I ran across this today, and can’t believe it.
Last week, I set up a meeting in Microsoft Outlook for today and invited four people. Three people accepted, and send responses; and one person declined. I had opened three of them, and I just deleted the last response, because I figured that the fact the last person had responded would update my calendar. Wrong again honey…
When I looked at the meeting summary this morning to see who was going to show up, I had two affirmative, one decline, and one no response. I was sure that I had seen a response from that person, so I looked in my trash and sure enough, the response was there, and marked as unread. I opened the message and then closed it; went back to the meeting in the calendar and opened it; lo and behold now the count said three acceptances, and one decline.
Not only must a recipient actually send a response to the meeting organizer, but the organizer must open the response for the transaction to appear in the organizer’s calendar. What an incredible waste of bandwidth, processing time, and storage space. You would think that when you accepted a meeting and put it on your calendar without sending a response, that the outlook server would figure out that because you had accepted it, that it would write the acceptance to both sides of the ledger.
I sure hope their accounting software does double entry accounting entries properly…. Of course it used to, before Microsoft gobbled up Great Plains which is the base package that they sell.
It still astounds me that the calendaring server requires that much physical human action to get the calendar to behave properly. Other calendars I’ve used don’t exhibit this level of stupidity; they have other problems, but not as egregious as this.