some calendars will share some will not

[AlanG]

New to outlook.
I have just started installing outlook 2003 with the intention of
letting all the users share calendars. About 20 users. We had office
2k on all machines with some users using outlook and some using OE. Up
to now we haven't tried to share but when I install O2003 some have
sharing enabled and some have what seems to be a local calendar plus a
mailbox calendar. Local calendar cannot be shared but mailbox calendar
can. I tried testing different ways of installation. Full clean
install seems to work. Clean install and import from a store doesn't
work. Upgrade has worked once and failed once. Settings in exchange
are the same for all except a couple of managers but I've kept off
those for now.

What if anything am I doing wrong?


I assume I can also create calendars in public folders for each
individual and group. If correct would that be a better way to go?

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

you can only share calendars in mailboxes, not local folders. Public folders
are ok for group calendars but users should use their local mailbox
calendar. Make new profiles to the exchange server and import local folders,
if the user has a local folder.

 

[AlanG]

you can only share calendars in mailboxes, not local folders. Public folders
are ok for group calendars but users should use their local mailbox
calendar. Make new profiles to the exchange server and import local folders,
if the user has a local folder.

Thanks
I'l try that but I'm not too sure how to import local folders to the
mailbox. Is there any way of disabling local calendar to force use of
the mailbox ones?

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

outlook uses the calendar in the default delivery location, so if you set it
to the mailbox it will be in the mailbox. You can either use file, import to
import the contents of the local pst or just open it using file, open,
outlook data file. Copy the items to the mailbox that you want in it and
leave the other stuff in the pst to use as an archive.