{"id":14012,"date":"2020-04-09T00:14:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T22:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/159.69.82.204\/win\/?p=14012"},"modified":"2021-11-23T01:38:53","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T00:38:53","slug":"fix-for-exchange-ios-outlook-app-birthday-bug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2020\/04\/09\/fix-for-exchange-ios-outlook-app-birthday-bug\/","title":{"rendered":"Fix for Exchange\/iOS Outlook app 'birthday' bug"},"content":{"rendered":"

[German<\/a>]Finally, Microsoft tries to fix an annoying bug in the iOS Outlook app, which in connection with Exchange servers displayed birthdays one day too early. The bug has been there for nearly than a decade. <\/p>\n

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The Outlook birthday bug under iOS<\/h2>\n

\"\"Users using an iPhone or iPad with iOS can install the Microsoft Outlook app there. The app also supports the synchronization of calendar data with Exchange servers. Actually a fine thing, in my opinion. <\/p>\n

But administrators have probably had some grey hair, because the birthdays have been postponed by one day. Most of the time the birthday appeared one day too early. In 2018 I had the post Outlook app shows birthdays one day too early<\/a> on this topic. In the blog post you can find the following screenshot with some information. Apparently there is a synchronization problem with Outlook on the iPhone.<\/p>\n

\"Outlook-App-Problem\" <\/p>\n

The birthdays are displayed too early. The usual settings like time zone or Apple's iCloud preferences had already been checked. During the web search for the terms \"Exchange Sync birthdays off by one day\" I got exactly one hit in the Lenovo forum<\/a>. In 2011, users there discussed the problem with Exchange. The solution was to open, change and save contact entries in Outlook. <\/p>\n

This old Microsoft Answers forum thread<\/a> from 2011 indicates that it is a known bug based on an old date field in the Hotmail database. The solution is an update of the contact in question. The same can be found in this entry<\/a> in the Apple support forum from 2016. Here<\/a> are several fixes proposed, from resetting the iOS device to adjusting the timezone settings. But changing the contact information and saving it has helped here as well. <\/p>\n

Outlook User Voice<\/a> will tell you even more. Since 2015, it has received over 260 votes. The problem probably only affects users who use Exchange ActiveSync outside the US time zone settings. <\/p>\n

Fix fo\u00fcr Exchange Server 2016\/2019<\/h2>\n

Maybe Exchange administrators have already noticed this \u2013 I became aware from German heise<\/a> article. Microsoft published in mid-March KB article 4547706<\/a>, addressing the 'birthday bug'. It says: <\/p>\n

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In Microsoft Exchange Server 2019 or Exchange Server 2016, you create a contact with a birthday by using the Outlook for Windows client. The time zone of the Outlook client is CET. When the contact is synced to an iOS native mail app, the contact shows birthday one day before the day entered in Outlook. iOS has a birthday calendar where a recurring appointment is created with the wrong date.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In the KB article, Microsoft then suggests a very simple fix for Exchange Server 2016\/2019:<\/p>\n