Wednesday, February 14, 2007

"Correct Accept" for the Coming DST Update Storm: Call for Betas

In one of those crazy "Aha!" moments that strike Russ and Zyg every so often (in this case while Russ was on a train back from NYC on the cellphone with Zyg snowed in in Boston discussing the dreaded DST Update Storm) we think we have an implementable solution based on Rhino that holds the promise of:
  • Responding correctly to Updates based on what a guest had responded to begin with (so if the guest DECLINED originally or hasn't responded yet it won't put it back in her calendar)
  • Be easy to install and configure (I.e., you won't see large parts of the Rhino configuration interface for those of you who find it daunting)
  • Be easy to remove once you're done
  • Touch ONLY "Update:"s (With mainstream Rhino installed you will get automatic acceptances for ALL invitations while Rhino is active)
  • Given all the above we think it'll work well for Conference Rooms so long as you turn off your various resource managers, but that you should test in your lab.
  • English-language Exchange only (unless someone comes up with a good reason for adding another language)

If there's interest out there in taking this for a spin after we're done with it and put it through some test cycles drop an email to "zyg AT sumatra DOT com"

Keep in mind -- we've been doing this a while but we've never seen perfect code (and we're still amazed at some of the cases you folks can come up with). So we're talking test labs and safe software habits (anybody putting this in production before talking with us is not getting support).

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