Let Outlook 2007 share your calendar with Vista

Before and after Office 2007 and Windows Vista, a lot of people were focused on a brand-fresh interface. In fact, the two are not only in the interface of a large adjustment, the kernel has a full range of changes, in addition to a lot of details have done a intimate redesign. All this needs to be dug up slowly.

To give users an understanding of the new features of Office Outlook 2007 and Windows Vista, Microsoft's official Vista blogger, Brandon LeBlanc, recently wrote an article showing how to share calendars between the two.

The first is a new feature that is easily overlooked in Outlook 2007: use Office Online to publish your own calendar on the network. Microsoft provides "calendar sharing services" and 2MB space on the Office Web site, and users can share their calendars online with their family, friends and colleagues by simply logging in with their Windows Live IDs.

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The publishing and sharing process is also simple, just right-click your calendar, choose to publish to Office Online, and then log on using the Windows Live ID, and the calendar is on the network. After that, Outlook 2007 sends you an e-mail that tells you the address (URL) of the online calendar for easy sharing and subscription.

Of course, you can share it with all people, you can also restrict access, only to some people through e-mail to see.

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As an example, Brandon LeBlanc publishes a Windows Experience blog calendar that anyone can view and subscribe to. Address: [Click here]

As can be seen, the address of the shared calendar is based on the HTTPS encryption protocol to ensure security.

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Next, share this calendar with Windows Vista.

In fact, Vista also brings up a program called Windows Calendar that you can create, view, publish, subscribe to, and, of course, subscribe to published on Office Online. To do this, simply click on the "Subscribe" button on the toolbar and a wizard will pop up to guide you through the subscription process. To subscribe to the Brandon LeBlanc published calendar, you can enter the following address: [Click here]

You can then make some settings, such as update frequency, calendar name, and so on, and then you can view the calendar created by Outlook 2007 in Vista.

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It is worth mentioning that the Windows Calendar program also publishes calendars, and is not limited to Office Online, and any server that supports WebDAV can, for example, be published on the Windows Home server or on an FTP.