Double Booking Resources in Outlook

[wardog25]

We use Outlook 2007 on Exchange 2003 Server.

We used the AutoAccept agent to set up our resources. They are configured to decline conflicting meetings. But this assumes you schedule a room correctly.

Problem is, if someone just opens up the calendar of a resource and double clicks on a time, they can create a meeting and the room won't refuse it, even if it conflicts with another meeting.

I realize you should just be able to train people not to do this, but we don't really live in an ideal world. There is always going to be a computer illiterate person who does it the wrong way.

Is there no way to stop this?

 

[Zelandakh]

Stop them from being able to open up the room so that they have to book by meeting request.

 

[wardog25]

But how do you do that without limiting access completely?

I tried changing the permissions of the resource and it seems to stop them from being able to reserve the resource entirely, even using the correct method.

 

[Zelandakh]

Use

http://www.tek-tips.com/faqs.cfm?fid=894

which I last used many years ago I have to admit.

This didn't allow users to create events in the calendar themselves.