Outlook – Constant erroneous Outlook meeting reminders

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There was a recurring meeting that was set up in Outlook. The recurrences ended eighty weeks ago, but it still pops up with a meeting reminder saying that it's 80 weeks overdue, and it's been doing this for the full eighty weeks ever since. This pops up whenever I start Outlook, and also seems to show up in the reminder box every so often when some other legitimate meeting pops up a reminder. I can dismiss it just like anything else, but it strikes me as strange. This is Office 2007 against an Exchange 2003 server.

I remember doing some "flush" or "clear" command a while back, but it didn't seem to do the trick – my Google-fu on finding out exactly what I tried is failing me at the moment, though.

If I try to open the meeting in order to wipe it from my calendar, it just pops a warning dialog that says "Cannot open the item for this reminder," so my only option is just to dismiss it every time it comes up.

Any ideas how to make the phantom meeting reminder stop bugging me every day at work multiple times?

EDIT: BioXHazard found the command that I had run previously, "outlook /cleanreminders"…but the reminder still popped up on restart, so no dice there.

Best Answer

When the reminder comes up, click open. Then press the delete button at the top. The same was happening to me just today for the first time.

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Outlook – Meeting reminders disappearing after accepting

On invite disappearing when responding :

Updated for Outlook 2010:
Go to "File > Options", and select "Mail" from the vertical menu on the left. Scroll down to the "Send Messages" heading, and uncheck "Delete meeting requests and notifications from Inbox after responding."

For older versions of Outlook:
Go to = outlook > tools > options. On the = preference tab click the email options button and then on the window that opens click the advance email options button. on the bottom section of the window find the tickbox for: ---Delete email email request from inbox when responding. This should be NOT ticked if you want to keep the invite in the inbox. else it will delete the invite once you respond.

Now on the reminders:

If you dont have a reminder time for your calendar then it will take what comes with the invite. the invite gets send out with your setting for this. for example. mine is setup to remind me of events 10 mins before it starts. When I accept an invite it defaults to 10 mins. If I did not have that setup and supposed you send the invite to me and your reminders are set for 15 mins, then when I accept it will take 15 mins for my reminder in my calendar.

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Sub SnoozedReminders()

' http://www.jpsoftwaretech.com/check-your-outlook-reminders-in-vba/

Dim MyReminder As Outlook.Reminder
Dim MyReminders As Outlook.Reminders
Dim Report As String
Dim i As Long

Set MyReminders = Outlook.Reminders

i = 0

For Each MyReminder In MyReminders

    If HasReminderFired(MyReminder) = True Then
        i = i + 1
        Report = Report & i & ": " & MyReminder.Caption & vbCr & _
            "     Snoozed to " & MyReminder.NextReminderDate & vbCr & vbCr
    End If

Next MyReminder

CreateReportAsEmail "Snoozed Items", Report

End Sub


Function HasReminderFired(rmndr As Outlook.Reminder) As Boolean
    HasReminderFired = (rmndr.OriginalReminderDate <> rmndr.NextReminderDate)
End Function


' VBA SubRoutine which displays a report inside an email
' Programming by Greg Thatcher, http://www.GregThatcher.com

Public Sub CreateReportAsEmail(Title As String, Report As String)

    On Error GoTo On_Error

    Dim Session As Outlook.Namespace
    Dim mail As MailItem
    Dim MyAddress As AddressEntry
    Dim Inbox As Outlook.folder 

    Set Session = Application.Session
    Set Inbox = Session.GetDefaultFolder(olFolderInbox)
    Set mail = Inbox.items.Add("IPM.Mail")

    mail.Subject = Title
    mail.Body = Report

    mail.Save
    mail.Display

Exiting:
    Set Session = Nothing
    Set Inbox = Nothing
    Set mail = Nothing
    Exit Sub

On_Error:
    MsgBox "error=" & Err.Number & " " & Err.Description
    Resume Exiting

End Sub

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