Outlook v. SharePoint Calendars

[David H., Reading PA]

I'm in a small law office that recently had a server installed that us
running SBS 2008 with SharePoint.

My question is why does SharePoint have its own calendar? I'm guessing that
most people if they have SharePoint will also have Outlook already, so having
a calendar in SharePoint seems rather redundant.

We have been using Google Calendars in the office where everybody has their
own calendar that they share with the office manager. The office manager
would add all the information she gets from each individual calendar onto a
"shared" calendar that showed everybody’s appointments, and this calendar on
Google also syncs with the Blackberrys the attorneys carry.

So now with the new server and two choices of calendars to use, which would
be better choice? Is there one that will allow each person in the office to
have a calendar they share with the office manager, who in turn will combine
everybody’s appointments onto a shared calendar that will than sync with
Blackberrys?

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

You can share your mailbox calendar with others. The SPS calendar (if used)
is a group calendar, while the mailbox calendar is a personal calendar.

Are you using BES or the desktop redirector to sync?


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Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]





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