How to set up a recurring task in outlook

HOW TO SET UP A RECURRING TASK IN OUTLOOK UPDATE

Various apps endlessly pulling this info via EWS calls). I wouldn't doubt that Microsoft has found that many custom internally programmed apps at various orgs are fetching the calendar data inefficiently and this is creating a burden on the O365 exchange servers. I suspect Microsoft introduced this due to many large organizations migrating to O365. It's actually nothing to even talk about. This would be rare and still, not a big deal at all. Really, in cached mode, as a user scrolls through their outlook calendar it fetches that info from the exchange server only when they keep scrolling past the point that their client is set to cache (30 days, 60 days, 1 year, ect). I had been relying on Outlook for decades for this purpose, and this change has definitely 'pulled the rug out from me.' At the same time, if no end date recurring appointments truly clog Exchange servers with multiple, infinite appointments, I understand how that is not a good thing either, but I then wonder how those Exchange servers survived for the past few decades, with the default for recurring appointments being set to 'no end date?' Unfortunately, that article won't help me, and my horribly bad (ADHD level/type bad) memory (as well as others like me). Lastly, for others in this thread who were asking if the 'short default end date' could be modified, it looks like this article has the instructions to do that. Is there no way to change the default back to 'no end date?' I just had another scary thought: is it possible that the removal of 'no end date' on June 25th applied retroactively to pre-existing recurring appointments? How can I see what the end dates of recurring appointments currently are? I ask that last question because, even if end dates were *not* retroactively modified, there may have been some recurring appointments I created *since* I was (just now) aware of this (June 25th) change.if so, I would need to go and adjust those back to 'no end date,' of course.

When a reminder is created with an end date, then I, for one, would also have to remember to manually create a reminder for close to when that end date is, just to re-extend that end date when the time comes, for each recurring appointment.what chaotic situation that sounds like! Perhaps, when that setting was (silently) changed from 'no end date,' Microsoft also should have progromatically and automatically created such individual reminders of recurring appointments' end dates nearing.that would have solved this problem, and could still! True, it would be easier for us that need to, to try to remember to change the end date to none when creating a new recurring appointment, but even that is easier said than done (after decades of habit forming, creating recurring appointments in Outlook). Unfortunately, I can see both sides of this argument equally strongly. I've been an Outlook evangelist since it was first released, and this is the first time I've ever wondered if I need to use a different diary system. I can't find any option anywhere to change it, or even to change the default date range it gives (I could just change it to 100 years if so, and get the same result). How can I revert this behaviour so all recurring appointments default to 'no end date' once again, be it daily, weekly or monthly? Registry hack, group policy change, whatever. I appreciate I can just push the button on each appointment as I create it but I'm a human and will eventually muck this up to possibly huge detriment. If MS wants to change these to default to an end date then fine BUT some of us liked / needed it the other way around. This would have expired shortly and I wouldn't have noticed, leaving me in a potentially *life threatening* situation because I would not have ordered medication when I needed to. Way more serious was the limitation of the appointment I added for 'Every 8 weeks' (and how I noticed it at all). This has caused me hours of work going back through every appointment since June and fixing them, by hand. Clients might come for years (certainly over 1 year quite often) and it could have caused me serious scheduling issues in a few months time when I appeared to be 'free' when I was 'booked'. So today I realised that it had been limiting the duration of recurrences and I hadn't noticed. Reminders for periodical things like ordering prescriptions every 2 monthsД¬lient appointments - weekly and indefinitely (I'm a psychotherapist).

I use Outlook standalone (I'm self-employed) and I use it for 2 things, mostly: They all used to default to 'No end date' which suited me just fine.

HOW TO SET UP A RECURRING TASK IN OUTLOOK UPDATE

I have just found out - the hard way - that the update from 25th June has changed the way recurring appointments work in Outlook 2016.

How to set up a recurring task in outlook