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iPhone re-sends meeting invite

Asked by: ajruiz

A meeting invite was created in Outlook 2003 and sent to a distribution list.  The invite was sent out multiple times at various times.  When tracked down it originated from the iPhone.  The meeting invite was not touched from the iPhone.  Is there a glitch with meeting invites and iPhone?  The organizer has sent invites in the past with no issues.

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Answers

 

by: DelphineousPosted on 2009-06-24 at 15:56:47ID: 24706692

Was the meeting invitation sent to the iPhone or is the iPhone synchronizing the mailbox with a server?

 

by: ajruizPosted on 2009-06-24 at 16:40:18ID: 24706942

Meeting invite was sent from a client using Outlook 2003 using Exchange 2003.  iPhone synchronizes with Exchange server.

 

by: DelphineousPosted on 2009-06-25 at 14:44:52ID: 24716328

Check that the ActiveSync (Exchange) server has the latest service pack and CDO objects.  I have had issues with meeting requests that synchronize to iPhones and Windows Mobile devices tht were resolved by updating the CDO objects to the current revision - Your CDO.DLL, DAVEX.DLL, EXCDO.DLL and CDOEX.DLL should be at least version 6.5.7654.1.

 

by: MABradshawIIPosted on 2009-07-21 at 14:26:13ID: 24909509

Delphineous,
Exchange 2007 has stopped updating these MAPI's with the install.

Starting with Exchange 2007, neither the Messaging API (MAPI) client libraries nor CDO 1.2.1 are provided as a part of the base product installation. As a result, there is functionality missing that many applications depend on. Microsoft Exchange MAPI and CDO 1.2.1 provide access to these APIs.

 

by: MABradshawIIPosted on 2009-07-21 at 14:45:15ID: 24909673

Delphineous,

I already had the CDO objects 1.2.1 installed on my Win2k8 Exch2k7 server, and I have an Iphone user with the same issue.  Any more ideas?

 

by: DelphineousPosted on 2009-07-22 at 08:39:48ID: 24916316

Hi MABradshawII - The original poster is using Exchange 2003, perhaps I do not understand your reference to Exchange 2007.

 

by: SubsunPosted on 2009-07-22 at 10:54:17ID: 24917734

Did you try by updating iPhone firmware?

 

by: perrytdiPosted on 2009-07-29 at 05:31:09ID: 24969431

ajruiz,
I am having a very similar problem.  I want to prove to myself however that the request is indeed being sent by the iphone.  How did you determine the iphone was the sending device and not Outlook?

 

by: ajruizPosted on 2009-07-29 at 09:43:59ID: 24972022

The message tracking center indicated it was sent from a SMTP address not the Display Name and the message header was coming from our front-end server which is used for OMA.

Since this was occuring only when sending our company wide invites, we created a mailbox for sending these type of mass invites.

 

by: RealLivingPosted on 2009-08-20 at 08:12:46ID: 25143525

We have the same issue as the original poster.  Exchange 2003 is fully updated (including CDO/etc version 6.5.7654.12) and Clients are Outlook 2003.  We have several iPhone users including at least one 3GS firmware 3.01 and they are having the same issues.  It seems that when they send a meeting request, they get one or more copies of the request themselves (which normally doesn't happen, I believe).  When they go to delete the request, it resends the request (without changes) to all invitees, and it doesn't prompt if the originator wants to update recipients (as it normally does).  A vicious loop ensues.

 

by: perrytdiPosted on 2009-08-21 at 07:52:19ID: 25152421

RealLiving,  Thanks for the input.  Every little bit helps.  We have found that if you turn Calendars off and on on the iPhone it will stop it from sending the notices for that meeting.  At some point in time another meeting will meet the "unknown" conditions and the process will repeat for that meeting.

 

by: aww001Posted on 2009-09-08 at 19:17:29ID: 25287814

has anyone found a fix for this?

 

by: lwalcherPosted on 2009-09-22 at 08:00:11ID: 25393582

This issue is resolved in the iPhone 3.1 software. One of our folks was having the issue, and updating to 3.1 resolved it.

 

by: ajruizPosted on 2009-09-22 at 08:52:10ID: 25394223

I was pretty happy a fix was out but after reading the bleow not sure if it is worth it.


http://www.product-reviews.net/2009/09/18/apples-new-iphone-31-os-complaints-of-bugs/

 

by: GSCoCPosted on 2009-10-08 at 17:01:17ID: 25531467

On the older 2.x iPhone OS - we found that by turning off the WiFi on the iPhone will eliminate this problem.  The WiFi data connection duplicating the synchronization even though your 3G push already did.  This issue seem to be fixed in the latest 3.x iPhone OS.  However, there are other calendar bug that comes with the current 3.1 OS.  Oh well...

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