2010 ical processing PR_OWNER_APPT_ID property missing
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
April 30th, 2012 6:26pm

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
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May 1st, 2012 8:46am

So far I have seen it from gmail and I have been testing by sending from our communigate servers web client.
May 1st, 2012 10:36am

Bump, any ideas. Should I open a PSS case?
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May 3rd, 2012 4:00pm

Please open a service ticket as we need to gather more data / tracing to understand the behaviour.
May 4th, 2012 3:01am

I will be opening a PSS case this week. Will post the results here.
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May 15th, 2012 10:15am

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
May 15th, 2012 1:13pm

Any update on this mud5150? I'm seeing the same issue with meeting requests on our BES. BES is 5.0 SP3 MR7, Exchange 2010 SP1 RU4. ONLY external meeting requests are coming up with a red X when responding from the device, but the response goes through and the Outlook calendar does get updated. Only issue (other than the red X) is that the original meeting request in Outlook is unaffected. It stays in the Inbox. I have already checked the ProcessExternalMeetingMessages attribute.
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July 6th, 2012 10:38am

No this is a different issue. The processexternalmeetingmessages is something that is documented in the bes documentation. This only happens with iCAL. Your issue would occur with any unauthenticated meeting requests, including those from other exchange environments.
July 31st, 2012 12:10pm

Sorry no, unfortunately I haven't had the chance to chase this down. Haven't forgotten about it though. It's on my bucket list ;) Luckily I've only heard the complaint once. I still have the ticket in my queue. We're on SP2 RU2 btw.
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July 31st, 2012 12:14pm

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