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Holman, David
I've just re-discovered this fine news server while researching a very
irritating problem. I'm hoping that my findings on this issue can help a few
others out. in exchange I'm looking for a little AppleScript assistance.
_ the story _
on our Exchange calendar, Owners were being locked out of editing anything
posted by the other Owners. we worked around it for a couple of weeks, but
then I was locked out of my own posts -- no event updates allowed!
I dumped my cache and resync'd a few times, playing around with things each
time. after reading the article linked below*, I was led to settings that
were causing the server to view events as user-specific. in our case, it was
two options turned on by default: reminders and busy status. by turning
these settings off, suddenly all was well for everyone.
*<http://blogs.msdn.com/entourage/archive/2005/09/21/472436.aspx>
_ the script _
to make this work-around doable for all posting members, my goal is to use
AS to take a few steps out of the process.
here's the idea: the user will go to the calendar in question (myCal),
select the day, and select the script from the script menu. the script will
bring up the dialog for a new untitled event on myCal with the reminder
turned off (regardless of the user's local preference), and busy status set
to Free. I believe everything else can use the default settings.
I have basic AS experience, but not with any MS apps (other than brief
exposure to Word). can anyone get me started?
we're working with Entourage 2004 11.2.5 (060620) on an Exchange Server for
which I have no information -- the corp IT department is notoriously
unhelpful toward our Mac-centric department. I'm on Panther (10.3.9) and
most other users are on Tiger.
if you've read this far, thanks!
_ DA Holman _
irritating problem. I'm hoping that my findings on this issue can help a few
others out. in exchange I'm looking for a little AppleScript assistance.
_ the story _
on our Exchange calendar, Owners were being locked out of editing anything
posted by the other Owners. we worked around it for a couple of weeks, but
then I was locked out of my own posts -- no event updates allowed!
I dumped my cache and resync'd a few times, playing around with things each
time. after reading the article linked below*, I was led to settings that
were causing the server to view events as user-specific. in our case, it was
two options turned on by default: reminders and busy status. by turning
these settings off, suddenly all was well for everyone.
*<http://blogs.msdn.com/entourage/archive/2005/09/21/472436.aspx>
_ the script _
to make this work-around doable for all posting members, my goal is to use
AS to take a few steps out of the process.
here's the idea: the user will go to the calendar in question (myCal),
select the day, and select the script from the script menu. the script will
bring up the dialog for a new untitled event on myCal with the reminder
turned off (regardless of the user's local preference), and busy status set
to Free. I believe everything else can use the default settings.
I have basic AS experience, but not with any MS apps (other than brief
exposure to Word). can anyone get me started?
we're working with Entourage 2004 11.2.5 (060620) on an Exchange Server for
which I have no information -- the corp IT department is notoriously
unhelpful toward our Mac-centric department. I'm on Panther (10.3.9) and
most other users are on Tiger.
if you've read this far, thanks!
_ DA Holman _