MS Exchange Gurus - question for you
 

I have a small Exchange 2003 environment 25 +/- users. We want to setup a company-wide calendar so that when there is an event, or ?? people can invite the calendar and the schedule item will show on the calendar.

This does not work if there is a schedule conflict. I.e. 2 people doing something at the same time. The auto accept function on the calendar can neither handle nor ignore conflicts.

What should I do? An upgrade to '07 or '10 is in the FY11 budget, not sure that will fix the issues, but is there something I can do now as a work-around in the mean time?

TIA

Install the free version of Sharepoint and use the calendar on that.

Secondary benefit is that then you have a webpage to look at it from too, and people can link to their Outlook if they want.

It sounds like an issue with free\busy information.

Are you current on your service packs?
What version of Outlook are you using as clients?
Are your clients set up to use cached Exchange mode? (if so try disabling it)
Does the issue persist when scheduling through the Outlook Web Access client?

+1. All good questions. I think the issue is the free busy But make sure to check the above

The issue is that Exchange 2k3 is working as intended, meaning, a resource calendar can not be double-booked.

Now, if the users schedule from the master calendar, then there is no issue. However, invite responses and changes have to happen from the master calendar, and that gets messy.

I'm going to look into sharepoint tomorrow and see what it gets me.