Caslendat Appointment Problem

[Jon]

I have an admin assistant at my work that sets up appointments for a
number of people. She has shown me a few times now where she will send out
an appointment and if she looks at the Calendar of the person she sent the
appointment to she will see it in their Calendar. However, if she goes back
to her own Calendar and opens the instance she will not see if the person
accepted or declined the appoinment under Tracking. It simply states None
as any kind of response. It's in the proper Calendar but she cannot track
it in her own. We use O2K3 with E2K3. I ran an integ against the Public
Store but it checked out just fine. No corruption.

Any help would be appreciated.

Jon

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

This behavior soundns quite normal. The person to whom the meeting request was sent is running Outlook, which did an automatic tentative acceptance so that the user's free/busy would report that they already had a tentative meeting during that hour to keep others from double-booking the time period. But because the user did not manually accept/decline the appointment, the meeting organizer does not yet have a response.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Jon]

I need to clarify. The recipients of the meeting request have gone in
and actually accepted the meeting themselves and had it booked in their
Calendars. But when the admin checks the meeting in her own Calendar they
still don't show the accept in her Tracking of the meeting.


This behavior soundns quite normal. The person to whom the meeting request
was sent is running Outlook, which did an automatic tentative acceptance so
that the user's free/busy would report that they already had a tentative
meeting during that hour to keep others from double-booking the time period.
But because the user did not manually accept/decline the appointment, the
meeting organizer does not yet have a response.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

It could be that the free/busy data hasn't been updated yet. There's always a lag. (Exchange 2007 will take care of that problem, BTW.)

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers