Current versions: 1.4.19  (32-bit) update: April 16 2009    &    2.06 (64-bit)  update: April 16 2009   &   GridView 1.4.24 update: October 30 '08 & EgcExport 1.40 May 20 2009

 

 

NO EXCHANGE SERVER OR INSTALLING SOFTWARE THERE
IS NOT POSSIBLE ? USE OUTLOOK GROUPCALENDAR
 

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Synchronize MS Outlook®. schedules with Exchange server public folder calendars in real time.
"... by far, the best exchange app that I have come across for dealing with calendars."

Automatic synchronization from user calendar to public calendar
Automatic synchronization from public calendar to user calendar
Centrally schedule appointments and events
for team members
Calendar overview of one selected group or multiple groups.
Hide private/confidential info or any other non-business related information.
End the delegate permissions problems no permissions settings by users
Installs once at the server, nothing on the clients.

Click here to download the free, full featured, unrestricted 30 days trial.

 


Do you really want to show everything...  to everyone?

Sharing your Outlook calendar with Exchange Server used to be a matter of all or nothing. You give access to your calendar or you don't. When others have access to your Outlook calendar they can see your calendar items, all of them! Exchange GroupCalendar however allows for simple but effective rules and formatting. You can now automatically publish to a central team calendar what others need to know and keep to yourself what they don't need to know.
Share only what needs sharing, automatically, in real time, based on predefined business rules. But there's more..

Suggested usage scenario's

  • Set up an Event Calendar (items entered here will distribute to all users' personal calendars).
  • Set up one group calendar where Staff can see only Staff items and Management can see Management plus Staff items.
  • Set up one company calendar per office and one global calendar with items belonging to a certain category from all individual office calendars.
  • Set up a Group Calendar to aid in task assignment.
  • Set up an Out of the Office schedule.

For scenario configuration instructions click here.

Highlights

  • Selected items from user calendars may synchronize to the Public Folder Group Calendars
  • Selected items in the Public Folder GroupCalendar may synchronize back to the user calendars.
  • Create meetings without the need for attendees to accept the invitation.
  • Use categories, keywords and other properties to allow or block items for a group calendar.
  • Change color, visible text, privacy or specific words before the item goes public.
  • Nothing to install on the workstations. No permissions or delegates in MS Outlook® needed.
  • Real time, server based processing without synchronization problems...
  • No SQL database server or web server needed.
  • Works with calendars from MS Outlook® / Web Access / Entourage / BES / PDA ...
  • Native Exchange Server and Active Directory integration using only the power of Exchange server.
  • Full native MS Outlook® / Exchange re-sync when disconnected laptop users reconnect.

 

The regular user calendar on the left, Everyone Group Calendar on the right

Public Folder Group calendar in Outlook side by side view

User interface; Your regular MS Outlook® or OWA or Smart Phone or Entourage and/or the GridView tool.


Here you should see a 5 minute flash movie/interview.


We use it as an ER Call schedule.  Our providers need to know when they are on call and also who is on call at any given time and this gives us the freedom to manage one calendar but have that calendar be seen by users all over.  We have just started using iPhones which sync with our Outlook personal calendars and because the Group Calendar items show in the personal calendars we have found the perfect solution for our ER schedule. 

Thanks for a great product!! 

 

 

You can have one calendar in MS Outlook® where you find the info you need instantly and be able to add to or change(*) that info.  (*) If the administrator allows you to.
Are you now opening the calendars of 10 colleagues to see what they have scheduled? You need just one consolidated overview.
Exchange GroupCalendar is the solution. Fully automatic in real time!  

 

From personal calendar to Public folder calendar.
You can have a large number of public Group Calendars and users can be a member of one to all of them.

Every group calendar can have its own set of rules. The rules will decide if the item that a member created in his/her personal calendar will be visible at all in that group calendar. The rules also govern the item formatting.

Color of the item, privacy aspects, categories and words in the subject or body.. everything is configurable.
User permissions can be set in MS Outlook® or Exchange system manager on the public folder. Nothing is needed on the workstation but MS Outlook® (or owa/pda/entourage). No configuration or installation on the client pc needed.

From Public folder calendar to personal calendar!
Use MS Outlook® to create new items for all or selected members in the GroupCalendar public folder.

Have those centrally created items
replicate into the personal calendars of the group members instantly.

