[ms office - o365] Cut off date for calendar appointments

[hiimpactMrN]

Hello All,

 

A colleague has presented me with an interesting problem. he is the Lab Technician responsible for prepping all the practical experiments for the Science teachers. They want to make a system that makes requests pop into a shared calendar so he can prep materials and see what is needed at a glance.

 

The "cut-off" period for requesting practical materials is 48hrs before the practical takes place. However not all teachers adhere to this and sessions pop up in the shared calendar after the cut off time.

 

He wants to make it that teachers can only book resources more than 48hrs in advance IE if they try to book resources after the deadline they get an automated response denying the request and they have to go and grovel to him in person.

 

I know there is a way to limit how far in advance you can book a resource (180 days being the default) but I've looked for a "deadline" type setting with no success, even powershell to alter permissions doesn't seem like it will work.

 

Any suggestions?

 

Many thanks!

[ChrisMiles]

Perhaps you could use powershell to automate auto-deletion of events added less than 48 hours in advance (using creation date and event date to work it out), with an automatic email to the creator telling them why. That way you could also exempt certain people such as the tech himself.

[hiimpactMrN]

Yeah I'd looked at powershell as a possibility, will have to teach myself a bit more powershell and extensively test (Short of using pre-made scripts my knowledge of powershell is limited) but I like the idea of exempting the tech as he can then put in the events for those that grovel appropriately.

 

Thanks for the idea. Time to get my learning cap on.