Meeting invites send out only normal email!!

[strells]

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

I am trying to create meetings with our company's exchange server. This worked fine with 2004 (except for selecting a conference room as a resource which I think still does not work in 2008). However, with Entourage 2008, if I send out an invitation for a meeting invite, only a normal email is sent. The "Accept" or "Decline" buttons are not there and the meeting does not get blocked out in my Entourage calendar! What is going on here?

 

[Nic]

I actually just posted a similar problem. Are you adding the events to a
public folder calendar or your own calendar?

 

[strells]

This is my own calendar accessed through an Exchange server. I've tried adding the event either by clicking and dragging in the calendar itself and by creating a new event from the New button. I can see the scheduling of myself and others that I invite on the Scheduling tab, but when I send out the meeting, all that is sent is a plain email with a strange time range at the top of the body (I think it's Tijuana time; I'm Pacific coast; I have no idea why it does this). And then the time does not get blocked out on my calendar. It just disappears.

Steve

 

[Mu Zhang[MSFT]]

1. Check your OS time zone setting and the default event time zone setting
Calendar preference (Entourage -> Preference -> calendar -> default time
zone setting).

2. could you check the calendar whether the event appears in some other
time? Check it in week view/month view or do a search


Thanks
Mu

This is my own calendar accessed through an Exchange server. I've tried adding
the event either by clicking and dragging in the calendar itself and by
creating a new event from the New button. I can see the scheduling of myself
and others that I invite on the Scheduling tab, but when I send out the
meeting, all that is sent is a plain email with a strange time range at the
top of the body (I think it's Tijuana time; I'm Pacific coast; I have no idea
why it does this). And then the time does not get blocked out on my calendar.
It just disappears.

Steve

--
Mu Zhang
Microsoft Corporation
Macintosh Business Unit


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[strells]

The time zone is set correctly.

A meeting I tried to set up at 3 PM on Monday, 4/7, was placed in the calendar at 8 AM on Tuesday, 4/29!!!??!! When I look at my calendar using Outlook 2003 on a PC, it is at the correct time on 4/7 with nothing on 4/29. How can this be so unbelievably completely wrong? At least with Entourage 2004, it put it on the right date!

Steve

 

[strells]

Anybody? Is there any way to look at posts in this lousy forum without doing a search, i.e. browse by newest posts?

Steve

 

[Mu Zhang[MSFT]]

The meeting invite you Sent will be displayed as a plain mail message in
your Sent box. Attendees that receive your invite, will see it as a meeting
invite with "accept, decline, accept tentative" buttons.

Does the event move if you create a non-meeting event? Could you send me
screenshots so I can understand better (send to (e-mail address removed) )? I
think the following files would help:
1. screenshots of the meeting you created.
Open it in the event window so I can see the banners and the dates (How
did you choose the date, BTW? Did you use the scheduling tab only or you use
the start/end field in the event window? )
Take screenshots of it in calendar week view and month view
4. drag your invite to desktop so it is saved as an .eml file. Send that
file to me as Attachment, please don't forward it to me.

Thanks
Mu

The time zone is set correctly.

A meeting I tried to set up at 3 PM on Monday, 4/7, was placed in the calendar
at 8 AM on Tuesday, 4/29!!!??!! When I look at my calendar using Outlook 2003
on a PC, it is at the correct time on 4/7 with nothing on 4/29. How can this
be so unbelievably completely wrong? At least with Entourage 2004, it put it
on the right date!

Steve

--
Mu Zhang
Microsoft Corporation
Macintosh Business Unit


This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights