Outlook 2007 and iPhone Calendar All-Day events not displaying correctly

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Outlook 2007 and iPhone Calendar All-Day events not displaying correctly

I recently took the 3.1.3 update for my iphone and have since noticed that syncing all-day events from my Outlook 2007 exchange environment to the iphone is not working correctly. The all-day flag on the iphone is not being checked, thus the event shows up all over the calendar instead of just a single item at the top of the calendar. This only happens for multi-day events. Single-day, all day events show fine. Here's the tests I did:

1. Created a single day, all-day event for tomorrow June 18 in Outlook 2007. Made sure that they all-day checkbox was checked in Outlook. Waited for the sync and it shows up fine in iPhone calendar. There is a single line at the top of the "Day" view that lists the event. When you look at the event, the all-day checkbox is checked in iphone calendar.

2. Next I updated the event in Outlook to make it a multi-day, all day event. I changed the end date to be June 19. I made sure to leave the all day checkbox checked in Outlook. Once synced, the all day checkbox on the iphone is now unchecked and as a result the event takes up the whole "Day" view for both days.

Is there a solution for this? Only seen this since I updated to the 3.1.3 firmware. All events show up the right way in Outlook. It is only the iPhone calendar that shows them wrong. Thanks in advance for any help.

iPhone OS 3.1.3

Posted on Jun 17, 2010 5:41 PM

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Jun 25, 2010 4:16 PM in response to pdutta2000

I have this same problem, and have seen several other posts about this same problem with no response from Apple... what is going on Apple?

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Jun 30, 2010 7:28 PM in response to ericmiller3

I am having the same problem. Help!!!

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pdutta2000 Author

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Jul 7, 2010 12:45 PM in response to pdutta2000

Just a quick update on this. I upgrade the 3GS to iOS4 and the problem still persists. Anyone have any answers? I've tried the timezone settings and nothing is working. I can reproduce this at will.

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Jul 15, 2010 7:00 AM in response to pdutta2000

I have the same problem, with Outlook 2007, iPhone 3GS on iOS 4. A Calendar event that is all-day for only 1 day does show up nicely at the top of the iPhone calendar in the little "all-day" section, but if an all-day event spans 2 or more days, then it no longer shows up in the "all-day" section but it just covers the whole calendar day.

Not only does this now work very well visually, but if you have two or more multi-day all-day events on the same day, they cover each other up on the iPhone calendar so you can't even see them!

I do wish Apple would fix this. The way I use Outlook, I tend to have a lot of all-day events going on (people on vacation, people visiting the office, various happenings) and it really makes it aggravating to view these on the iPhone

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LucPaq

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Jul 15, 2010 7:11 AM in response to pdutta2000

I have an iPhone 3GS running iOS 4 and have a similar issue. In my case, all-day event and multi-day event show normally (small entries at the top of each caledar day). My company has an Outlook 2007 server if this helps. You might want to check your time zone settings. I assume that, just like in Outlook itself, if you are in a different time zone, the calendar will now show all-day events as 3am to 3am instead of all day (equivalent to 12am to 12am).

I have however another issue which is that not all my Outlook calendar entries sync in the iPhone calendar. It is not clear why but, since it is independent from being all-day events or not, I will do more research or open another topic.

Good luck

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Aug 5, 2010 10:53 AM in response to pdutta2000

This area does seem a little messy in the iPhone/Exchange integration.

In our case the most annoying problem is that when we are in one timezone (with the option selected to show appointments in their original timezone) and create an all-day appointment, the all-day appointment appears in Outlook spanning two days. Really unhelpful to see an appointment across two days!

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Xenion

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Sep 28, 2010 7:54 AM in response to pdutta2000

It's the same for me, tested it on multiple Devices (iPad, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS) and multiple iOS (3.1.3, 4.0.2, 4.1, 3.2.2).

All-day Events created with Outlook 2007 often (not always) are displayed incorrectly. However once i edit them on the iOS end-user device they are displayed correctly as All-day events on the iOS device.

The infrastructure is Windows ADS 2008 R2 with Exchange 2007 SP3 RP1.

with best regards,

X

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Nov 8, 2010 3:49 AM in response to pdutta2000

Same problem here.
All Day events entered in Outlook 2007 on my work machine that have ALL DAY checked and are only on that ONE Day, seem to come out fine. If however we have an all-day event that goes multiple days, then it enters it on my iphone taking up 00:00-00:00, which is very messy if you have two ALL-day envents on the same day (when tracking different personnel for example).
I have noticed the real annoying item though is that changing it on my iPhone 4 directly, that once I put in the right start and end dates, and choose ALL DAY, about 5 seconds later it actually changes the START DAY! This makes you go back to change the start day, then it changes the end day so you change that, and now finally all sorted.
This NEVER happened on my iPhone3G that I have used with Excahgne for over two years now. Only since I got my iPhone4.
PLEASE Apple, fix this!!!!

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Carl A D

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Dec 29, 2010 10:14 AM in response to pdutta2000

In addition to what everyone else has already stated, while I find that editing the multi-day event in iOS does fix things, it resets the Category of the event. Not the end of the world, but sloppy nonetheless.

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profjc1

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Jan 4, 2011 1:13 PM in response to pdutta2000

Come on Apple - how many people have to report a problem before it gets sorted. Outlook events spanning several days don't appear in the iphone calendar - or only appear in first day of event. Surely not beyond Apple minds to sort?? (Meerkat - simples!...)

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