OL2002: Change Made to Accepted Recurring Meeting Is Not Saved

When you make a change to an accepted meeting request in Outlook 2002, the change may not be saved.

For example, if you change the response of the invitee from Accepted to Tentative and then click Save and Close, when you reopen the meeting request your change to the invitee's response was not saved.

This problem may occur if you do one of the following:

• You open the recurring meeting request as Open this occurrence.
  
  -or-
• You do not click Send Update after you make your change.

Service Pack Information

This problem is corrected in Office XP Service Pack 3.To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Microsoft Office XP. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Hotfix Information

How to obtain the hotfix

This issue is fixed in the Outlook 2002 Post-Service Pack 2 Hotfix Package July 27, 2003 . For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

To work around this problem, do one of the following:

• After you make the change to the meeting request, click Send Update.
  
  -or-
• When you open the meeting request to make your changes, click Open the series.

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article. This problem was first corrected in Office XP Service Pack 3.