Dear All

The good news is that Microsoft has published an update to the holidays in
Outlook 2002 and it downloaded OK. Unfortunately, they seem to have got
themselves into a bit of a muddle regarding how the Christmas and New Year
Bank Holidays work. If 25 or 26 December and 1 January falls on a Saturday
or Sunday we get an extra Bank Holiday to compensate.

For example, in 2006, Monday 2 January is a public holiday because 1 January
falls on a Sunday, in 2009, 26 December falls on a Saturday so Monday, 28
December is a public holiday and in 2010, 25 and 26 December fall on Saturday
and Sunday so the following Monday and Tuesday (27 and 28 December) are
public holidays and so is Monday 3 January 2011.

I have given the above examples to illustrate the principle and there will
be others that I have not listed. Also, the situation may be different in
Scotland because I believe that they have two New Year public holidays (1 and
2? January).

I should be grateful if you would check the English public holidays again,
make the necessary corrections and reissue the Outlook 2002 holiday updates.

Many thanks

Joan

"CourtMCSE" wrote:

Dear Brian:

"Brian Tillman" wrote:

What's stopping you? Microsoft's Knowledgebase explains in detail how to
create Holiday files of every ilk.


Well, with ANY search engine it's often how you ask the question... I was
searching for an "UPDATE" application in the DOWNLOADS area of the OUTLOOK
web-site, not for KB articles on how to manually create a holiday calendar.

Once I did that search, I found KB161587 & KB180985 that refer to the
holiday calendar in the old OUTLOOK.TXT file. Then KB811544 said "Outlook XP
calendar only goes to 2005" by design. However it DID point to KB280976 which
listed the correct OUTLOOK.HOL file for XP and where it was located and how
to edit it with a test editor.

And did anyone notice that
Microsoft had Election Day in 2005 falling on November 1ST??? By law
this can NOT happen. It is ALWAYS the first Tuesday AFTER the first
Monday in November,

That's exactly where Outlook 2003 had it for me, right where it should be.


I have a licansed copy of Office 2003 we bought for evaluation and sure
enough, that calendar file DID have November 8th, 2005 as the correct
Election Day. Office XP however lists November 1st, 2005. I'm using the
Office XP version that all my users have on their PCs, not the newer version
used for evaluation.

We looked at Office 2003, but could NOT justify replacing a major
productivity suite that cost our local county government a considerable
amount for nearly 250 user licenses just a year before, even with the
generous discount Microsoft allowed for government use. With only 90,000
residents in our entire county, Office XP (2002 version) will have to last us
for at LEAST six more years.


So you have what you want. Problem solved. Thanks for an informative post
about the remaining Easter occurrences. It came in handy.

Now I have a good OUTLOOK.HOL file going until the year 2010. However, each
user is now going to have to manually update their own Office XP Outlook
calendar by replacing their file with the new one, which I located on a
shared network drive.

I'll put out a detailed memo on how to do this, but Brian, most of these
users know little more than pushing the "ON" button and moving the mouse.
Many do not even relealize they can hit the [ENTRY] key instead of scrolling
the mouse over the "OK" button... so I expect a LOT of helpdesk calls on this
one. And since our IT Department is a staff of ONE, I'll have to go out and
do this on every machine for users who don't know what a "file" is or how to
copy one.

Wish I knew more about VB so I could write a little app that would do this
for me, and this might be an excellent project for learning about the use of
VB in the Office Suite, but I'm busy trying to repair my Compaq servers that
are busted by a Microsoft Security Patch while trying to upgrade them to
Windows 2000 Sp4 in anticipation of the Windows 2003 Server upgrade I have
planned for the Presidents Day weekend. Can't get them to start Network
Connection Services now, even though they're functioning normally on the LAN.
And without Network Connection Services running, trying to uninstall SP4 or
any of the Security Patches just hangs. So I'm in a "Catch 22" loop. Can't
install, and Uninstall.

Well, thanks for your comments, and have a great day.

Jon