Hello, I'm not an IT professional, but I was directed to re-post here. So I'm so hoping that a solution can be found as my IT department desperately needs guidance as they are neither understanding the severity of the problem nor how to fix it!!
Up until this particular job and the installation here of Office 2010, the holidays were deployed network-wide to everyone. My IT department was very obtuse last year and they refuse to see how serious it is that the basic holidays are not listed in our calendars by default, as has been the case for the past 15-20 years. They're told me that I just have to go into options and click ... blah, blah, blah. With patience I advised them that _I_ know how to do this and even have maintained my own HOL file for years for my home Outlook version esp. after the dates ran out (2007 or so??) but they're not understanding that it's beyond reasonable to expect that several thousand employees have to do this themselves (many of whom are quite computer illiterate for this type of thing.) I've tried to get them to understand that _they_ must do this for everyone as people are booking meetings on statutory holidays, etc., because even the Outlook boardroom booking calendars are missing this vital information. With your help, please let me know how I can guide my IT folks to do this. There are a couple of stat holidays coming up and I saw yesterday that a meeting had been booked on one of them as, as can so easily happen, since someone obviously booked that meeting using timeline criteria and not realizing that the holiday fell on a particular month and day. Too easy to do without the holidays showing up automatically in everyone's calendars! We've had Windows 7 now fully deployed in our govt dept for about 3 months now and I'm not going to let our IT people use that excuse again. It was very valid before, of course, but no longer. But I definitely would like to give them a starting point to resolve this, please, please! It's time to seriously encourage them to fix this and I just need to let them know how easy it is to do system-wide - perhaps in one of the future maintenance windows that they're doing every couple of weeks or so. I know it has to be easy since I've been doing contract work for 25 years now and have moved between government departments and this is the first job I've ever had since MS Office has been used in the workplace that the holidays just aren't automatically found in one's installation.
Any information very much appreciated!
Thank you!