[dba-Tech] Outlook multiuser

Steven W. Erbach serbach at new.rr.com
Wed Dec 15 08:53:01 CST 2004


Dear Group,

My wife, Janet, and I have been using Day-Timer software for about 6 or 7 years to handle appointments, phone book, notes, and to-do lists. It's principle attraction for us was that a multi-user version was pretty inexpensive. The Day-Timer company stopped supporting the product about 5 years ago, but we've gotten along. I even use it to update my Palm M-100. The best thing is that Janet's appointments and mine appear on the same calendar without having to go into some kind of collaboration function.

With Windows XP, though, I can see that the technology in Day-Timer is limping along. It still uses some 16-bit underpinnings in some way. What I'd like to know is what do I have to do to set up a multi-user calendar/to-do/phone book in, say, Outlook? Does it involve installing Windows Server. I can manage that with my ISV Empower subscription. I presume that Windows Server implies Microsoft Exchange, or whatever. I really haven't looked at this type of thing -- multi-user calendaring -- since we bought Day-Timer, so I'm a bit behind the times.

Any suggestions? Thanks.

Steve Erbach
Neenah, WI

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