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Synching Outlook w/iCloud sent invites to everyone

When setting up iCloud, I synched Outlook (local). It worked just fine.


Until... I heard from across the office, "Hey, why are you filling up my inbox?"


Turns out, it started re-inviting everyone (hundreds of emails) to events. Events I didn't even originate. Events that will happen in the future. Events that happened in the past.


I've spent the weekend emailing everyone trying to profusely apologize, sorting through each meeting (I have a lot of them, involving a lot of employees and clients).


Apple, ***? I can't even figure out what setting would've possibly caused this, and I don't even want to touch iCloud for fear of the same **** thing happening again. Which means, my new iPhone is basically useless with Outlook.


Can this be? If I simply sync it outside of iCloud, will this happen again?


No trust, no faith right now. Angry people/clients. No troubleshooting available that I can find.


Help?

iCloud-OTHER, Windows 7

Posted on Oct 16, 2011 11:45 AM

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Sep 26, 2012 1:53 PM in response to 10000reasons

I have reproduced your issue...My sense is this is by default..Look at the invitee name..notice the "?" next to the name...I think once your invitee accepts the invite and you see a green checkmark next to their name you will now be able to change the date and time..I think icloud lock you out until it gets a responce..Old invites obviously have this problem...I played with one of the entries I had and fooled around with it until icloud emailed me an update and it fixed it.


Let me know if this helps.

Oct 10, 2012 2:45 PM in response to Apple in AZ

I am a Outlook 2010 user on Window 7. I use Pop3 for my mail. Whenever I forward a meeting invite from Outlook to someone every person on the meeting invite get a automatic 'cancelled' notice from ICloud. See example below.


I have had other issues with ICloud autoresponding to meeting invites if I try to change anything in the invite it forces me to send updates to the entire group.


This has been a issue for months and Apple has not fix their glitch.


This issue is going to push me to a Droid sadly.....


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "Steve Johnson" <noreply@icloud.com>
Date: Oct 9, 2012 5:28 PM
Subject: “Kerrville Circuit Upgrade” has been canceled.
To: <chad.cds@gmail.com>

“Kerrville Circuit Upgrade” has been canceled.

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Wednesday, October 10, 2012, 6:00 PM - 10:30 PM


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Oct 19, 2012 4:44 PM in response to DJ Crane

Like so many others, I too am having the problem with meeting invites that I can't delete without notifying all of the attendees that the meeting has been cancelled. This is true for meetings that occurred 9 months ago or a meeting that I know I won't be able to attend next week. I've tried on my Macbook Pro and the iCloud webiste. Apple tech support told me that an administrative server wipe of my iCloud calendar will apparently also send out the cancellation notices, so I'm stuck with a year's worth of meetings I can't control. Great.


I'd recommend that everybody submit their problem to apple.com/feedback so that Apple can realize that this is serious. Right now iCloud is next to worthless as a calendar tool for everyday work, and to think I was so excited to use it with all three of my newly acquired Apple devices.


Fortunately, we're not the only ones that have recognized this problem. Corporations and even government agencies are beginning to issue warnings about VERY similarly sounding issues. Hopefully Apple will stop sitting on their hands and fix it, or at least make an announcement that they recognize the issue and are working on it.

Synching Outlook w/iCloud sent invites to everyone

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