Sharing your Outlook 2007 calendar online so that others can view it is a very useful feature. Here’s how to enable it.

1. In Calendar, in the Navigation Pane, right-click the calendar you want to publish and select Publish to Internet, or click Publish My Calendar… .

2. You have to have a Windows Live ID account to proceed. Follow the instructions on the screen to make one if you don’t have one already, or sign in.

3. Next to Time Span, select the number of days for which you want to share your calendar.

4. Next to Detail, click the arrow and choose the amount of detail to share. If you want, select the Show time within my working hours only check box to restrict shared details to only those for your specified working hours in Microsoft Office Outlook 2007.

5. Next to Permissions, choose whether your calendar information can be viewed only by specified people or searched and viewed by anyone using Office Online.

• Only invited users can view this calendar - If you click this option, an Outlook sharing e-mail message opens after the calendar is published to Office Online. You can send the sharing e-mail message to each person who you want to grant access to your calendar. The sharing message automatically includes a link to the calendar and you can type a message if you want to.
• Anyone can view and search for this calendar on Office Online - If you click this option, anyone who knows the link to your calendar can view it. People do not need a Windows Live ID account to log on or sign in to a service. In addition, Office Online users can find this calendar when searching for calendars.

6. If you are publishing a calendar that anyone can view and search, type a description of your calendar in the Description box.

By default, this calendar will be periodically updated. Changes to the calendar are published to Office Online during the next manual or automatic send/receive. By default, there is a 30 minute interval between each send/receive for each Send/Receive group. If you change the automatic send/receive interval to less than 20 minutes, calendar updates to Office Online are sent at a minimum 20 minute interval.

To upload this calendar and then never provide updates, click Advanced, and then click Single Upload: Updates will not be uploaded.

7. Click OK.

After your calendar is successfully shared on Office Online, you can invite people to view and subscribe to the calendar. To let others know about your published calendar, when prompted to send a sharing invitation, click Yes.