Sychronizing Sharepoint Calendar
I just took over a SBS 2008 network where the administrator had simply used his personal Exchange calendar as the group calendar by sharing it with everyone on the network.
To avoid the annoyance of being alerted every time someone makes a calendar entry or invitation, I created a new network account and assigned that "user's" calendar as the new group calendar before transferring all of the entries. This is going well but I'd like to sync the new group calendar with a Sharepoint calendar. I created a new Sharepoint calendar then linked it to you new user account "group" calendar in Outlook where I can drag and drop entries from one calendar to the other. However, I'd like to be able to make new entries on either the new Sharepoint calendar or the new Exchange group calendar and have them auto sync.
Is this possible?
To avoid the annoyance of being alerted every time someone makes a calendar entry or invitation, I created a new network account and assigned that "user's" calendar as the new group calendar before transferring all of the entries. This is going well but I'd like to sync the new group calendar with a Sharepoint calendar. I created a new Sharepoint calendar then linked it to you new user account "group" calendar in Outlook where I can drag and drop entries from one calendar to the other. However, I'd like to be able to make new entries on either the new Sharepoint calendar or the new Exchange group calendar and have them auto sync.
Is this possible?
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I'm running Sharepoint 3.0 and Outlook 2007 on this network so, as you say, it may not be possible.
Can you give me more details about adding the OWA component to the Sharepoint page?
Can you give me more details about adding the OWA component to the Sharepoint page?
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If you are using Outlook 2007/2010 with Sharepoint 2007
Two way syncs are not supported.
You could use a 3rd party Sync App by Code 2
http://www.codetwo.com/downloads/freeware/
I would shy away from this though as this is really clunky and has many pitfalls
Will be more frustrating than anything
Outlook 2010 and Sharepoint 2010 should Support this. Although, Ive not really seen it work consistantly yet.
As everyone should have access to the sharepoint site
A good work around for this is to Add the OWA Web Part to the Main Page
Open the Shared Account Calendar via this web aprt
This way everyone will be able to directly view the Exchange Shared Calendar via the Sharepoint Web part
without having to worry about Sync issues