I've found there appears to be an issue with exchange 2010 where ical meeting requests from external senders are not getting the PR_OWNER_APPT_ID property populated. I noticed it because it causes a benign error when BES tries to examine that attribute in the sent items folder after the user responds to the meeting request. Upon examination I see that the property is either not present (when responding from outlook) or populated with a value of "0" if the user responds from the blackberry. In either case the corresponding item in the calendar folder contains the property but is also populated with a value of "0". This doesn't appear to cause any tracking issues that I can find with cursory testing. Based on this I'm wondering if this property has been deprecated, though I can't find any documentation to support this. Sending internally or from an external exchange org doesn't produce the issue as the property is populated with a value. I also tested sending an ical appointment to a recipient on exchange 07 and 03 and everything works as expected, so the issue is specific to 2010. I'm trying to determine the best course of action as to whether this would be considered an MS bug or if I should point the issue to RIM support. Based on what I see it's an exchange problem but if exchange is no longer using the property for anything I don't know if it would be seen as a valid bug. TIA

Hello, Does it matter whatever client you use to send the ical? Thanks, Simon Wu Exchange Forum Support Please remember to mark the replies as answers if they help and unmark them if they provide no help. If you have feedback for TechNet Subscriber Support, contact tnmff@microsoft.com

So far I have seen it from gmail and I have been testing by sending from our communigate servers web client.

Bump, any ideas. Should I open a PSS case?

Please open a service ticket as we need to gather more data / tracing to understand the behaviour.

I will be opening a PSS case this week. Will post the results here.

Hi, I have a customer that used to have problems with external meeting requests. As soon at the the item had been synced to the BES Device the request ended up like this in Outlook. Do you also see something similar? I never checked PR_OWNER_APPT_ID on the affecting item to I this might not even be close to your problem. The solution was to enable ProcessExternalMeetingMessages in the calendarprocessing settings. See: http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/KB20866Martina Miskovic