I have several resouce mailboxes and each is set up to auto accept or auto decline if there is a conflict. Users have gotten into the habit of going to the resource calendar directly and scheduling their meeting request. This has caused issues. I'd like to remove the 'write' permission on the resource calendar but yet allow the auto accept when performing a meeting requeset from their own client along with the scheduling (free/busy) availabilty. I found three different areas where permissions are set (within AD and the object and the resource scheduling when authenticated as the resource). Can anyone shed some light on how this might work?

You can change the rights on the folder. -- Ed Crowley MVP "There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems." . "Dawn from MN" wrote in message news:236659a9-f297-4ae6-8f0d-5ee88e094319... I have several resouce mailboxes and each is set up to auto accept or auto decline if there is a conflict. Users have gotten into the habit of going to the resource calendar directly and scheduling their meeting request. This has caused issues. I'd like to remove the 'write' permission on the resource calendar but yet allow the auto accept when performing a meeting requeset from their own client along with the scheduling (free/busy) availabilty. I found three different areas where permissions are set (within AD and the object and the resource scheduling when authenticated as the resource). Can anyone shed some light on how this might work?Ed Crowley MVP "There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems."

Are you using the infamous autoaccept script? Matt Nixon | http://unifiedmatt.blogspot.com

Hi, As Ed said, you can change the rights on the calendar folder: 1. Open Outlook, click Calendar, open the shared resource calendar. 2. Right click shared resource calendar and choose properties. 3. Highlight Default, Under write permission, clear all items.

Thanks for the replies. Removing the 'write' permissions as Ed and Thomas stated removed the capability of a user scheduling the room as a resource from their Outlook but did not remove the capability of the user going to the resource calendar and scheduling directly from the calendar. @Matt - I'm using the auto accept options under Calendar Options > Resource Scheduling. I did not state this in my oringinal inquiry but we are currently running Exchange 2003 SP2.