Meeting invitations & public folder calendars

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Michael Rose

A Sunday morning puzzler... Trying to create a quick & dirty "workgroup
calendar" via an email-enabled public folder calendar, and (per
slipstick.com recommendation) I would like users to invite the public
folder to their meetings, thereby making those meetings visible to
non-invited users. This works as expected in Outlook; meeting
invitations to a public folder calendar show up as appointments in the
public folder and are visible to other Outlook users and via OWA.

In Entourage 2004 11.2.6/Exchange 2003 SP2, I can invite the public
folder to my meeting. However, the meeting is not visible on the PF
calendar from Entourage -- either my instance, or on someone else's
machine. The meeting IS visible in Outlook and via OWA. Resynchronizing
or emptying cache in Entourage don't do anything. The meeting is not
visible, no matter what. Even stranger: The invitations from Outlook
users, as above, are also NOT visible in the public folder calendar as
viewed from Entourage. Clearly the events are there -- OWA sees them,
which means Entourage should see them too -- but something about them
is making Entourage twitchy.

The only workaround I've found so far is to actually create the meeting
in the public folder calendar, then invite attendees (including myself)
so that the meeting shows up both on the "workgroup" calendar and in
individual calendars for reminder/Blackberry sync, etc. This does have
the desired effect of displaying the public calendar event from
Entourage. However, if the event is edited in the user's calendar
instead of the public folder calendar, the edited instance disappears
from the Entourage view of the public calendar. :-(

This is actually making me regret that I don't use Now Up-to-Date
anymore.

Any suggestions welcome. Please cc: mike.rose --at-- mjmcreative
--dot-- com with responses.

thanks!
 

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