On 2/27/2010 6:16 AM, Malaking wrote:
I use outlook to schedule appointments with my customers with specific
employees. I have a scheduling department that does this scheduling via
outlook.

The employees have no option to reject or modify these appointments;
therefore, I would like to force this on their calendar with them having
to accept it and not allowing them to modify it. Additionally, I need to
know real time once they are scheduled. Right now I don't know they are
scheduled until they accept and that sometimes takes too long and then
they are inadvertently double booked by the scheduling department.

So how do I force appointments on calendars which are not editable?

Thanks for your help.. Submitted using http://www.outlookforums.com
I wrote a web-based application for this for a customer.

It handles scheduling and accommodates multiple time slots and multiple
employees availability. They simply see new items on the shared calendar.

With Microsoft Exchange comes the free/busy capability. That would make
what you want possible.
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