Hi All,

I have several different computers at different client offices, as well as a laptop, and I manage my schedule plus 4 other calendars. I'm totally Outlook-reliant for reminders and scheduling. Using Outlook 2003, it wasn't that huge of a deal, because I just set up one of my personal email accounts to be accessed as POP from each of those PCs, leaving a copy on the server, so whenever I had an invitation/appointment, it was popped into the inbox at each access point, and I just accepted it from each of those places without sending a response more than once. So effectively I'd have the same invites populating the calendar of multiple PCs, wherever I accepted the invitation. Very handy to do this to keep myself on track.

Outlook 2007 will NOT do this. If I send to my Yahoo account from PC1 and download it at PC2, the response buttons (accept/reject/tentative) are disabled at PC2. (Same between PC3, PC4, and PC5, regardless of which PC originates or receives.) I tried forwarding the event, adding other emails ot other PCs, no dice. What I found through trial and error is that if Outlook 2007 on any given PC receives in the inbox a calendar request from any email account that is in the outlook account list on that PC, it will not allow any response to the invite or even click/drag to calendar, even if the meeting is not on the calendar and the meeting invitation didn't originate on said PC.

This "feature" would force me to use a different email account at every location, without being able to access any one email account from more than on location which is unwieldy at best. Because of this "feature" all the calendars now are out of synch, and I don't know for sure what I'm missing where. I do not have a website, don't have time to find hosting, set it up, maintain it, etc. -- so I think web calendaring is out.

I really want to dumb-down Outlook 2007 to where it's agnostic of the sender when a calendar request comes in. Let me decide how to handle it. Can someone please help me get my sanity back?

THX