My organization is using Exchange 2007 as a calendar system. Employees use
another email account for other emailing. Many Outlook users connect to both
the Exchange server and the mail server (using POP3 or IMAP).

To avoid confusion, users were advised to set their default send account to
the mail server (not Exchange). However, if a meeting invitation is sent
from this account to another user's Exchange account, the meeting does not
tentatively appear on their calendars. If they accept the meeting request,
it IS added to the calendar.

Is there any way to send invitations from a non-Exchange account to an
Exchange account, and have events tentatively added to the Exchange Calendar?

what are their autoaccept settings? (in the tools, options, calendar dialog)

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"Mike S" Mike wrote in message
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My organization is using Exchange 2007 as a calendar system. Employees
use
another email account for other emailing. Many Outlook users connect to
both
the Exchange server and the mail server (using POP3 or IMAP).

To avoid confusion, users were advised to set their default send account
to
the mail server (not Exchange). However, if a meeting invitation is sent
from this account to another user's Exchange account, the meeting does not
tentatively appear on their calendars. If they accept the meeting
request,
it IS added to the calendar.

Is there any way to send invitations from a non-Exchange account to an
Exchange account, and have events tentatively added to the Exchange
Calendar?

In tools -- Options -- Calendar Options -- Resource Scheduling, users are
not auto-accepting meetings.

With more testing, it appears that invitations sent from a non-Exchange
account to an Exchange account are added as tentative appointments ONLY if
the recipient is running Outlook and logged into the Exchange server. This
is a problem, as some users do not use Outlook.

I should mention that I've been testing this with Outlook 2007.

Is there a way for invitations to be tentatively added without the recipient
running Outlook?

Did you ever receive a fix back for this problem? We are having the same
issue with Outlook 2003 within our Exchange 2003 environment. The calendar
items do not show as tentative, until the user has logged onto their account.

Angie

"Mike S" wrote:

In tools -- Options -- Calendar Options -- Resource Scheduling, users are
not auto-accepting meetings.

With more testing, it appears that invitations sent from a non-Exchange
account to an Exchange account are added as tentative appointments ONLY if
the recipient is running Outlook and logged into the Exchange server. This
is a problem, as some users do not use Outlook.

I should mention that I've been testing this with Outlook 2007.

Is there a way for invitations to be tentatively added without the recipient
running Outlook?