Entourage and Public Folder Calendars

[darron]

Please Help....

We have an Exchange Server and use Entourage Public Folders to share
Calendar resources. (Book meeting rooms etc. )

The problem I have is that when someone wants to book a meeting room
resource, they create a meeting in the public folder and invite the
relevant peole including themselves. Everyone gets an email with the
option to accept, although the person who created the meeting does
not?

They have to manually enter the time in their own calendar. They
receive the email, but there is no option to accept and automatically
insert into their own calendar. This procedure works fine with Outlook
on a PC, so it is just an Entourage thing. We are using the latest
Entourage 2004 and Exchange 2003.

Thanks in Advance.

 

[William Smith]

Please Help....

We have an Exchange Server and use Entourage Public Folders to share
Calendar resources. (Book meeting rooms etc. )

The problem I have is that when someone wants to book a meeting room
resource, they create a meeting in the public folder and invite the
relevant peole including themselves. Everyone gets an email with the
option to accept, although the person who created the meeting does
not?

They have to manually enter the time in their own calendar. They
receive the email, but there is no option to accept and automatically
insert into their own calendar. This procedure works fine with Outlook
on a PC, so it is just an Entourage thing. We are using the latest
Entourage 2004 and Exchange 2003.

Is the person creating the event in the public folder calendar including
himself in the attendees list?

I would suggest asking your Exchange Server admins to look into using
the Microsoft Auto Accept Agent
<http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa996253.aspx>, which was
designed to act on behalf of resources such as meeting rooms and accept
meeting invitations automatically.

Hope this helps! bill