Do I need to purchase Exchange to share the calendar?

[Guest]

I am trying to share a calendar in Outlook with other employees in my office.
We do not have the Exchange server. Do I need to purchase that to share one
calendar with 8 other people? If I do not, can someone tell me where I can
get info on how to share the calendar, because I can't figure it out. Thanks
for any suggestions.

 

[John Smith]

Google "calander share" you will find several choices

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

I am trying to share a calendar in Outlook with other employees in my
office. We do not have the Exchange server. Do I need to purchase
that to share one calendar with 8 other people? If I do not, can
someone tell me where I can get info on how to share the calendar,
because I can't figure it out. Thanks for any suggestions.

Search for "sharing" on www.slipstick.com

There's no built-in way to share Outlook data w/o Exchange. Has your company
looked into using it? Small Business Server 2003 is inexpensive - and if you
don't want to run your own server, there are plenty of third-party/external
Exchange hosting companies out there....you might benefit from being able to
share more than just calendars, too.

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Take a look here, it may help:
http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/share.htm


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After furious head scratching, TracyS asked:

| I am trying to share a calendar in Outlook with other employees in my
| office. We do not have the Exchange server. Do I need to purchase
| that to share one calendar with 8 other people? If I do not, can
| someone tell me where I can get info on how to share the calendar,
| because I can't figure it out. Thanks for any suggestions.

 

[AG]

I am having problems with this also. I tired both searching goolgle and that
slipstick...neither of them worked for me. Any other suggestions.

 

[Brian Tillman]

I am having problems with this also. I tired both searching goolgle
and that slipstick...neither of them worked for me. Any other
suggestions.

Did you look here? http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/share.asp

 

[AG]

Is the connector i want to download???

Did you look here? http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/share.asp

 

[Gordon]

Did you look here? http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/share.asp

There's one method that doesn't appear on that page - using web publishing
in a local webdav folder.
http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/ol2007/publishcal.htm

 

[Gordon]

Is the connector i want to download???

Have a look here:
http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/ol2007/publishcal.htm

 

[JeremyS]

Tracy,

There are a couple of options to share your Outlook calendars;

1. Send a Calendar via E-mail You can send any of the calendars you own to
another person in an e-mail message. This is a type of Internet Calendar
called a Calendar Snapshot. The calendar appears within the body of an e-mail
message. However, an Office Outlook 2007 user who receives the Calendar
Snapshot can choose to open the calendar as an Outlook calendar. Doing so can
display the Calendar Snapshot and the current calendar in side-by-side mode
or calendar overlay mode.
2. Use "Publish My Calendar" You can publish your default Office Outlook
2007 Calendar to Office Online and control who can access your calendar on
Office Online. Calendars published to Office Online are searchable, which
helps other Office Online users find calendars of interest. Publishing an
Internet Calendar requires neither the publisher nor the user to use an
Exchange account. For more information, see Share your calendar on Office
Online, here:
http://office.microsoft.com/search/redir.aspx?AssetID=HA100809831033&CTT=5&Origin=HA101743591033

 

[Gordon]

2. Use "Publish My Calendar" You can publish your default Office
Outlook
2007 Calendar to Office Online and control who can access your calendar on
Office Online.

Unfortunately the "access" to a calendar published at Office Online is
Read-only. A great walloping failure on the part of MS.....

 

[Mike]

Here is how I do it.

Sign up for Google calendar

Then down load the Google outlook synch tool on everyone’s computer

http://www.google.com/support/a/users/bin/answer.py?answer=89955&topic=14097

Use the same account on each synch tool and set to synch every few minutes

Everyone will have their main outlook calendar shared, plus you can access
the calendar through the web, cell phone, and text message the best of all
worlds without the hassle of exchange. The only downside is everyone’s main
outlook calendar is the same.

Mike

 

[Dancer]

Here is how I do it.

Sign up for Google calendar

Then down load the Google outlook synch tool on everyone’s computer

http://www.google.com/support/a/users/bin/answer.py?answer=89955&topic=14097

Use the same account on each synch tool and set to synch every few minutes

Everyone will have their main outlook calendar shared, plus you can access
the calendar through the web, cell phone, and text message the best of all
worlds without the hassle of exchange. The only downside is everyone’s main
outlook calendar is the same.

Mike

 

[Milton Shane]

I realize that you made your post almost 30 days ago, but I thought that I would share that No, you do not need MS Exchange. We just purchased a product called XC Connect (www.xcnetwork.com) that allows us to share Calendars just fine. The added bonus was that it also allowed our Mac-heads to also participate with the Calendars.
Good luck
Mango

 

[PS]

There is a new way to share calendars - Apple's MobileMe went on line July
11. It works with Apple products and MS systems. It is billed as "Exchange
for teh rest of us". www.me.com

 

[SAllen]

MobileMe is very inconsistent. It also typically wants to delete calendar
events from your outlook, but so far I have not found any way to see what
events it wants to delete... you either let it or you dont. I cant trust my
data to MS...

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

MobileMe is an Apple product, not Microsoft.

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After furious head scratching, SAllen asked:

| MobileMe is very inconsistent. It also typically wants to delete
| calendar events from your outlook, but so far I have not found any
| way to see what events it wants to delete... you either let it or you
| dont. I cant trust my data to MS...
|
|
|| There is a new way to share calendars - Apple's MobileMe went on
|| line July
|| 11. It works with Apple products and MS systems. It is billed as
|| "Exchange for teh rest of us". www.me.com
||
|| "TracyS" wrote:
||
||| I am trying to share a calendar in Outlook with other employees in
||| my office. We do not have the Exchange server. Do I need to
||| purchase that to share one calendar with 8 other people? If I do
||| not, can someone tell me where I can get info on how to share the
||| calendar, because I can't figure it out. Thanks for any
||| suggestions.

 

[Snapper]

SAllen wrote...

MobileMe is very inconsistent. It also typically wants to delete calendar

I don't believe it.

I just tried to access that website. And for the first time, ever, I have found
a website that doesn't support internet explorer.

I'm currently not at home otherwise I'd be browsing it using Firefox..

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Typical Apple RDF.

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After furious head scratching, Snapper asked:

| SAllen wrote...
|
|| MobileMe is very inconsistent. It also typically wants to delete
|| calendar
|
| I don't believe it.
|
| I just tried to access that website. And for the first time, ever, I
| have found a website that doesn't support internet explorer.
|
| I'm currently not at home otherwise I'd be browsing it using Firefox..

 

[pj]

i am a physician with 2 front desk personel in the office. unfortunately i
can not share internet calender because of privacy issue. is there a way i
can share calender and contacts with out putting money in exchange server?
let say if no, then do i need IT person to manage this server? can you let me
know how much the 2003 office exchange server cost? thanks.