Mail, Calendar, Contacts System Preference problems

I am having trouble updating account informtaion in the Mail, Calendar, Contacts System Preferences.
I can update account information but when I close the System preference panel and reopen it, the changes are not saved and revert to the previous state.
I can change account information in Mail, iCal and Address Book but any changes are not reflected in the Mail, Calendar, Contacts System Preference panel.
A Lion bug?
Any insight or advice is appreciated.

I have this exact same issue!
I was on 2.0.1 running fine until late last week, noticed emails would not show up unless I had opened them in outlook. I thought I ran into a bug so I upgraded to 2.0.2. Now I can sync my email if outlook had them opened previously, but no calendar or contacts at all. I don't think my exchange admins will move me to another server, any other ideas?
I love my iphone but if these features don't work I can't use it. I would appreciate any ideas.

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here.
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customers like you and we are very excited about sharing these changes.
These changes are starting to light up in the service and we have already received questions/comments about them from some of you.
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REST URL:
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2. The Namespace has been updated from "#Microsoft.Exchange.Services.OData.Model" to “Microsoft.OutlookServices” and hence the fully qualified type names have to be updated to reflect that. In most cases though, you do not need to provide the odata.type
property as we can infer it based on where you make the post. For example, if you POST to ../Me/Contacts, we know you are trying to create a contact.
3. Contacts changes: To make the API easier to use, we have replaced EmailAddress1, EmailAddress2, EmailAddress3 with a collection of a new type called EmailAddress. We have similarly also changed BusinessPhones, HomePhones to collections.
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4. Event Changes: The property Attendees now includes the type “EmailAddress”.
Sample Event payload showing how to create an Event.
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"Content": "I think it will meet our requirements!"
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"End": "2014-07-02T19:00:00Z",
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"Type": "Required"
"EmailAddress": {
"Name": "Anne Wallace",
"Address": "[email protected]"
"Type": "Optional"
"EmailAddress": {
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"Address": "[email protected]"
"Type": "Resource"
5. We have introduced a simple API for sending email called SendMail, and have removed the custom parameter MessageDisposition which was difficult to understand and discover.
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Sample Request to create and send email with one call:
POST:
https://outlook.office365.com/ews/odata/me/sendmail
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"ToRecipients": [{
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"Address": "[email protected]"
If you are running into any issues please post on stackoverflow here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/office365
We apologize for any inconvenience and thank you for your continued feedback!

Hi,
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When i try with poster or postman, I get this error
{error: {code: "ErrorInvalidRequest" message: "Cannot read the request body."} }
its not working . Any help will be appreciated.
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Probably not a virus or malware, as both are relatively rare on Macs.
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If anyone has any idea of how to fix this problem I would be grateful.
When I choose Network in System Preferences, a small window pops up in front of the main window saying "Your network settings have been changed by another application." I click OK and the same window pops up, over and over. It is stuck in a loop; I can't get past it. The main window (Network System Preferences) behind the small window looks right, with the normal messages. The only way I can get out of the loop is to force System Preferences to quit. My network connection is working (so I can post this), but I can't get into Network System Preferences. So, I can't change any settings, or even see what they are.
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Hey everyone. I noticed upon opening my System Preference panel that the "Sharing" icon has been replaced by what appears to be a background. The following link will show this.
http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/5923/grab4ej9is.png
How do I fix this problem?

You're most welcome. Glad to help!
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having new iMac 27 with Mavericks
I can not open several system preferences,
message "You can’t open Sharing preferences because it doesn’t work on an Intel-based Mac."

Mine did the same thing a couple of times but it simply stopped after I installed the updates. Haven't had any issues since then.
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