How to invite event attendees using the Calendar app?

[daihard]

Hi.

I have my mail and calendars synchronized with the corporate Exchange. It works fairly well, except that I can't seem to invite attendees to an event I create using Calendar on the iPhone. This is a very important feature of Exchange. If I can't do it using Calendar, it means I will not be able to schedule any corporate events that require attendees (which is the case 99% of the time).

How should I go about it? I hope I'm simply missing something fundamental here.

TIA,
Dai

[jhollington]

Unfortunately, it seems that can't be done from the iPhone implementation of ActiveSync, at least not yet.

You could theoretically still pull up OWA or OMA from Safari and do it from there, but I realize that's more work than you should have to do.

There are actually quite a few things missing from the Exchange ActiveSync implementation on the iPhone thus far. I don't know if these might be added in the future, or if there's some reason that it's a deliberately stripped-down version.

This is not limited to the iPhone.... Palm and Symbian devices suffer from similar limitations. The only full-featured ActiveSync implementations I've ever seen are on Windows Mobile devices (go figure ;) ).

Jason Landrige has a good post (http://blogs.msdn.com/jasonlan/archive/2008/07/18/iphone-2-0-windows-mobile-for-push-email.aspx) on the basic run-down of differences between the iPhone implementation and Windows Mobile's implementation. Most of the comments are fair enough, although some don't make much sense due to the platform differences (ie, "No Hot Keys for managing messages" -- How would that be implemented on the iPhone, exactly? :) ).

[daihard]

Hi Jesse!

Thanks for the useful information. It is disheartening to learn that what I've been trying to do is simply impossible, but it's at least better than keeping trying in vain. You're right, I could achieve the goal by using OWA. It is cumbersome, but there's at least a way if necessary. :)

I appreciate your reference to Jason's post, too. I will read it now. (Forget work, it's Friday.)