Group Calendar for Exchange Server 1.0

When something is on a “Need to Know” basis, it means that there are some things that others need to know and some things that they do not. When working with a team on any project there will be many things that the entire team will need to know, such as the scheduling of activities, events, and project deadlines. With Group Calendar for Exchange 2007 and later you can do just that. Synchronize Outlook schedules with Exchange server public folder in real time to create multiple group calendars.

Sharing your calendar with Exchange Server used to mean that you were sharing your entire calendar. Anyone and everyone on the server could see where you were supposed to be, when you were supposed to be there, who you would be there with, and what the event would be about. With Group Calendar for Exchange, you get to choose what is shared and what is not. And it all happens automatically. You set predefined business rules once and the system will take care of the rest whenever you add new data to the server. You don’t have to manually go through each item and select what should be seen by everyone and what shouldn’t.

Some other features of the Group Calendar for Exchange Server include:

- The ability to create meetings without the need for the attendees to accept the invitation

- You can use categories, keywords, and other properties to determine what items should be allowed or blocked for a group calendar.

- You get real time, server based processing without any synchronization issues.

- No need for an SQL database server or web server

Group Calendar for Exchange works with calendars from MS Outlook, Web Access, Entourage, BES, PDA and more with native Exchange Server and Active Directory Integration using only the power of Exchange Server. You get full native re-sync between Outlook and Exchange when disconnected laptop users reconnect to the network.

Some of the benefits of Group Calendar for Exchange Server include:

- Users don’t have to install any new software. They don’t have to learn anything new or set any new permissions in order to take advantage of Group Calendar.

- You can create different types of team calendars for various situations such as, absence, projects, and resources such as meeting rooms, cars for travel, etc.

- Admin users can modify items in the Group Calendar and the change will be seen by the user.

- You can define a uniform category list and category color schema that is reflected company-wide so that everyone is using the same colors, themes, and categories to reduce confusion and promote efficiency.

- Group calendars are perfectly accessible from Outlook web access and they run on any computer or server that can connect to the host Exchange server; so there is no need to install anything onto the Exchange server.

- Group Calendar for Exchange Server software can be managed from any computer that can connect to the machine that runs the Exchange Group Server software.