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Protected: LRC calendars requirements and configuration management

2014/07/15 Enter your password to view comments.

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MS-Exchange and Outlook enable managing scheduling of 100+ functional resources

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Also, it is easy to manage calendars by  group calendars, e.g.

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Creation of calendar groups is also easy via the outlook address book:

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It is Outlook (Desktop) currently only (not Exchange 2010 OWA) that allows for High-level Reporting. And even here, there are limitations:

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Can’t rename default folder names for Room and resource mailboxes with MFCMAPI

  1. To get the MS-Exchange calendar ICS to include a name line other than “X-WR-CALNAME:Calendar” (which, when trying to aggregate calendars, does not play well with other mailbox calendars also emitted by MS-Exchange with default name )
  2. when trying to follow the renaming instructions here using MFCMAPI (which seem however for personal mailboxes, not the different folder hierarchy: “information store”).
  3. I only get  this 0x8004011b mapi_e_corrupt_data (would have kind of surprised me they had let me mess with MS-Exchange, this is not PST world anymore):  renaming default folder names in room and resource mailboxes with mfcmapi fails
  4. Is there another way to rename room/resource mailbox calendars? Seems like not. But there is a recommended feedback form for this (or is this for office online only, not for exchange on premise?).

If MS-Exchange room mailbox does not auto-decline, but forwards conflicting requests

  1. This room should auto-decline conflicting requests, but forwards them:
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  3. If you log in as the room and look under Options / See more options / Settings / Resource:
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  5. You see that 433d has it wrong here:
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  7. 434 has it set correctly:
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Protected: Facilitating equipment circulation and room booking with website calendar aggregation?

2014/01/29 Enter your password to view comments.

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Current LRC equipment circulation training for Film students (Office365)

Managing responses when organizing workshops with meeting requests

You can use “copy status to clipboard”

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to move to and manage in excel:

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Use an excel table autofilter to drill down to the actual participants:

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and paste them right back into an outlook message:

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Outlook can handle that (“check names”):

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How to find out whether you have access to your classroom early (e.g. for setup tasks), by using the R25 calendar

  1. Go to http://calendar.uncc.edu/, and follow these steps:
    1. (1) switch to view by “locations”  instead of (the default) “events”,
    2. (2) select your building,
    3. (3) find your classroom,
    4. (4) see whether it is blocked=booked before your class (hover over the block to see by what) –
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  3. in order to browse to your classroom’s schedule – for example, you could also just (5) search for your classroom.
  4. Sorry, unlike in the LRC calendars from MS-Exchange, here
    1. no direct links to your room’s schedule;
    2. no simple flexible booking, even though there seems to be a need for one-time bookings (AFAIK, I did not venture behind the screen after top menu: “Reservation request” since I do not know how to answer its question).