FW: Using Exchange to Reserve conference rooms

[John Weber]

Search MS website for OUTLOOK (because that is where the work gets done) and resource account or something like that.

If I had my laptop up I could offer you a pdf of the kb.

 

Boils down to setting up the account as a normal user.

Go into account from your gawd machine and account.

Grant permissions on the calendar to whoever or whichever group (preferred by group of course) to have AUTHOR permissions.

Then go through all the options until you find the resource scheduling acceptance doohickeys and whack on the combinations that give you what you want.  The one you sound like you are most interested in is the "Automatic Refusal of conflicts" or whatever the verbiage is.

If you do this process correctly, it becomes a server based client generated rule and you don't have to keep someone logged into the account to make it work.

 

John

-----Original Message-----
From: Mathews, James E. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 6:25 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Using Exchange to Reserve conference rooms

Exchange 5.5 on a NT4.0 box

Outlook 2k

 

I set up 5 rooms as resources so when people want to have meetings they can go to their calendar put a conference room as required and then it reserves the time.  It appears that we have a few people when they reserve the room it will not take their reservation.  I have everything set up the same as everyone else... same permission same conference room set up and everything.

 

So the problem is someone will be in a meeting someone else will come in and say they have the room and then there is a bit of trouble.

 

So if someone has knowledge why some people may not be able to reserve resources correctly please let me know.

 

Also is there any write up on the correct way to set up a resource I just figured it out on my own and works 99% of the time I was willing to deal with the 1% but now its coming back and biting me in the butt.

 

Any help would be great.

 

 

O something else if there is a better method then using Outlook for resource scheduling please let me know. 

 

OR IF you should NOT use the resources in outlook let me know... then at least I can tell management they are lucky I got it working at all. 

 

Thanks

James

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