Is it possible to create an automatic calendar entry via email?

[Guest]

I want to be able to send an email to Outlook XP and by opening that email,
and maybe clicking on a link, insert an entry into their calendar.

Obviously, the user would confirm their acceptance.

If this is not possible due to security restrictions...etc....is there a way
to send an email with specific keywords in the subject line and/or body,
which when dragged and dropped onto the calendar folder, would then insert
the entry into the calendar?

 

[AndreasRoeder]

I want to be able to send an email to Outlook XP and by opening that
email, and maybe clicking on a link, insert an entry into their
calendar.

Obviously, the user would confirm their acceptance.

If this is not possible due to security restrictions...etc....is
there a way to send an email with specific keywords in the subject
line and/or body, which when dragged and dropped onto the calendar
folder, would then insert the entry into the calendar?

Hi,
you have to do it by programming,
please take a look on www.outlookcode.com

 

[Jack Handey]

Can't you just make the entry in your calendar that you want and then email
that as an attachment to them? They could just open it up and save it in
their calendar.

 

[Guest]

I don't have outlook.

The emails are not going to be sent by a person, but by a web application.

I've heard that you can send an email with keywords in the subject line, so
when dragged and dropped into the calendar, it populates it with the details.

 

[Guest]

Hi,

I've done alot off searching and reading now.....but am still unclear on if
what I want is possible.

The scripts/web app will be sitting on one server, the clients' outlook will
be sitting on the clients pc, and the exchange server is somewhere else.

Is it possible to add, edit and delete records to a clients' outlook with a
script running from my server? If they are running outlook through an
exchange server which resides on another machine?

Or, does the exchange server have to reside on the same server as the web app?

I know I need office/outlook installed on the server where I'm running the
scripts, but is it because I am actually updating outlook through the
exchange server on the same machine?

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Outlook is not suitable to automate from server-based code. If you want to send appointment information via email, use the iCalendar specification. If you want to create/modify/delete appointments directly, use WebDAV to talk to the Exchange server; docs start at http://msdn.microsoft.com/exchange/ with discussions in the microsoft.public.exchange.development newsgroup.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

Hi,

I've done alot off searching and reading now.....but am still unclear on if
what I want is possible.

The scripts/web app will be sitting on one server, the clients' outlook will
be sitting on the clients pc, and the exchange server is somewhere else.

Is it possible to add, edit and delete records to a clients' outlook with a
script running from my server? If they are running outlook through an
exchange server which resides on another machine?

Or, does the exchange server have to reside on the same server as the web app?

I know I need office/outlook installed on the server where I'm running the
scripts, but is it because I am actually updating outlook through the
exchange server on the same machine?

No, no, no. Outlook cannot be automated from server0-b