SharePoint 2010 and Exchange Calendar overlays

This article provides some additional information when you are working with Exchange Calendar overlay(s). You can refer this article if you wish to work with one Exchange and multiple SharePoint calendards in one SharePoint Calendar.

When you use a SharePoint Calendar and you chose to add an Exchange Calendar as an overlay, it will always add the Exchange/Outlook calendar information for your own account and you cannot chose a particular Calendar e.g. for a meeting room.




Here are the descriptions of the fields that you see when you are creating a new claendar in the 'my calendar' web part:

Calendar Name: Any text you want to use.

Outlook Web Access URL: This link will be shown on the left pane with Pink as background color. The link can be anything but it make sense to use the link to OWA. For more information please contact your Exchange administrator.

Exchange Web Service URL: It is important to use the right URL pointing to the Exchange WebService from where SharePoint gets the information. For more information please contact your Exchange administrator.

With all these fields to enter information you can configure that each user will see information from the own information in the Exchange Calendar.

SharePoint knows the user who is logged in to the SharePoint Calendar page. With that user information, SharePoint is able to contact the Exchange Web Service to retrieve the calendar data for this particular user.

Work with multiple Exchange and SharePoint calendars in one SharePoint calendar (http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint-foundation-help/work-with-multiple-exchange-and-sharepoint-calendars-in-one-sharepoint-calendar-HA101777171.aspx)

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