Share your Outlook appointments with vCalendar
Share your Outlook appointments with vCalendar–without an Exchange Server - IT Manager - CNETAsia
The development of vCalendar
The Versit Consortium is an organization of leading producers of PIMs, including Apple, AT&T, IBM, and Siemens. In 1996, the consortium released the results of its personal data interchange (PDI) development effortsvCalendar and vCard. In December of that year, they turned over continued support and development of vCard and vCalendar to the Internet Mail Consortium.
Creating a vCalendar appointment
Its easy to create a vCalendar appointment in Outlook 98, 2000, and 2002. You begin by creating an appointment in Outlook as you normally would. Once youve created and saved your appointment, you need to open it. Then, in the Appointment window, pull down the File menu and select the Save As command. When you see the Save As dialog box, choose an appropriate folder to contain the file, select the vCalendar Format (*.vcs) in the Save As Type drop-down menu shown in Figure A, and click the Save button.
At this point you have two options for sharing your vCalendar appointment with others. You can e-mail it to them, or you can save the .vcs file to a floppy disk and give them the disk.
| Figure A |
