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Jay Keller
To support a product trial, we are in the position of needing to maintain
two Exchange worlds, one at Exchange 5.5 and the other at Exchange 2000
(which will be upped to 2003 next week). Trial users have accounts and
mailboxes on both systems. The two systems are connected together for
mailflow, as well as dirsync using ADC and Free/Busy sync using the
inter-org PF replicator.
All Outlook clients are Outlook 2003. Outlook 2003 has increased the power
of rules, in particular there are now rules to handle calendar items. So we
are trying to use these to sync a user's Exchange 2000 calendar to the
Exchange 5.5 calendar.
Outlook 2003 rules now offer three ways to send a calendar object to another
user. After choosing the condition to select an items which "is a meeting
invitation or update", three options are offered for "forwarding":
1. forward it to people or distribution list
2. forward it to people or distribution list as an attachment
3. redirect it to people or distribtuion list
I'm forwarding from the Exchange 5.5 org to the Exchange 2000 org. If a
meeting invitation comes to me and I forward it manually to my mailbox on
the other system, everything is OK, the item comes as a meeting invitation
with the recipient designated as a required attendee and it can be handled
normally.
But try to use any of the above three rule types and the same is not the
case. If we "forward" or "redirect", it comes as a mail message, not a
calendar object. If we "forward as an attachment", it comes as a calendar
object, but the recipient is not one of the participants in the meeting,
therefore cannot add it to his calendar.
Is this a bug? We just want the rule to do what we can do manually...
Thanks,
Jay Keller
Siemens Communications
Enterprise Sys Dev, San Jose, California
jay d-o-t keller a-t siemens d-o-t com
two Exchange worlds, one at Exchange 5.5 and the other at Exchange 2000
(which will be upped to 2003 next week). Trial users have accounts and
mailboxes on both systems. The two systems are connected together for
mailflow, as well as dirsync using ADC and Free/Busy sync using the
inter-org PF replicator.
All Outlook clients are Outlook 2003. Outlook 2003 has increased the power
of rules, in particular there are now rules to handle calendar items. So we
are trying to use these to sync a user's Exchange 2000 calendar to the
Exchange 5.5 calendar.
Outlook 2003 rules now offer three ways to send a calendar object to another
user. After choosing the condition to select an items which "is a meeting
invitation or update", three options are offered for "forwarding":
1. forward it to people or distribution list
2. forward it to people or distribution list as an attachment
3. redirect it to people or distribtuion list
I'm forwarding from the Exchange 5.5 org to the Exchange 2000 org. If a
meeting invitation comes to me and I forward it manually to my mailbox on
the other system, everything is OK, the item comes as a meeting invitation
with the recipient designated as a required attendee and it can be handled
normally.
But try to use any of the above three rule types and the same is not the
case. If we "forward" or "redirect", it comes as a mail message, not a
calendar object. If we "forward as an attachment", it comes as a calendar
object, but the recipient is not one of the participants in the meeting,
therefore cannot add it to his calendar.
Is this a bug? We just want the rule to do what we can do manually...
Thanks,
Jay Keller
Siemens Communications
Enterprise Sys Dev, San Jose, California
jay d-o-t keller a-t siemens d-o-t com