I currently have several conference rooms set up to be able to directly

book the room by inviting it as a resource. This is working ok, but
some users will open the calendar by "Open a Shared Calendar"
selecting the conference room and directly reserving a time on the
room's calendar. All the users have Author privileges to the
resource calendar so that we can directly book by inviting the room as
a resource. Is there any way to block users from opening a resource
calendar
directly and reserving the resource or set the resource calendar to
only accept meeting requests?
We're running Outlook 2003 SP2 and Exchange 2003 SP2.

If you give everyone Reviewer instead of Author access and set up the resource calendar with a delegate instead of allowing it to accept automatically, users can request time with the resource, but only the delegate can finalize the bookings.

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
http://www.turtleflock.com/olconfig/index.htm
and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx


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I currently have several conference rooms set up to be able to directly

book the room by inviting it as a resource. This is working ok, but
some users will open the calendar by "Open a Shared Calendar"
selecting the conference room and directly reserving a time on the
room's calendar. All the users have Author privileges to the
resource calendar so that we can directly book by inviting the room as
a resource. Is there any way to block users from opening a resource
calendar
directly and reserving the resource or set the resource calendar to
only accept meeting requests?
We're running Outlook 2003 SP2 and Exchange 2003 SP2.

Thanks Sue, I will pass this on to the owner of this resource. I don't
think she will want to do this manual step but we'll give her that
option.