Shared Calendar

[D@ve]

I've got SBS 2003 running exactly as I want it, but the powers from above want a shared Calendar system so that everyone knows when everyone else it busy!
Does anyone know if this is possible?? If so how??

Thanx

[DocPC]

I think you can run a shared calender if you are running Exchange......

[nunob]

Free you can use the calender on Yahoo but I like the calender in Outlook everyone updates the info and email it to people that need to know and it works pretty good. However in a large scale biz not sure how affective that would work, could be alot of emailing going on but for 15 20 people I dont think it would be too bad.

[D@ve]

SBS 2003 includes Exchange 2003, I would prefer to use Exchange to handle the calendar.

[mrl1te]

We do this with several resources in our office. Create a new user. Something like _ConfRm1 (or in your case _SignOutLog) and setup a Mailbox for that user. Then share the MBOX out so everyone can open and post to it.

From outlook they can open it a few different ways, but most easily it is added to the Outlook Bar as a shortcut and then they can just click on it and include it as a resource when making appts. for whatever.

Hope this helps.

[browncow]

So you want a shared calendar not for a resource like a conference room or projector, but for all office employees? Well, in exchange you should be able to see when other people are busy by default if you invite them to the meeting It will show you what time are blocked off in there schedule and if you are a delegate you can even see what the appointment is (depending on what level you setup the delegate to be you could even modify, create, etc. appointments in other's calendars).

I think your best best is for everyone to have individual calendars and once they invite someone to a meeting, when they pick the time they can see what hours that person has available.

Otherwise with a separate "community" calendar they will always have to make a conscious decision to post items to the commuinity calendar. I would say take that out of the equation because you can never count on the end user doing things right.

[The Computer Valet]

Another very inexpensive solution is a system called Office Tracker. I've set it up for a company recently. It's a shared calendar system that also publishes to the web, if you want.

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