Calendar invitations not working

[Nick Wade]

Entourage 2008, Leopard 10.5.1 (re-posting this issue a bit more clearly)

In the Entourage Help Documentation, the following is stated:

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An event I didn't accept was added to the Calendar
Cause: By default, Entourage tentatively adds events to the Calendar when
you receive invitations.
Solution: Change your preferences for the Calendar.
On the Entourage menu, click Preferences.
Under General Preferences, click Calendar, and then clear the Tentatively
add events when invitations are received check box.

Note If you receive an event invitation that was sent to a Microsoft
Exchange account, the event is automatically added to your Microsoft
Exchange calendar with a tentative status. You can change the status by
accepting or declining the invitation
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The part in the 'Note' section is definitely not working for me, clean
install, clean identity, no Kerberos auth, just domain/user/pass. I saw on
MacMojo that Exchange 2007 handles this without a client, but I'm on
Exchange 2003 and am trying to figure out if it should / should not work as
stated in the above Entourage Help Documentation with Exchange 2003.

Thanks in advance...

 

[Mu Zhang[MSFT]]

Exchange 2003 won't automatically add event to your calendar. The "note"
part in help document refers to Exchange 2007's behavior.


Thanks
Mu

Entourage 2008, Leopard 10.5.1 (re-posting this issue a bit more clearly)

In the Entourage Help Documentation, the following is stated:

-------
An event I didn't accept was added to the Calendar
Cause: By default, Entourage tentatively adds events to the Calendar when
you receive invitations.
Solution: Change your preferences for the Calendar.
On the Entourage menu, click Preferences.
Under General Preferences, click Calendar, and then clear the Tentatively
add events when invitations are received check box.

Note If you receive an event invitation that was sent to a Microsoft
Exchange account, the event is automatically added to your Microsoft
Exchange calendar with a tentative status. You can change the status by
accepting or declining the invitation
-------

The part in the 'Note' section is definitely not working for me, clean
install, clean identity, no Kerberos auth, just domain/user/pass. I saw on
MacMojo that Exchange 2007 handles this without a client, but I'm on
Exchange 2003 and am trying to figure out if it should / should not work as
stated in the above Entourage Help Documentation with Exchange 2003.

Thanks in advance...

--
Mu Zhang
Microsoft Corporation
Macintosh Business Unit


This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights

 

[Nick Wade]

Thanks Mu,

I note that you also replied to my first post on the issue - my Entourage
still hasn't picked these, up, I just found them via Google Groups, but
nevermind. The reply is greatly appreciated, definitely answers my question.


Unfortunately, I and many other Mac users in my (quite large) company think
that the note is misleading, and should be clarified. The reality is that
with Entourage 2008 calendaring in a corporate world is no better. Exchange
2007 makes it better, that's a different product. I'll send yet more feedback
to you guys via 'Help' and I'll see what we can do about more formal
corporate feedback.

Otherwise I liked Entourage 2008 and hope that the various Mac users in my
company can really use it one day - but it looks like we'll be waiting for
corp upgrades to Exchange 2007 in about a year to be able to move off Outlook
and OWA sadly.

Thanks,

NickW