Re: SBS2003 Standard - SharePoint Services 2.0 - adding "link" to Public Folders

Costas,

Thanks for the reply. I did read a couple of articles regarding the
read-only aspect of the Calendaring in WSS 2.0. That was a bit of a downer.
WSS 3.0 is not part of the equation for them....for several reasons.

And, to access the "web site" the users are using RWW. The overwhelming
majority of the users are the Outside Sales Force. Eventually some of the
"internal users" will make use of this, but it is primarily intended for the
Outside Sales Force.

So, they will need to stick with using Outlook (RPC over HTTPS) for the
calendars. At the moment I do not want to use any workarounds....once I
become more familiar with SharePoint 2.0 on SBS2003 I might entertain that,
though (highly likely). Pretty much a SharePoint rookie....spent about six
hours messing with it last night / this morning and the basics seem pretty
straight forward. Just a matter of playing with it a little and I will
catch up

Thanks again,

Cary


"Costas" <cpstechgroup@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Cary,

You won't be able to do what you need with version 2.0 of WSS. The
calendar links to Outlook are read-only in version 2.0 (which means you
have to do all the modification from within SharePoint and have them as
read-only from Outlook). Direct linkage to Outlook won't work for
document libraries, but there are workarounds you can do. That involves
though using the external URL for accessing companyweb (since you will be
using RPC over HTTP) otherwise the site won't resolve when users are
accessing it from outside the network.

WSS 3.0 allows you to do what you are looking for, but you'll have to
publish the site to the Internet in order for remote users to access the
libraries and the calendar.



--
Costas


"Cary Shultz" <cshultz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Good morning,

Working on a smaller project in an SBS2003 Standard environment with
SharePoint 2.0. I am actually quite enjoying this.

Anyway, have a need to make a specific Public Calendar available and to
make a Public Folder (Company Contacts) available to the Outside Sales
Force via SharePoint.

In other words, whether they use Outlook (RPC over HTTPS) or SharePoint
they would like to be able to 1) view both PFs and 2) add/delete/modify
items to both.

Is this possible? If yes, does anyone have any links for this SharePoint
2.0 Rookie? Honestly working with it for the first time today (well, I
have looked around but never did the 'admin' thing....which includes
modifying a whole slew of things).

Thanks,

Cary




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