My ical events showing up as "new events" on my ipad and iphone when synced with exchange?

Have noticed that iCal has jumped to version 5.02... interesting..

This is a duplicate thread of https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3461324 However, it appears that the issue is resolved with 10.7.3 and iCal 5.0.2. However none of the update release notes or the security update notes mention iCal 5.0.2 or Exchange 2010 so I am not sure I can believe that there was a change made it my just be a side effect or another change.

Edited 02/01/2012 - Typed Mail ment iCal

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Same issue. And, like others, I have experienced that it corrects the problem once you edit the initial gaffe that iCal will make everytime you add an appointment on the computer that is tied directly to the Exchange Server. I have noticed that if I initiate the appointment from an iPhone, iPad, or even a Mac at home on the exchange account, the original appointment remains correct.

Add me to the many people who think this makes ME and Apple look unprofessional and sloppy. It really annoys me. It is hard to defend Apple when they continue to make mistakes like this.

Since upgradeing to OS X 10.7.3 which upgraded iCal to 5.0.2 I haven't seen this issue. Mind you, that upgrade was a nightmare due to the CUI issues that many faced, but the combo updater solved that. I'm not sure it's fixed yet, but I haven't seen "new event" in a few days now.

I've still experienced the issue since the 10.7.3 upgrade. It's erratic unfortunately, happening most of the time but not always, although it felt like it was a consistent issue before the upgrade. I did the delta upgrade only, not the combined one, not sure if that makes a difference.

The fact that Apple has denied knowledge of the issue, the fact that Apple asked develpers to specifically test iCal functions for the new build, and the fact that Apple ommitted refrence to the bugfix in the release notes or anything related to iCal is extremely, extremely frustrating.

I did the 10.7.3 update and have not seen this issue re-appear since updating 5 days ago.

Bummer to hear that others still see this issue after 10.7.3 release last week. I hope this is fixed for good for me, but I will keep an eye out.

What did anybody else find with the 10.7.3 update... is it still broken for you?

Still working fine for me since the 10.7.3 update.

working fine so far with the 10.7.3 update.

I'm updating my response to it seems to be fixed for me as well! Good news!

Fixed my iCal issue, but now the wifi disconnects when coming out of sleep.

Seems to be fixed for me too. I'm hesitant to say it's fixed, but I haven't seen the problem since the upgrade.

Crossing my fingers that it's permanently fixed!

Ezun

This is most definitely not fixed for me. I upgraded two weeks ago and have numerous events reverting to "New Event" this week and last.

Workaround:

Always create events with the "quick event creator" or whatever it's called, it's the + sign at the top left corner of iCal. This lets you enter the event name, date and time and THEN sends it to the Calendar, and using this technique I never again had this frustrating problem. I sync with Exchange Server AND iCloud, so this was crucial.

It seems to me that when you open a new event by clicking on the calendar, iCal quicky sends it to the cloud even before you are done typing what it is and such, and this creates coordination problems. When you do it "off calendar" and send it already created, it doesn't have the time to send multiple versions of the same event to the cloud and the problem doesn't occur.

I have been a SUPER loyal Apple user. But I am almost to the point of succumbing to the PC world. I am a business user, and in my world I need to be able to see my peers' Exchange calendars, their contacts, I need reliable calendars, I need to access Excel plugins that never work on the Mac versions, and so on and so forth. By coming out with shoddy products such as this version of iCal, Apple isn't helping my loyalty.

Any way, I hope this helps someone else.

This is a joke. Two weeks ago my whole hard drive was wiped and now all of my recently created iCal events for the next two months have gone. I am seriously not impressed and starting to question the reliability of apple products. Apple are definitely not the brand I used to hold so highly. These errors must be fixed.

Nishal KS wrote:

This is a joke. Two weeks ago my whole hard drive was wiped and now all of my recently created iCal events for the next two months have gone. I am seriously not impressed and starting to question the reliability of apple products. Apple are definitely not the brand I used to hold so highly. These errors must be fixed.

And why is this Apple's fault?