Yearly recurring appointment

hey guys. have powershell script has $date variable has birthday of someone. example "01/08/91".

now want pretty simple. create new appointment runs once year @ birthday starting year of birth , lasting forever. example 01/08/91, 01/08/92, ... , , on.

i tried writing script creates new appointment runs every day , not once year.

please me, appreciated!

- gal.

hhhmmm...so using outlook. in case script should this:

get-content c:\birthday.txt | foreach-object {     $username = $_.substring(0,8)     $birthday = $_.substring(9,10)     $fullname = $_.substring(20)     $firstname = $_.substring(0,$fullname.indexof(" "))     $lastname = $_.substring($fullname.indexof(" ")+1)     # far script works fine getting every user information. want make recurring event once year start @ $birthday      # creating new appointment     $outlook = new-object -comobject outlook.application     $session = $outlook.session     $session.logon()     $appt = $outlook.createitem("olappointmentitem")      # filling in appointment fields     $appt.meetingstatus = 1     $appt.start = [datetime]::parseexact($birthday,"dd/mm/yyyy",$null) # converting $birthday string datetime format (i found on internet)     $appt.alldayevent = 1 # making event day event since it's birthday     $appt.requiredattendees = email@domain.com # want appointment sent username     $appt.subject = "happy birthday" + $firstname + $lastname     $appt.location = "world"     $appt.body = "congratulation"  	# setup recurrence 	$recurr  = $appt.getrecurrencepattern() 	$recurr.recurrencetype  = 5 	$recurr.starttime = "02/19/2012 15:00" 	$recurr.endtime = "02/19/2012 15:00" 	$recurr.patternstartdate = get-date 	     # part want make appointment recurring once year , don't know how..      # send mail     $appt.send() }

refer link know other recurrence type:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/brijs/archive/2008/12/12/issue-unable-to-set-recurrence-pattern-of-an-appointment-or-a-meeting-as-every-weekday-using-outlook-object-model.aspx

hope helps...!!!

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