Inviting Outlook Users to Event from Entourage through Internet

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We have a PowerBook and an IBM ThinkPad.

On the PowerBook, we are running Microsoft Office 2004 with Entourage 2004.

On the ThinkPad, we are running Microsoft Office XP with Outlook 2002.

For some reason, if I use the 'Invite' feature on a calendar event in
Entourage and send the calendar event via a normal SMTP server to Outlook,
the message comes into the Inbox as a normal email message instead of a
calendar invite with the accept, decline, tentative features.

It works fine the other way around (i.e. Outlook can send a Meeting Request
and Entourage can process it as a Calendar Event to accept, decline, etc...)

This is quite annoying as my wife and I cannot share our calendar very
easily. From what I've read, the only true option is to buy Exchange.

Any ideas??

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Enable Outlook Rich Text as the sending format from the Entourage client.

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my personal
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After furious head scratching, entourage_outlook_calendar_sharing asked:

| We have a PowerBook and an IBM ThinkPad.
|
| On the PowerBook, we are running Microsoft Office 2004 with Entourage
| 2004.
|
| On the ThinkPad, we are running Microsoft Office XP with Outlook 2002.
|
| For some reason, if I use the 'Invite' feature on a calendar event in
| Entourage and send the calendar event via a normal SMTP server to
| Outlook, the message comes into the Inbox as a normal email message
| instead of a calendar invite with the accept, decline, tentative
| features.
|
| It works fine the other way around (i.e. Outlook can send a Meeting
| Request and Entourage can process it as a Calendar Event to accept,
| decline, etc...)
|
| This is quite annoying as my wife and I cannot share our calendar very
| easily. From what I've read, the only true option is to buy Exchange.
|
| Any ideas??