Yes, OfficeCalendar is designed from the ground up using Microsoft's new .NET architecture. The Microsoft .NET framework for developing applications is optimized for exchanging data over the Internet, and OfficeCalendar is no exception.
With OfficeCalendar you can share Outlook calendar, contact, and task information with your co-workers while working remotely over an Internet connection. OfficeCalendar's .NET technology makes it easy for employees working from home, remote offices, or traveling out of town to connect to your office's central OfficeCalendar Server to send and receive updates as often as they like.
In order to synchronize and share your Outlook calendar, contact, and task information over the Internet using OfficeCalendar, you will need to have a dedicated IP address on the computer that runs your OfficeCalendar Server; or you'll need to subscribe to an inexpensive dynamic DNS service like TZO ( http://www.tzo.com ). TZO has published a tutorial specifically for Using TZO with OfficeCalendar which can be viewed online at http://www.tzo.com/MainPageSupport/HowToPage/HowToOfficeCalendarTutorial.html
You will also need to ensure that the OfficeCalendar client is installed on each Microsoft Outlook workstation that will share its Outlook calendars, contacts, and/or tasks over the Internet. If the user/s is/are not at your main office at the time of installation, you can email them the necessary Client install files by zipping up the ocalclient folder located on the PC designated as the OfficeCalendar Server at c:\ocalclient. Once they receive this folder and unzip it, they will have to run the setup.exe file from this folder locally.
Once the OfficeCalendar client is installed on the Internet users’ computer:
1. Open Microsoft Outlook on the remote Internet users' computer.
2. After Microsoft Outlook loads the OfficeCalendar client for the first time and tries to synch the user will be prompted with the “OfficeCalendar Server could not be reached” dialog box; click the "Configure" button.
3. Go to the "Server Connections" tab and type in the IP address (or dynamic DNS name) of your OfficeCalendar Server in the "Primary Server Name" field; and click "Apply" and "OK".
4. Now, from the “OfficeCalendar Server could not be reached” dialog box click "Retry".
If the “OfficeCalendar Server could not be reached” dialog box does not re-appear then OfficeCalendar was able to successfully connect to the OfficeCalendar Server using the IP Address that network administrator supplied. If the “OfficeCalendar Server could not be reached” dialog box reappears then:
a. Re-check the IP address you entered in the Server Name field by clicking on the Configure button on the “OfficeCalendar Server could not be reached” dialog box; and retry.
b. If the IP address is entered correctly then ask the network administrator to ensure that OfficeCalendar’s default port number, 1802, is open on the computer that hosts the OfficeCalendar Server. For more information about this subject, have your network administrator refer to page 55 for "Configuring OfficeCalendar to Work Over Specified Network Port", in the OfficeCalendar User’s Guide.
User's Guide:
http://officecalendar.fileburst.com/documents/ocuserguidev6.pdf
As long as Outlook is open on your computer, it will sync with your main office every 15 minutes, or however often your personal "Automatically synchronize every" duration preference is set to. You can also get instant updates by clicking on the Synchronize OfficeCalendar icon (Calendar & Lightning Bolt) on your Outlook toolbar.
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All machines outside of your network will need to have the dedicated IP address in the "Primary Server Name" field for each of their OfficeCalendar Client configurations. However the machine that is housing the OfficeCalendar Server will still need to synch via the actual machine name and NOT the IP address since that specific machine has the OfficeCalendar Server as well and is not synching over the Internet. |
