Event Reminders in Public Folders?

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Chaotix

Hello, we like the idea of public folders so anyone in our office ca
view our schedules, but event reminders don't work in them. I have t
duplicate my personal calendar into my public calendar all the time.
Is there a way to either get public calendar event reminders to work
or an automatic way to duplicate my personal calender into the publi
folders?
thank
 
The functionality you want isn't built in to any version of Outlook. You can
get reminders in public folders through an add-in called Reminder Manager,
available at www.slovaktech.com

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Patricia Cardoza
Outlook MVP
www.cardozasolutions.com

Author, Special Edition Using Microsoft Outlook 2003

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Outlook fires reminders only for items in your default Inbox, Contacts, Calendar, and Tasks folders. To get reminders from other folders, you must use a third-party tool. Reminder Manager (http://www.slovaktech.com/remindermanager.htm) is a client application that makes it possible for Outlook to fire reminders from any calendar, contacts, mail, or tasks folder visibile in the Folder List, including those in Public Folders.

Another client application, Important Dates Plus (http://www.infoware.ca/content/infoframe.htm?imprtdat.asp), stores reminders in a database and allows the user to set recurring reminders on an item in any folder, including Public Folders, and designate which people should be notified of the reminder. A separate program queries the database and sends out the reminders as email messages.

A server-side solution would be to build an Exchange 2000/2003 event sink to periodically query the folder for items with reminders due and send out an email message, perhaps to all authorized users of the folder. The place to start for information on that is http://msdn.microsoft.com/exchange/.

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Outlook and Exchange solutions at http://www.slipstick.com
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming: Jumpstart
for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
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