ICal & exchange problems (invitations, notifications)

Hi!
I'm using the latest OSX version 10.8.2 and the calendar (&mail) acount is on an external hosted Exchange Server.
When creating an appointment I can add participants and send them invitations.
But when they are accepting (or declining) it is not shown in iCal, which is very embarrasing.
You never know if the meeting takes place in the planned way.
And yes, I already checked (and unchecked many times) the box "Get CalDAV invitations automatically from mail".
I saw in older threads that this seems to be an on/off problem.
Perhaps someone can help me out here, before I switch to MS Outlook.
Thanks a lot!

Fixed! The problem's appeared before, see
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2138051?start=0&tstart=0
The recipe was:
- quit iCal
- remove all files in ~/Library/Calendar
- remove all ical .pref files from ~/Library/Preferences
- restarted iCal and added the accounts again
- waited for it to sync
- then quit iCal and started it again (this made a difference)
I repaired file permissions as well just to be sure.

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It works just fine. If I accept an invitation on any platform is is accepted on all. Then I look at OSX Calender (which I will refer to as iCal) and I still see a mass of invitations (the ones that I accepted on my phone or using Outlook).
I use iCal because I share calendars with the rest of my family using iCloud. So that I can view my work and home calendars in one place, I have also set up iCal to see both iCloud and Exchange calendars.
The iCloud side of the house does what I want it to do. The problem comes with the way iCal deals with calendar invitations from my Exchange account. Here goes:
I receive an Exchange calendar invitation.
I process it (accept/tentative/decline) using Outlook on the Mac or the IOS Calendar on my iPhone.
The invitation on the device I didn't use goes away.
I open iCal.
The "new" invitation is still there in iCal waiting to be processed, the only way to clear it is to accept/tentative/decline it.
I cannot find any setting to prevent this from happening. iCal seems to ignore changes in status of Exchange invitations.
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have had what I think is similar issue.... on both ipad and iphone. Running IOS6. Have gmail account setup through exchange connector. IOS receives and accepts invites just fine from external devices.... If i create a new invite on the IOS device and add invitees with external email addresses, once this calendar invite is saved into the diary it doesnt trigger invites to go out to those 3rd parties... but the invite definitely is in the calendar as can also see it on mast google calendar.
If I then go and move the timing of the invite that has been created on the IOS device (by holding down and dragging to new time) this then immediately triggers an invite (new Invitiation, not reschedule) to be sent to the external email addresses... any further modification to timing of invite then triggers 'reschedule' calendar invites to go out - so expected behaviour.
The issue is that IOS is not triggering the invite to go out to external parties who have been added to a newly created invite - and it only does this when the date/time of the invite is modified.
Spent about 1.5 hrs on phone to apple support yesterday - they have now passed on to 3rd level support....
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First of all I want to express mild disappointment with the way quota notification alerts are documented on Technet for Exchange 2013. The only reference I could find is that QuotaNotificationSchedule parameter of the Set-MailboxDatabase cmdlet no longer
does anything: "This parameter has been deprecated in Exchange 2013 and it no longer does anything.".
The only other reference I could find is this forum post:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/exchange/en-US/f30bb2ca-91ab-4e69-a8b6-720e6a8a5b83/exchange-2013-quota-notification-message-not-sent-during-schedule?forum=exchangesvrgeneral
where it says: "Quota messages are generated once the user log in to mailbox in exchange 2013."
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My experience says that the forum post is correct.
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While our customer was still on Exchange 2010 they were the victims of this issue:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2480474/en-us which could easily be fixed with
CheckWarningQuota registry key.
Now we have migrated those mailboxes to Exchange 2013 and again, users are not receiving quota notification e-mails. Only a few users receive quota notifications e-mails and those are users that got their mailbox created on the new Exchange 2013 system.
Migrated users do not receive notifications. We have tried CheckWarningQuota on Exchange 2013 but it does nothing. Our theory is that mailbox flag introduced in Exchange 2010 SP1 is migrated with the mailboxes to Exchange 2013 and is the
reason why we are not receiving quota notifications again.
I appreciate thoughts and comments.
Regards,
Dinko

