For a few years I’m noticing more and more weird and unexplainable behaviour in Outlook. We support mostly 365 Exchange Online clients on Windows workstations or RDS environments.
The amounts of unexplainable bullshit we face is staggering. Outlook not being able to open the folder set, weird MFA glitches, weird bugs in the UI and downright weird errors coming from nowhere is some of the stuff we face weekly.
Am I alone on this?
You’re not alone. We’re forced to use Classic Outlook at work.
I’ve got a monthly recurring appointment for a Zoom call. That was due today again. There was the switch to winter time last week and Outlook decided to “adjust” the scheduled time for me.
That meeting was originally for 11am and should continue to be at 11am during standard time. However, yesterday I’ve noticed that Outlook put it at 10am (and showed a proud message that it adjusted it due to timezone change). No way to undo it.
Teams continued to show it at 11am where it belongs.
Now, when trying to move it to 11 in Outlook, Teams moved it to 12.
And when I opened Outlook this morning, the appt was at 11am where it belongs and Outlook and Teams agreed again.
Mind you, this was only this external Zoom call. All other appointments are still correct. Very weird.
Sounds like the organizer was in a different timezone.
I thought so, too, at first. But why did Teams (using the “New Calendar” setting) show it correctly? And why did it fix itself today?
Because Software as a service is such a lovely thing (not for the user). Every day a new experience!
I just found a pattern. Monday, where it was showing up 1 hour earlier, I was connected to my M365 Cloud PC via my home Macbook. Then, the appt (only this one) showed up wrong.
Yesterday, I was using that same Cloud PC from my work (Windows-)laptop and the appt showed up at the correct time.
Today, I’m using the exact same Cloud PC - without rebooting - from my Macbook again and Outlook shows it wrong again.
So, that virtual machine that’s called Cloud PC does something different depending on the system you’re connecting from. How stupid is that?