Auto Add Public Folder Calendar to Users Outlook Favourites
Hi Guys, Quick question: We use Outlook Public Folder Calendars for Booking Conference Rooms. Originally we went around and manually added each Public Folder Calendar to every users Calendar Favourites in Outlook. Being that I am inherently lazy is there a Powershell way of automatically adding any new or changed folders to the users Outlook Calendar Favourites? Any advice or suggestions is appreciated ;) Oh, we use Exchange 2007 and Outlook 2003/2007 across the organisation.
March 11th, 2010 2:45am

Why didn't you create resource mailboxes? That's the way Outlook is designed to work.-- Ed Crowley MVP"There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems.". "Dread73" wrote in message news:32e539f4-2e54-4755-882f-8fdf220d76fc...Hi Guys,Quick question:We use Outlook Public Folder Calendars for Booking Conference Rooms. Originally we went around and manually added each Public Folder Calendar to every users Calendar Favourites in Outlook. Being that I am inherently lazy is there a Powershell way of automatically adding any new or changed folders to the users Outlook Calendar Favourites?Any advice or suggestions is appreciated ;)Oh, we use Exchange 2007 and Outlook 2003/2007 across the organisation. Ed Crowley MVP "There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems."
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March 11th, 2010 5:39am

The reason why I didn't was because the users are mostly 45+ year old Social Workers with about as much IT savyness as Paris Hilton does Morals ;) They were used to having a Public Folder for the Organisations common contacts so to 'ease' them in I went with Public Folder Calendars. I don't particulalry want to go through a 6 month long exercise in frustration and banging my head into the desk by teaching them how to use Resource Mailboxes, Free/Busy scheduling etc. I think it would be far easier to wait for these Baby Boomers to just retire or die out ;) Well, that and the fact that I still can't get Free/Busy to work despite screwing around with it for a year off and on :( I got AutoDiscover working fine for everything else except for Free/Busy
March 18th, 2010 11:02am

Autodiscover and free-busy are two different things. Free-busy uses Exchange Web Services.-- Ed Crowley MVP"There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems.". "Dread73" wrote in message news:69396ec8-f8f5-43b6-a1c7-c54d0bda300a...The reason why I didn't was because the users are mostly 45+ year old Social Workers with about as much IT savyness as Paris Hilton does Morals ;)They were used to having a Public Folder for the Organisations common contacts so to 'ease' them in I went with Public Folder Calendars. I don't particulalry want to go through a 6 month long exercise in frustration and banging my head into the desk by teaching them how to use Resource Mailboxes, Free/Busy scheduling etc. I think it would be far easier to wait for these Baby Boomers to just retire or die out ;)Well, that and the fact that I still can't get Free/Busy to work despite screwing around with it for a year off and on :( I got AutoDiscover working fine for everything else except for Free/Busy Ed Crowley MVP "There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems."
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March 18th, 2010 8:28pm

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