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Augusto Schoonewolff
Hello,
I was wondering if there's a solution to this problem we are facing.
We are using exchange with outlook 2003 and some users in our organization
want to let everyone see their calendar so people can determine whenever they
are busy or out of the office. This easily done via the delegates feature or
just by sharing manually the calendar. However, our problem is that when we
put the shared users as reviewers the only way to not let users see the
contents of the appointments/meetings is to tag every calendar entry with the
private flag. While this can work in some situations, for us this is causing
some issues. We have a lot of users that want to share their calendar, but
they have confidential data inside the calendar items that shouldn't be seen
by everyone. Private flagging does not work as many of them also have PDA's
(1 or more) and they sync the calendar data with them. The use of PDA's and
mobile phones are causing additional problems with the private flag as, for
example, many use the PDA for bussiness operations (= the sync program is
flagged to NOT sync private items), while their cell phone is configured to
sync ONLY private items. You can image that they won't have the correct items
in their PDA/Phones if they flag the items as private.
I wonder if there's:
a) a way to share the items in the calendar so that people can only see the
items but not see the contents of them without having to use the private flag.
b) if not, is there any 3rd party application that would help on this?
c) if not, is there an easy workaround for this without using the private
flag?
e) if anything fails, do you think MS will ever look into this? I think this
is critical as more and more users have now 1 or more PDA's and the need for
sharing with more features than the default ones is increasing?
Thanks for any help on this!
Augusto!
I was wondering if there's a solution to this problem we are facing.
We are using exchange with outlook 2003 and some users in our organization
want to let everyone see their calendar so people can determine whenever they
are busy or out of the office. This easily done via the delegates feature or
just by sharing manually the calendar. However, our problem is that when we
put the shared users as reviewers the only way to not let users see the
contents of the appointments/meetings is to tag every calendar entry with the
private flag. While this can work in some situations, for us this is causing
some issues. We have a lot of users that want to share their calendar, but
they have confidential data inside the calendar items that shouldn't be seen
by everyone. Private flagging does not work as many of them also have PDA's
(1 or more) and they sync the calendar data with them. The use of PDA's and
mobile phones are causing additional problems with the private flag as, for
example, many use the PDA for bussiness operations (= the sync program is
flagged to NOT sync private items), while their cell phone is configured to
sync ONLY private items. You can image that they won't have the correct items
in their PDA/Phones if they flag the items as private.
I wonder if there's:
a) a way to share the items in the calendar so that people can only see the
items but not see the contents of them without having to use the private flag.
b) if not, is there any 3rd party application that would help on this?
c) if not, is there an easy workaround for this without using the private
flag?
e) if anything fails, do you think MS will ever look into this? I think this
is critical as more and more users have now 1 or more PDA's and the need for
sharing with more features than the default ones is increasing?
Thanks for any help on this!
Augusto!