Auto accept iCalendar appointments?

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Grant Mason

With the help of Google and this group, I've worked out how to send iCal
appointments via SMTP from our non-Windows application.

However, they arrive as attachments and 'Open' then 'Save and Close' is one
step too many for our users.

Is there a way to make Outlook automatically accept the iCal event and put
it in the user's calendar - I don't mind if the status is tentative or
whatever.

All suggestions gratefully received.

TIA.
 
Under Tools->Options->Calendar Options->Resource Scheduling, set the option
to automatically accept meetings. You can set other options for meetings
there as well.

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to the
Swen virus, all e-mails sent to my actual account will be deleted w/out
reading.

After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer
Grant Mason <[email protected]> asked:

| With the help of Google and this group, I've worked out how to send
| iCal appointments via SMTP from our non-Windows application.
|
| However, they arrive as attachments and 'Open' then 'Save and Close'
| is one step too many for our users.
|
| Is there a way to make Outlook automatically accept the iCal event
| and put it in the user's calendar - I don't mind if the status is
| tentative or whatever.
|
| All suggestions gratefully received.
|
| TIA.
 
"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" (e-mail address removed) wrote in message
Under Tools->Options->Calendar Options->Resource Scheduling, set the
option to automatically accept meetings. You can set other options
for meetings there as well.
Click to expand...

Many thanks for replying.

Done that. Also ensured that 'Everyone' has Editor rights to my calendar.

..ics attachments are still not automatically accepted. I still need to open
then 'Save and Close'.

Outlook 2000 9.0.0.2711
Exchange 5.5 SP4

The .ics file that I'm sending follows. I created it by just doing a Save-As
of manually created appointment - then I deleted the appointment expecting
to see it reappear when the email arrives.


BEGIN:VCALENDAR
PRODID:-//Microsoft Corporation//Outlook 9.0 MIMEDIR//EN
VERSION:2.0
METHOD:PUBLISH
BEGIN:VEVENT
ORGANIZER:MAILTO:<myvalidemailaddress>
DTSTART:20031212T153000Z
DTEND:20031212T173000Z
TRANSP:OPAQUE
SEQUENCE:0
UID:040000008200E00074C5B7101A82E00800000000901252F909C0C3010000000000000000
100
000005DF2EF129E76C84F990F15887E429B1A
DTSTAMP:20031211T171236Z
DESCRIPTION:\n
SUMMARY:Automatic appointment test
PRIORITY:5
CLASS:PUBLIC
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR
 
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