Entourage and room scheduling

[HeidiAlyssa]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel
Email Client: Exchange

I am stunned:

Is it possible to book resources for meetings in entourage? In Outlook, when creating a message, you are given 3 options for invitees - required, optional, and resources. For my company, we need to book meeting rooms as resources and not as an invitee. I can't seem to find this equivalent ability in entourage 2008. As a sad work around,I have to either book meetings in a VM or through the web interface.

Entourage does not support direct booking of resources but you can use the Auto Accept Agent provided by Microsoft.

You will assign a mailbox to each resource and then then users add the resources to their invitations just like users. The AAA will respond on behalf of the resource, either accepting or declining.

You can use the free/busy schedule to check for availability.

If we're attached to the same Exchange Server as Outlook for the PCs, why are the Macs penalized?? We can't use Outlook (yeah yeah, unless we install bootcamp or Parallels), so why can't it be as feature rich as Outlook?

Absolutely mind-boggling.

 

[William Smith [MVP]]

I am stunned:


Entourage does not support direct booking of resources but you can
use the Auto Accept Agent provided by Microsoft.

.... snip ...

Absolutely mind-boggling.

This is a peer-to-peer newsgroup where Entourage users help other
Entourage users. This is not a feedback mechanism to Microsoft.

Please be sure to let Microsoft know you'd like to see this feature
changed in future versions by using the Help --> Send Feedback mechanism
in any Office application.

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bill

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