Meeting/appointment requests sent to Internet users

[Guest]

When you set up a meeting over the Exchange Server to your colleagues they
have the options of declining, accepting or deleting your requests, and so
forth. However, if you send these same requests over the Internet, the
options do not exist. The message comes in with just basic info about the
time, place, etc... If someone over the Internet opens my request in
Outlook, they should get the same options as those who receive it through the
Exchange Server. Come on, this is fundamental stuff. We send meeting
notices to people outside our organization all the time, it's commonplace.

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[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

If you gave your Outlook and Exchange versions, someone might be able to help you get this feature, which many people use all the time, to work.

 

[Guest]

I have Outlook 2002 at work and Outlook 2000 at home. What version of
Exchange we have at work I don't know. Is there an XP version?

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

There is a known incompatiblity between Outlook 2000 and later versions related to reminders on meeting requests sent in iCalendar (aka iCal) format. To resolve this issue, do one of the following:

-- Contact Microsoft Product Support Services to obtain the Outlook 2000 post-SP3 hotfix described in this article: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=823199

-- Tell the senders to remove any reminder before sending you an iCal meeting request.

-- Tell the senders to send to you in native Outlook meeting request (RTF) format, not as iCal.

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