auto accept meetings as tentative when away

[Guest]

Outlook 2003
When staff receive a meeting invite, by default the meeting is tentaively
set in their calendar so others can noto schedule that same time. However,
when "Out of Office" is turned on. No meetings will be accepted as tentative
until respondeed to.
Nothing goes into the calendar therefore weveral can schedule the same
timeframe while a person is away. When you open your email for the first time
and turn off "Out of Office" they all take over and schedule themselves over
lapping each other

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

I don't think your out of office setting has anything to do with this behavior. The real issue is whether Outlook is running at all. If it isn't, then you won't get any tentative meeting acceptances.

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

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

 

[Guest]

tO MAKE SURE i TESTED THIS AGAIN...

I set my out of office and had our dept secretary send me a test meeting. I
had Outlook open and I watched the email come. I did not open the email but
instead went to the calendar where I could not see the meeting for today at
3:00pm. I went back to the inbox and opened the email and only then did it
send it to my calendar.
This is most inconvenient when you are suppose to be on vacation relaxing.