That's the thing.their iPhones do not have an email account linked to our Exchange server or Outlook. They are simply using the iPhone calendar and syncing it to their iCloud account. We send them meeting invites from [email protected] email to their personal accounts. They tap Add to Calendar and if the meeting is sent to other email addresses the iPhone calendar seems to think its a new meeting and sends invites of the same meeting to everyone from the iPhone user. Am I making sense?
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Both users share their iPhone calendar with their wives. It doesn't sound like anything to do with their shared calendars with their spouses To describe the issue User on Outlook which is connected to MS Exchange creates a calendar event and invites users. One of the attendees is Mr X and they use his personal email. The 'personal' email of Mr. X receives the event invitation as an ics file attached to an email I assume. (is the personal email iCloud or Gmail or other?) Mr. X clicks on the ICS file and it opens and clicks the button to add it in Apple Calendar app to their personal calendar Emails are sent automatically from Mr.
X's email to ALL other invitees on the event who see an attached ICS file which appears to be an invitation to the same event What you have here is a mismatch between the ICS calendar invitation sent from Exchange and one from iCloud or Google Calendars. In effect the Calendar app is just notifying all the attendees that Mr. X has accepted the Calendar event but as iCloud differs from Exchange the notification cannot be properly processed by the recipients and appears to be a separate invitation to the same event. If ALL users were on Outlook that Add to Calendar function would be transparent and users would simply see the same event get an update with Mr. X confirming acceptance of the event. I'm not aware of any specific fix for this type of mismatch. The usual recommendation is NOT to use Apple Calendar but use Outlook on OSX or iOS instead to keep all the calendars in the Microsoft ecosystem and ensure compatibility.
Even using his personal email in Outlook on OSX or iOS should resolve the issue. The 'personal' email of Mr. X receives the event invitation as an ics file attached to an email I assume. (is the personal email iCloud or Gmail or other?) He is using an iCloud [email protected] account. Below is an actual example of what is sent to everyone included in the meeting. “(U) - Special Meeting (Closed Session)” has been updated.
Time changed Thursday, April 27, 2017, 11:00 AM PDT - 12:30 PM PDT location Company P.O. BOX City CALIFORNIA #### USA invitees changed 'Bru Haf 2', 'Te Pe', A, C W. W, Jr., Curt, Haf, Bru, L Cer, Mil, Mar, Phi Ce, Ro Fa and you.
See replies note.This special meeting is confirmed. Attendees will be updated as needed.
–Luci 11/15/16 Coding - 942A/972A Purpose - Closed session discussion. Meeting Materials - To follow, if any, Participants Agency - Dir, Curt, A and Luci Outside - None Optional - None May Be Needed - None FYI - None Requested By - A Organized By - Luci Meeting Coordinator - A Beverages - Coffee, tea and water Food - None Agenda Posting - 24-hour notice Other - None Priority Levels D Decision S Strategize U Update R Reminder Bracket around priority letter if meeting is time-critical. Updated by Mr.
X Accept Decline Maybe So, you're saying that the work around is to use the Outlook App? It's not really a workaround but the @me.com is an Apple domain and account and in effect the Apple Calendars and Exchange Calendar systems are not 100% compatible and interchangable. You can add an @me.com account to Outlook on Mac as follows This should resolve the NOTIFICATION issue as Outlook on Mac should work better with Exchange Calendar invites. However the next question is what Calendar solution should Mr. The Calendar feature in Outlook DOES NOT support Apple Calendars.
So it breaks the ability for Mr. X to accept the event and put it on Apple Calendar share the calendar with his spouse. When he accepts an event it would be added to the local Calendar in Outlook not the Apple Calendar app. An option would be for Mr. X to switch to using a Google Calendar as this will work on Outlook and then shares that Calendar instead with his spouse There is a program called iCal Reply Checker which I've seen for older OSX versions (not sure if it works anymore) which intercepted the reply emails between Apple Calendar and Mail and allowed you to stop them.
Which might also address the current problem of unwanted auto-replies.
Over the years Apple has made steady improvements to how our devices sync content. On the whole, it’s becoming more seamless to keep photos, videos and other content synced and organized across multiple iOS devices and Macs with software like iCloud Photo Library and iCloud Music Library. However, one area I believe Apple could really improve the user experience is with photo and video management for multiple users.
While iCloud Photo Sharing is a nice social way to share and organize photos with others, it’s not a great option to mange your photo and video collection. A feature I’d really like to see is iCloud Photo Library support for multiple Apple IDs.
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