Share Outlook without Exchange: OfficeCalendar Detailed Feature List

OfficeCalendar creates shared calendar, contact and task folders directly below your primary calendar, contact, task, and email folders within Microsoft Outlook as shown in this screenshot illustration. OfficeCalendar also creates a folder for each resource folder you can view. Example of shared resource folders include "shared conference room calendars, shared company marketing calendar, etc."

Here we are viewing the calendar of James Quinn in Microsoft Outlook's weekly view.

Here we are viewing the shared calendar for James Quinn in Microsoft Outlook's daily calendar view.

You'll also notice that color labels in Outlook are preserved in shared calendar views as well, which allows you to come up with an organization-wide color scheme for organizing calendar appointments.

Your shared calendar folders are also visible in "Outlook My Calendars" list making it both quick and easy to change your view to another calendar.

Sharing Microsoft Outlook contact folders works identically to shared calendar folders when using OfficeCalendar. Additional contact folders are created directly below your primary Contacts folder labeled with the name of the contact folder's owner within your copay of Microsoft Outlook.

Sharing Microsoft Outlook peronal folders with OfficeCalendar...

OfficeCalendar lets you create an unlimited number of group calendars for use within Microsoft Outlook and/or the web. When defining group calendars you can determine both who can view and interact with group calendars and whose appointments will be shown in the group calendar.

Just like shared user and resource calendars, OfficeCalendar creates group calendars as sub-folders directly below your primary Calendar view in Microsoft Outlook making the both quick and easy to access from within the Outlook interface.

OfficeCalendar's group calendar function combines a defined group of people's appointments into one calendar view. Each user's appointments are easy to locate because OfficeCalendar appends the appointments Subject line with the appointment owner's name.

OfficeCalendar also allows the creation of shared resource calendar, contact and task folders. The above image is an example of a shared company-wide calendar simply named "Company Calendar".

The above image is an example of shared contact resource folder named "Company Contacts".

The above image is an example of shared task resource folder named "Company Projects".

OfficeCalendar offers for Outlook sharing security in an easy understand admin interface.

If a specified user has not been granted rights to delete shared Outlook information OfficeCalendar will notify them with pop message.

OfficeCalendar's Outlook sharing security extends to group calendars as well. You can also define which users can see a specified group calendar as well as which user's appointments will appear in a specified group calendar.

When an end user marks a specified appointment "Private" only he/she will see the details of the appointment.

All other users will only see that the time (of another user's private appointment) is blocked out with an appointment subject labeled "Private Appointment". Again, only the owner of a private appointment will be able to see details (full subject and notes).

OfficeCalendar allows mobile users to work offline when they don't have the ability to connect to their company's OfficeCalendar Server. When the user able reconnect with their company's servers all changes will synced and updated.

OfficeCalendar will even remind user with an unobtrusive visual cue inside of Outlook when they are working offline.

OfficeCalendar works with Outlook 2000, 2002(XP), 2003, 2007, 2010 and 2013 (32 and 64 bit)...

OfficeCalendar Premium Maintenance customers also get OfficeCalendar Online…web access to their Outlook calendar, contact and tasks data.

All primary calendar functions and views available to you in Microsoft Outlook are also built into OfficeCalendar Online.

Shared calendars (and group calendars) are also available in the OfficeCalendar Online web interface; organized just like they are inside your copy of Outlook.

You can even add new appointments and modify existing appointments on your calendar and (as well as shared calendars) using OfficeCalendar Online. All additions and modifications will be synced back to Outlook.

Your personal and shared Outlook Contact folders are also available for viewing editing in OfficeCalendar Online.

All the standard Outlook contact fields are visible and editable within OfficeCalendar Online.

OfficeCalendar Mobile for BlackBerry is an addon for OfficeCalendar Online users, which allows them to keep their Outlook calendar, contact and task information wirelessly synced with their BlackBerry's calendar, contact address book and task list.

Installation of the OfficeCalendar Mobile for BlackBerry software is very simple and only takes a few seconds.

The OfficeCalendar Mobile for BlackBerry application is designed specifically for BlackBerry handheld devices.

Built-in menus allow you easy access options for your sync setup.

Using OfficeCalendar Mobile's sync settings you specify which objects you want to sync (calendar, contact and/or task).

Once the connection between your OfficeCalendar user account and BlackBerry are established, appointments in your copy of Outlook and on your BlackBerry are automatically kept in sync without the need to connect cables to your computer.

When you input appointments from your BlackBerry they'll be synced down to your Outlook and all other user's sharing your calendar will be able to your appointment as well.