can public folder calendars be synchronized with user calendars?

10 Feb 2009 4:33 PM

Fritz Theiss

hi,

in my company we do use public folders heavily within exchange 2003/outlook
2003. for our team we share that way i.e. a public folder (team) calendar,
mostly containing absences of our team.

however other employees of our company are not aware, where to find our team
calendar. when checking, who is available, they do check the user calendar of
the members of our team. however these personal calendars are not updated as
the team calendar has been decided as the way to go. beside of changing
internal communication ;-), is there any way to synchronize the team calendar
with the userÂ´s calendar in order to avoid writing entries twice?

--
thanks in advance / danke im voraus, fritz
--
Fritz Theiss

11 Feb 2009 4:32 AM

Ed Crowley [MVP]

Not natively, and I know of no third-party app that does that. You're
welcome to look at http://www.slipstick.com.

If the team calendar is a public folder, they could synchronize that folder
by making it one of their public folder Favorites and configuring it to be
available offline. But that won't merge the content with their Outlook
folder.

--
Ed Crowley MVP
"There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems."
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"Fritz Theiss" <FritzThe***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:52644629-7937-4A7A-BA3D-3D3112774D56@microsoft.com...
> hi,
>
> in my company we do use public folders heavily within exchange
> 2003/outlook
> 2003. for our team we share that way i.e. a public folder (team) calendar,
> mostly containing absences of our team.
>
> however other employees of our company are not aware, where to find our
> team
> calendar. when checking, who is available, they do check the user calendar
> of
> the members of our team. however these personal calendars are not updated
> as
> the team calendar has been decided as the way to go. beside of changing
> internal communication ;-), is there any way to synchronize the team
> calendar
> with the userÂ´s calendar in order to avoid writing entries twice?
>
> --
> thanks in advance / danke im voraus, fritz
> --
> Fritz Theiss
>

11 Feb 2009 1:35 PM

Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]

Ed Crowley [MVP] <curspice@nospam.net> wrote:

> Not natively, and I know of no third-party app that does that. You're
> welcome to look at http://www.slipstick.com.
>
> If the team calendar is a public folder, they could synchronize that
> folder by making it one of their public folder Favorites and
> configuring it to be available offline. But that won't merge the
> content with their Outlook folder.

Add2Exchange will sync public & private calendars.

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>
> "Fritz Theiss" <FritzThe***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> message news:52644629-7937-4A7A-BA3D-3D3112774D56@microsoft.com...
>> hi,
>>
>> in my company we do use public folders heavily within exchange
>> 2003/outlook
>> 2003. for our team we share that way i.e. a public folder (team)
>> calendar, mostly containing absences of our team.
>>
>> however other employees of our company are not aware, where to find
>> our team
>> calendar. when checking, who is available, they do check the user
>> calendar of
>> the members of our team. however these personal calendars are not
>> updated as
>> the team calendar has been decided as the way to go. beside of
>> changing internal communication ;-), is there any way to synchronize
>> the team calendar
>> with the user´s calendar in order to avoid writing entries twice?
>>
>> --
>> thanks in advance / danke im voraus, fritz
>> --
>> Fritz Theiss

11 Feb 2009 1:36 PM

Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]

Fritz Theiss <FritzThe***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
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> hi,
>
> in my company we do use public folders heavily within exchange
> 2003/outlook 2003. for our team we share that way i.e. a public
> folder (team) calendar, mostly containing absences of our team.
>
> however other employees of our company are not aware, where to find
> our team calendar. when checking, who is available, they do check the
> user calendar of the members of our team. however these personal
> calendars are not updated as the team calendar has been decided as
> the way to go. beside of changing internal communication ;-), is
> there any way to synchronize the team calendar with the user´s
> calendar in order to avoid writing entries twice?
>
> --
> thanks in advance / danke im voraus, fritz

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http://aumha.org/nntp.htm - list of MS newsgroups
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http://www.mailmsg.com/SPAM_munging.htm - how to munge email address
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http://www.mozilla.org (Thunderbird does newsgroups)
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