Exchange calender function

Calendar per person: give each person a separate mailbox on Exchange. They will use Outlook to access their calendar,inbox, etc.

Shared calendar: for organization calendars, set up a public folder that holds appointment items. (you create it through outlook.) for a resource calendar (scheduling meetings in a conference room) then you need to create a mailbox for each resource.

To answer the first part of your question. A Shared Public Calendar under the Public Folder is the option that clients seem to prefer. To do this simply create an Outlook profile that has a mailbox and account with permissions to create Top Level Public Folders. Connecting using the Exchange Service Account is usually the easiest way. Just ensure you have created an Administrator mailbox in Exchange and accociated the NT Service Account to it. Then while in Outlook navigate to the Public Folders within the Folder List View. Add a Public Folder called something like Company Calendar and in the section of "Folder Contains" select Appointment Items. You will then need to go into the permissions on the folder and make any necessary changes. Ifyou have some more questions feel free to e-mail me at dsmith@it-supportcenter.com.

As far as the second part of the questions I do not know of third party tool that will sync pop3 mailboxes with Exchange mailboxes. However you may be able to setup another service within the Outlook client that connects to the POP3 mailbox from the network.

As with the othe answers you need to create mailboxes for each user and use the public folders options to create the shared calendar. The other problem is why do you need to sync with other pop3 mailboxes in exchange 5.5 you have webaccess which a piece of cake to setup and it gives your customer Hotmail like access to the contacts,inbox, appointments but if you really need to have a tool that that will sync your mailboxes to other pop3 boxes you firstly have to setup exchange pop3/ldap supportand use a brilliant product call SIMRelay (can be found at www.simcomsoftware.com) this program will pick up any pop accounts and redirect the mail to one or more pop accounts. One thing you need to know with pop support in exchange you can only pickup the inbox no folder created under the inbox will be collected

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