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."
Free Windows Admin Tool Kit Click here and download it now
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."
Free Windows Admin Tool Kit Click here and download it now
March 18th, 2010 8:28pm