Outlook 2003 Resource Scheduling

[patrick.valdez]

I currently have several conference rooms set up to be able to directly

book the room by inviting it as a resource. This is working ok, but
some users will open the calendar by "Open a Shared Calendar"
selecting the conference room and directly reserving a time on the
room's calendar. All the users have Author privileges to the
resource calendar so that we can directly book by inviting the room as
a resource. Is there any way to block users from opening a resource
calendar
directly and reserving the resource or set the resource calendar to
only accept meeting requests?
We're running Outlook 2003 SP2 and Exchange 2003 SP2.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

If you give everyone Reviewer instead of Author access and set up the resource calendar with a delegate instead of allowing it to accept automatically, users can request time with the resource, but only the delegate can finalize the bookings.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[patrick.valdez]

Thanks Sue, I will pass this on to the owner of this resource. I don't
think she will want to do this manual step but we'll give her that
option.