Outlook 2003 - Setup Shared Calendar?

[darrensen]

Hi all,

I'm trying to setup a shared calendar in Outlook 2003 and i was wondering if anyone would could give me some advise?

I have found many bits of 3rd party software that you install on each machine, but is that the best route to go down?

Cheers all

Darren

[Moby-Dick]

have you got exchange ?

[darrensen]

have you got exchange ?

Nop

I would like it, but i dont think the company would do that?

[Moby-Dick]

without exchange , you really dont use outlook to its fullest potential.

do you all have pop3 accoutns or somethign ?

its not as expensive as you'd think ( dependiong on the number of staff you have )

[darrensen]

Hi,

Well we have around 15-20 people on PC's. The rest are all on Mac's.

Yes we are using a pop 3 server, via Mandrake Linux.

[Moby-Dick]

Ah throwing MAC's in to the bundle doesn't help.

earlier versions of outlook supported a rudementry calender sharing which was officially horrible.

Its one of the features that exchange does pretty well.

I'm guessing that your budget woudn't streach to SBS + enough calls for 20 people ( would be between a grand and £1500 for software , and you'd need somethign to run it on.


all however isn't lost , have you thought about a shared calender application such as sunbird ?
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/sunbird.html

if you have mod_dav installed on your linux server you can use it to publish and share your Mozilla Calender ( sunbird )

I'm sure this woudl work for the mac guys too !

www.twilight-systems.com/flacco/mozcal/

[darrensen]

Ah throwing MAC's in to the bundle doesn't help.

earlier versions of outlook supported a rudementry calender sharing which was officially horrible.

Its one of the features that exchange does pretty well.

I'm guessing that your budget woudn't streach to SBS + enough calls for 20 people ( would be between a grand and £1500 for software , and you'd need somethign to run it on.


all however isn't lost , have you thought about a shared calender application such as sunbird ?
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/sunbird.html

if you have mod_dav installed on your linux server you can use it to publish and share your Mozilla Calender ( sunbird )

I'm sure this woudl work for the mac guys too !

www.twilight-systems.com/flacco/mozcal/

We use a database called Filemaker. From what i now understand if i get the Filemaker plugin then i'll be able to publish my calendar.

In the mean time i have managed to share our calendar via OfficeCalendar.

[peterb]

Might find something of use here..

http://www.novell.com/products/deskt...evolution.html

[javers]

Don't forget if you can afford exchange then the mac's have Microsoft Entourage which also gives full Outlook connectivity, ie shared calendars, address books etc etc

Jon