meeting requests - respondants put into optional?

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Scott McDonald

Our CEO sent out a meeting invitation in Outlook 2003 on Exchange 2003 and as people responded to it they went into the optional category on her machine (if you go into the calendar item, double click the item and then click the to button, all the people that have accepted it are in the optional field, those that haven't responded are still in the to field and they are the only ones there).

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Thanks
 
well, I found out why it does this. If you send to a group email address like (e-mail address removed) the members of that group respond to accept the meeting, as far as outlook is concerned the invite didn't include the people responding, it only included (e-mail address removed)

Personally this is incredibly stupid (and I do mean that in the way of "not smart") behavior for outlook. Shouldn't it have enough smarts in this regard to look up the address of (e-mail address removed) in the address book or GAL and decipher whos part of (e-mail address removed)?


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Scott
Our CEO sent out a meeting invitation in Outlook 2003 on Exchange 2003 and as people responded to it they went into the optional category on her machine (if you go into the calendar item, double click the item and then click the to button, all the people that have accepted it are in the optional field, those that haven't responded are still in the to field and they are the only ones there).

...?

Thanks
 
Scott McDonald said:
Personally this is incredibly stupid (and I do mean that in the way
of "not smart") behavior for outlook. Shouldn't it have enough smarts
in this regard to look up the address of (e-mail address removed) in the
address book or GAL and decipher whos part of (e-mail address removed)?
Click to expand...

Since the address was in the form of a mailing list, it doesn't appear to
have been a contact in the GAL, so how do you propose Outlook find it, let
alone expand it?
 
Outlook knows to look in the Gal when typing in an address of someone your
sending to, when you right click that and select properties it has no
problem showing the members of that list, so why can't it do exactly that in
the background when processing responses to a meeting invitation?
 
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