New Meeting Requests show as tentative prior to checking email

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I have Exchange 2003 running on Server 2000 and Outlook 2003.
Some of the accounts will automatically display new meeting requests in
their schedule as soon as the request arrives in their inbox. The meeting is
blocked out and scheduled as tentative. I also have a few users that don't
block out time in the schedule until the invitation is opened and accepted.
This is causing problems; some of the people are missing meetings because
they are not checking their email soon enough and therefore the meeting
requests are going unnoticed.
I have been looking for the flag that enables new meeting requests to
automatically schedule the appointment as tentative once it arrives in the
inbox.
Any help identifying this switch would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

It is on the Outlook Options under resource scheduling - set it to
automatically accept meetings. You can also set it to automatically decline
conflicting meetings.

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After furious head-scratching, AndyH asked this group:

| I have Exchange 2003 running on Server 2000 and Outlook 2003.
| Some of the accounts will automatically display new meeting requests
| in their schedule as soon as the request arrives in their inbox. The
| meeting is blocked out and scheduled as tentative. I also have a few
| users that don't block out time in the schedule until the invitation
| is opened and accepted. This is causing problems; some of the people
| are missing meetings because they are not checking their email soon
| enough and therefore the meeting requests are going unnoticed.
| I have been looking for the flag that enables new meeting requests to
| automatically schedule the appointment as tentative once it arrives
| in the inbox.
| Any help identifying this switch would be greatly appreciated.
| Thanks.