Office 2007 Publishing a calendar using Office Onl

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Ben’s previous post, he spoke about sharing a calendar via e-mail. Many people correctly commented that sharing a calendar via e-mail does not support subscriptions and that for items that changed regularly, it was difficult to use. Can Comertoglu (our Calendar Sharing Program Manager for Office 2007) spent some time with Ben to put together this guide on how he uses the Office Online publishing features of Microsoft Outlook 2007 to manage a soccer team. to be able to field a cohesive team on a regular basis, Can juggles times, locations,Microsoft Office 2007 Enterprise Product Key, and team players. Can’s soccer team’s schedule changes week to week and the players are from all over Seattle,Windows 7 Ultimate Serial, so Can needs to be able to create a team calendar that can work for everyone and be updated unobtrusively. For example, the calendar must be usable by a combination of different calendaring clients, besides Outlook 2007Like most soccer teams,Microsoft Office Standard 2007 Serial, Can’s team gets together at least twice a week for regular practices and then irregularly for matches, and he needs to be able to communicate these scheduling changes to everyone on the team as quickly and as efficiently as possible. example that Ben provided last week, Can is able to maintain a separate team calendar in Outlook 2007 for his soccer team. He uses Outlook 2007’s Office Online calendar publishing features to share his soccer calendar with his team. By publishing the team calendar to Office Online,Office Home And Student 2010 Activation Key, he can make frequent changes to the schedule without having to send out a new copy each time. Team members that use ICalendar compatible clients have the option to subscribe to the calendar and receive automatic updates. Players that do not have software that supports this standard can still view the team calendar using the Office Online web site. made a sample soccer calendar available on Office Online so that you can see how this functionality works. Here is how we did it: a new calendar. + New + Calendar” and then enter the name for the Calendar. calendar will now be created.

calendar. on the Calendar and select “Publish to Internet + Publish to Office Online…” Calendar to Microsoft Office Online” dialogue is now displayed. This allows you to select what is published, the time span that will be published, and who has access to it as well as additional options such as a description and the publishing frequency. that in order to use Office Online you will need to have a Windows Live ID. You will be prompted for credentials when publishing. example, we chose to publish everything in this calendar to all users except for private data and to allow Outlook to automatically handle uploading of the calendar data to Office Online.
notification message. publishing process has completed, you will be asked if you want to send a notification message to let people know about the calendar you published. example,Microsoft Office 2007 Pro Serial, we selected yes and typed a brief notice to let our team members know about the calendar. not need to send out another notification.Users who subscribe to the calendar will automatically receive the latest updates. that can read an .ics file can subscribe to the calendar. Users that do not have an .ics aware mail application can view the calendar at Office Online in a web browser. now done and have published our calendar. Any changes we make to the calendar will be pushed up to Office Online the next time Outlook performs a “Send and Receive” operation.
calendar data. some screenshots of the calendar data as seen through different clients such as Outlook 2007, Windows Calendar (available in Windows Vista), FireFox and Internet Explorer. in Internet Explorer

Office Online in FireFox

Outlook 2007

Windows Calendar Compatible clients. a short list of popular clients that implement ICalendar functionality. Please note that this is not an exhaustive list and that there are many other applications that provide this functionality. (PIM) Source Applications Foundation & GNOME and iCal Server Kontact Team Entourage Exchange Outlook Calendar Java Calendar Server Collaboration Suite
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