what is the best way to set up a public calendar on exchange 2003 (small business server 2003).

my small company has 8 users and we would like to share a single office calendar (no need for personal calendars. i have no clue where to begin to set such a calendar up. users already have outlook mailboxes, and can get to outlook web access screen.

please, could anyone help w/ how to set up a public shared calendar?

thanks in advance

From Outlook, create a new Public Folder of type Calendar.

so would i run the outlook client (i have outlook 2000) on the server to get it started, and from there users would have access through outlook web acess at their workstations.?

sorry, i'm a novice at this?

Don't put Outlook on the server run it from a workstation instead. You are correct, just go into Public Folders and create a new folder, you will be given a choice of what type of folder to create.

Microsoft does not recommend installing Exchange Server and Outlook on the same computer
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...kb;en-us;266418

You should have received Outlook 2003 with your SBS 2003 machine, I recommend upgrading to it from Outlook 2000.

Set up an account in Exchange for "Calander"

On each client, open outlook
Tools
Email accounts
Next
Change
More Settings
Add Calander to the mail boxes

You will now have a second account in Outlook
Calander is there
You can set permissions for each user (read, edit,.....)

We you this system for booking out meeting rooms. Primative, but it was set up before me. I'm changing it though.

But anyway it works.