Does anyone know how to stop Outlook from just putting shit on your calendar? My boss' new secretary has taken to sending meeting requests through email and it bugs the living shit out of me. How do I deny access?

You can't decline the invite?

I can, but I want to stop it from appearing on my calendar at all.

eta: It's a principle thing, really. It irritates me that just anyone can send shit to my calendar. I want them to get a message that says "this user does not accept appointments" or something along those lines. Hell, I don't even know what the latest appt. is for . It just says "Program 1/Program 2"

I know absolute squat about Outlook, but in Notes the same annoying behavior is controlled by a setting that lets you choose to have invites added directly to your calendar or not -- is there something like that in Outlook?

is there something like that in Outlook?

I haven't found it, I thought the hivemind might be able to help me.

From what I can tell about Outlook is that an invite, once sent to you, shows up as tentative in your calendar until you deal with it. I have not seen anything that looks like it will change that behaviour.

I have 2003, so it may not be the same, but I think it's under Tools | Options | Calendar Options | Resource Scheduling.

You are, of course, a "resource."

I guess I don't get it - won't it be just as annoying when they send you a regular email invitation? At least this way you just click a button to respond, rather than writing back, adding to your calendar if it's a yes, and then deleting or filing the email.

But I'm a calendar 'ho. If it's not on my calendar, it's not in my head, generally speaking.

Following Ginger's path - do you have "automatically accept" checked? If so, then I take back what I said about not seeing the annoying. If not, though, I don't see anything on the resource scheduling that would help, though I confess I don't really understand what the first option entails.

I guess I don't get it - won't it be just as annoying when they send you a regular email invitation?

no, because at least then I know what the hell is going on, as opposed to some random meeting showing up on my calendar. Today, I had a reminder pop up because the secy had scheduled a meeting for today. I told her that we had to reschedule, and we did for last week, but it still showed up on my calendar and reminders.

I do not have accept appointments checked. Interestingly, the other options are greyed out.

It's also annoying because she sends a meeting request for our weekly department meeting that's been a recurring meeting on my calendar forever, and now it's there twice.