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In our old calendar system, meeting acceptances were transmitted internally and automatically, allowing the organizer to easily track attendance. Under the integrated mail/calendar system used by Zimbra, though, everything is transmitted as .ics attachments, which causes two problems for Outlook users. (Note, these aren't unique to Zimbra, I believe the same thing happens with Exchange.)

1. If someone accepts a meeting and chooses "Don't send response" at the prompt, the organizer can't track attendance in Outlook.

(1a. But I've gotten a user report suggesting that it does appear that the organizer can track attendance in ZWC.)

2. If an organizer sends a meeting request to several dozen people and they all respond, the responses end up cluttering the organizer's Inbox.

So what I'm wondering is:

1. Is there a way to get Outlook to behave like ZWC and always send meeting responses? (Maybe a registry setting, or something that could be programmed into ZCO.)

1a. Would it be feasible to have Outlook sync attendance tracking from Zimbra--assuming that Zimbra is more accurately tracking that information independently of email messages? (Which I'm not certain is happening...)

2. Is there a way to get Outlook to "see" the response without having it hit the user's Inbox? E.g. if I set a filter in Zimbra to autofile responses, will Outlook still process them?