Exchange and Calendar Sharing

[hamish]

Hiya

I'm hoping someone can answer my question about Exchange and sharing calendars.

I understand that you can share calendars using Exchange, and I can view Person X's calendar and add things to it etc. Is this is the same as public folders?

Also, in Outlook you can "invite attendees" to a meeting, and this sends them an email before putting it in their diary asking if they want to accept of reject the event. In shared calendars with Exchange, can I have that option?

I mean, can I look at Person X's calendar, add an event and he still gets an email notification asking if he wants to accept/reject the meeting?

Kind regards and thank you in advance for the help.

Hamish

[hamish]

oops this seems to be duplicated . sorry

[chilifrei64]

Pubilc folders are for public folders that are to be seen by more than one person.

You can share personal calendars also.. even though the outcome is the same.. it is not like public folders... for example.. you may have a personal calendar and maybe your manager wants to see it.. this would be sharing your personal calendar.. Maybe all the computer techs share the same calendar for schedueling purposes.. this would be public folders

As far as inviting.. I am going to use another example. I create a calendar event in my calendar and invite you.. I will not receive the invite.. you will.. and if you accept.. it will be added to your calendar..

Now... if you open my calendar and create a calendar event and invited you and me.. that would be silly. I have not tried this.. For simplicity sake.. invite them from your calendar and let them get the invite to accept or decline

Edited September 30, 2005 by chilifrei64

[hamish]

So, to conclude, I could share calendars with Exchange AND people would still have the accept/reject ability?

Hamish

[chilifrei64]

yes

[hamish]

Hello

Sorry to dig this back up.

I now have this system set up (with Exchange 2003 and Outlook 2003 on all clients). Everyone can see and add events into the 8 dairies which are shared using Exchange.

When I add an event to someone's calendar, and invite people to that event, they all get emails asking if they wish to accept/reject. This is great.

However, when they press accept, it just sends an email back to me. It does NOT actually put this appointment into the person's calendar. They have to manually insert the event into their diary.

Is this an inherent problem, or have I set something up wrong?

Thanks so much

Hamish