Microsoft Outlook 2003 Unable to create new appointment

I thought I’d blog this one since it caused me a quick headache. Granted I should just have followed the golden rule but on this occasion I thought it best to investigate.

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A user wasn’t able to create a new appointment in Outlook 2003, try as I might I couldn’t get it to do it either. I came across a couple of posts on the ‘net about recreating the views by running Outlook with the /cleanviews and /resetfolders switches but neither did the trick effectively.

In the end it was a good old fashioned reboot that did the trick. My thanks go to Outlook Tips for help with sorting this one.

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2 Responses to Microsoft Outlook 2003 Unable to create new appointment

  1. George Hsieh says:

    I had similar problem but reboot won’t solve the problem. tried /cleanviews and /resetfolders but nothing work. I am using outlook 2003.

    I found a way to make it work. Procedures described below.
    - switch to folder view (icon on the left bottom)
    - right click on calendar under mailbox, select property
    - in calendar properties, general tab
    select “IPM.Appointment” in “When posting to this folder, use:”

    I am able to create an appointment afterwards.

  2. Sandy says:

    I tried, and its working for me too… thanks George…:)

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