Group Schedules and VBA

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Neil Dittmar

Hello All,

Some questions about Group Schedules in Outlook
2002/XP:

1. Where are they stored? Our current setup is Outlook
2002/XP clients running against Exchange 2003. Are group
schedules stored in Exchange or locally on the client PC?

2. Are group schedules accessible through the Outlook
Object Model?

3. Is there a way to make a group schedule public so
other Exchange users may benefit from them?

If anybody has any insight on this it would be
greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Neil Dittmar
Software Developer
Aurora Information Systems
 
1) They are hidden items in a calendar folder.

2) Not with the Outlook model, but possibly with CDO.

3) A group schedule in a public calendar folder should be available publicly, in theory, but I don't think I've actually tried it.
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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Outlook and Exchange solutions at http://www.slipstick.com
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming: Jumpstart
for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
Sue Mosher said:
1) They are hidden items in a calendar folder.
Correct.

2) Not with the Outlook model, but possibly with CDO.
Click to expand...

From what it looks like they are normal appointment items. I haven't
bothered with using the old CDO 1.21 stuff but when opening such an item
with XML & WebDAV on an Exchange 2003 server (actually a VM <g>) it just
looks like a plain appointment (which in Exchange 2000/2003 itself is stored
as MIME message with a VCAL body). Shouldn't be hard to pull it up and make
it a Web page...
3) A group schedule in a public calendar folder should be available publicly,
in theory, but I don't think I've actually tried it.
Click to expand...

I just fired up a VM and tried. Indeed they are stored in the public folder
available to everyone who connects to the folder and opens the group
schedule feature from the actions menu.
 
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