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Calendar Sharing with OUtlook 97

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by qultptry

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At present use OUtlook 97 calendars with all technicians. We do not use exchange at present. Is there any way on a NT network to share these calendars amongst our own dept.? FOr instance I know under the old MS mail 1-7.0 you have a post office and can look at each others calendars. With exchange you can do the same. At present someone else has our mail server and calendaring is held on each PC. Any ideas or cheap software that wouldn't interfere with present mail server and still allow us to see calendars for each other?

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by dlongan

Several ways.

1. Upgrade to Outlook 2000 and download the Team Calendar add-on
OUTLOOK TEAM CALENDAR 2.0d

Outlook Team Calendar is a Personal Outlook 2000 Folder Homepage.
The idea is to have a single view of choosen Team Member appointments as well as enable quick access to their individual calendars and their free/busy times.

Outlook Team Calendar needs to connect to Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5 or higher and runs only on Outlook 2000 US, GERMAN and FRENCH out of the box
2. Create a Public Folder and setup a public calendar

3. Investigate Team Manager 97 from MS.

by uellem

Since you don't use Exchange, you may create a .pst containing the calendar and put it on the 'server', say sharedcalendar.pst

On your 'client' stations, create a profile that accesses sharedcalendar.pst through the network.

Downside: Only one can access at a time--ie, one user can't have it open all the time, otherwise, others can't get into it.

Note: If you have multiple calendars to share, use one .pst per calendar so user1 can work on sharedcalendar1.pst and user2 on sharedcalendar2.pst.

Also, don't forget to set the correct file/share permissions on the pst files.

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