[MacTUG] Exchange Calendar and iOS 6 devices

[William Lewis]

An update to iOS 6.0.1 is out today, with one of the advertised features:

Fixes a bug affecting Exchange meetings

http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1606


Will

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R. William Lewis
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University of Waterloo

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From: isthd-bounces at lists.uwaterloo.ca [mailto:isthd-bounces at lists.uwaterloo.ca] On Behalf Of Trevor Bain
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2012 1:53 PM
To: mactug at lists.uwaterloo.ca; faccus at lists.uwaterloo.ca; isthd at lists.uwaterloo.ca
Subject: [Isthd] Exchange Calendar and iOS 6 devices

I'm not sure if we've seen any occurrences of this but I'm passing this along as an FYI:

"With the recent release of iOS6, we [Microsoft] have noticed a marked increase in support calls due to meetings having the owner of the meeting changed (sometimes called "meeting hijacking"). Most instances reported to us [Microsoft] to date involve users with delegates who first open a meeting request in Outlook and then act on that same meeting in iOS."

Until the problem is addressed/fixed, one mitigation strategy suggested by Microsoft is not to upgrade to iOS 6 (if that's an option). Perhaps a better strategy is: "Tell users not to take action on calendars on iOS. We're not seeing this particular issue if users don't take action on their calendar items (for example, accept, delete or change meetings)."

Full details are available at:  http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2012/10/23/ios6-devices-erroneously-take-ownership-of-meetings.aspx

Related KB articles:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2768774
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2563324

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Trevor Bain, IST
University of Waterloo
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