Share My Calendar (XP)

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I’ve tried the Free/Busy Service that Outlook has, but it *totally* doesn’t work. I’ve tried it twice, and I’ve gotten someone else to try it to, and on these 3 occasions, it hasn’t worked. I am therefore looking for an alternative way to *EASILY* share a calendar with someone outside of the office. I’m SURE that there was a way you could share a folder over the net in an older version of Outlook, but it no longer seems an option in XP.

Is there ANY easy way to share a Folder/Calendar over the net with someone who’s not an an Exchange Server?

Thanks in advance for any advice.

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Sounds like you’re thinking of Net Folders. That was dropped from XP, probably because it was soooo buggy. If you don’t like the free/busy options, then I think the only choice left in Outlook is to use File | Save As Web Page. Of course, you need access to a web server for this. There are also 3rd party utilities and services available that do this kind of thing. I can’t really recommend any.

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Was Net Folders where every time I got an E-mail, you got a copy too? (etc).

Anyway, thanks for your reply.

BTW, it isn’t that I don’t like Free/Busy, it just simply doesn’t work. Anyway, it’s good to know that the only other way is saving as a web page. Thanks again.

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That’s the puppy, and it worked (supposedly) with calendar and contacts too.

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Thanks.

I thought I was losing my mind, b/c I knew that something like that existed.

Would have been better to have something that worked a bit than something that doesn’t work at all!!!!

Anyway, thanks again for your reply.

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I’ve included a website that discusses sharing Outlook (Net Folders not being available and other options you may have). Hope it helps… http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/ol2002/missing.htm%5B/url%5D

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thanks

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I was also looking for a way to do this, and found the only solution was ‘Save as web page’. However, a big problem with this (as far as I can tell) is that there’s seems to be no way of filtering the information that’s saved. Does anyone know of a way to make it, for example, exclude private appointments, or simply use blocks saying ‘Busy’ for times when private appointments are listed? It seems fine otherwise, but this is a real pain!

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I don’t have any way to test this, but I believe that what you see on the screen is what gets published. You can try this by creating a custom view and filtering out the private items.

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I’d hoped that would be the case, but it doesn’t seem to work :-(. I have a “No personal” filter, but it still exports the whole lot. Obviously you could copy the non-personal items into a second folder and then do save as web page, but that seems like a bit of a pain…

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Thanks for the link.

I’ve had a bit of a look around, and it seems that there are some companies that offer solutions similar to ‘Save as Web Page’ (although I presume it’s automated!).

Still can’t believe MS hasn’t got an easy way to do this!

Anyway, thanks again.

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My Outlook 2002 (XP) has “save as web page” listed when in the calendar. Is this what you are looking for?

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Yes and no.

Having a Calendar save as a Web Page is an ideal solution, except that one would want this to be automated, i.e., it should periodically save and publish this information. I shouldn’t have to manually save and upload my calendar every time I make or accept an appointment. I think this is what one of the programs I saw (via the link) does. I have yet to test it.

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