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Title: Send a meeting request with VBScript
Description: A couple of people have asked how to create an appointment or send a meeting request programmatically. This example creates a one-hour appointment that will take place tomorrow, then turns it into a meeting request and sends it. If you wanted to just save the appointment, you'd omit the statements under 'make it a meeting request' and use .Save to save it.
Date: 08-May-2003 00:05
Code level: beginner
Code area: Basic Outlook
Posted by: Sue Mosher
Body: Sub SendMeetingRequest() Dim objOL 'As Outlook.Application Dim objAppt 'As Outlook.AppointmentItem Const olAppointmentItem = 1 Const olMeeting = 1 Set objOL = CreateObject("Outlook.Application") Set objAppt = objOL.CreateItem(olAppointmentItem) With objAppt .Subject = "My Test Appointment" .Start = Now + 1 .End = DateAdd("h", 1, .Start) ' make it a meeting request .MeetingStatus = olMeeting .RequiredAttendees = "someone@somewhere.dom" .Send End With Set objAppt = Nothing Set objOL = Nothing End Sub
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	James Dvorak 17-Mar-2004 14:22 I'm looking for something similar, except I want it to work from a Web page. I prefer ASP.NET (C#) code, if possible.
	Sue Mosher 18-Mar-2004 08:42 The objects, properties, and methods are essentially the same regardless of the language (and I don't speak C#). Note that unless you have Outlook installed on the server, this code needs to run at the client.
	Sue Mosher 18-Mar-2004 08:42 And running Outlook on a web server is a bad, bad idea.
	Jon Burns 23-Jun-2004 14:01 I tried using this example code in classic ASP and saw that the system initiated a new instance of OUTLOOK.EXE, but nothing ever happens - the website hangs. Do you have any suggestions or know of any issues with this?
	Sue Mosher 27-Jun-2004 18:04 Outlook is installed on your ASP server? You'd need to specify a named profile for the user whose calendar you want to work with.
	Roman Dubov 26-Oct-2004 16:26 I'm trying to create a new meeting request using this code on my own outlook client. For exampple, I click on a button on my web page, and it opens a new outlook meeting request window on my screen with some fixed names in the attendees list. Is this possible or is this disabled due to secutiry concerns? Thanks!
	Sue Mosher 27-Oct-2004 07:25 Roman, any such web page code needs to be running as client, not server code, and will have to contend with the possibility that the user might block the ActiveX instantiation of an Outlook.Application object.
	Roman Dubov 27-Oct-2004 09:17 Thanks Sue. What if I want a blank Outlook meeting request window popup on my screen when I click on a button? Is that possible? Thanks!
	Sue Mosher 28-Oct-2004 07:49 Replace .Send in the code above with .Display.
	rivered 03-Feb-2005 18:26 Hi - Can the .RequiredAttendees have more than one email address at at time seperated by commas or should a loop be used?
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