Remove mark as private option

[Raftermike]

We have multiple conference rooms booked as resources. Some of the users mark
their meetings as private in order to prevent them from being edited by
others. This is causing serious problems. Is there a way to remove "Mark
meeting as private" functionality in Outlook.

We use Office 2003 with Exchange 2003 Enterprise.

Thanks.

 

[Nikki Peterson]

It would appear that you use the "Direct Booking" method for your
resources. This leaves very few options. However, you could
set everyone for AUTHOR only. If they have AUTHOR
rights then they can only edit their own entries and not anyone
else's. Then Tell everyone to STOP marking it Private.

Nikki Peterson


We have multiple conference rooms booked as resources. Some of the users
mark
their meetings as private in order to prevent them from being edited by
others. This is causing serious problems. Is there a way to remove "Mark
meeting as private" functionality in Outlook.

We use Office 2003 with Exchange 2003 Enterprise.

Thanks.

 

[Nikki Peterson]

I have to add:

How to direct book a resource in Outlook
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;291616

However, If you use Exchange Server I would suggest the use
of the AutoAccept Agent. We use this with great success.

Exchange 2003 Auto Accept Agent vs. direct booking
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...70-699B-495A-A920-82403305226B&displaylang=en

James Chong (MVP) offered up a great article explaining:
Exchange 2003 Auto Accept Agent vs. direct booking
http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2006/02/22/420275.aspx

Nikki Peterson

It would appear that you use the "Direct Booking" method for your
resources. This leaves very few options. However, you could
set everyone for AUTHOR only. If they have AUTHOR
rights then they can only edit their own entries and not anyone
else's. Then Tell everyone to STOP marking it Private.

Nikki Peterson


We have multiple conference rooms booked as resources. Some of the users
mark
their meetings as private in order to prevent them from being edited by
others. This is causing serious problems. Is there a way to remove "Mark
meeting as private" functionality in Outlook.

We use Office 2003 with Exchange 2003 Enterprise.

Thanks.

 

[Raftermike]

Thanks. I have read the documentation for AAA and as nice as it is it would
not resolve our problem. Thanks for your help.