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Juliet,
I set up the calendar from Outlook running on my workstation; I have
administrator rights. The calendar was set up directly below a folder on our
system called "All Public Folders" beneath "Public Folders." I only gave
users rights; I did not have to set up the calendar for a specific person.

-----Original Message-----
From: Juliet Martin [mailto:jmartin@...]

Where did you create the calendar; from the server or a workstation?
Did you move the calendar to the public section?
Is there any literature (article # ) that I could read on this?
Did you have to set up a person for this calendar or could you just set
up a calendar?

Kenneth E. Urban
Manager, Information Systems & Technology
Major Industries, Inc.
7120 Stewart Avenue
Wausau, WI 54401
(715) 842-4616 voice
kurban@...
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I am curious as to how many of the list users are involved directly with
the everyday IT / MIS activities in their respective.
I would like to do an off list survey.

1) Title

2)Responsibilities

3)Size of network involved.

4)Other company responsibilities

5)Ball park salary figures( average for your geographical area)

Please respond off list to:

Marvin R. Myers
Computer Systems Engineer
marvin@...
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Wendy,
We use MS Exchange 5.5 as our e-mail system. Within Exchange, you
can set up "public folders" that you can make accessible to any or all of
your employees. These folders can contain different types of items. Among
others, we have two different calendars: an "Out of office" calendar (used
for vacations and other situations where someone will be off-site) and a
conference room calendar (used to reserve that resource). Depending on the
security rights you set up, users may be able to delete just their entries,
or a group. For instance, each manager at Major can delete or modify any
entries made by their direct reports. In addition, I have several
"administrators" who can delete any entry in the calendars.
Call me if you have other questions.

Kenneth E. Urban
Manager, Information Systems & Technology
Major Industries, Inc.
7120 Stewart Avenue
Wausau, WI 54401
(715) 842-4616 voice
kurban@...


-----Original Message-----

We are looking to implement a database calendar that all of our managers are
able to access. Each individual manager will enter their employee's
vacation days on the calendar. Our objective is to be able to look at this
calendar and see when any employee is going on vacation. So, this would
have to be a server application. Is anyone using something like this, or
know of some good software I could look at?
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We have been using a product called "ICAL version 3.1" for this same purpose. You can find it at www.brownbearsw.com. Some guy in Alaska programmed it. It's inexpensive and works great. We have the multi-calendar version so each department can have their own, plus we have one for absentee for the entire company. It's easy to set up and has security features too.

You Wrote
We are looking to implement a database calendar that all of our managers are able to access. Each individual manager will enter their employee's vacation days on the calendar. Our objective is to be able to look at this calendar and see when any employee is going on vacation. So, this would have to be a server application. Is anyone using something like this, or know of some good software I could look at?

Thanks!

Wendy Pursche
Network Administrator
Schmald Tool & Die, Inc.
(810) 743-1600 ext.323
wpursche@...


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Ken,
I would be interested in finding out more how you have your Exchange
setup for the out-of-office. I have already setup our conference rooms
and overhead projectors as resources so people can reserve them for
meetings.
I thought about doing the same for vacation, but as a resource, it can only
be scheduled for one person at a time.
What I have been playing with is Visual Basic to read all the users
calendars for "Out of Office" time slots. My goal is to have this run every
night
and generate a table/calendar on a web page for our intranet. I'm still new
to
Outlook since we just switched to it a month ago, but I do feel it has great
potential.
If you don't mind, could you tell me how you have your "Out of
office"
calendar set up and what type of rights each user needs and how does data
get entered into this calendar? It might help me spark some more ideas or
head
me in a different direction. Thanks...........

Michael Podlin
-------------------------------------------------

We use MS Exchange 5.5 as our e-mail system. Within Exchange, you
can set up "public folders" that you can make accessible to any or all of
your employees. These folders can contain different types of items. Among
others, we have two different calendars: an "Out of office" calendar (used
for vacations and other situations where someone will be off-site) and a
conference room calendar (used to reserve that resource). Depending on the
security rights you set up, users may be able to delete just their entries,
or a group. For instance, each manager at Major can delete or modify any
entries made by their direct reports. In addition, I have several
"administrators" who can delete any entry in the calendars.
Call me if you have other questions.

Kenneth E. Urban
Manager, Information Systems & Technology
Major Industries, Inc.
7120 Stewart Avenue
Wausau, WI 54401
(715) 842-4616 voice
kurban@...
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We also use exchange public folders for booking conference rooms, the
company car along with posting vacation schedules these can be done by
everyone or a controlled group of individuals depending on how you set it
up.

