That is such a convoluted response! It does not even work unless your machine is on at all times with outlook running on it!
Q: How do I wear my earring on the left ear.
A: Take your right hand behind your head, reach all the way around and put it on the left ear.
Did anyone even dig deeper to locate the real customer problem?
The real problem is that when someone sends you a meeting invite and you accept it, it ends up on your local calendar. This local calendar does not sync, so unless you are on the same machine, you cannot see the appointment request on other machines including
your mobile phone.
So, if I have an online calendar like Exchange, Gmail or Live, how do I set that calendar to be the one that outlook puts all appointments data in? Then I can see all the appointments (and their reminders) even when I am on the road.
That is the real business problem. Trying to solve it with Rules will not work for all scenarios and is not really a solution. This is one of the main usage scenarios and I can't believe it does not work. Most people do not use their local calendar. They
use a calendar which is synced across devices.
All we need to know is how to set an online calendar as the default calendar in outlook. What settings do we change? It is not obvious and I haven't been able to find it either. It should really be as simple as selecting a calendar, right clicking on it
and selecting "Default Calendar".
Ever since my upgrade to Outlook 2013, all my new appointments and meeting requests are being stored on the local calendar instead of my Exchange calendar and this is driving me nuts. Before I figured it out, I missed meetings because they did not show up
on my mobile phone calendar. This is pathetic. After having used Microsoft software for 15 years, I now sympathize with people moving away from it.