Today, more business professionals and individuals are taking advantage of the SharePoint Calendar. There are many things you can do with a SharePoint Calendar. Just like you do in your Outlook calendar, you can view and update a SharePoint calendar. You can also view a calendar from a SharePoint site alongside an Outlook calendar and even view an overlay of the calendars like they are a single calendar. In addition, users have the ability to copy events among the calendars.

When you connect to a SharePoint calendar, you have the ability to connect multiple calendars simultaneously such as connecting an events calendar, project schedule, and a team vacation calendar. Whatever your calendar requirements, you can select which calendars you want to work with such as multiple SharePoint Calendars, a single calendar from a SharePoint site, or Outlook calendars. By working with multiple calendars simultaneously, you can check for conflicts, errors, and copy items to and from each calendar without having to leave Outlook.

When using a Sharepoint Calendar, you can add appointments and all-day events (activity that lasts 24 hours or longer such as a trade show, seminar, or a vacation).to your SharePoint calendar. To add an event to a SharePoint calendar by using Outlook, you just need to first connect the calendar to Outlook. A SharePoint Calendar allows you to create and send meeting requests. When you create a meeting, you just have to decide who you will be inviting as well as the resources that you will reserve, and then you can go ahead and select a specific meeting time. Responses to your meeting request will appear in your inbox. You can also reschedule a meeting or add people to an existing meeting. The meeting tasks that you can do in SharePoint include: schedule an in-person meeting, change a meeting, make a meeting recurring, make a meeting private, and set up or remove a reminder. As well, annual events do not take up blocks of time in your calendar but instead will appear as banners.

If your site and calendar are set up to receive content by e-mail, SharePoint calendars can be set up so that people can add calendar items by sending e-mail. Also, Calendars can also be set up to receive attachments to items by e-mail. To include an attachment with your list item, you just have to attach the file to your meeting request. When it comes to appointment tasks, you can define how the appointments in your calendar appear to others by assigning the time of the appointment as free, busy, tentative, or out of office. Also, other people can give you permission to arrange or make changes to appointments in their own calendars.

Today, more business professionals and individuals are discovering the benefits of integrating SharePoint Calendar. There are many things you can do with a SharePoint Calendar which will help a business run more smoothly and efficiently. Check out all of the features of SharePoint that will help your business and even your life become a bit less hectic.

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