Patrick

-----Original Message-----
From: Urban, Kenneth [mailto:kurban@...]
Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 06:58 AM
To: 'vantage@egroups.com'
Subject: RE: [Vantage] off topic



Wendy,
We use MS Exchange 5.5 as our e-mail system. Within Exchange, you
can set up "public folders" that you can make accessible to any or all of
your employees. These folders can contain different types of items. Among
others, we have two different calendars: an "Out of office" calendar (used
for vacations and other situations where someone will be off-site) and a
conference room calendar (used to reserve that resource). Depending on the
security rights you set up, users may be able to delete just their entries,
or a group. For instance, each manager at Major can delete or modify any
entries made by their direct reports. In addition, I have several
"administrators" who can delete any entry in the calendars.
Call me if you have other questions.

Kenneth E. Urban
Manager, Information Systems & Technology
Major Industries, Inc.
7120 Stewart Avenue
Wausau, WI 54401
(715) 842-4616 voice
kurban@...


-----Original Message-----

We are looking to implement a database calendar that all of our managers are
able to access. Each individual manager will enter their employee's
vacation days on the calendar. Our objective is to be able to look at this
calendar and see when any employee is going on vacation. So, this would
have to be a server application. Is anyone using something like this, or
know of some good software I could look at?

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Our Exchange server (we're using 5.5, and Outlook 2000) shows a box
called "Public Folders" with "Favorites" and "All Public Folders" beneath
it. Here's how I set this up:

1. Select "All Public Folders"
2. Right mouse and select "New Folder"
3. Name the folder and in the "Folder contains:" box choose "Appointment
items"
4. Right mouse on the new folder and choose properties
5. Go to the "Administration" tab. There you can set permissions by role

I have permissions for the default role set to allow editing and deletion of
items marked "own" (i.e. people can change their own entries). All in all,
this works pretty slick.

The hardest thing to get folks to understand is that when they add an
"appointment" to this calendar, they should set it up as an all-day event,
which will draw a box on the calendar rather than placing it there with a
time.

-----Original Message-----
From: Podlin, Michael [mailto:michael.podlin@...]
Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 7:50 AM
To: 'vantage@egroups.com'
Subject: RE: [Vantage] off topic

Ken,
I would be interested in finding out more how you have your Exchange
setup for the out-of-office. I have already setup our conference rooms
and overhead projectors as resources so people can reserve them for
meetings.
I thought about doing the same for vacation, but as a resource, it can only
be scheduled for one person at a time.
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How did you set the conference rooms up. I tried playing with this
awhile back. I tried to set up a person and have that persons account
auto accept the meetings. But it didn't work.

Where did you create the calendar; from the server or a workstation?
Did you move the calendar to the public section?
Is there any literature (article # ) that I could read on this?
Did you have to set up a person for this calendar or could you just set
up a calendar?

I looked at Ken's instructions but don't quite understand where the
calendar is. Any help that you can give me would be appreciated.

Juliet

-----Original Message-----
From: Podlin, Michael [mailto:michael.podlin@...]
Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 7:50 AM
To: vantage@egroups.com
Subject: RE: [Vantage] off topic


Ken,
I would be interested in finding out more how you have your
Exchange
setup for the out-of-office. I have already setup our conference rooms
and overhead projectors as resources so people can reserve them for
meetings.
I thought about doing the same for vacation, but as a resource, it can
only
be scheduled for one person at a time.
What I have been playing with is Visual Basic to read all the
users
calendars for "Out of Office" time slots. My goal is to have this run
every
night
and generate a table/calendar on a web page for our intranet. I'm still
new
to
Outlook since we just switched to it a month ago, but I do feel it has
great
potential.
If you don't mind, could you tell me how you have your "Out of
office"
calendar set up and what type of rights each user needs and how does
data
get entered into this calendar? It might help me spark some more ideas
or
head
me in a different direction. Thanks...........

Michael Podlin
-------------------------------------------------

We use MS Exchange 5.5 as our e-mail system. Within Exchange,
you
can set up "public folders" that you can make accessible to any or all
of
your employees. These folders can contain different types of items.
Among
others, we have two different calendars: an "Out of office" calendar
(used
for vacations and other situations where someone will be off-site) and a
conference room calendar (used to reserve that resource). Depending on
the
security rights you set up, users may be able to delete just their
entries,
or a group. For instance, each manager at Major can delete or modify any
entries made by their direct reports. In addition, I have several
"administrators" who can delete any entry in the calendars.
Call me if you have other questions.

Kenneth E. Urban
Manager, Information Systems & Technology
Major Industries, Inc.
7120 Stewart Avenue
Wausau, WI 54401
(715) 842-4616 voice
kurban@...


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Groups, choose Vantage, then choose Files. If you save the password,
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