XFOR: GroupWise Notes Migrate as All Day Event to Outlook 98

• Microsoft Exchange Server, version 5.5

SYMPTOMS

When Exchange Server users who are recently migrated from GroupWise try to schedule an appointment or meeting, they receive an error message stating that this appointment conflicts with another appointment. When you check their Calendar in Outlook 98, you find some events that are taking all day. These events are their GroupWise notes that were incorrectly migrated to Exchange Server.

CAUSE

GroupWise notes have no direct equivalent in Outlook. In GroupWise, notes are Calendar entries that users can generate to remind themselves of certain events, similar to tasks. In Outlook, notes do not reflect any entries in the Calendar, and thus GroupWise notes do not map directly to Outlook notes.

All GroupWise notes (those that have been accepted and show up as Calendar entries) are migrated to Exchange Server as an all day event for each note. These events conflict with any new appointment or meeting for that day. Consequently, the user receives the error message mentioned above.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft Outlook 98.

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Version : winnt:5.5
Platform : winnt
Issue type : kbbug