Here is the post I did on the VB side (after not getting a response in the VFP forum). It came from J.C. Flores. I have offset his responses with *****. I plan to test his next suggestion late this week or next at the client site. We don't run Exchange Server.

I'll let you know how it goes. If you get a chance to test this before I do, please let me know how it goes.

I am trying to populate several individuals' Outlook calendars with appointments from a table populated with tasks and due dates. I have seen how I can create the appointment for an individual, but I need to have it go to about 4 others' calendars as well. Is there a 'users' type of object where I can identify who's calendar to populate the appointment with? The client has MS Exchange.
>>>Thanks in advance.
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>>It's the same as adding recipients to a message item. Just do something like:
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myApptItem.Recipients.Add("Exchange Name")
>>HTH
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>I tested this at the client site today (we're not running Exchange Server). It does what I want for the machine I'm logged in on, but it does not populate the appointments for the others. We checked to ensure that the user that I was logged in as had rights to the Outlook of the other (receiving) test user (adding the sending user's name into the receiving user's list of Publishers? I think, was the setting.) Could there be any other permissions issues that prevent the appointments from being populated by another?
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>Thanks again.

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The appointment needs to be marked as a meeting in the MeetingStatus property. You need to set it to olMeeting.
JCF, MCSD - MVP Visual FoxPro

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>Have you had any success with this? My system includes code to create Outlook Appointments and Contacts but one of our clients will be using Exchange Server and wants to be able to share calendars. DO you know how to do this?
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>>The article is from FoxTalk August 1998. Microsost Outlook97 Exposed! I am looking to do it via MAPI. The plan is once the appointment (really a to-do task) is saved to the VFP table that the task is also populated into the selected persons' calendars. When the due date arrives, emails will also be sent to the selected persons as a reminder (unless it has been marked as having been completed already).
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>>>>I got useful information from the "Create Outlook Appointments from Table" thread and FoxTalk's CD of back issues. The pieces that I am still missing and researching are:
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>>>>1) How to determine the calandar's owner.
>>>>2) How to post to a group of people's calanders. There are several people's calandars that need to have the appointments populated.
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>>>Hi Joy,
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>>>I'm not familiar with the articles to which you refer. What means are you using to using to create these appointments. Outlook automation? MAPI?