Re: [Evolution] scheduling resources with the exchange connector

[Jules Colding <colding omesc com>]

On Mon, 2006-09-11 at 01:28 -0500, Peter Van Lone wrote:
> Is there a way to schedule resources when using the exchange
> connector? What happens is that the calendar invitation is sent with
> the resouce being listed as an invitee. I am told this is a limitation
> of Outlook Web Access ....
>
> apparently when using "LookOut", this is not what happens, and so the
> appointment goes on the resource calendar. However, when the resource
> is an invitee, then there is noone to accept the invite, so it never
> gets to the calendar.
>
> How can I resolve this for an environment where resources are used heavily?
>
> I have some ideas:
>
> 1)would Brutus work, since it accesses exchange with MAPI calls? Can
> the "brutus plugin" (I've never used it, so I don't know if that's
> what it is called) co-exist with the evo exchange connector, or is it
> either/or?

An evolution-brutus (e-b) account can coexist with an evolution-exchange
account. As for whether the scheduling of resources will work...

Resources, in MAPI, are just another kind of attendees to a meeting.
Resources are BCC'ed while real attendees are addressed directly or
CC'ed if they are optional. e-b has full support for reading this into
Evolution, but I haven't got the time yet to enable Evolution to write
this information into Exchange.

HTH,
  jules