SharePoint - Link SharePoint calendars to Outlook

Do you work with multiple calendars? Do you keep separate calendars in SharePoint 2007 and Outlook 2007? This is what you need to do.

1. Open a calendar on your SharePoint site.

2. On the Actions menu, click Connect to Outlook.



3. Confirm that you want to connect the SharePoint calendar to Outlook.



4. In Outlook 2007, you see both calendars side by side, and the calendar name has been added to the Other Calendars list. This side by side view is the default view. You use this view to drag and drop Outlook appointments to the adjacent SharePoint calendar.



5. For a combined view of the two calendars click the arrow on the tab of the SharePoint calendar.



Each calendar and the events that belong to it are color coded for easy identification. You can have multiple SharePoint calendars for different purposes and use the overlay view in Outlook 2007 to view any combination of those calendars by selecting them in the Other Calendars section in Outlook.