In an effort to set up a project-wide meeting calendar, I created a fake user
named "Project Meetings". When any project member sets up a meeting, they
invite "Project Meetings" as an attendee. By sharing the "Project Meetings"
calendar with everyone, we have access to all project meetings, even ones
that a specific user is not invited to. Here's the problem. I checked
"Automatically accept meeting invitations" at Options>>Calendar>>Resources,
but meetings won't show on the "Project Meetings" calendar until I log in and
accept them. Is there a way to make meetings in which the fake user is
invited as an attendee show up on that fake user's calendar?

Users need to invite Project Meetings as a resource in order for the automatic acceptance to take place.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm
and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx

"Jeff" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:96E3A9AE-632E-4AC6-B06A-(E-Mail Removed)...
> In an effort to set up a project-wide meeting calendar, I created a fake user
> named "Project Meetings". When any project member sets up a meeting, they
> invite "Project Meetings" as an attendee. By sharing the "Project Meetings"
> calendar with everyone, we have access to all project meetings, even ones
> that a specific user is not invited to. Here's the problem. I checked
> "Automatically accept meeting invitations" at Options>>Calendar>>Resources,
> but meetings won't show on the "Project Meetings" calendar until I log in and
> accept them. Is there a way to make meetings in which the fake user is
> invited as an attendee show up on that fake user's calendar?

With that in mind. Is there a way to make that resource's status default to
resource instead of required.
Because I have had an issue with people setting up a meeting and thinking
they reserved the room and all they did was invite the room as another person.

"Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:

> Users need to invite Project Meetings as a resource in order for the automatic acceptance to take place.
>
> --
> Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
> Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
> http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm
> and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
> Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
> http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx
>
> "Jeff" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:96E3A9AE-632E-4AC6-B06A-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > In an effort to set up a project-wide meeting calendar, I created a fake user
> > named "Project Meetings". When any project member sets up a meeting, they
> > invite "Project Meetings" as an attendee. By sharing the "Project Meetings"
> > calendar with everyone, we have access to all project meetings, even ones
> > that a specific user is not invited to. Here's the problem. I checked
> > "Automatically accept meeting invitations" at Options>>Calendar>>Resources,
> > but meetings won't show on the "Project Meetings" calendar until I log in and
> > accept them. Is there a way to make meetings in which the fake user is
> > invited as an attendee show up on that fake user's calendar?
>

Not in versions before Outlook 2007/Exchange 2007. You might want to look at what the tools listed at http://www.slipstick.com/calendar/skedresource.htm have to offer.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm
and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx

"Rob T" <Rob (E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:A5842CBC-CF99-4F00-86C8-(E-Mail Removed)...
> With that in mind. Is there a way to make that resource's status default to
> resource instead of required.
> Because I have had an issue with people setting up a meeting and thinking
> they reserved the room and all they did was invite the room as another person.
>
> "Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:
>
>> Users need to invite Project Meetings as a resource in order for the automatic acceptance to take place.
>>
>> "Jeff" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:96E3A9AE-632E-4AC6-B06A-(E-Mail Removed)...
>> > In an effort to set up a project-wide meeting calendar, I created a fake user
>> > named "Project Meetings". When any project member sets up a meeting, they
>> > invite "Project Meetings" as an attendee. By sharing the "Project Meetings"
>> > calendar with everyone, we have access to all project meetings, even ones
>> > that a specific user is not invited to. Here's the problem. I checked
>> > "Automatically accept meeting invitations" at Options>>Calendar>>Resources,
>> > but meetings won't show on the "Project Meetings" calendar until I log in and
>> > accept them. Is there a way to make meetings in which the fake user is
>> > invited as an attendee show up on that fake user's calendar?
>>