Outlook 2000 permissions

The division of the co. I work for has Outlook 2000 installed, using MS Exchange, on Win 2000 Professional. We are converting from an old calendaring program to Outlook's calendar. We need to set the default for all users to view/read all calendars. So far, our systems guy hasn't found it (the main sys admin guy just left, unfortunately).

Anyone here know if that's an available setting and where it is?

Please let me know what other information you need. I'm not the actual systems person, but this project affects my projects and if I can help move it along, well great! I did a search & didn't see anything addressing this question. Thanks for any help you can provide!

 

In outlook help, search for open other users folder and you should find your answer.

Basically you will click on file~open~other users folder~calendar and pick the one you want but some permissions/sharing things need to be done to allow it.

 

Thank you for your response.

Here's what I do know as far as individual calendars are concerned:
I understand we can each give each other permission to view the calendar.
And I know how to open someone else's calendar.
And how to even give someone permission to read/view my calendar.

But we have over 200 users and EVERYONE needs to be able to see the detail of the everyone else's calendars, not just free/busy time.

So what we need to find is a global setting (set by admin for the entire user group) that allows everyone on the network to view every other user's calendar meeting detail (such as by opening it individually or by meeting invitation availability).

What we're trying to avoid is going into each user's calendar individually and trying to give all users read/view access. That would be very time consuming, obviously. Surely Microsoft left some way for the network admin to allow view rights to everyone. I hope so, anyway.

Is what I'm asking making any sense?

(Sorry about the wrong board. I thought I had it figured out. )

 

This page may help.

http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/share.htm

We looked into a program called Time & Chaos where I work. It is a calendar program that can be shared over the network.

http://www.chaossoftware.com/

 

We know how to do it individually, which is what that page tells you how to do.

We need an administrative-level, global setting for everyone. If it was there, I missed it.

Thanks for your response, but I'm still not seeing what I'm looking for. Am I not using the correct terminology to get my point across? If so, I apologize. But I desperately need to find this information out and I'm not having any luck so far.

Edit: However, I am still looking around their site to find a solution.

 

Take a look at Maintaining a Group Calendar in Outlook.

It starts out with "Even though Microsoft Outlook makes it easy to coordinate meetings with other Microsoft Exchange Server users, there is no built-in mechanism for maintaining a central calendar." This does not bode well for ease of implementation but check it out, there is quite a bit of information there.

 

I can't believe MS didn't forsee this issue and create an easy way to share all calendars across the Exchange server. Well, yes, I believe it, but I don't have to like it.

At this point, what it means is we'll have to go into each user's calendar, individually, and try to give reviewer access to every other user on the global list. We're looking at hundreds, maybe even a thousand, names that have to be given reviewer permission.

That's a lot of extra work & it bites. Sigh. If anyone runs across a solution, please let me know. And thanks to the people that have replied so far. I'm still searching in case something comes across re: Exchange.