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I want to create a recurring appointment in Outlook for the Friday of the second Tuesday of each month to schedule server reboots because of Windows updates. Some months the second Friday is not the same week as the second Tuesday. I am not sure if this is even possible to set up within Outlook as the options aren't as advanced as this.
I know this does not help much with the question, but for reference, the iCalendar spec for this would be
RRULE:FREQ=MONTHLY;BYDAY=FR;BYMONTHDAY=11,12,13,14,15,16,17
– William Jackson – 2011-12-23T15:26:34.147This is a great question. I have had this scenario myself with recurring appointments. I think it can be done with VBA by setting the recurrence plus 3 days. Looking into how to do that and will get back to you. – CharlieRB – 2011-12-23T16:40:42.127
I'm surprised this question isn't more popular... Good question @qroberts! For techs, this would be a big to be able to set appointments based on Patch Tuesday, such as a reminder to deploy a group of patches on the Friday after patch Tuesday, to set downtime in monitoring servers on the Thursday before patch Tuesday, to send out notifications to clients who need it on the Wednesday after Patch Tuesday, etc... Come on Microsoft! This is for their product... – David – 2012-10-12T00:16:31.860