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| richardwhit 2003-02-17, 3:04 pm |
| Hi,
I'm new to Exchange, so bear with me!
I'm setting up users with shared Outlook folders to share calendars for meeting requests etc.
I can't seem to figure out how to share users folders without visiting the user while they're logged in and sharing the folders one at a time at each user's desktop.
Presumably there must be some way of doing this as I set the mailboxes up from System manager or something?
Also any suggestions for a good administrator's guide (by this I mean a genuine admninistration guide for someone who will just need to administer and get the most out of an existing Exchange sever rather than having to do initial installation and configuration)? | |
| jeff_j_black 2003-02-20, 12:46 pm |
| Cant pull a fast answer out on this one, but I hate to see your post go unanswered.
OL2000: How to Share an Outlook 2000 Calendar by Using Net Folders
It would seem unneccessary to share each users folder for everyone else to access. (not to mention the privacy issues.) Maybe the article above can give you some ideas.
I am still working on Exchange, myself. But I haven't gotten to that chapter yet! | |
| richardwhit 2003-02-20, 4:44 pm |
| Thanks for the reply.
When I was talking about sharing a users folder I only meant the calendar, not the inbox, contacts etc. - although these could obviously be shared if the user wished.
At present I have to go to each user's workstation right-click calendar/permissions and set the default permission to reviewer so everyone can view each others calendar - this may not seem like much, but I guarantee that some of my users will not do it or get it wrong and each time I set up a new user it would be nice if the above procedure was automated rather than me having to get the user to logon then me share it.
Anyway thanks for the answer and hurry up reading that book to get to the appropriate chapter  | |
| Lucidity 2003-02-20, 6:00 pm |
| If you are going to be sharing anything BESIDES the inbox, then yes you must do it on a per user basis. There is no way to administratively share any other folder except the inbox. | |
| richardwhit 2003-02-21, 3:11 am |
| bugger  thats a bit of a pain...... | |
| TW2001 2003-02-21, 10:06 am |
| Why not use public folders? | |
| richardwhit 2003-02-22, 5:16 am |
| I'm not entirely sure what you mean....I've literally just got an Exchange server having never seen or used one before so sorry if I'm a bit dumb.
How would I use public folders to create a calendar for each user that tied in with their own calendar in the Outlook client?
I'm supposed to be getting some training later in the year but people (my boss etc.) are eager to see some benefit to their investment sooner rather than later  | |
| jeff_j_black 2003-02-22, 10:06 am |
| What you are describing is satisfied in the link I provided above. It does not use Exchange, but it would work and would put a shared calendar on each Outlook client that contains the shared info. I did use this at my office and it worked. | |
| richardwhit 2003-02-22, 10:24 am |
| Apologies if I'm missing something but that link seems to suggest that you would create a single "global" calendar of events with all users subscribed to it.
I have around 120 users, so one shared calendar of events would presumably become hopelessly cluttered with information if all the users put all their events and meetings (which is the plan) on it, and thats why I want each individual user's calendar shared. In addition I'm in the process of setting up resources (such as rooms, projectors etc.) which are booked as part of meeting requests etc. I don't think this would work using the method described in that article - hence I suspect I need to use Exchange to do it. |
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