4 docs, 2 nurse practitioners. We have a calendar (Public Folder Calendar in MS Exchange) that lists who's on call, who's on vacation, who's at a remote office, when we have common or individual practice-related meetings. We can all see it on any web-enabled computer running Windows using Outlook Web Access. Those of us with Macs can't do it from within a browser, because OWA is feature-limited except in Internet Explorer (same problem exists for Windows users who prefer other browswers). Mac users can see the calendar from within Entourage 2008 EWS (I've not tried the born-crippled Mac Outlook 2011 yet).
We'd love to be able to see this calendar on our handhelds, but Exchange Activesync will only "push" an individual user's main calendar to mobile devices, and the only way to synchronize a common "Public Folder" calendar with an individual user's calendar is for the individual user to do it repetitively and manually.
Surely this is a common business need, but I cannot find a solution. Anyone here have any ideas?
(I should note that there are 3rd party additions to Exchange that run scripts to accomplish the local sync to each user's calendar so that ActiveSync can bring the data to mobile devices, but the pricing is very steep (many hundreds of dollars).
Thanks so much,
Jim Robertson
