Same issue here, essentially secretary adds an all day event for pick your favorite holiday to the calendar for everyone in the department then it defaults to a 15 minute warning at midnight. Then everyone's handheld wakes them with an alarm at 11:45 PM, complaints follow. The organizer removes the reminder from the events and feels great, problem solved... Next time all the events get the default setting of the client in Outlook and OWA this is again 15 minutes although it was set to none on the event invite, complaining ensues, fingers are pointed and no one knows what is going on... Then we found the same article and did some testing.
In the end the organizer sent out a memo detailing the behavior for people so that they can choose to set their own reminder or not when they accept the meeting as we could not really find a good technical solution. I would also note that coincidently, or maybe not, the default behavior in Outlook 2013 is to set the reminder to 12 hours if there is not one on an all day events, so my phone doesn't wake me up at least, the reminder is at noon the day before. Maybe useful if you are planning to upgrade:) Rhett Thatcher | Manager, Server Technology | Information Technology St. Lawrence University | Madill Hall | Canton, NY 13617 | 315.229.5413 Remember, Information Technology at St. Lawrence University will never request your personal information or password via email. From: Jason Benway [mailto:benw...@jsjcorp.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 9:39 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Reminders always added to appointment Running into an issue were an all-day meeting is schedule and the person creating the meeting sets the reminder to none. But when a person accepts the meeting a reminder for 15 minutes is set. I found this post. http://www.slipstick.com/exchange/meeting-reminders-are-set-for-the-recipient Has anyone done this? I don't want to change the default behavior of a new meeting to have a 15 minute reminder. I'm trying to get rid of outlook/exchange adding a reminder to meets that don't have one set. It sounds like this config file will do that, but I was looking for the group for experience with this. Thanks,jb Jason Benway Data Center Architect JSJ Corporation --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com<mailto:listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com> with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist
