Public calendars

[Jon Connell]

Our Exchange server publishes calendars as http://server/user/Calendar/.
When I go for File -> Open Other User's Folder and select the calendar
for the user's username, Entourage tells me that it could not find the
folder for the user (giving the user's full name, presumably from the GAL).

Is there some magic needed to browse another person's public calendar? I
can browse to public folders and look at calendars like that, but I read
the latest SP release note as offering the equivalent of adding another
calendar in Outlook (without side-by-side display). Is it not?

Jon

 

[Barry Wainwright [MVP]]

There's a 'limitation' in Entourage - you can only open another user's
default folder. However, you should be able to open it IF you have
permission to do so.

The error you describe is what happens when you don't have the correct
permissions.

 

[JHal]

Instead of using the default of the person's full name, you might have to
manually enter the alias for the calendar you are trying to view.

1 On the File Menu, click Open Other User's Folder
2 Click on the Find User button
3 Type in the last name of the person who's calendar you want to view and
click the Find button
4 Single click on the name of the person
5 On the View menu, select Columns and select Alias
6 Make sure the user's name is still highlighted and click on the
Advanced... button
7 In the Email Address field, enter the person's Alias followed by the @
symbol and the domain of their email account.

For example: Change from "(e-mail address removed)" to
"(e-mail address removed)"

8 Click OK. And then OK again on the Open Other User's folder window.

Right away you should get an error if you do not have permissions to view
the calendar or if the person's calendar can't be found.

JHal

 

[Hat]

Our Exchange server publishes calendars as http://server/user/Calendar/.
When I go for File -> Open Other User's Folder and select the calendar
for the user's username, Entourage tells me that it could not find the
folder for the user (giving the user's full name, presumably from the GAL).

Is there some magic needed to browse another person's public calendar? I
can browse to public folders and look at calendars like that, but I read
the latest SP release note as offering the equivalent of adding another
calendar in Outlook (without side-by-side display). Is it not?

Jon

I'm the exchange administrator for our district - we have "public
calendars" in the Public Folders, not always as a calendar that people
would open using File, Open Other User's Folder". Are you looking in
the right place?

 

[Jon Connell]

I'm the exchange administrator for our district - we have "public
calendars" in the Public Folders, not always as a calendar that people
would open using File, Open Other User's Folder". Are you looking in
the right place?

When I say "public calendar" I mean another user's calendar for which I
have read permissions.

Jon