Create a recurring appointment in Outlook for the Friday of every month after second Tuesday

Question

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.

Solution 1

This is an easy work around from using VBA. Unless you absolutely have to have this in the calendar, it just occurred to me you can use Tasks to do this. If that is OK, keep reading. If it has to be in the calendar, disregard.

Tasks let you set the reminder date and time, where the appointment doesn't.

1. Set up a trecurrencescece of every second Tuesday with the due date of the same.
2. Set the Reminder to the Friday following the due date. Save and close.

Every time you get a reminder for this Task and complete it, it will generate a new one for the following month. I already marked the one for January complete and it generated this one for February. Hope that helps.

Solution 2

Bit of a cheat, but simply set the appointment for the second Tuesday, but give it a four day reminder so that it prompts you on the Friday before the second Tuesday!

Comments

[Admin]

This 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.

[Admin]

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...