It has been widely reported on the internet that it is now no longer possible to create appointments in a delegates calendar as private unless you have the ability to view the private appointments by the delegate option. Like a lot of other people on the web this is an unacceptable change from Outlook 2003 as it is common for PA’s to want to create private appointments but not have the ability to view all the private appointments such as ones created by the partner or director that they are supporting.
It is very difficult to explain to users why functionality has been taken away in an upgrade and would request that this functionality is fixed in a service pack. I have been unable to find any official comment from Microsoft on this behaviour change and wonder if someone could point me to an explanation by Microsoft as to why they have made this change so that I can relay this back to the Board of Directors and users.