Working the late shift tonight
on til 10 then on call til 7:00am

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Fighting with insurance companies as to why they have changed my rate

New employment insurance or previous employment insurance…. And you aren’t on COBRA are you?

Neither - Car and home insurance

Well first thought is age,.. at least there used to be a bracket thing... Did something get added / removed / changed? A friend had her home insurance get completely side swiped by the fact that she (at the time) need FLOOD insurance.

At an elevation that would be difficult to flood... like,... a major interstate would have had to have been flooded before her house flooded.

They removed my home insurance because they never sent me a couple documents that were needed .
which raised my car insurance rate because they were "bundled" together. It took 3 hours to get to the bottom of it, and had them send over the form electronically , signed and returned.

Now we wait to see what they come back with

You didn't foolishly choose GEICO, did you?

no no no lol not GEICO

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Fighting with insurance companies as to why they have changed my rate

New employment insurance or previous employment insurance…. And you aren’t on COBRA are you?

Neither - Car and home insurance

Well first thought is age,.. at least there used to be a bracket thing... Did something get added / removed / changed? A friend had her home insurance get completely side swiped by the fact that she (at the time) need FLOOD insurance.

At an elevation that would be difficult to flood... like,... a major interstate would have had to have been flooded before her house flooded.

They removed my home insurance because they never sent me a couple documents that were needed .
which raised my car insurance rate because they were "bundled" together. It took 3 hours to get to the bottom of it, and had them send over the form electronically , signed and returned.

Now we wait to see what they come back with

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Fighting with insurance companies as to why they have changed my rate

New employment insurance or previous employment insurance…. And you aren’t on COBRA are you?

Neither - Car and home insurance

sent over recommendation and leaving it at that .
thanks !

@scottalanmiller said in Any outlook guru's here?:

@WrCombs said in Any outlook guru's here?:

@scottalanmiller said in Any outlook guru's here?:

@WrCombs said in Any outlook guru's here?:

everything else sync'd.

What is "everything else?" IMAP carries mailboxes, nothing else. It should sync one thing, the email mailboxes. Nothing else is supposed to sync between the two because there is no protocol for anything else. And it isn't really a sync like it sounds, it's that both things sync to the mailbox storage. They don't sync to each other.

everything else is Mailboxes and his phone sync'd the contacts --Which I understand are separate things entirely.

Right, so only email synced. That's kinda different than "everything else." One implies a straightforward email mechanism that is working exactly as designed. The other suggests a complex web of things in which one component is failing.

I see that now

@scottalanmiller said in Any outlook guru's here?:

@WrCombs said in Any outlook guru's here?:

everything else sync'd.

What is "everything else?" IMAP carries mailboxes, nothing else. It should sync one thing, the email mailboxes. Nothing else is supposed to sync between the two because there is no protocol for anything else. And it isn't really a sync like it sounds, it's that both things sync to the mailbox storage. They don't sync to each other.

everything else is Mailboxes and his phone sync'd the contacts --Which I understand are separate things entirely.

So this is still an issue - Outlook and Google workspaces aren't syncing the calendar, everything else sync'd.

all research I've done is pointing to 3rd party apps that have no guarantee to actually work

Fighting with insurance companies as to why they have changed my rate

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Got an urgent message in slack this morning that the team was down a person as someone had to rush their kiddo the ER and they needed some help - hoping on early today to help out- which works for me cause i didnt have anything planned for this morning
rained last night so I cant mow quite yet,
etc.

Yeah - Overtime - ohhh.. you're salary..

That's alright, I take a 2 hour break on the days I have my son to go pick him up and drive back across town when i'm really only supposed to get the 1 - this makes it even out a little bit

Got an urgent message in slack this morning that the team was down a person as someone had to rush their kiddo the ER and they needed some help - hoping on early today to help out- which works for me cause i didnt have anything planned for this morning
rained last night so I cant mow quite yet,
etc.

@WrCombs said in Any outlook guru's here?:

@Dashrender said in Any outlook guru's here?:

@WrCombs said in Any outlook guru's here?:

@scottalanmiller said in Any outlook guru's here?:

@WrCombs said in Any outlook guru's here?:

google meets meeting , and they can't access it from outlook - my guess is that it's something similar to the above - told them to copy the url below the "link" and paste it in the web browser to see if it would go for the meeting-

This is the issue. They "can't access Google Meets" from the "email client." There seem to be one of two options to this.

1. They are SO dumb that they think that a web URL is going to use Outlook as the web browser instead of the actual web browser.

