How can I avoid receiving meeting requests for times I am busy?

[Guest]

I want my students to be able to send me meeting requests via Outlook's
Calendar. However, if a student requests a meeting that overlaps a time I
have marked on my Outlook Calendar as "busy" or "out of the office," I wants
the meeting request to be automatically rejected and the student notified of
the rejection without the meeting request ever arriving in my Inbox.

Can Outlook's Auto-decline feature do this? Or would this be a misuse of
the feature? I have tried to get the Auto-decline feature to work in order
to test this, but I can't seem to get it to do so reliably. It automatically
declined a meeting once, but even then I still received the request message.

I am using Microsoft Outlook 2002.

 

[Milly Staples - MVP Outlook]

You will still receive the meeting request if you have the option set to
automatically decline conflicting meetings but the requester also receives a
declined invite. The reason for this is probably something to do with the
declined meeting perhaps being more important so you can pick up the phone
and call the person and tell them to go ahead and rebook the meeting. That
will allow you to prioritize your daily tasks and meetings.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After furious head scratching, Daedal asked:

| I want my students to be able to send me meeting requests via
| Outlook's Calendar. However, if a student requests a meeting that
| overlaps a time I have marked on my Outlook Calendar as "busy" or
| "out of the office," I wants the meeting request to be automatically
| rejected and the student notified of the rejection without the
| meeting request ever arriving in my Inbox.
|
| Can Outlook's Auto-decline feature do this? Or would this be a
| misuse of the feature? I have tried to get the Auto-decline feature
| to work in order to test this, but I can't seem to get it to do so
| reliably. It automatically declined a meeting once, but even then I
| still received the request message.
|
| I am using Microsoft Outlook 2002.