Office and SharePoint 2007 User's Guide: Integrating SharePoint with Excel, Outlook, Access, and Word

5.2. Synchronizing Your Calendars Between SharePoint and Outlook

Calendars seem to be springing up everywhere. If you have been a Microsoft Office user, you probably already use Outlook's calendar to track your appointments, meetings, task due dates, and more while in the office. You may also add your personal events such as doctor appointments, birthdays, anniversaries, and your son's or daughter's school events.

With the introduction of SharePoint collaboration, it has become easy for project managers and group managers to create shareable online calendars with events that affect everyone in the project or group. Like contacts lists, the more projects you belong to, the more calendars you must check on a regular basis to make sure that you ...