Direct booking - closed outlook - How to ??

[Guest]

H

I have created a couple of mail accounts for booking a meeting room and a Projector. As long as these two accounts are opened in Outlook I have no trouble getting the Auto accept meeting to work and the "meeting or booking" are written in the Calender

But when I shut down Outlook on these two "Auto" accounts as I don't want to 2 computers for this purpose, the bookings will not be booked as I don't any longer get the Auto accept meeting message
Have tried to set these properties in Outlook on clients with Office 97 and Office XP, on a Exchange 5.5 server

Is this task possible or do I have to have these 2 accounts running on their own PC's with Outlook clients all the time ??

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

What version of Outlook are the clients creating the appointments using? Are
they always adding the room and projector as Resource attendees? Did you
grant everyone Author access to those Calendar folders?
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

Hi

I have created a couple of mail accounts for booking a meeting room and a

Projector. As long as these two accounts are opened in Outlook I have no
trouble getting the Auto accept meeting to work and the "meeting or booking"
are written in the Calender.

But when I shut down Outlook on these two "Auto" accounts as I don't want

to 2 computers for this purpose, the bookings will not be booked as I don't
any longer get the Auto accept meeting message.

Have tried to set these properties in Outlook on clients with Office 97

and Office XP, on a Exchange 5.5 server.

Is this task possible or do I have to have these 2 accounts running on

their own PC's with Outlook clients all the time ??

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Outlook 97 does not support direct booking. You must use either a delegate
or an autoaccept script.

In Outlook 2000, direct booking does not occur unless the room is specified
as a Resource, not a Required or Optional attendee.
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

Hi Sue, and thanks for such a fast response. Do you never sleep

While testing I have used an Office XP Outlook client to book the

elements, but later users will access both calenders with Office 97 and
Office XP clients. I have not used resources, but the default value:
required attendant (I have norwegian version, so I'm not sure what the
english default value is).