Meeting requests always get sent to PST file

[Mr B]

I use Personal Folders for all my Outlook 2002 mail storage but use a
few synchronised mailbox folders for Calendar, Contacts and Notes.

My Outlook toolbar Calendar icon is set to point to the mailbox
Calendar folder - however all meeting requests that I receive get sent
to my Personal Folder PSTfile, and it's a real PITA periodically
scanning through it and sending them to my mailbox folder and it means
that my group-viewable mailbox calendar is always out of date.

I can't delete the PST Calendar folder, so how can I get meeeting
requests to be sent to my mailbox Calendar folder?

 

[Roady]

You can't AFAIK. When you receive meetingrequests they will apply to your
Calendar that is in the Outlook Today folder. Why don't you use the Calendar
in your default pst-file?

 

[Mr B]

You can't AFAIK. When you receive meetingrequests they will apply to your
Calendar that is in the Outlook Today folder. Why don't you use the Calendar
in your default pst-file?

Because others can't see it!

 

[Roady]

Not if you remove the permissions for it. Rightclick on the folder choose
Properties and go to the Permissions tab to see and change permissions.

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[Mr B]

Not if you remove the permissions for it. Rightclick on the folder choose
Properties and go to the Permissions tab to see and change permissions.

You can't set permissions on a PST folder to aloow others to see it
via Exchange - and even if you could, what about when I'm offline???

 

[Roady]

No, you can't set permissions on a pst-file indeed but I was talking about
why you don't use your default Calendar on Exchange. This is perfectly save
from viewing to others as long as you don't set permissions on it for others
to see its contents.

But as I reread your original post you use only pst-files. How come you
reply with "Beacause others can see it!"??? How can other people see this?
Please clarify your situation and I'll try to help you.

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[Mr B]

No, you can't set permissions on a pst-file indeed but I was talking about
why you don't use your default Calendar on Exchange. This is perfectly save
from viewing to others as long as you don't set permissions on it for others
to see its contents.

But as I reread your original post you use only pst-files. How come you
reply with "Beacause others can see it!"??? How can other people see this?
Please clarify your situation and I'll try to help you.

I can't state it any clearer than in my original post - please read it
again.

 

[Roady]

This doesn't explain why you don't use the original Calendar. You give the
reason "because others can see it" but this is not the case when you work
with pst-file (you even said that yourself as well).

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[Mr B]

This doesn't explain why you don't use the original Calendar. You give the
reason "because others can see it" but this is not the case when you work
with pst-file (you even said that yourself as well).

I'm not sure what you mean by the 'original Calendar'.
As stated before, I use PST folders for delivery of mails e.g. Inbox
and the mailbox (Exchange) folders for Calendar items, Contacts and a
couple of other folders. This is because mailbox folders can be shared
and made visible to others. PSTs can't.

I don't want mails being delivered to my mailbox because of my message
store size and for performance reasons. Has anyone tried to
synchronise several hundred MBs of mail store over a dial-up link???
A few Calendar entries are fine - a few hundred mails are not.
Also I can backup my PST files much more reliably, regularly and with
a much better chance of msg retrieval than having the Exchange server
admin do it with my mailbox.

However my actual problem is that Calendar meeting requests always get
delivered to my PST Calendar folder even though I'm using the mailbox
Calendar folder.

The only conclusion I can deduce is that Exchange/Outlook only has a
concept of a single delivery location for all messages and Calendar
requests i.e. that ppl use either PSTs or Mailbox folders for
everything - and not both.