I have several clients at my location that use an exchange shared calendar.
All but one of the Outlook 2007 clients have automatically picked up the
category list and their associated color from the person/account that
maintains the calendar. I cannot seem to find a way to make the one Outlook
client retrieve this information, any suggestions?

categories are per user, so they either used a tool to install them on the
other computers or used outlook's option to upgrade to color categories.
right click on the top level of the pst (where outlook today is) and choose
properties- then click the button to upgrade color categories.

See http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/olcat.asp for tools.

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"Tracy Wilborn" wrote in message
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I have several clients at my location that use an exchange shared
calendar. All but one of the Outlook 2007 clients have automatically
picked up the category list and their associated color from the
person/account that maintains the calendar. I cannot seem to find a way
to make the one Outlook client retrieve this information, any suggestions?

No, no one used a tool to install them because I am the IT person for this
location and that would have been me doing the install. As for the upgrade
option no one else would have even known to do that and I have tried it on
the single Outlook install that is not displaying the events with their
associated color categories.
--
Tracy Wilborn


"Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote in message
...
categories are per user, so they either used a tool to install them on the
other computers or used outlook's option to upgrade to color categories.
right click on the top level of the pst (where outlook today is) and
choose properties- then click the button to upgrade color categories.

See http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/olcat.asp for tools.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/
Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com

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"Tracy Wilborn" wrote in message
...
I have several clients at my location that use an exchange shared
calendar. All but one of the Outlook 2007 clients have automatically
picked up the category list and their associated color from the
person/account that maintains the calendar. I cannot seem to find a way
to make the one Outlook client retrieve this information, any
suggestions?

As Diane mentioned, the click on Upgrade to Color Categories could be
necessary. Additionally, for a shared mailbox the colors are stored in the
default calendar of that mailbox. If one user can't see that, it might be a
permission issue.

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Best regards
Michael Bauer - MVP Outlook

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Am Fri, 6 Feb 2009 16:37:27 -0700 schrieb Tracy Wilborn:

No, no one used a tool to install them because I am the IT person for this
location and that would have been me doing the install. As for the
upgrade
option no one else would have even known to do that and I have tried it on
the single Outlook install that is not displaying the events with their
associated color categories.
--
Tracy Wilborn


"Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote in message
...
categories are per user, so they either used a tool to install them on
the
other computers or used outlook's option to upgrade to color categories.
right click on the top level of the pst (where outlook today is) and
choose properties- then click the button to upgrade color categories.

See http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/olcat.asp for tools.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/
Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com

Outlook Tips by email:


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"Tracy Wilborn" wrote in message
...
I have several clients at my location that use an exchange shared
calendar. All but one of the Outlook 2007 clients have automatically
picked up the category list and their associated color from the
person/account that maintains the calendar. I cannot seem to find a way
to make the one Outlook client retrieve this information, any
suggestions?