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From: ngan on 23 Feb 2010 15:03
I open the room's profile, go to Tools | Options | Delegates

I choose the group and only allow read permission for the Calendars. That
gives them read only permission to the calendar view, but allow them to send
meeting requests and get an auto reply.

"ngan" wrote:

> I have Auto-Accept set up and it works great. However, users still want to
> do File | Open | Other User's folder and choose the room's calendar to see
> upcoming events in a "calendar" format. When you do a meeting request, the
> dates are linear so you don't see the whole picture.
>
> Is there a way to allow the users to view the room's calendar via the above
> option, but once they are in the calendar view, they have only read only
> access? If they need to book, they have to do the meeting request.
>
> Currently, I have people doing direct booking. With the auto-request
> setting, that prevents it. But I know users will ask for the calendar view
> option.
>
> I went to the exchange management shell and typed in:
>
> Add-MailboxPermission -Identity "Room 2nd Floor" -User rmbookers
> -Accessright ReadPermission
>
> user rmbookers is actually a security group - global in AD. When I did
> that, the person in that group still did not have access to view the calendar.
>
> Please help!
>
>
> "Nikki Peterson" wrote:
>
> > It would appear that you use the "Direct Booking" method for your
> > resources. I would recommend that you use the Auto-Accept.
> >
> > - A person or Group that physically checks the Resource Mailbox
> > - Auto-Accept
> > - Direct Booking
> >
> > However, since you use Exchange Server I would suggest the use
> > of the AutoAccept Agent. We use this with great success.
> >
> > Exchange 2003 Auto Accept Agent vs. direct booking
> > http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=5EAC9A70-699B-495A-A920-82403305226B&displaylang=en
> >
> > James Chong (MVP) offered up a great article explaining:
> > Exchange 2003 Auto Accept Agent vs. direct booking
> > http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2006/02/22/420275.aspx
> >
> > Nikki Peterson
> >
> > "kericson" <kericson(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:5AA1919C-FEFF-455F-A993-9EACF5710902(a)microsoft.com...
> > We use Exchange 2003 and Outlook 2003 SP3. We set up our conference rooms as
> > Resource accounts and have restricted use to an Active Directory permission
> > group that has Author permissions on the calendars. The problem we have is
> > that while every user in that permission group has attended training, some
> > persist in typing entries directly into the room calendars, wreaking havoc.
> > I
> > realize this is a user training problem and we are going to take away those
> > folks' permissions and make them go to training again, but in the meantime,
> > is there a way to allow the users in the permission group to send meeting
> > requests to the Resource and at the same time prevent them from typing
> > entries directly into the calendars? I have been playing around with the
> > permissions and learned that if I edit the Author permissions, the incoming
> > meeting requests that have the room correctly designated as a Resource don't
> > come in. Thank you.
> >
> >
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