Re: [Evolution] scheduling resources with the exchange connector

["Peter Van Lone" <petervl gmail com>]

On 9/12/06, Paul Smith <psmith paulandlesley org> wrote:
> Hm.
>
> So, I verified with my IT folks that auto-accept and auto-reject are set
> and free/busy info are being published for our conference rooms.  I can see
> the free/busy for the conference room when I add it as an attendee.
>
> I've tried reserving rooms with the following apps:
>
>   * Outlook Web Access for Exchange 2003
>   * Evolution 2.6.1 with Connector (Ubuntu 6.06.1)
>   * Evolution 2.8.0 with Connector (Ubuntu Edgy Eft Knot 2 + updates)
>
> To test I created a meeting (appointment in OWA) with just me, and then
> added a conference room as a "Resource" to the meeting, and use "Send".
>
> Then I re-opened the appointment and checked the availability status.
>
> In none of the above cases was the room marked as busy.  My calendar was
> marked as busy for all three.
>
> Soooo.... I have a suspicion this doesn't work, or if it really does
> there's more to it than just setting auto-accept.
>
> Joe, can you re-verify that resources really are marked as busy?  They do
> get added properly and it all seems to work great... until you check the
> free/busy and realize that they weren't really reserved after all.
>
> I'm confused...

you and me both!

So, if the auto-accept settings don't work ... then the only way that
scheduling a resource works is if LookOut has some special trick of
it's own for triggering the calendar update.

Hmmm ...

I will still want to do some testing of our own, but it does appear
likely that the evolution-exchange and evolution- brutus connectors
may have to figure out how to do this for us -- if the exchange
auto-accept procedures don't work.

Peter