How to get appointments to show up as "tentative" on shared calend

[dereks]

When we send appointments to shared calendars they show up for some reason as
either "tentative" or "busy". Is there a way is outlook 2003 sp2, to set a
default to "tentative"?

Thanks.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Outlook already works that way: Appointments should show as "busy" only if someone accepts them.

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

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

 

[dereks]

I'm testing this by sending an appointment to a few shared calendars as a
delegate with the auto-accept appointments feature on. When I send an
appointment, I will receive an email saying it was accepted, then a few
minutes later it posts to the calendar. Some calendars will show as busy
every time, others tentative and busy.

Any suggestions?

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

None. Tell us what's different about the setup of those calendars.

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

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

 

[dereks]

Don't see anything different. What is the same is the auto-accept is on,
there is a delegate with editor permission on the calendar, and none of the
calendars we are testing are being used.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

I know of only two methods I know of that will result in a Busy status for a meeting request:

1) Either a user manually accepts it
2) or an autoaccept script on the server accepts it.

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

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