Exchange 2003 Meeting Request auto acceptance behavior

[Kirstin Koch]

Users on my SBS2003 Exchange server are claiming that the installation of a
BES server affected the automatic acceptance of meeting requests. They
claim that when someone sends them a meeting invite, the appointment was
automatically added to their calendar but marked as tentative. These are
users, and not resource mailboxes.

Before I go calling Blackberry, I want to confirm if the behavior they
expect is actually how Exchange 2003 works. When I tested this scenario on
a different Exchange 2003 server (not SBS), I was only able to produce the
same affect after previewing the meeting invite. Searching the internet
seemed to reveal that this is the expected behavior, unless some Auto Accept
agent was enabled. But these only seems to be used for resource mailboxes.

Any feedback here is appreciated, even if you just report the results of
testing this scenario on your own server.

- Kirstin Koch

 

[Brian Tillman]

Users on my SBS2003 Exchange server are claiming that the
installation of a BES server affected the automatic acceptance of
meeting requests. They claim that when someone sends them a meeting
invite, the appointment was automatically added to their calendar but
marked as tentative. These are users, and not resource mailboxes.

This is normal. When a person receives a meeting request, it will appear on
their calendar as tentative until they accept it or decline it. It happens
without BES.