Outlook 2003: Critical Meeting Participant reminders?

[Mr.Jan]

I work for a government agency and there seems to be a culture of not
responding to calendar invitations. I recently coordinated a meeting
where the client agency showed up but none of the tech staff from the
support side. Had to reschedule. I put in a task with reminder for the
day prior to the meeting and had to make phone calls to get
attendees. I know 2003 is "stone age" but is there a way in ANY
version of Outlook to automatically remind certain invitees they have
not responded?

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

No. There is at least one addin you can use to remind you that they need to
be reminded.
See Follow up reminder - http://www.slipstick.com/addins/mail.asp

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[Mr.Jan]

I can't add anything to a government computer. These are supposed to
be secure machines. Good idea though.

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

I figured that would be a problem, but unfortunately it's the only way to
automate reminders. You can create a task for each meeting to remind you to
send the reminders... which I assume you are doing now.

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[Mr.Jan]

Yes, I am setting up tasks but that is a pretty manual work around.

I figured that would be a problem, but unfortunately it's the only way to
automate reminders. You can create a task for each meeting to remind you to
send the reminders... which I assume you are doing now.

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Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
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I can't add anything to a government computer.  These are supposed to
be secure machines.  Good idea though.