Sue Mosher's Slipstick site has a great deal of info:
Scheduling Resources for Microsoft Outlook
http://www.slipstick.com/calendar/skedresource.htm
I did the following at my office, perhaps you could use
this with your solution:
There is a little app on Sue's Slipstick site
that I use to create groups and "Publish" to a public folder for
everyone to access.
It's called the AVAILABILITY VIEWER.
http://www.slipstick.com/dev/olforms/availvue.htm
"The Availability Viewer is a Microsoft Outlook form to show you
who (or what) is free and who is busy at any given time. It is intended
to be just a viewer, not a form for scheduling meetings. You can use
it to track the schedule of a group of people who work together or to
check when a conference room is free for a meeting. It requires
Microsoft Exchange Server."
I use this along with a public folder called "Meeting Rooms".
I published the Availability Viewer form to the "Meeting
Rooms" Public Folder (PF). Then, I created links to each of
the resource calendars by opening them in their own profile
and selecting FILE | FOLDER | SEND LINK TO THIS FOLDER
and mailing the link to myself. I renamed the link from the generic
"Calendar" to "Gold Room" for clarity.I drug the link to the PF
and dropped it so that others could just open the calendar using
the link. I also created a view that gave information about where the
room was located, phone, etc.
Now everyone has a link to the "Meeting Rooms" PF that they
have placed on their Outlook bar so when they need to view
the resources they are all in one place. They also know to select
the ACTIONS menu and select the Availability form to see the
free/busy of all of the resources in one pre-populated view.
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Nikki Peterson [MVP - Outlook]
Have you tried using AutoAccept Scripting?
For Exchange 5.5 I use AutoAccept Scripting. My resources
run themselves with very little intervention from me. Teaching
everyone to "Make a Meeting" instead of writing on a calendar
or calling one poor soul to manage them is wonderful.
http://www.exchangecode.com/
If you have a scripting guy that can perhaps tweak this a bit
you could at least tweak the reply portion of the script that
would state something like, you have booked the room but
now you need to book the desktop, and perhaps include the
information on how to do this.
Then place an autoscript on another resource called "DESKTOP"
or something like that...
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Nikki Peterson [MVP - Outlook]
Hi,
I have a meeting room that contains a desktop. Most of the time the desktop
is stationed in the room, but at some occations, the desktop has to be used
at exhibitions etc.
How can configure caldendars in Outlook (ver 2002 <-> Ms Exch server 5.5) so
the users can book the meeting room and as a default they will also book the
desktop. However, it should also be possible to book the desktop itself, but
then users who are booking the room have to know that the desktop is "on
travel".
I can't find anything on any MS site, can someone help?
Brgds, Petter
