Disappearing Exchange Calendar entries

A long way of doing this is turning off ActiveSync from two of the devices and see if anything deletes.  If the BB for example doesn't delete, then turn ActiveSync back into one of the iOS devices.

Looking through logs would be very painful (unless you use LogParser Studio from Microsoft).

Esteban

Well I have LogParser 2.2.  What's involved in getting exchange to log stuff in a way this program can read it?

Again, doing the logs is very painful.  Easiest way is to do a process of elimination first.

Save youself the trouble of looking through logs

There are known issue with IOs devices and Active Sync where appointments may be removed from the exchange Calendar they are synched to.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2563324

Turn off the Sync on all the devices and you likely to find they are related

If the user absolutley need to have Active Sync on, and syncing to their calendar, on their Apple Devices make sure the the IOS devices are using IOS 6

I dont suspect the Blackberry is causing it, but if Blackberrys are being used may want to look into something such as BES which will reduce such issues

http://us.blackberry.com/business/software/bes/overview.html

Apache is 100% right.  That is why I suggested turning off iOS first because that will be the most likely issue.

Logs are too hard to find which device did it.  Process of elimination is easier.  Once again, Apache's suggestion is great to ensure devices are up to 6.1.3 which is the supported version that prevents the issue with the calendar going bonkers.

We have iOS devices exclusively and before this job we had BES (Blackberry Enterprise Server).  Here we had to implement the 6.1.3 in all iPads and iPhones to stop the bleeding.

apache09:

This is a BlackBerry 10 device we are talking about.  It is not compatible with BlackBerry Enterprise Server.

That said, the iOS devices have never caused calendar entries to delete themselves before.  Both of them, however, are running iOS6.1.2 as far as I can recall.

They need to be up to 6.1.3.  That fixes the issue with the calendar entries in iOS.

iOS 6.1: Excess Exchange activity after accepting an exception to recurring calendar event
 
Products Affected
iPad, iPhone
        
Symptoms
When you respond to an exception to a recurring calendar event with a Microsoft Exchange account on a device running iOS 6.1, the device may begin to generate excessive communication with Microsoft Exchange Server. You may notice increased network activity or reduced battery life on the iOS device. This extra network activity will be shown in the logs on Exchange Server and it may lead to the server blocking the iOS device. calendar events may dissapear or can be deleted. This can occur with iOS 6.1 and Microsoft Exchange 2010 SP1 or later, or Microsoft Exchange Online (Office365).

* An exception is a change to a single instance of a repeating calendar event.
 
Resolution
To resolve this issue, update to iOS 6.1.3.
 
Important: Information about products not manufactured by Apple is provided for information purposes only and does not constitute Apple’s recommendation or endorsement. Please contact the vendor for additional information.
 
•Last Modified: Feb 19, 2013
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Listen to apache09.  He is the man!

Hey guys.

Thanks for the input. We'll see what we can disable (the user was out of town when this happened, so it wasn't his OST file - his computer wasn't even logged on), and he's still out of town for the next 2 weeks

The BB10 was my original suspect due to the fact that this (and other sync issues) only began when we set the user's Exchange account up on his new BlackBerry Q10.

As it has so far only happened once, we aren't sure if this is an intermittent issue or not.  That said, the appointments that disappeared were all random.  The only common factor is that they represented everything from a single 2 week period