Microsoft KB Archive/896177

= A reminder for an all day event meeting request is reset to 18 hours when you send the meeting request in Outlook 2003 =

Article ID: 896177

Article Last Modified on 4/7/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Office Outlook 2003

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SYMPTOMS
Consider the following scenario:
 * You click to select the All day event check box in a meeting request in Microsoft Office Outlook 2003.
 * You change the option in the Reminder list to another value, such as 2 weeks.

In this scenario, the Reminder list changes back to the default setting of 18 hours when you send the meeting request.



RESOLUTION
This problem was first fixed in a hotfix that is now contained in a service pack. If you installed the latest Office 2003 service pack, you do not have to install the hotfix.

Service pack information
This problem is corrected in Office 2003 Service Pack 2.

To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Office 2003. For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

870924 How to obtain the latest service pack for Office 2003

How to obtain the hotfix
This issue is fixed in the Outlook 2003 post-Service Pack 1 Hotfix Package that is dated March 19, 2005. For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

896498 Description of the Outlook 2003 post-Service Pack 1 hotfix package: March 19, 2005



WORKAROUND
To work around this problem, save the meeting request before you click Send. To save the meeting request, click Save on the File menu.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the &quot;Applies to&quot; section. This problem was first corrected in Office 2003 Service Pack 2.

Additional query words: outlook2003 ol2003 ol2k3

Keywords: kbbug kbfix kbqfe kbcalendar kboffice2003presp2fix kboffice2003sp2fix kbhotfixserver KB896177

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