Handling concurrent users in Exchange

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hi

I'm designing some integration between a VB6 application running on the
desktop and a shared Calendar in an Exchange Public Folder. I need to
understand how best to handle concurrency issues. Do I have to write code
within the VB app to manage any conflicts when multiple users access the same
Calendar data, or are there any Exchange / Outlook features which will help?

thanks for reading and for any asssistance.
 
I believe you are looking at a "last edit wins" scenario here, providing all
users have at least Editor permissions. So if a user has a particular
Appointment open, and another user opens the same one at the same time, the
last user to save will overwrite the previously saved item.

Exchange only handles conflicts for individual users, where you have made
changes in offline mode; then it prompts you which version to keep.

A little birdie tells me I'm missing something, but I think this is correct.
I may be thinking about other Outlook/Exchange products I've used that
supports multi-user edits.
 
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