Users and Calendars

[Dibsy]

I have a laptop which is running with Windows Vista and I have Office 2003.

I currently have 2 users set up, my husband and myself. I have managed to
set Outlook up so that my husband and I have access to our own email accounts
when we are logged in to the computer in our own user accounts. However,
ideally we would like to share a calendar and I can't work out how to do this.

I've looked at previous posts and here
http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/olshare1.htm but can work it out. The link
here seems to be how to set up profiles in Outlook and doesn't really seem to
correlate with what I want to do (although I may just be being a bit stupid
as I'm not that great with computers).

Is it possible to do? And, if it is, is there someone out there that can
explain it simply to me.

Thanks

Dibsy

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

You need to place a pst with the calendar in it in a location both windows
accounts can see. Unless you need to keep each other from reading your
mail, move your default pst to the shared folder - then each will open the
other pst in their outlook.

This will allow all new items to go the default calendar and avoid the need
to update the shared calendar.

You can either give each other access to the folder where the pst is or move
the pst.

Go to file, data file management and select your pst and click open folder.
To give permission to this folder, go up one folder and right click on it
(named Outlook) - choose Sharing. Give his account permission full
permission on your folder and the same for you to his.

To move it, close outlook but leave the windows explorer folder open. Move
the pst to the shared folder. Go to control panel, mail and edit your
profile - you need to point it to the new pst before opening outlook.


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Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]



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