Outlook 2007 - Accepting Meeting Invitations that I Organize

[varlene]

I have two computers, home and work. In Outlook 2003 I could set up a
meeting from either location and invite myself. When I arrived at the other
location I could accept the meeting and it would appear in my Calendar.
Outlook 2007 says "As the meeting organizer, you do not need to respond to
the meeting." If fact, it does not allow me to accept or reject or respond
from the 2nd location, so I have to manually type in all the meeting
information. Is there a way to fix this?

I could schedule an appointment instead of a meeting and then forward it to
myself so I could drag the appointment into the 2nd calendar, but I don't
think all the other meeting attendees would appreciate it, so I'd really be
interested in some sort of a fix.

FYI - I use the same email address at both locations and do not use Exchange.

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

If you use the same email address at both locations, of course Outlook is going to tell you that. How would it be able to distinguish between the 2 if everything is the same?

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After furious head scratching, varlene asked:

| I have two computers, home and work. In Outlook 2003 I could set up a
| meeting from either location and invite myself. When I arrived at
| the other location I could accept the meeting and it would appear in
| my Calendar. Outlook 2007 says "As the meeting organizer, you do not
| need to respond to the meeting." If fact, it does not allow me to
| accept or reject or respond from the 2nd location, so I have to
| manually type in all the meeting information. Is there a way to fix
| this?
|
| I could schedule an appointment instead of a meeting and then forward
| it to myself so I could drag the appointment into the 2nd calendar,
| but I don't think all the other meeting attendees would appreciate
| it, so I'd really be interested in some sort of a fix.
|
| FYI - I use the same email address at both locations and do not use
| Exchange.

 

[varlene]

It worked in OL2003; somehow OL2003 recognized a difference between the two
Outlooks, either by the folder location or the computer name. For OL2007 I
don't see any harm in enabling the accept key at the 2nd computer. If the
meeting is already in the calendar, then no problem. If it's not, at least
the organizer would be able to add it. The message says "the Organizer
doesn't NEED to respond" but I think it should be an option to reply if the
Organizer WANTS to. The fact that it is currently disabled will cause me
nothing but misery. Maybe you can give me a couple of good reasons why you
think it was disabled and it'll help me get over it; I can't think of any
advantages myself. By the way, do you think that OL2007 should assume that
an email address has just one calendar assigned to it?

 

[RL Stephenson]

I completely agree. Due to the way OL2007 handles meeting requests, we are investigating downgrading all of our users back to OL2003. We use a Linux mail server and some users (developers, testers, tech support) do not use MS products at all but stick with Linux and other UNIX-based systems. The other 2/3 of our users do use MS Office and rely heavily on Outlook. Many of them have iPhones or Blackberry PDAs, some have both laptop and desktop computers or multiple workstations within the building. It seems MS is trying to force people to move to MS Exchange servers by removing previous functionality and making it server-dependent.

I have two computers, home and work. In Outlook 2003 I could set up a
meeting from either location and invite myself. When I arrived at the other
location I could accept the meeting and it would appear in my Calendar.
Outlook 2007 says "As the meeting organizer, you do not need to respond to
the meeting." If fact, it does not allow me to accept or reject or respond
from the 2nd location, so I have to manually type in all the meeting
information. Is there a way to fix this?

I could schedule an appointment instead of a meeting and then forward it to
myself so I could drag the appointment into the 2nd calendar, but I don't
think all the other meeting attendees would appreciate it, so I'd really be
interested in some sort of a fix.

FYI - I use the same email address at both locations and do not use Exchange.

On Friday, November 30, 2007 6:48 PM Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook] wrote:
If you use the same email address at both locations, of course Outlook =
is going to tell you that. How would it be able to distinguish between =
the 2 if everything is the same?

--=81
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading. =20

After furious head scratching, varlene asked:

On Friday, November 30, 2007 7:47 PM varlen wrote:
It worked in OL2003; somehow OL2003 recognized a difference between the two
Outlooks, either by the folder location or the computer name. For OL2007 I
don't see any harm in enabling the accept key at the 2nd computer. If the
meeting is already in the calendar, then no problem. If it's not, at least
the organizer would be able to add it. The message says "the Organizer
doesn't NEED to respond" but I think it should be an option to reply if the
Organizer WANTS to. The fact that it is currently disabled will cause me
nothing but misery. Maybe you can give me a couple of good reasons why you
think it was disabled and it'll help me get over it; I can't think of any
advantages myself. By the way, do you think that OL2007 should assume that
an email address has just one calendar assigned to it?

"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:

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[RL Stephenson]

I completely agree. Due to the way OL2007 handles meeting requests, we are investigating downgrading all of our users back to OL2003. We use a Linux mail server and some users (developers, testers, tech support) do not use MS products at all but stick with Linux and other UNIX-based systems. The other 2/3 of our users do use MS Office and rely heavily on Outlook. Many of them have iPhones or Blackberry PDAs, some have both laptop and desktop computers or multiple workstations within the building. It seems MS is trying to force people to move to MS Exchange servers by removing previous functionality and making it server-dependent.

I have two computers, home and work. In Outlook 2003 I could set up a
meeting from either location and invite myself. When I arrived at the other
location I could accept the meeting and it would appear in my Calendar.
Outlook 2007 says "As the meeting organizer, you do not need to respond to
the meeting." If fact, it does not allow me to accept or reject or respond
from the 2nd location, so I have to manually type in all the meeting
information. Is there a way to fix this?

I could schedule an appointment instead of a meeting and then forward it to
myself so I could drag the appointment into the 2nd calendar, but I don't
think all the other meeting attendees would appreciate it, so I'd really be
interested in some sort of a fix.

FYI - I use the same email address at both locations and do not use Exchange.

On Friday, November 30, 2007 6:48 PM Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook] wrote:
If you use the same email address at both locations, of course Outlook =
is going to tell you that. How would it be able to distinguish between =
the 2 if everything is the same?

--=81
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading. =20

After furious head scratching, varlene asked:

On Friday, November 30, 2007 7:47 PM varlen wrote:
It worked in OL2003; somehow OL2003 recognized a difference between the two
Outlooks, either by the folder location or the computer name. For OL2007 I
don't see any harm in enabling the accept key at the 2nd computer. If the
meeting is already in the calendar, then no problem. If it's not, at least
the organizer would be able to add it. The message says "the Organizer
doesn't NEED to respond" but I think it should be an option to reply if the
Organizer WANTS to. The fact that it is currently disabled will cause me
nothing but misery. Maybe you can give me a couple of good reasons why you
think it was disabled and it'll help me get over it; I can't think of any
advantages myself. By the way, do you think that OL2007 should assume that
an email address has just one calendar assigned to it?

"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote: