[AccessD] A2K: BIT OT - Shared Outlook Calendar

Have look here
Maintaining a Group Calendar in Outlook
http://www.slipstick.com/calendar/scheduleall.htm
http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/netfolders.htm
Sharing Microsoft Outlook Calendar and Contacts
http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/share.htm
or just search site on share calendar
or this sister site
http://www.outlookcode.com/d/

Liz Doering wrote:

>Darren,
>
>I don't know if this is any help to you, but here goes....
>
>At home (where we are very far from running exchange server), we have
>constant issues about what is on the family calendar and who 'should have
>known'.  My husband has a habit of putting calendar items in his PDA and
>expecting that that is magically enough to inform me and our two teen-age
>daughters about his plans.  (He's a paramedic and a teacher, with irregular
>hours for both, so there was plenty to be tense about.)
>
>He sincs his PDA with his Outlook calendar, so his calendar, under his
>profile, really does have all the information we are supposed to know.
>
>I poked around a bit in Outlook, and found that I could point each of our
>profiles at his .pst file as well.  Now when I open Outlook at home, I can
>see my calendar and calendars in personal folders (his), rather like
>Exchange Server shows me my calendar and calendars in public folders in the
>office.
>
>File-->Datafile management-->Add, then browse for the .pst you want everyone
>to see.
>
>I did have to do this for each profile, and you might have to tinker with
>sharing, too.
>
>Good luck!
>
>Liz
>
>
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
>[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Darren DICK
>Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 8:45 PM
>To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
>Subject: RE: [AccessD] A2K: BIT OT - Shared Outlook Calendar
>
>Thanks Doug
>Will keep you posted
>But it seems we have to be running our email off Exchange Server for this to
>occur the way I want
>
>We will be there, one day, but we ain't yet
>So....We wait and poke around at the edges.
>
>See ya
>
>Darren
> 
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
>[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Doug Murphy
>Sent: Friday, 25 February 2005 11:35 AM
>To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
>Subject: RE: [AccessD] A2K: BIT OT - Shared Outlook Calendar
>
>Darren,
>
>I don't know what your objective is here, but we are currently evaluating a
>product for sharing outlook contacts, calendars, and tasks between various
>Outlook installations on a network. Take a look at
>http://www.officecalendar.com/index.asp.  The literature looks good. We are
>putting the eval copy on a couple of machines to try it out. For the price
>it might beat the cost of development.  If nothing else the web site will
>give you some insite into how these folks accomplished this task. They are
>using .NET as the backbone to link up the outlook installations.
>
>If you go the Access route I'd be interested in learning how you do it.
>
>Doug
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
>[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Darren DICK
>Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 4:20 PM
>To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
>Subject: [AccessD] A2K: BIT OT - Shared Outlook Calendar
>
>
>Hello all
>I have some code working well that creates Outlook Calendar Items from
>bookings in an Access dB
>
>So Far so good, but the calendar items created by Machine A are only stored
>on, and visible to, Machine A What I want is - for my app to create calendar
>items that everyone can see
>
>So I guess my Q is more Outlook related than Access.
>
>How do I set up Outlook so that People see only a 'group' calendar?
>
>So an appointment made using my app on Machine A can be seen by Every other
>machine, not just Machine A?
>
>Many thanks in advance
>
>Darren
>
>
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