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# Learn How Enabling Recurring Events Affects Salesforce for Outlook (Retiring) Users

Your Salesforce and API users can expect the following changes after you enable the Salesforce for Outlook Recurring Events feature.

### Required Editions

<table class="slds-table slds-table_bordered slds-max-medium-table_stacked slds-m-bottom_small edition"><colgroup><col></colgroup><tbody><tr class=""><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Recurring events are available in Salesforce Classic only.</td></tr><tr class=""><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Salesforce for Outlook is available in Salesforce Classic and in Lightning Experience, if <a href="https://help.salesforce.com/articleView?id=000351596&amp;type=1&amp;mode=1&amp;language=en_US" target="_blank">Salesforce Classic is available in your org</a>. Salesforce for Outlook is available with the purchase of Sales Cloud or Government Cloud in: <strong>Personal</strong>, <strong>Contact Manager</strong>, <strong>Professional</strong>, <strong>Enterprise</strong>, <strong>Performance</strong>, <strong>Unlimited</strong>, and <strong>Developer</strong> Editions</td></tr></tbody></table>

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Important Full product retirement for Salesforce for Outlook is scheduled on January 30, 2027. See [Salesforce for Outlook Retirement](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=000393445&type=1&mode=1&language=en_US). To keep integrating Microsoft Outlook with Salesforce, check out our next-generation products: the Outlook integration and Einstein Activity Capture. See [Move from Salesforce for Outlook (Retiring) to the Next-Generation Products](https://help.salesforce.com/articleView?id=outlookcrm_sfo_move_parent.htm&language=en_US).

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          <td data-label="For" class="slds-cell-wrap" rowspan="2" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d166139e95 ">Salesforce users</td>

          <td data-label="You should know that" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d166139e98 ">Changes made to a series don't affect past events.</td>

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            <p>Changes made to the following fields in an event series override changes previously
              made to single events.</p>
            <ul>
              <li>Event start or end time</li>
              <li>All-day event</li>
              <li>Frequency</li>
              <li>Recurrence start date, if a user sends updates to invitees</li>
            </ul>
            <p style="margin-bottom:0;">In addition, if users change any of those fields, all events in the series are deleted
              and re-created. As a result, the status of all invitees is reset to Not Responded.</p>
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          <td data-label="For" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d166139e95 ">API users</td>

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            <p>After users start syncing recurring events, the following read-only API objects appear
              in the API.</p>
            <ul>
              <li>EventRecurrenceException</li>
              <li>TaskRecurrenceException</li>
            </ul>
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#### See Also

- [Set Up Email Options for Salesforce for Outlook (Retiring)](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sales.outlookcrm_config_email.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Help your sales teams track important Microsoft® Outlook® emails related to Salesforce contacts and leads. And get those contacts and leads to appear directly in Outlook.")
- [Salesforce for Outlook (Retiring) Configurations and Email Application Publisher Layouts](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sales.outlookcrm_config_about.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "To set up your Salesforce for Outlook users with the settings they need, create Outlook configurations and email application publisher layouts.")