Hi, after upgrading to Exchange 2013 SP1 we experience the issue that appointments created using EWS by our ERP application don't show the body in Outlook 2010/2013. The appointment body is only visible in OWA or on Active Sync devices. Outlook just shows an empty body text. When openening the appointment in OWA and editting the body text, by placing a '.' at the end for example, then the body text is visible in outlook again. This worked fine in CU3 and earlier.
I created a repro scenario using the EWSEditor tool:
https://ewseditor.codeplex.com/Create an appointment using EWS. Below the request I've sent to Exchange EWS. It creates an appointment on Saturday, March 8th from 22:00 to 23:00 with the following text in the body: ‘Plan the agenda for next week's meeting.’. The request is successful and the appointment is being created. However, the body text is only visible in Outlook Web App, not in Outlook.
I reproduced this issue in our lab also, so it’s not specific to our production Exchange server, but seems to be a general SP1 issue.
<soap:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
xmlns:t="http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/services/2006/types">
<soap:Body>
<CreateItem xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/services/2006/messages"
xmlns:t="http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/services/2006/types"
SendMeetingInvitations="SendToAllAndSaveCopy" >
<SavedItemFolderId>
<t:DistinguishedFolderId Id="calendar"/>
</SavedItemFolderId>
<Items>
<t:CalendarItem xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/services/2006/types">
<Subject>Planning Meeting</Subject>
<Body BodyType="Text">Plan the agenda for next week's meeting.</Body>
<ReminderIsSet>true</ReminderIsSet>
<ReminderMinutesBeforeStart>15</ReminderMinutesBeforeStart>
<Start>2014-03-08T22:00:00</Start>
<End>2014-03-08T23:00:00</End>
<IsAllDayEvent>false</IsAllDayEvent>
<LegacyFreeBusyStatus>Busy</LegacyFreeBusyStatus>
<Location>Conference Room 721</Location>
</t:CalendarItem>
</Items>
</CreateItem>
</soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>
Frank.