Outlook meeting reminders and Communicator IM's do not appear on top of other programs.

My testing has shown that simply closing the Reminders window (by clicking the x in the upper right corner) instead of minimizing it or leaving it open under other windows will cause it to pop up again for the next reminder. I'm posting this info in case there are people reading this thread don't realize that.

I know that it’s annoying when Microsoft makes an interface change that requires us to change our work habits, but unfortunately, that’s what they’ve done with the issue of Reminders not popping up over active Windows. Installing Deskpins may work, but I'm not going to install a freeware utilty on a Remote Desktop Server that supports 40 users, so instead I'll just have to try to get them to change their behavior.

If anyone has seen that Reminders, after being closed, do not pop back up, let me know because I haven't been able to reproduce that behavior.

Come on...just fix this.  I recently upgraded to 2010 and I am still MISSING MEETINGS!!!  Lync IMs give you a nice little pop up and flash in a manner that I can at least notice.  Outlook makes the icon slightly darker or brighter...or something...I dont know because I dont notice it.  I have to have the To do bar up and memorize when all my meetings are for the day.  I dont care that the reminder makes me lose focus because I have a meeting and ...oh yeah... its important that I attend. There are people at my company that actually have their phones set up to give them a reminder since they CANNOT RELY ON YOUR SOFTWARE ANY MORE!! 

Give us at least an option to make our own decision (something you should have done from the beginning) about the reminders.  Thanks! 

I was also very frustrated with this new reminder behavior, but I believe I found a potential solution.  Using the DeskPins application, a small piece of freeware that pins windows to the foreground, I set up an 'Autopin' assigment that automatically pins all reminder windows to the foreground.  Here are the steps I followed:

1. Close Outlook

2. Download and install DeskPins from http://users.forthnet.gr/pat/efotinis/programs/deskpins.html

3. Launch DeskPins

4. Right-click on the DeskPins icon in the taskbar tray and choose 'Options'

5. Click on the 'Autopin' tab

6. Click the 'Add' button

7. I entered 'Reminders' for the Description field, '* Reminder' for the Title field, and '#32770' for the Class field

8. Click on the 'OK' button

When I opened Outlook and set up an appointment with a reminder, the window was automatically 'pinned' to the foreground in front of all other open windows.

Works perferctly!

Microsoft guys, hear the cry of your customers...

Same problem with Outlook 2010 on Windows 7. I'm missing reminders. Can we have a more obvious and permanent visual reminder notification please?

The copy of deskpins130.zip I just downloaded from Mr. Fotini's site (http://users.forthnet.gr/pat/efotinis/programs/deskpins.html) matches one I grabbed a little over a year ago.  The old copy installs and starts up just fine on 64 bit Windows 7.

However, . . .autopin has quit working for me, even when I run DeskPins as administrator (is it working for anyone on Windows 7?).  I can only pin windows manually.  Which mostly defeats the purpose of running DeskPins.