A reminder for an all day event meeting request is reset to 18 hours when you send the meeting request in Outlook 2003

Consider the following scenario:

• You click to select the All day event check box in a meeting request in Microsoft Office Outlook 2003.
• You change the option in the Reminder list to another value, such as 2 weeks.

In this scenario, the Reminder list changes back to the default setting of 18 hours when you send the meeting request.

This problem was first fixed in a hotfix that is now contained in a service pack. If you installed the latest Office 2003 service pack, you do not have to install the hotfix.

Service pack information

This problem is corrected in Office 2003 Service Pack 2.

To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Office 2003. For more 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 2003 post-Service Pack 1 Hotfix Package that is dated March 19, 2005. For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

To work around this problem, save the meeting request before you click Send. To save the meeting request, click Save on the File menu.

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section. This problem was first corrected in Office 2003 Service Pack 2.