SharePoint has included new important features with its SharePoint Calendar. The new features of the SharePoint Calendar include the ability to acquire data from Microsoft Outlook Web Access and the ability to display each user\’s meetings or events on the same collective calendar view. In additions, users can toggle between time zones and view the events in the time zone that they choose to view. They can also customize the design and page elements of the calendar such as: name and description of the calendar, as well as options for security, navigation, and content approval. To customize their SharePoint Calendar, users just need to click the modify settings and columns option.

Once you add SharePoint Calendars to Microsoft Outlook, you can view them just like any other Outlook Calendar. SharePoint team sites often include a shared calendar to be used by a team to schedule and coordinate events. In addition, a team coordinator can create and attach a project calendar to the team\’s website.

When it comes to business and SharePoint Calendars Services, users can create an overview of a project that everyone can use to boost communication and efficiency. Such tasks that can be performed include: adjust times and dates, export project information to Microsoft Office Excel, and attach pertinent documents. They can even create a SharePoint Calendar while in the site just by selecting the “Create” option from the Site Actions drop-down menu. Then, they select the Calendar hyperlink under the Tracking heading. After clicking the Calendar hyperlink, they can create the calendar in SharePoint and link it to outlook. They can also move public folder events to the SharePoint folder in outlook and designate the PF email address to the SharePoint calendar so that events can be emailed to it.

To forward the event to SharePoint, users do the following:

1. Open Calendar in Outlook
2. Choose the details about the time period that you want to publish. You can limit the details from free/busy information to the full details and notes in each appointment.
3. Click OK to go in Windows Live
4. Click \’yes\’ to view the URL of the published calendar
5. Send an invite e-mail to subscribe to the calendar

With the SharePoint Calendar, users can communicate date lists using such views as: day, week, work week, month, quarter, year, tasks, show events, projects initiatives, employee vacation plans, etc. SharePoint Calendar Views provide a clear calendar display with features and functions that are chosen by the user such as: list column, list view filter applied to the calendar items, color-coding, and displaying holidays stored in a separate list.

SharePoint\’s new features included in its SharePoint Calendar gives enterprise more flexibility and allow users to share important information on the same collective calendar view. The ability to customize the calendar to meet their business needs is an important part of the Calendar. The ability for a team to work collaboratively will benefit any business as it boost productivity and improves decision-making. The benefits of SharePoint Calendar make it an essential tool for enterprise.

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