Hi all!
I'm new to the newsgroup and not really much of a Windows user, but I have
an Outlook question for my wife. She is involved in supervising about 100
people at 20 different sites. They are trying to set up a master calendar or
a set of calendars in Outlook 2003/Exchange to keep track of where all these
people are. There are 2 other people involved in their supervision and about
5 people who need to know the schedules of all these people. Currently only
the supervisors use Outlook 2003/Exchange; the 100 people just get a copy of
the schedule, but they may all be added on to the Outlook system in the next
few months. They are trying to figure out the best way to implement this.
They have considered a single calendar, but this seems unwieldy as about 60
people would be on the calendar for any given day. They have also considered
20 calendars, one for each site. Or one big calendar with a different
category for each site. I've also seen some information on the Group
scheduling feature. Is there an accessory program for Outlook that might this
sort of thing? A better program?
They currently use an Excel spreadsheet that the main scheduler person works
up, but this is obviously difficult to share and hard for other people to
have input on. Although it does make for a nice table: people down the left,
days of the month across the top, site location in each cell. This way each
employee knows where they should be on each day.
Anyone else face a similar situation or have any suggestions?
kman
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook] - 01 Jan 2006 19:03 GMT
OUtlook is a personal information manager and not really suited to the job
you have in mind. Scheduling 100+ people across different sites and the
scheduling/viewing requirements you have detailed really call for
specialized software that JUST manages your employees schedules and
worksites.
Try one of these programs - many have a 30 day trial:

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook] - 01 Jan 2006 19:05 GMT
Sorry, hit the send before I put in the link:
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Renke Holert [MVP] - 02 Jan 2006 08:48 GMT
Hi,
you can use the Resource Management Capability of Microsoft Project Server
and integrate Outlook with Project Server. You can get an overview by
employee or project in the Project Web Access, please see for details:
http://www.allocatus.com
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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook] - 02 Jan 2006 15:22 GMT
Project and Project Server are overkill for this situation. A simple
employee scheduling software setup is the better solution.

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Renke Holert [MVP] - 03 Jan 2006 10:39 GMT
Hi Milly,
> Project and Project Server are overkill for this situation. A simple
> employee scheduling software setup is the better solution
depends on the actual situation. If there is also a need have a view by
project, Project Server is a good option.
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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook] - 08 Jan 2006 06:21 GMT
For cost vs. benefit, arguable.

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