Subject disappears from calendar with delegates and attachments

hi,

I have a strange problem with outlook appointments.

When creating an appointment for multiple users the subject shows as blank in everyone's diary except the organiser.

This only happens if the appointment has a room mailbox and it has an attachment in the appointment. If i remove the room mailbox or the attachment the subject appears in all users diaries, but gets removed again if i add them back in.

Any appointment that does not have a room mailbox and an attachment are fine.  

We are running Exchange 2010 SP3 ru8 and Outlook 2010 (fully patched) in online mode.

We get the same thing in Outlook safe mode and OWA. 

any ideas?

Thanks

May 12th, 2015 9:53am

Hi,

Does this issue happen with other clients?

If an attendee open the appointment message from Inbox, can he see the appointment subject?

By "We get the same thing in Outlook safe mode and OWA", do you mean when the subject still invisible when viewing the appointment from OWA? If this is the case, please try creating such an appointment directly in OWA and then check if the problem continues.

Please let me know the result.

Regards,

Steve Fan
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May 12th, 2015 10:35pm

The issue happens to several users, but only when they are booking appointments as a delegate. We only use Outlook 2010 so have not tested with Outlook 2013. I have tried it from several different machines and get the same issue. Same issue in OWA and if I delete outlook or windows profile.

Subject is invisible when viewing in OWA or from any of the users. I have tried creating the appointment in OWA and when in safe mode in Outlook (to eliminate add-ins) but I get the same issue.

It seems to be permissions for the delgates to the meeting room as it only happens when meeting rooms are added into the appointment (and there is an attachment). If i create an appointment on a user directly (e.g. not a delegate) and add other users in everything works, even with attachments.

any appointment that has a missing subject, I can remove the attachment and it will magically come back on all users, but disappears if i add it back in. Its very strange.

May 13th, 2015 2:51am

Thank you for the update. This forum focus more on Outlook client side issue, since this issue exists in OWA, it's more likely a server side issue. I'd recommend you post a new question to the Exchange server forum to get further assistance:

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/home?category=exchangeserver

The reason why we recommend posting appropriately is you will get the most qualified pool of respondents, and other partners who read the forums regularly can either share their knowledge or learn from your interaction with us. Thank you for your understanding.

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May 14th, 2015 1:50am

Hello,

we are having the same Issue on our side. It happens when you have an attachment in an appointment an Exchange is not in Cache mode.

Exchange 2010SP3 RU7

Did you find an answer on that?

Thanks

Thomas


  • Edited by Thomas Al 16 hours 51 minutes ago
June 24th, 2015 10:37am

It was a strange problem and after a while I managed to track it down as it only happened if the appointment had all of the following

 

         Appointment was booked by a delegate

         Appointment contains at least two people

         Appointment has an attachment

         Appointment contains one of the existing room mailboxes (newly created room mailboxes are not affected)

         User has direct booking enabled

 

If I remove any of the above factors it does not happen. We opened a call with Microsoft but once I discovered it was affected by direct booking they stopped helping as it is technically unsupported even though there is an MS article telling you how to enable it on 2010.

 

We disabled direct booking and it works ok. We are now getting the users used to the way the booking system works as they liked parts of the direct booking.

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June 24th, 2015 10:55am

Hello,

we are having the same Issue on our side. It happens when you have an attachment in an appointment an Exchange is not in Cache mode.

Exchange 2010SP3 RU7

Did you find an answer on that?

Thanks

Thomas


  • Edited by Thomas Al Wednesday, June 24, 2015 2:36 PM
June 24th, 2015 2:35pm

Thank you for sharing your experience here. It will be beneficial to other community members who have the same issue.

Best Regards,

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June 28th, 2015 9:14pm

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