We planned, and planned, and planned, and had an carefully prepared deployment scenario. Well, except for the people who are out of town, but we expected that problem. And we expected the unexpected. We didn't expect enough of the unexpected. Rolled it out this morning and...well, now we're doing some more planning :-( If your organization is a big user of Outlook meeting requests, warn everyone that they will be re-invited to a lot of meetings they'd previously accepted or declined.
Actually, it's more humorous than a problem. We've got one very "special" meeting, next Monday. It is clearly a 10:30 AM meeting. The meeting originator shows it that way. My notebook shows it to be a 9:30 meeting. Our vendor shows it to be an 11:30 meeting.
All day, Chicago's "Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?" has been in my mind...
No, no more mentioning DST. Please :) The extra day light for four extra weeks is just not worth it :)
dj
Posted by: Darrell Jordan | March 06, 2007 at 03:51 PM
Take the average.
Posted by: Chris McGuffin | March 06, 2007 at 04:13 PM
How is it that DST is causing more problems than Y2K?
Posted by: Taylor Smith | March 06, 2007 at 05:48 PM
Give it up Tony. Can you give us a quick rundown of what steps you took. I'm worried we're not ready.
kdl
Posted by: Kirk Longhofer | March 06, 2007 at 06:56 PM
I've got a user with a smartphone and everything scheduled during the new DST schedules itself one hour earlier on the smartphone than it is scheduled on Outlook on his PC. I've done all the updates, and followed all the instructions and the problem is corrected. Then the next day he calls me and tells me it's off again. We go through the steps and it's fixed again. Then the next day it's off again. I haven't heard from him today so maybe it's fixed... Any thought?
Posted by: Bryson Medlock | March 07, 2007 at 11:20 AM
how did you update the yellow postit notes? I couldn't find the KB article on that one :)
Posted by: allen madding | March 07, 2007 at 06:04 PM
Kirk> If I can figure out our steps, I'll share. Andrew Mitry had a good summary. Chris McGuffin gave me a good trick that resolved some problems - change the machine's timezone, run the outlook TZfix, change the machine's timezone back, and run the fix again. It worked!!
Allen> Geesh, I thought you were a Geek. Didn't you know that Post-IT (tm) notes all operate on UTC? (I think it's in the fine print on the back of each one :-)
Posted by: Tony Dye | March 07, 2007 at 08:24 PM