CU8 addresses this issue, however, only for mailboxes not yet moved to 2013: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/303695
Mailboxes already moved will have to be manually fixed. The issue is they are missing their lcid (location ID). For whatever reason, the attribute does not make it across from 2010 to 2013. However, if you move the mailbox again to another 2013 database,
it fills in the lcid automatically. That is one workaround, but not necessarily a good one for people who have migrated a ton of their users already. So what do you do?
In the KB article, it shows you how to identify the users who are missing their LCID by doing the following in the exchange management shell:
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. .\'C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V15\Scripts\ManagedStoreDiagnosticFunctions.ps1'
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You can modify the script to dump the list to a text file if you need to.
Now, to address this, I simply populated the lcid for all my mailboxes. All of mine were en-US or lcid 1033, so it was easy to set them all at once. I just grabbed all Exchange 2013 mailboxes and applied the language (en-US) and DateFormat (MM/dd/yyyy) to
them (replace DOMAIN with your domain name) which in turn sets the lcid to 1033:
$mailboxes = get-mailbox -resultsize unlimited| ? {$_.exchangeversion.exchangebuild.major -ge 15}
($mailboxes).SamAccountName| %{set-MailboxRegionalConfiguration "DOMAIN\$_" -Language en-us -DateFormat MM/dd/yyyy} | FT -a
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ICal Server email invitations - how to test and get this feature working

iCal Server email invitations - how to test and get this feature working
Thanks Apple for introducing this nice little feature into iCal but then completely neglecting to write any sort of useful manual that can explain what to do when it doesn't work after you set it up for the first time.
At long, long last we have finally got there after about 6 months of fiddling on and off, so I thought I had better post up the process since many have similar issues and it is hard to ascertain what is going on.
Using an external email server was just a waste of time and it still wouldn't handle the replies properly even though it was supposed to handle '+addressing'. In the end I set up a special gmail account for the iCal server and finally got it working. I list here the process of configuring and testing the system to check that each little stage is working.
Set up a Gmail account in Apple Mail to access and test in the usual way for any email account (e.g. [email protected].);
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check that the invite is received at your non-server account and Accept it in iCal on another machine - the reply is automatically sent back;
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this shows that iCal invitations are working correctly. Whenever an event is updated, all invitees should be updated by email automatically.
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iCal Server email invitations - how to test and get this feature working
Thanks Apple for introducing this nice little feature into iCal but then completely neglecting to write any sort of useful manual that can explain what to do when it doesn't work after you set it up for the first time.
At long, long last we have finally got there after about 6 months of fiddling on and off, so I thought I had better post up the process since many have similar issues and it is hard to ascertain what is going on.
Using an external email server was just a waste of time and it still wouldn't handle the replies properly even though it was supposed to handle '+addressing'. In the end I set up a special gmail account for the iCal server and finally got it working. I list here the process of configuring and testing the system to check that each little stage is working.
Set up a Gmail account in Apple Mail to access and test in the usual way for any email account (e.g. [email protected].);
Set the iCal server email to access the same email using the following settings:
IMAP
SMTP
[email protected]
smtp.gmail.com
Port: 993 [x] Use SSL
Port: 587 [x] Use SSL
User & Pwd
Login
User & Pwd
To test the settings:
send out a test email from Apple Mail to a non-server email address that you can access to check it has been received;
send out a test email from your non-server email account to [email protected] and check that it is received;
this tells you that the GMail account is setup correctly and working
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I noted that iCal was deleting any emails that arrive in the inBox in Apple Mail as soon as they arrived (this is to be expected);
test that the invites are being sent from iCal by setting an event in iCal and inviting your non-server address (you may not see any sign of this in Apple Mail but you should catch it in the iCal server log and possibly in the Gmail sent mail box);
check that the invite is received at your non-server account and Accept it in iCal on another machine - the reply is automatically sent back;
the replies appear in Apple Mail but are quickly deleted by iCal. But their record for you to see is left in Gmail under 'All Mail';
Accepted invites appear as a notification button on the top left hand bar on iCal where you click to acknowledge them and then the attendee is shown as a green circled tick instead of a grey circled ?.
this shows that iCal invitations are working correctly. Whenever an event is updated, all invitees should be updated by email automatically.
I hope this helps anyone - I could certainly have done with something similar when I started with looking at this.
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