Outlook Calendar Reminders Not Working

Anonymous
2020-06-04T00:56:08+00:00

since the "update" to Microsoft 365 a couple weeks ago, Outlook reminders are only working some of the time. I've missed a couple meetings because either I never got the reminder or I snoozed it and it never showed.

I ran outlook.exe /cleanreminders but it didn't do anything.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-08-07T23:53:40+00:00

    Yes, that appears to be the issue. Outlook on my phone and Desktop just updated yesterday and I had hopes the bug was squashed but no luck. Problem popped right back up once I re-enabled calendar sync on my phone.

    There probably is something else in mix though. I imagine this would be huge problem if this happened to everybody with calendar sync turned on for their phones.

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-08-07T04:37:23+00:00

    Interesting.   So your notifications work on your desktop if you turn off calendar sync on your phone?  That seems like a good clue.

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-08-06T15:31:53+00:00

    I've had the exact same problem for a few months now.

    Tried just about everything to fix the problem. Most annoyingly it only happens to my AM meetings.

    The only work around I've found is to disable Outlook calendar sync on my android phone. For some reason being notified on my phone and being notified on the desktop are not compatible.

    It doesn't appear to be the actual notification itself on the phone is causing the problem. I can see that the reminder is turned off on the desktop before any notifications occur. Also it appears to only be happening for the next working day. Notifications of recurring meetings are fine if I look farther out.

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-08-04T15:26:12+00:00

    Well, thank you, Microsoft.  I just missed another meeting.

    I wonder if Open office has the same problem?

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-07-31T03:08:45+00:00

    yes...that's what's happening for me too. it's a major problem that really needs to be fixed. i have too many calendar events to check them all and reset their reminders but that's what i need to do.

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