Changes in how to make a meeting request to resource mailboxes after students’ mid-term upgrade to Office365

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Changes in how to make a meeting request to resource mailboxes after students’ mid-term upgrade to Office365

2013/09/27 plagwitz Leave a comment Go to comments

Update: We made a brief summary which you can read instead here.
The interface has changed quite a bit, but don’t worry: the basic processes are still the same. Here is a very quick rundown:
You now have to start from the Calendar / + new Event, like so: and
To add resources
1. Don’t try the “button:add room”, you will get this error:
2. instead, either type the resource email address
3. or click the + next to “Attendees’
  1. and search the database for the “LRC[whatever]” resource,
    1. note: no need for a new window anymore
  2. and by double-clicking or clicking the + , from the search results, add the desired resources to the “Attendees”, finally click top menu: “OK”
  3. or to remove spurious ”Attendees”, right-click them:
4. to preview the availability, you can still click top menu: “Scheduling assistant”.
  1. Note that the “Scheduling Assistant”looks very different, not like a parallel timeline, more like a parallel calendars, you can choose form thee upper right
    1. either day view:
    2. or week view:
5. and it tries to help you by giving more explicit information about conflicts:
6. when happy with how you scheduled your “event”, click top menu: “send”
7. read the response
  1. unfortunately, there seems to be no “toast” (tested in Chrome on Windows 7 and Firefox on Window XP)
  2. there is, however, still a response
    1. “accept”
    2. or,”with explanation, “declined”:
  3. there seems to be also a bug that you cannot send messages to yourself (huh? investigating), ignore for the time being:
8. from the “Event” in your calendar, you can still
  1. edit (including, for repeating events, single occurrence or series :
  2. right-click the “Event” from the calendar and choose “cancel”, which still brings up a popup window where you have to “send”: