how do I share category colors in a calendar in public folders

[Amelia]

My office recently switched from Office 03 to 07. We had a calendar in the
public folders that the entire company could see. Everything works the same
except for the color coding "category" system that we had for events. Any
category updates that I make to an event, only shows up on my personal
computer but the color is blank on any one else who views the calendar. Is
there a way to share the colors on a calendar in public folder?

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

If the color doesn't exist on their computer but the category is on items in
their mailbox, they need to upgrade to color categories. See
http://www.slipstick.com/Tutorials/colorcat/upgrade.asp - there are tools
listed there you can use to share the categories too.


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[WISPaway]

Diane,
Thank you for your quick response to Amelia's question.
Not sure that it answers it directly.

We are trialing Office 07 and have run into the same question.

How can we set categories and color codes globally in a Public Folder
Calendar?

With '03 we just gave Owner permissions to those users who needed to update
this info and Exchange would push the changes.

What change was made to '07 to keep this from happening?

Just thinking out loud.
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If the color doesn't exist on their computer but the category is on items in
their mailbox, they need to upgrade to color categories. See
http://www.slipstick.com/Tutorials/colorcat/upgrade.asp - there are tools
listed there you can use to share the categories too.


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Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]



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My office recently switched from Office 03 to 07. We had a calendar in
the
public folders that the entire company could see. Everything works the
same
except for the color coding "category" system that we had for events. Any
category updates that I make to an event, only shows up on my personal
computer but the color is blank on any one else who views the calendar.
Is
there a way to share the colors on a calendar in public folder?

 

[Michael Bauer [MVP - Outlook]]

In OL03 you had used color labels.

In OL07 the Master Category List with the category names and colors is
stored in every user's mailbox. You could use a GPO to share categories, but
that doesn't work for the colors.

Once all of your users have the same Master Category List, you could ask
them to assign the same colors manually. That might be ok if have to do
that once. An alternative is Category Manager, which allows to synchronize
categories and colors automatically at intervals. For more details see the
link in my signature, please.

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Best regards
Michael Bauer - MVP Outlook

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Am Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:30:01 -0800 schrieb WISPaway: