I work for a mid sized accounting firm and collaboration is an important part of making our group efficient. Mangers need to peer in on their staff calendars and the staff also like to see where there managers are. Exchange calendars are easily shared, however most staff members either don’t know how to do it or forget to allow access.
First step – set up a group in active directory
If you already have a group with all users in it you can simply use that. Otherwise access active directory and create a group (like the one below) and add all your users to it.
(GROUP)-Shared_Calendar
Share your calendar the manual way
You can easily have each user do this in Outlook. Simply access your calendar then click Calendar Permissions
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