Integration with Outlook

Room manager for Sharepoint is tightly integrated with Outlook

With Outlook 2007

In SharePoint Server 2007, you can create resources for team collaboration and then connect them to Outlook 2007 so that team members can collaborate with them there.

Because of this connectivity, you can stay in the familiar environment of Outlook 2007 and work directly on SharePoint Server 2007 resources. You can even work on the resources offline, because your changes will be synchronized when you go online. This way, you can work no matter what your connection status is.

There are five types of resources that can be used in Outlook 2007:

Calendar
Task List
Document Library
Discussion Board
Contact List

Resource Description

Calendar Use calendars to schedule projects, appointments, and milestones. A SharePoint Server 2007 calendar can be viewed side-by-side with an Outlook 2007 calendar, or the two calendars can be overlaid to view all items at once. You can drag an item to your Outlook 2007 personal calendar to see it on a mobile device.

Connect Outlook and SharePoint It’s easy to connect resources to Outlook 2007 and then share the connection with others. After creating a resource on a site—for example, a task list or a calendar—go to the resource and, on the Actions menu, click Connect to Outlook.

When the connection is made, the resources appear as folders in your Outlook 2007 mailbox. The folders are listed in the Mail pane under SharePoint Lists. SharePoint calendars do not appear as folders. Instead, they appear with other calendars in the Calendar pane.

Outlook will sync with the SharePoint Calendar, your events appear on the SharePoint site. Works vice versa too. Events created on the site will appear in Outlook.

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