Upgrading to 8.5(.1)? Watch your weeks!!

Credit for this one goes to Almar Diehl, so I'll quote his blogpost below. 2009 has 53 weeks, but 8.5(.1) only has 52! R6 and R7 clients are working correctly, but 8.5(.1) handles the weeknumbers differently. Read the solution that Almar found:

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Post 1
January 1st 2010 Week 1 or Week 53?
A collegue today pointed me to the fact that in his Notes 8.5 calendar January 1st, 2010 claims to be in 'week 1'. However, according to the ISO standards this should be 'week 53' since week number 1 is the week with the first Thursday of the year and January 1st, 2010 is on a Friday.



It turns out that changing the setting for week numbering to 'Always use the ISO standard' displays the correct week number. You can find this setting under 'File --> Preferences --> Calendar and To Do --> Week Numbers'

I am looking for a way to modify this setting for all users using a policy. When I find a way I will blog about it. Should someone already know how to change this setting via a policy, please respond.

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Post 2
Found the setting for changing the week numbers
In yesterdays blog item I said I was looking for a way to change the preference for Week Numbers using a policy. Today I did some research and found the setting FooterWeekNo in the notes.ini. Setting this parameter to FooterWeekNo=2 enables 'Always use the ISO standard'. I can set this one using a desktop policy.

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Thanks Almar!