Kevin: WOW! Embarrassed to say that I just learned a LOT about cool features in Outlook from your msg.!
Thx, Dave -----Original Message----- From: McLauchlan, Kevin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 1:51 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [users] Newbie! Robert (Newbie) asked about an Outlook replacement for use with OOo, and various list members suggested SeaMonkey or Thunderbird with the Lightning calendar plug-in. What do multiple users do to call meetings, reserve rooms and resources, and have meetings inserted into each others' calendars? The boss would want to be able to "forcibly" insert meeting reservations/notifications into underling's calendars, while other folks would like to be able to provisionally insert them (if the time is currently unallocated in the other party's calendar). One of the handiest features of the Outlook calendar functions is that simply clicking "Accept" causes both a return acceptance to be sent, AND the block of time to be set aside in one's own calendar. As well, the Outlook shared calendar functions allow other people to see whether invitees are already booked for a given timeslot, so they can just quickly move a proposed meeting around their call-a-meeting calendar until they hit a timeslot where all the important participants are otherwise unbooked. In a busy company, negotiating meeting acceptances by return-e-mail responses can be extremely frustrating, since people tend to take hours to reply and meeting slots get rapidly booked. What do OOo adopters do when they work in a MS environment where everybody else (hundreds or thousands in the company) use MS Office and Outlook/Exchange and SharePoint for everything? Are there any "captive" employees on this list who are actually doing that? Or is everybody who uses OOo, along with an open-source e-mail and calendar solution in an office environment working as a contractor/consultant. How about Evolution? Anyone using that - in an otherwise MS environment - successfully? I have not used Evo since about 1999, so I'm a little out-of-touch. - Kevin The information contained in this electronic mail transmission may be privileged and confidential, and therefore, protected from disclosure. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to this message and deleting it from your computer without copying or disclosing it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
