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
    2020-10-29T14:02:01+00:00

    Same problem here. Meeting reminders have been increasingly sporadic and unreliable on Outlook desktop (for Mac, v. 16.24).

    I just went through and tried re-saving my recurring meetings, sometimes altering the amount of time for the reminder. I made sure to always edit the series, not just the occurrence. As I did this, I had several odd reminders pop up. Almost like I was getting them un-stuck. For example, I re-saved a series I've had running for a couple years, and it triggered a reminder for a meeting in August!

    TBD if that helps going forward. (EDIT: It didn't. Next meeting on the calendar failed to trigger its reminder.) Best guess is that maybe at some point I altered an instance of the series and it messed up the notifications, and they can't get back on track as the series continues. Might try deleting series entirely and re-scheduling. But that's impractical for some meetings with others without bugging everyone to re-accept invites.

    Significant bug, really needs addressing. Happy to provide more debugging information!

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-12-06T07:41:59+00:00

    I am having the same problem with reminders in Outlook 365. Most of the time they don't work. Since the Spring of 2020.

    I have noticed Microsoft is adding more and more functionality to Outlook.com, Android app, iOS app, and the Mail & Calendar app in Windows 10. All of these are synced together - Outlook 365 with Outlook.com, with Outlook for Android, with Outlook for iOS, with the Mail & Calendar app in Windows 10. I bet the synchronization between these different platforms are the troublemakers.

    Don’t use my phone much since Covid, but I am hours on my computer every day. Microsoft, please fix the reminders in Outlook 365.

    Unhappy Outlook 365 user :-(

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-12-19T09:55:22+00:00

    I left out one more Microsoft technology, Microsoft is adding functionality to - Cortana. Since my posting on December 5th, I have uninstalled Windows Mail & Calendar, but I did not sign out of Cortana. I just received a calendar reminder from Cortana on December 19th. I closed the reminder announcement without pressing anything on the Windows announcement. Opened Outlook 365, and you guessed it, no reminder window in Outlook 365. I have signed out of Cortana. Hopefully, that might help with the Outlook 365 reminders not working.

    Also, from the other postings above, I have turned off the calendar announcements from Outlook for Android on my phone. Seem to help, but forgot to sign out of Cortana.

    Continuing unhappy Outlook 365 user. :-(

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