Changes in Russian Daylight Savings Time can affect regional Microsoft Office Live Meeting Service

This article describes the Daylight Savings Time (DST) changes for Russia that may affect Microsoft Office Live Meeting Service. 

Russia canceled DST starting 2011. You should be aware of the following DST and time zone changes when using Live Meeting Service and make appropriate changes. 

Install the required updates

• Install the Microsoft DST cumulative update for Windows and Microsoft Office. For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
  
  Daylight Saving Time Help and Support Center (http://support.microsoft.com/gp/cp_dst#tab0)

Note These updates correct the Windows time zone definitions. Additionally, these updates adjust the Outlook calendar items.

Verify meeting invitations

Live Meeting invitations may be off by one hour for the meetings created in the affected time zones. Meeting organizers must check their meeting start times and, if it is necessary, update and resend invitations. This process will make sure that all meeting invitees have the correct Outlook calendar items.

Live Meeting does not support recent Russian DST changes for the time zones that are listed in the table. Meetings that are created in these time zones or that have invitees within these time zones may have incorrect start times. Therefore, organizers have to communicate with meeting invitees, based on their locations.


The following table provides guidelines for creating/updating meetings when using Russia Time zones:


Updating user default

Live Meeting Service allows users to set the default time zone. If you have set the default time zone to one of the above listed time zones, update to a recommended time zone to have better experience during your future scheduling purposes. The default time zone can be configured from the Time Zone list under Manage Display Options on the User Preferences page that can be accessed from the Live Meeting Service manager's home page.