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AX 2012 - How to retrieve meeting (appointment) status from Outlook

Mi crosoft Dynamics AX 2012 provides a very convenient way to synchronize outlook tasks, contacts and appointments back into AX.  MSDN topics describe the integration in details. https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa498242.aspx https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg230659.aspx Let's discuss the main motive of this post; How can you retrieve the meeting (appointment)  status  from outlook back to AX 2012. Before I show you where and what code need to add or change, I will show the existing functionality how it works. Go to Home > Periodic > Microsoft outlook synchronization > Synchronize Here you can see, be default it tries to sync Contacts, Tasks and Appointments within provided date range. I will focus on Appointments for this post and sync Appointments only, Let's assume I have following meeting (appointment) response in my outlook, remember it was a meeting invitation which I sent from AX and now I have their responses back ...