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Exchange and Daylight Saving Time 2007

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The_Exchange_Team
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Nov 13, 2006

As many of you know, there will be a change next year in the transition dates for US daylight saving time. I won't go into all the gory details here, but if you want them follow this link http://www.microsoft.com/windows/timezone/dst2007.mspx This site will be updated to provide all the latest information about daylight saving time, including updates from Microsoft products affected by daylight saving time, as well as links to KB articles when they are available.

The Exchange team, along with Windows and Office have been giving this a lot of attention. We will be providing, free of charge, a solution for Exchange products in mainstream support. This solution will consist of changes in CDO to support these new dates as well as rebasing tool for calendar items that are already existent in users calendars. This rebasing tool is a server side tool. There will also be a client side tool available from Outlook. For products that are no longer under Mainstream support, these non-security updates will only be offered to customers that have an Extended Hotfix Agreement. For more information on the current support status of your Microsoft products and the Support Lifecycle Policy, please visit http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle.

- Elizabeth Scott

Published Nov 13, 2006
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76 Comments

  • The Outlook tool will cover most versions of Outlook and has the same functionality.  We there will be a CDO fix for 2000 and 5.5 for customers that have Extended Support for 2000 and Custom Support for 5.5
  •  My question is why won't a rebasing tool be made available for Exchange 2000, I understand that Exchange 2000 is in extended support but so isn't Outlook 2000.  Also a CDO patch was issued over the summer that addressed the DST issue in Australia due to the commonwealth games, why won't one be made for this change in the US?

      Will there be a hotfix developed that will be made available to Essential and Premier support customers?  
  • For unpatched E2k, your meetings will be off by one hour for the three weeks that DST transition has shifted.  There is a way to mitigate that issue.  Outlook is producing a similar rebasing tool to the Exchange rebasing tool, only it is client side.  This tool uses MAPI to access data files directly and will work with versions of Outlook 2000 and beyond.  if your customer is using one of these versions of Outlook, they can rebase their calendars without the CDO patch, They will need the Windows registry fix, but if they are not entitled to that there are some directions contained in the KB article about how to patch the registry manually.
  •   Can you post a info or a link on how this will affect Exchange 2000, specifically what happens if it isn't patched.
  • The tools will be available after the first of the year.  After the OS patch and after the Exchange CDO patch
  • This is a hot topic for me right now too. Will these tools come out before or after the release of the Daylight Savings Time Patch through Microsoft Update and the other channels?