2. They have received the email instead of Outlook and when they click the link, it does not take them to the meeting.

To "access" something these are the only two logical conclusions from the statement. Either they are trying to access to or access from. Otherwise, how is Outlook even involved?

when he clicks on the meeting invite he gets an error that says "this operation failed" from outlook directly. as for which of the 2 it is, I can't be sure
I found this i was going to try

OK - now we're getting somewhere - do you have a copy of the link you can share that they are clicking on inside Outlook?

I do not, have not been given access to the customer device yet
waiting for him to accept the remote support session , they are in their lunch rush right now

Still have not gotten access so I wont know until maybe tomorrow

but from what I can understand is he just needs to switch to g-mail through google workplace (?) and that will solve 10/11 problems he's having

@Dashrender said in Any outlook guru's here?:

@WrCombs said in Any outlook guru's here?:

@scottalanmiller said in Any outlook guru's here?:

@WrCombs said in Any outlook guru's here?:

google meets meeting , and they can't access it from outlook - my guess is that it's something similar to the above - told them to copy the url below the "link" and paste it in the web browser to see if it would go for the meeting-

This is the issue. They "can't access Google Meets" from the "email client." There seem to be one of two options to this.

1. They are SO dumb that they think that a web URL is going to use Outlook as the web browser instead of the actual web browser.

2. They have received the email instead of Outlook and when they click the link, it does not take them to the meeting.

To "access" something these are the only two logical conclusions from the statement. Either they are trying to access to or access from. Otherwise, how is Outlook even involved?

when he clicks on the meeting invite he gets an error that says "this operation failed" from outlook directly. as for which of the 2 it is, I can't be sure
I found this i was going to try

OK - now we're getting somewhere - do you have a copy of the link you can share that they are clicking on inside Outlook?

I do not, have not been given access to the customer device yet
waiting for him to accept the remote support session , they are in their lunch rush right now

@scottalanmiller said in Any outlook guru's here?:

@WrCombs said in Any outlook guru's here?:

google meets meeting , and they can't access it from outlook - my guess is that it's something similar to the above - told them to copy the url below the "link" and paste it in the web browser to see if it would go for the meeting-

This is the issue. They "can't access Google Meets" from the "email client." There seem to be one of two options to this.

1. They are SO dumb that they think that a web URL is going to use Outlook as the web browser instead of the actual web browser.

2. They have received the email instead of Outlook and when they click the link, it does not take them to the meeting.

To "access" something these are the only two logical conclusions from the statement. Either they are trying to access to or access from. Otherwise, how is Outlook even involved?

when he clicks on the meeting invite he gets an error that says "this operation failed" from outlook directly. as for which of the 2 it is, I can't be sure
I found this i was going to try

@Dashrender said in Any outlook guru's here?:

@scottalanmiller said in Any outlook guru's here?:

@Dashrender said in Any outlook guru's here?:

I'm guessing that the link is being clicked on in gmail (before or after the email is delivered to outlook), the appointment is being added to the gmail calendar and the email deleted from gmail. When it's deleted from gmail - it's also deleted from Outlook via IMAP - so there's never a chance to click the email ics link in Outlook.

Not being in the right application and not having the link is very different from the link that is there not working.

True - but we don't actually know the situation.

We know -

@WrCombs said in Any outlook guru's here?:

they can't access it from outlook

@WrCombs said in Any outlook guru's here?:

he wants to sync the 2 calendars - the google workplace calendar is showing correctly, outlook is not

At this point all we can do is guess what the issue is. i.e. why Outlook isn't "showing correctly"?

the event in question is a rolling meeting every Monday the customer would like to add to his outlook calendar - it shows in google calendar everyweek, but not in outlook -

side note I already suggested he move away from using outlook and use Google Workspace as that is what everyone else in his company is doing - he said "thanks for the heads up" and than opened a ticket about this today.

@Dashrender said in Any outlook guru's here?:

@WrCombs said in Any outlook guru's here?:

the saga continues - they had a meeting today - google meets meeting , and they can't access it from outlook - my guess is that it's something similar to the above - told them to copy the url below the "link" and paste it in the web browser to see if it would go for the meeting-

anyone seen this before?

I'm assuming they click the link and either nothing happens or the browser opens and goes to a different website?

Do any links in Outlook emails work?

he wants to sync the 2 calendars - the google workplace calendar is showing correctly, outlook is not-
to answer your question, i dont know at this time

the saga continues - they had a meeting today - google meets meeting , and they can't access it from outlook - my guess is that it's something similar to the above - told them to copy the url below the "link" and paste it in the web browser to see if it would go for the meeting-

anyone seen this before?

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

First evening shift - 2 hours left, I can't even begin to explain how much better this company is

Was anyone even a little surprised?

I'm surprised - Not used to working for sch a great company

@EddieJennings helped jog up a memory , eh? lol

@EddieJennings said in Any outlook guru's here?:

@WrCombs At least 3-4 years.

thanks for the info !