W2K + Outlook 2002 + .....

I really hate Microsoft!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ok, got that off my chest. I have been reading and reading and reading and I just can't find the solution to my problem anywhere. So here goes:

I have W2K installed with 2 Users set up (Not including the admin) when I set up the users the first thing I did was click my Outlook icon, launch Outlook and set up an e-mail account.

Everything works perfectly fine, except for one thing, the calendar. I basically want to set up a combined calendar, so regardless of whether I log into W2K as UserA or UserB and start up Outlook I will always see the same Calendar. If I make an edit under UserA, the next time I login as UserB I see that edit... and so on...

So my question is, does anyone know of a reliable way to do this without Exchange Server?

There is a thing called schedules. It is a web based service that interfaces with Outlook. It should be in your toolbar.

I've never used it, but I've looked into it. Basically you add the person to your schedules list from your contact list, then Outlook will direct you to sign up for a passport account, and give it some sort of access to things.

Supposedly, you can then view each others schedules. I don't know if it will show up in your calendar, but I imagine it would.

HTH

Not sure about Outlook 2002, but for 2000 you could put the personal folder into a common location. As long as the two users never login at the same time, this should not be a problem. Make sure you give full permissions to both users, the default setting should prevent UserB from reading UserAs stuff.

Open the folders list, right click on your personal folder and choose "Advanced" or similar (lower right button). There it tells the file name.
The other user can open the file with "Open personal folder (.pst)" in the same menu.


If this does not work, you can send an appointment notice via email to the other user. There should be a checkbox or something in the form you enter the calendar data.

Ok,

I have gone with something along the lines of what MH suggested:

File --> New --> Outlook Data File

Saved it in a Global area and checked Everyone has permissions.

Then:

Open --> Outlook Data File

And opened it in both Users. The first time I tried this was before I posted, I called the .pst file Calendar and it worked for the first user meaning I could add appointments etc, but when I opened it in the next User it wouldn't load those appointments. So this time I called it GlobalCal and added a new Folder called Calendar and it seems to be working ok now.

The final dilema is how to get it to display in Outlook Today instead of the Users personal Calendar. I have already deleted the users calendars from the Outlook bar and all other links and replaced them with the new GlobalCal --> Calendar all of which works fine, but there just seems no way to modify which Calendar opens as part of the Outlook Today page.

So back to searching....

In the title of the "Outlook today" page, my 2k version has a button labeled "Outlook Heute anpassen...". (anpassen=configure, adjust, tweak, something along this line...)

I press it. Nothing happens Ok, it lowers and raises. Like every button. But nothing else. Maybe yours does something useful?

...suddenly I remember why I am not using Outlook

M.

Yeah in 2002 English version it's called 'Customize Outlook Today' but in terms of customization it's crap. It allows you to choose from 5 different styles, a couple of options for the tasks, choose which message boxes you want to display and the only option for calendar is how many days you want it to display.

Don´t know if this helps / works at all (backup before testing!), but I found the folder where your "primary" outlook personal folder is located in the registry here:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows Messaging Subsystem\Profiles\Microsoft Outlook Internet Settings\<long clsid here>\001e6700

Maybe if you change this to the "public" personal folder, it could do what you want. If it BSODs, it is not me to blame. I told you to make backups!