How to book resources for meeting in Entourage

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel
Email Client: Exchange

Is it possible to book resources for meetings in entourage? In Outlook, when creating a message, you are given 3 options for ivitees - required, optional, and resources. For my company, we need to book meeting rooms as resources and not as an invitee. I can't seem to find this equivalent ability in entourage 2008. As a sad work around, I have to either book meetings in a VM or through the web interface.

Thnx in advance.

(=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Corentin_Cras-M=E9neur?=)
Wed Sep 24 14:10:13 CDT 2008

<HOiYA@officeformac.com> wrote:

> Is it possible to book resources for meetings in entourage?

It's not directly supported though I heard you might have some luck with
servers set to auto-accept.


Corentin

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William
Wed Sep 24 22:26:27 CDT 2008

HOiYA@officeformac.com wrote:

> Is it possible to book resources for meetings in entourage? In
> Outlook, when creating a message, you are given 3 options for ivitees
> - required, optional, and resources. For my company, we need to book
> meeting rooms as resources and not as an invitee. I can't seem to
> find this equivalent ability in entourage 2008. As a sad work around,
> I have to either book meetings in a VM or through the web interface.

Entourage does not support direct booking of resources but you can use
the Auto Accept Agent provided by Microsoft.

You will assign a mailbox to each resource and then then users add the
resources to their invitations just like users. The AAA will respond on
behalf of the resource, either accepting or declining.

You can use the free/busy schedule to check for availability.

Hope this helps!

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Jolly
Thu Sep 25 00:43:33 CDT 2008

In article <59b5a515.-1@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw>,
HOiYA@officeformac.com wrote:

> Version: 2008
> Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
> Processor: Intel
> Email Client: Exchange
>
> Is it possible to book resources for meetings in entourage? In Outlook, when
> creating a message, you are given 3 options for ivitees - required, optional,
> and resources. For my company, we need to book meeting rooms as resources and
> not as an invitee. I can't seem to find this equivalent ability in entourage
> 2008. As a sad work around, I have to either book meetings in a VM or through
> the web interface.
>
> Thnx in advance.

Unfortunately, because Microsoft decided to implement Exchange support
in Entourage using the OWA client method rather than making it a true
MAPI client, Entourage cannot do a lot of things Outlook can do. It's
basically limited to what you can do with OWA (and even then it falls
short in some areas). So you'll need to use Outlook in Windows to
reserve meeting rooms. Luckily you can run Windows in vmWare Fusion or
Parallels Desktop on your Mac without having to reboot.

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