Better yet, simply set an exception in your message rules for appointment items.
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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
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After furious head scratching, schneid asked:
| I spent some time figuring out the solution today and here it is.
| You just need to create a new personal folders, move the stuff that
| you want to keep, and close the old personal folders.
|
| Problem:
|
| When you accept a meeting in Outlook, it is putting it into
| your Calendar in your Personal Folders instead of the Calendar in
| your mailbox on the server.
|
| I have mail filters that move all mail from my server Inbox to an
| Inbox in my Personal Folders as soon as it is received. When I
| accept a meeting, it should go into my Calendar on the server. At
| least, that's what it did for the last 18 months. Suddenly, it
| started moving the meetings into the Calendar in my Personal Folders
| instead.
|
| Microsoft says:
| This behavior can occur because after the .pst file is set as the
| default delivery point, Outlook never resets the header information
| in the file, even when the .pst file is no longer a delivery point
| for messages.
|
| However, there is no way to reset the .pst file to NOT be the
| default delivery point. So you need to create a new personal
| folders file and delete the old one.
|
| Solution:
|
| First, check to see if you have the correct
| Outlook -> Tools -> Email Accounts ->
| View or change existing e-mail accounts ->
| should say
| Deliver new e-mail to the following location:
| Mailbox, your name here
|
| If it says "Personal Folders", then that's why it's putting the
| meetings into the calendar in Personal Folders. Try changing it
| to "Mailbox, your name here". However, I won't be surprised if
| that doesn't work. If it doesn't work, you still need to follow
| these directions.
|
| Here is the solution for Outlook 2003. I assume a similar solution
| might work for other versions.
|
| 1. First, make a copy of your Personal folders file, just in case.
| Mine was located in
| D:\Documents and Settings\mylogin\Local Settings\Application Data
| \Microsoft\Outlook
| and was called Personal Folders.pst.
|
| 2. Disable your mail filters. Tools -> Rules and Alerts -> uncheck
| the rules and click OK.
|
| 3. Create a new personal folder in Outlook. Outlook -> Tools ->
| Email Accounts -> View or change existing e-mail accounts -> click
| New Outlook Data File
|
| 4. Move whichever folders you want from your old Personal folder to
| your new Personal Folder. DON'T MOVE THE CALENDAR. I don't use
| the calendar in my Personal Folder, and once it is created, you
| can't delete it. I only want the single calendar on the server
| so that it is accessible by everyone checking for my availability.
|
| 5. Close the old Personal Folders from Outlook - don't pick the wrong
| one!
| (right-click, choose "Close Personal Folders"
|
| 6. Re-enable your mail filters. You might need to fix them.
|
| That's it. This worked for me.
|
| Note that you still have the old Personal Folders .pst file
| accessible from Outlook - so you don't need to move all your
| Deleted Items, for example. You can do a File -> Open -> Outlook
| Data File to open up the old folders. (But don't forget to close
| them or you will have the calendar problem again.)
|
| There is some useful information in this Microsoft article:
|
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/293051
| However, the steps are for Outlook 2000, PLUS I was afraid to import
| the personal folders for fear of pulling in the bad data.
|
| - schneid
|
|
|
|| Under "Deliver new email to the following location: "
|| it is set to
|| Mailbox - Schneider, Michael
|| which is correct.
||
|| The problem is that I have all messages filtered into another inbox
|| in my Personal Folders. Now, when I accept a meeting from the Inbox
|| in my Personal Folders, it's going into theCalendarin my Personal
|| Folders instead of theCalendaron the server.
||
|| You might suspect that it should work this way. However, it's been
|| working the way that I wanted it to for the last 18 months and
|| suddenly just changed.
||
|| - schneid
||
||
||
||
|||| I have seen this happen years ago and was presented with the same
|||| solution. This has just happened to me again - meetings that I
|||| accepted were going into the correctcalendarin my account on the
|||| Outlook server, and now suddenly when I accept them, they go into
|||| the wrongcalendarin my Personal Folders.
||
||| Click Tools>E-mail Accounts>Next and see where you've set your
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