With the Calendar Email Extension it’s possible to book Exchange rooms and equipment directly from a SharePoint Calendar. Recently one of our customers wanted to know if it’s possible to change the email address that Exchange resources reply to and to forward the reply to the event organizer instead. Unfortunately there is no easy solution […]
Today I would like to share something that confused a few of our customers when using the Calendar Email Extension or also the SharePoint standard calendar. The issue is that the calendar is not reflecting any of the meetings that have been set up or the calendar only displays events where the logged in user […]
A few of your customers recently asked if it’s possible to send an invitation to the creator of an event automatically using the Calendar E-mail Extension. The answer is yes, but the creator has to be added to the ‘Attendees’ column. Since it’s not possible to set a default value for a user column (people […]
When trying to verify or save the e-mail communication settings for the Calendar E-Mail Extension, you may come across the following error: “Error in the application.” This error can have several causes, as described in this TechNet blog post. However, the most common cause is because the application pool account used for the central admin […]
Some users have reported problems when using our feature to check the availability of Exchange resources. The following error message was being received: “The specified folder could not be found in the store.” This error is received when the “Use configured user” option is selected. The error has been fixed in the latest update (from […]
Employee Training Management, Event Management and the Calendar E-Mail Extension all automatically send an update to all attendees when the title, location, start time, end time or any column contained in the invitation e-mail is changed. This means that you can use this feature to trigger updates to be sent to attendees. Firstly you need […]
With Employee Training Management, Event Management and the Calendar E-Mail Extension it is possible to forward attendee status replies to a specific e-mail address. This is done using the “Forward attendee status replies to” column, which, by default, is hidden in Employee Training Management and Event Management, but is visible in the Calendar E-Mail Extension. […]
Applies to Calendar E-Mail Extension, Event Management and Employee Training Management. You may remember that a while ago we wrote about how to troubleshoot incoming e-mails. If you have followed the instructions in the previous article and are still experiencing problems with e-mails disappearing from the drop folder and the invite status not being updated, […]
We have been made aware of an issue where attendees are not receiving an e-mail if information about an event is updated using the Calendar E-Mail Extension. However, if the event is cancelled the attendees still receive an e-mail. You will receive the following error message in the trace log: Error loading and running event […]
It is now finally possible to check the availability of Exchange rooms and equipment when scheduling meetings and to reserve them directly in SharePoint. This makes the process of scheduling events much easier, faster and more efficient. You don’t have to switch between SharePoint and your Outlook calendar just to check if a certain room […]
