a configuration issue. I have checked and double checked my setup and everything appears to be configured correctly but the time difference issue remains.

By: Kerri

Kerri — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 06:01:41 +0000

Liebrand, you are the best! I have huge dents in my head from banging it on my desk trying to find out a solution to this ridiculous problem. Now my only issue is that I cannot copy the RSS feed. I will get some help here from IT about why that is and then I can see your instructions are pretty straightforward. NOw if we can deal with the timezone issue. Do you think Microsoft is listening? Well, here is hoping for 2010. Thanks again, Kerri

By: Rod

Rod — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:22:12 +0000

Great tip – thanks for that. I am testing outlook 2007 so it works but unfortuatly the majority of my org is still on outlook 2003.
I also have the similar problem to those above with the timezone issue where the StartTime (and thus alert notification) was an hour after actual time, I am London based and this may be due to shifting to Summer Time? Our server is set to Central time. I have an alert set up on the calendar list and it came through fine, but the ‘modified date’ shows Central Time and the SatrtTime that the alert email displays shows the correct time! (not an hour off!). I have all my personal regional settings set to London time GMT. We have SP1 intstalled.
Thanks again for the posting though