Or use the
GridView tool for better overview and easy scheduling of items for other users without the need to set delegate permissions everywhere.
 

Why Exchange GroupCalendar?
The program is none intrusive, doesn't require another server  - as many other group calendar software require a SQL server, and it's very small.  You don't even have to back-up the group calendars because exporting will refill newly created calendars in minutes!

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

OpusFlow

First, I would like to say that your application is, by far, the best exchange app that I have come across for dealing with calendars. Microsoft may have bought my house, but I truly hate the way they put things together and your app is helping me in areas that MS has dropped the ball.

 


 

For sometime now I have been trying to find a suitable calendar system for our company which would easily cope with multiple people in multiple locations connecting to our server via LAN, VPN and Terminal Services. Whilst Microsoft Outlook is a good solution for the individual, it is not easily configurable to meet group needs. I was delighted to find GC Exchange which appeared to meet our needs. Installation was easy and for my one minor query the technical support was excellent. I’m sure that we will gain great productivity from this server-side extension to Outlook. 

Dr Keith A Harrington
Managing Director, Makin Organs
www.makinorgans.co.uk

 

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The free
Grid View tool for those who prefer a horizontally oriented schedule or need to
edit/add items in the calendar of other users like:

  • Office managers, secretaries.

  • Project team managers

  • Reception
    (as an in/out- board on a large
    display or using a projector)

 

The optional (free) Grid View tool for great overview and scheduling options.

 

Installing the fully functional 30 days trial version onto your Exchange Server is a zero risk operation. It will not add or replace system components and will not impact the service pack level or post-fix updates  performed in the past. The setup will only create a new folder and place two files on the server but Exchange Server does the work...as it was designed to do!

Exchange GroupCalendar works without an external (sql) database or other external technology.  It's a purely Exchange server based tool using its full potential without installing potentially damaging dll's or replacing any system components.


 


Share private MS Outlook® schedules in real time! 
CLICK HERE
for a version that works without Exchange server.

The Gcadmin.exe groupcalendar management interface on the server

  • Selected items from user calendars replicate to the Public Folder Group Calendar(s)

  •  Selected items in the Public Folder GroupCalendar replicate to the user calendars.

  •  Create meetings without the need for attendees to accept the invitation.

  •  Nothing to install on the workstations. No permissions or delegates in MS Outlook® needed.

  •  Real time, server based processing without synchronization problems...

  •  No database server or web server needed.

  •  Works with calendars from MS Outlook® / Web Access / Entourage / BES / PDA ...

  •  Native Exchange Server and Active Directory integration using only the power of Exchange server.

  •  Full native MS Outlook® / Exchange re-sync when disconnected laptop users reconnect.


".. the product works great – simple to use and we got everybody FINALLY making use of their calendars.  
I’ve recommended it to a bunch of friends.."
Kyle Mehling
Network Administrator - Mount Lucas Management Corporation
We needed something to be able to combine multiple calendars in a single view to be accessible from public folders. This in combination with a SharePoint Team Services allowing the ability to pull in calendar views from our public folders did exactly what we needed it to do for our client. Now we are able to easily administer individual calendars with the group calendar self populating in real-time. This group calendar is now accessed by our client through SharePoint. (Source: download.com)

 

"I enjoy your product very much and use it across my network to coordinate the building of a new resort casino hotel. I definitely will buy and utilize more products from your company. "

Edd Hendrickson
Chief Information Officer  (Consulting)
Mescalero , New Mexico 88340
http://www.innofthemountaingods.com

 

 

" If you like the functionality of your personal calendar but would like to combine some calendars into one then this product if for you. Just set it and forget it.
This product combines all the calendars that you select into a single group calendar. It appends the users default alias to the front of the item or you can use an alias you define if needed. This new group calendar behaves the same way you personal calendar does. So basically what ever view you like now you will have in the group calendar. Our staff travels around the country so my boss loves that he can print out the group calendar in a month view, a few months at a time, and can scribble notes and proposed schedule changes before project meetings. He can also see very easily where personnel are and what projects are being worked on in a clear manner.
The program itself is very small, non intrusive and it runs as a service.
Even though the company is located in the Netherlands, they where easy to contact via email and phone and quick to respond. They called me back the next morning."

(Source: download.com)

 


GroupCalendar™ is a trademark of OpusFlow b.v. 
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