Calendar sharing with a POP-3 email account

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FrednLee

I want to share my Outlook calendar with another computer on my home network.
Does SBC Yahoo (my ISP) provide Exchange Server capability? How do I use it?
And if not, can I do this without installing Exchange Server on my
computer(s)?
 
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Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]

FrednLee said:
I want to share my Outlook calendar with another computer on my home
network. Does SBC Yahoo (my ISP) provide Exchange Server capability?

Doubtful....and wouldn't be useful anyway if you use POP to access it. But
if you want hosted Exchange, there are many providers.
How do I use it? And if not, can I do this without installing
Exchange Server on my computer(s)?

Notthing built in, or really easy, but see
http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/share.htm
 
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Brian Tillman

FrednLee said:
I want to share my Outlook calendar with another computer on my home
network. Does SBC Yahoo (my ISP) provide Exchange Server capability?
No.

And if not, can I do this without installing
Exchange Server on my computer(s)?

Yes. Create a network share on one of your home PCs and make it read/write
for the other PCs. On that PC and with Outlook closed, move the PST to that
network share and start Outlook. When it complains that it can't find the
PST, browse to where you just placed it, select it, and click OK. You
should now see your folders. Close Outlook.

Assuming you've installed Outlook on the other PCs, go to each in turn,
rename to PST Outlook is using on that machine and start Outlook. When it
complains, browse to the network-shared PST, choose it, and click OK.
You'll now see the folders you saw on the first PC. You can then, if you
wish, open the PSTs you were using and move the information in them to the
shared PST. Otherwise, you can use them as private PSTs or simply delete
them, if the information in them is of no concern.

Note: this is not supported by Microsoft and some have reported issues with
PSTs shared this way, but it should work. Also not that you cannot run
Outlook on more than one PC at any one time. Each instance of Outlook
requires exclusive access to the PST.
 
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