Hi, We are in final stages of launching several collaboration tools based on a hosted Sharepoint site. Part of this is Outlook integration (calendar + contacts and Infopath forms) My question is simple, but i don't seem to find any answer to it. We use outlook 2007, two way sync of calendar works great. however, when creating new items (calendar events or meetings) from outlook sharepoint calendar, the "From" field is empty. i can see in the sharepoint list that the "Created by" field is correct for each and every item, and when opening an event, i can also see on the bottom right corner of the window "Last modified by... at..." but when opening the calendar from outlook and choosing the "All appointments" vivew from the View menu, and adding the "Organizer" or "From" column, it's empty. Actually it will contain the name of the event creator only for events that i create from my computer, or that another user creates from his/her computer. if user A creates an event, it shows on the "All appointments" view that he is the event organizer "from" field, however when user B syncs his sharepoint calendar, it will download that event but the "From" field will be empty, even though it shows up when opening the event, and it's all there in the sharepoint calendar list page (html page) We basically want to know where is sales consultant A today, where is sales consultant B tomorrow... that's the main point of a calendar after all. Help much appreciated. ps: we got a hosted sharepoint package for free as a part of our email hosting, every user will login using his/her email and password.

Bump, any help?

Hi viva-emptiness, From your description, I understand that you had connected a SharePoint calendar to Outlook and create an event/meeting in Outlook, but the organizer of the meeting can’t see in Outlook. Form my understanding, SharePoint calendar is used to store all events for a team/group. For personal event will store in My Calendar on their My Sites. So if you create an event, it means all users in that site will attend that event. If you create a meeting, you can copy that meeting to your calendar by click Copy to My Calendar, and then you can see who the organizer is. If you want to check who the creator for an event is, I’m afraid that you need to click Open in Browser or ask the users type some description when they create a new item in calendar. Do you use Exchange as your mail server? If yes, you can get other’s personal calendar using Outlook follow this reference. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook-help/open-another-person-s-exchange-calendar-HA010173767.aspx Best regards, Emir

Hi Emir, thanks for the answer. The users never create meeting requests or events. They always create appointments (Outlook 2007) I am wonder what's the use of the calendar if you cannot see who is the organizer of the meetings...

Hi viva-emptiness, Thanks for your reply. If it is a meeting had been created, you can copy it to My Calendar, and then you can see who the organizer is. (Open a meeting request of SharePoint calendar in Outlook > click Copy to My Calendar under Appointment menu > Open the duplicate meeting request in your own calendar, you can find who the organizer is.) For an appointment, please open an appointment with Outlook, then you can find "Last modified by ..." is in the right bottom of the appointment window. (Or you can add an alert for that calendar) Best regards, Emir