Can you force meeting request responses?

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Hi all

We are going nuts with outlook 2003 in regards to scheduling meetings. We have 300+ folks in our company. Appointments are sent out to everyone and we need to know how many people accept or decline to get an accurate food count (these appts. occur 4-5 times every month

When you accept or decline a meeting - is there ANY way to disable the choice for "do not send a response" - I am looking for a way to FORCE the response (accept, decline or tentative) to go to the meeting organizer. We are trying to "train" folks but it would be SO much easier to remove the source of the problem. We recently migrated from Groupwise so people simply aren't used to being presented with this option and the obvious choice seems to be the "don't send a response" so as not to annoy the organizer but then we can't track it

Any suggestions would be much appreciated. Thanks
 
No. You can't make people respond. This is an issue that may require a
non-technological solution. No response, no lunch, for example.
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers



Tanya Roberts said:
Hi all,

We are going nuts with outlook 2003 in regards to scheduling meetings. We
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have 300+ folks in our company. Appointments are sent out to everyone and
we need to know how many people accept or decline to get an accurate food
count (these appts. occur 4-5 times every month)
When you accept or decline a meeting - is there ANY way to disable the
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choice for "do not send a response" - I am looking for a way to FORCE the
response (accept, decline or tentative) to go to the meeting organizer. We
are trying to "train" folks but it would be SO much easier to remove the
source of the problem. We recently migrated from Groupwise so people simply
aren't used to being presented with this option and the obvious choice seems
to be the "don't send a response" so as not to annoy the organizer but then
we can't track it.
 
You can send your suggestions to (e-mail address removed) and
(e-mail address removed)
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers



Tanya Roberts said:
Darn - that's a bummer! Thanks for the response Sue!

Perhaps MS can consider that a future enhancement. You can elect NOT to
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collect responses when you make an apppointment, therefore it seems logical
to me that if you Do request a response, then "do not send a response"
should not be an option for the receiver.
 
Hello, is there any way to get people to recognize while scheduling a
meeting, that a particular time slot is already taken? Optimally this
would then prevent them from sending out a meeting request anyway?
I'm trying to prevent people from filling my calendar with numerous
meetings at the same time, which i then have to sort out which
meetings to go to, which to change, and which to ignore.
 
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