My owa server is patched, but maybe I'll install owa on a test server and keep it unpatched just for zapping calendars.
Tom -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 8:03 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Re: Best way to clean up corrupt calendar folder? (on server) Well... this is an exploit of an old OWA bug on 5.5. If you are running OWA for Exchange 5.5 below ex SP2, you should be able to delete the calendar folder via OWA. Then login to the mailbox via normal MAPI, and it will re-create. This may or may not comply with ppl's idea of "stable"... or "sane practice", but then again, I may not comply with such ideas too. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -K.Borndale IT Manager Sybari Software 631.630.8569 -direct dial 631.439.0689 -fax http://www.sybari.com "One man's ceiling is another man's floor" "Alverson, Thomas M." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: cc: bounce-exchange-148870@l Subject: Best way to clean up corrupt calendar folder? (on server) s.swynk.com 05/01/2002 06:36 PM Please respond to "Exchange Discussions" I had one user who could not syncronize her calendar over the air with her blackberry. The errors in the event log basically said that the CDO stuff could not access the calendar. Email was forwarding just fine. After trying all sorts of things on the blackberry server, I finally created a new mailbox (with a different username) and synced the blackberry up with that (the calendar worked fine). I then exported everything from the user's mailbox to a PST file (so I could delete the mailbox and create a new one just like it). After exporting all the mailbox contents I tried deleting everything from the calendar folder (by using view by category and deleting everything). After doing only that (i.e. not yet creating a new mailbox) the blackberry still would not sync with the calendar (over the air). The calendar appeared completely empty from an outlook 2000 client. When I tried via OWA there was an appointment still showing up in the calendar (yikes). After deleting the mailbox and creating a new one with the same alias and email address, the old data was imported from the PST and the blackberry syncs up fine now. My only question was if there was some better way of fixing the calendar short of what I did. I had tried all of the /cleanfreebusy /cleanreminder /cleanshedplus options in outlook with no improvement. Tom _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
