Public holidays not imported correctly in Calendar

[Sweety]

In Outlook 2003, it is noticed that not everyone gets the correct public
holidays tracked in the calendar. In my calendar, one day of the NO holiday
was not tracked, though it showed all the other holidays tracked properly.
Why is it that a praricular day is missed?

We have around 22000+ users in the organization based globally. We need the
public holidays tracked properly, as people from one country needs to set
meetings accordingly. At times, being public holiday not tracked properly, it
affects as the person is unaware of the holiday in another region.

This problem is solved, if the person who is aware that there is a holiday
in one region, but it is not showing in his calendar. He goes to TOOLS -->
OPTIONS and imports the holidays once again and it is tracked fine.

However, my concern here is, that we cannot expect all the users to know the
public holidays globally. and also we cannot manually go ahead and do the
import.

Is there any solution for this with Microsoft, so that everyone gets the
same public holidays tracked correctly in their calendar?

 

[Roady [MVP]]

What do you mean with "tracked"? That it is imported?
It all depends on the holiday definitions that were installed. Over time,
there have been some updates to this definition list (IIRC, Outlook 2003
originally shipped with holidays for the next 3 years after release). After
installing this update, you'll have to disable and then enable the holidays
listing again in Outlook.

Why a particular day is missing could be for several reasons; it could be
manually deleted, it could not be part of the definition list that you used
or got lost in a sync with a mobile device, etc...

As for forcing holidays being included into the people's calendar; you
cannot do that via Outlook. You might be able to import them server-side via
code. Another way to go would be to publish the holidays in a Public Folder
so that people can determine if there is a holiday or not.