[Kde-pim] Re: Invitations to Outlook - some test findings

[Bernhard Reiter]

Brad,

Am Samstag, 26. Februar 2011 00:34:12 schrieb Brad Hards:
> On Friday, February 25, 2011 09:59:38 pm Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> > To be compatible with both versions of Outlook tested
> > for recurrent events, we would need to send
> > a proper VTIMEZONE with use of the TZID.
> > It is okay to send VTIMEZONE with the use of TZID for singe instance
> > events.
>
> If you're interested in the documented behaviour for import of ical into
> outlook 2003, 2007 or 2010, then it might be worth looking at:
> 
http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/D/D/5DD33FDF-91F5-496D-9884-0A0B0EE698BB/%5BMS- 
OXCICAL%5D.pdf

> It isn't always complete, but its probably be best documentation available.
> Hit me on IRC for assistance in interpreting it.

Thanks again for the pointer, this looks really interesting.
It also applies how they handle iCalender files over several transport, e.g. 
in invitations.

Note that they've just done a major upgrade from 4.3 to 5
on the 18th of March.

> There is a HTML version as well, which is useful for linking to parts of
> the document, but the PDF renders some things better.
> The discussion of VTIMEZONE is at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-
> us/library/ee159506%28v=EXCHG.80%29.aspx (or the 2.2.1.19 section in the
> PDF). My reading of that is that VTIMEZONE is always required ("MUST be
> declared"), but that you can only have one VTIMEZONE component per ical
> file.



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