ConnectR 4.0 Release Notes

Enhancements In This Release

• ConnectR synchronizes the calendar, tasks and contact data in real time between Outlook and your calendar server. This means changes done at one source are reflected automatically in the other source without the need of any user intervention.
• ConnectR now supports Unicode data.
• ConnectR now works with non English locales. (PR 41634)
• ConnectR supports redirected, delegate email.
• ConnectR supports remote installation using Group Policy objects. (PR 44749)
• Major performance improvements.
• Improved error reporting capabilities.

Fixed In This Release

• Sync on event modification. (PR 32882, 35341)
• Unable to share calendar between delegated domain users (PR 45129)
• Contact Notes are blank when size limit is exceeded (PR 45386)
• Sync on Outlook open (PR 35658)
• ConnectR crashes non-English Outlook (PR 42203)
• Events deleted in French Outlook were not being deleted from server (PR 44798)
• ConnectR can be installed on 64 bit windows

Known Issues In This Release

• Delegate inviting their grantor to a meeting doesn't put meeting in grantor's calendar irrespective of using POP or IMAP protocol (PR 43233)
• Redirected meeting invitations are identical to delegate's in the inbox (PR 43424)
• When all day recurring meeting in cross time zone is synced by the attendee the last instance is lost on attendee’s Outlook after sync (PR 45658)
• Installing the ConnectR add-in will either disable all your Microsoft Outlook rules (message filters) or render some of them inoperable.
  Workaround:
  1. Uninstall your current version of ConnectR.
  2. Export your Microsoft Outlook rules.
  3. Reinstall ConnectR.
  4. In Outlook, delete all your rules.
  5. Import your saved rules to Outlook
  Note: Refer to the Outlook online help for instructions on exporting and importing rules. (43129, 40938)
• Your calendar server and the WebCal client support dates between midnight January 1, 1970 and December 31, 2035 only. However, Microsoft Outlook does not have this restriction. If you try to synchronize events whose dates are out of this range, the calendar server will ignore them and you will encounter an error notifying you that the event time is not supported by the server. Also, please be aware that importing a calendar file that includes an event with an out-of-range date is likely to cause problems with your WebCal calendar.
  Workaround: Do not enter calendar events whose dates are not within the range of midnight January 1, 1970 and December 31, 2035. (41468)
• If you install ConnectR on a computer running the Microsoft Windows Vista operating system, you might encounter the following dialog boxes. The information below instructs you on what to do if these particular dialog boxes display:
  • You might encounter a dialog box informing you that an unidentified program wants to access your computer:
    
    To ensure the successful installation of ConnectR, click the Allow option.
  • You might encounter a dialog box informing you that this program might not have installed correctly:
    
    To ensure the successful installation of ConnectR, click the This program installed correctly option.
  (41658)

• There is a known problem regarding the installation of ConnectR and certain Microsoft Outlook-compatible plugins and PDAs (personal digital assistants). Important: Before installing ConnectR, you must review the information regarding this problem and follow the instructions provided.
• In Outlook, you can visually drag a private event in a delegator’s calendar to a different time slot or drag an event border to modify the time; however, the changes will not be saved. After making the modification and clicking anywhere within the calendar, the following dialog box will appear:
  
  
  
  Click No in the dialog box. (If you click Yes, a copy of the private event will be saved locally and appear in your calendar. You will be able to modify this copy; but, any changes you make will not be saved to the calendar server. To prevent possible confusion, click No in this dialog box.) Regardless of whether you click No or Yes, the modifications you attempted to make to the delegator’s private event will not be saved. Only the delegator can modify or delete his/her private events. To visually restore the private event to its original state, refresh the Outlook display (which you can do by clicking the Mail tab and then clicking the Calendar tab again).

• Because of a known problem with Microsoft Outlook, you will be able to visually move an event within a delegator’s calendar despite the delegator denying you write access. The problem manifests itself in the following scenario:
  1. Delegator has previously given you permission to add or modify events in his/her calendar.
  2. Within WebCal, delegator changes your access permissions so that you can no longer add or modify events.
  3. Within delegator’s calendar, you drag an event to a new time.
     Although it appears as if you modified a read-only event, your modification is not actually saved to the server. If you switch to another Outlook view (e.g., by clicking the Mail tab), the following dialog box displays:

     

• If you add a new Microsoft Outlook user profile, the find-user and free-busy lookup functionality in ConnectR will not work.
  Workaround: After you add a user profile, reinstall and configure ConnectR for that profile.
• Events set up in Outlook might display in your Calendar with a time zone tag that doesn’t match the time zone you’ve configured for Microsoft Windows and WebCal. For example, the event might display in Calendar with the text "4:00 pm Fri, Apr 29 in time zone America|Los Angeles," even though you configured Windows and WebCal with the America | Tijuana time zone setting. The reason for this discrepancy is that the calendar server was configured with a different time zone description. While the time zone description in Windows is "Pacific Time (US and Canada) ; Tijuana", the same time zone is described as "America/Los Angeles" on the calendar server. (The calendar server has many more mapping choices available than Windows for the same time zone.) (23439)

Known Issues With Microsoft Outlook

The following are known problems with Microsoft Outlook, independent of the ConnectR add-in:

• Meeting updated from private to non-private is not reflected in attendee's Outlook even after reading the update email. This is a problem specific to Outlook 2007. (PR 43332)
• You must restart Outlook so that the proper attendee status is reflected for an event where you have accepted selected occurrences of a recurring meeting. Specifically, the problem occurs in the following scenario: 1) In Outlook, a user schedules a recurring meeting and invites an attendee; 2) Both the meeting organizer and attendee synchronize; 3) In Outlook, the attendee accepts a single occurrence of the meeting and then synchronizes; 4) In WebCal, attendee accepts another single occurrence of the meeting and then synchronizes. In Outlook, the status for the event accepted via WebCal is "Please respond." If the attendee restarts Outlook, the correct status (accepted) is displayed.(38490)
• If you add an attendee to a meeting you’re currently setting up in Outlook, cancel the invitation, and then save the event, the person will still be listed as an attendee on the Scheduling tab. (37439)
• Reminders may disappear from your Outlook calendar. As part of this problem, you will encounter an error message stating that "there was a problem reading one or more of your reminders". Outlook 2003 and 2007 provide a command-line option (/cleanreminders) to fix this problem. (27327)

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