Group calendar overview

[Guest]

I have been trying out :

http://www.xcnetwork.com/

It works very nicely, but I also require something like is offered by this
product :

http://www.outlookgroupcalendar.com/

IE, a single calendar view in which I can select which of my co-worders'
calendars are included.

Unfortunately, it doesn't support Entourage (or any other clients), so isn't
ideal. (It's also quite expensive).

Does anyone know of any other s/w which has this functionailty but which
works with Microsoft Entourage too?

Thanks.

Max.

PS MS Outlook 2000 running on W2KPro, and MS Entourage running on Mac OS X
10.3.5

 

[David Elders]

How many clients are you talking about - have you looked at
SmallBusinessServer? Standard version is very cost-effective and you then
get all the additional functionality of Exchange to play with too...!

Regards,



David

 

[Guest]

Does it run on Linux, or on one of the W2K desktops?

Max.

 

[David Elders]

No - it's designed as a Server-Client Network Operating System. Instead of
all your desktops running merely in peer-to-peer mode, they'd all connect to
the SBS box which would be acting as your network server.

More info here:
Product Overview for SBS -
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/sbs/evaluation/overview/default.m
spx
Top 10 Reasons to use SBS -
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/sbs/evaluation/top.mspx
FAQ for SBS -
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/sbs/techinfo/overview/generalfaq.
mspx
SBS Demo -
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/sbs/evaluation/demos/default.mspx

Transformed what we can do as a company... big company feature-set and an
SME price-tag...

Cheers,



David

 

[Guest]

thanks for the advice, but we don't want to buy another server just to have
this group calendar functionality. Most groupware products have way more
functionality than we want.

Peer-to-peer would be no problem (if it works as advertised), and the server
I want to deploy it on runs linux, so any server s/w would have to run on
that.

Doesn't sound like SBS fits the bill.

Thanks again though.

Max.

 

[David Elders]

Hi Max,

Wasn't aware that you already had a Linux-based Server, so fair enough!

Good thing to bear in mind if you ever want to implement far more
functionality than just group calendaring however... TCO is [accordingly to
independant reviews] significantly less than comparitive Linux-based
alternative packages in such a situation...

Try www.slipstick.com for many good 3rd party add-on's/utilities/tips for
Outlook.

Best of luck,



David

 

[Guest]

Hi Max,

Wasn't aware that you already had a Linux-based Server, so fair enough!

Good thing to bear in mind if you ever want to implement far more
functionality than just group calendaring however... TCO is [accordingly to
independant reviews] significantly less than comparitive Linux-based
alternative packages in such a situation...

Not sure about how 'independant' those reviews are, and I see plenty of
other 'independant' reviews stating exactly the opposite. In any case, I will
have to run this server, so Linux is a much less painful solution for me -
and it should be easy to change from Linux to Microsoft if we decide to later
on - while that is, IMO, not the case the other way around.

....but this is getting off topic a little, or heading that way, I think.

Try www.slipstick.com for many good 3rd party add-on's/utilities/tips for
Outlook.

I will take a look. It looks like it has a huge amount of information there.

Thanks for the reference.

Max.

 

[David Elders]

No problem Max,

Hope you find a solution to your requirement there.

Regards,



David

Hi Max,

Wasn't aware that you already had a Linux-based Server, so fair enough!

Good thing to bear in mind if you ever want to implement far more
functionality than just group calendaring however... TCO is [accordingly to
independant reviews] significantly less than comparitive Linux-based
alternative packages in such a situation...

Not sure about how 'independant' those reviews are, and I see plenty of
other 'independant' reviews stating exactly the opposite. In any case, I will
have to run this server, so Linux is a much less painful solution for me -
and it should be easy to change from Linux to Microsoft if we decide to later
on - while that is, IMO, not the case the other way around.

...but this is getting off topic a little, or heading that way, I think.

Try www.slipstick.com for many good 3rd party add-on's/utilities/tips for
Outlook.

I will take a look. It looks like it has a huge amount of information there.

Thanks for the reference.

Max.

Best of luck,



David





Instead
of
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/sbs/evaluation/overview/default.m
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/sbs/techinfo/overview/generalfaq.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/sbs/evaluation/demos/default.mspx and
an offered
by on
Mac

 

[Guest]

For > http://www.outlookgroupcalendar.com/ , a Mac user is writing a Mac
tool that will work on the GroupCalendar database.
The tool will be available as freeware in a couple of months.

regards,
John