This article describes how to setup a family calendar which is accessible on the internet and by multiple users (family members) from within MS Outlook on different computers.

My girlfriend and I are using MS Outlook for our work. We work at different companies so we cannot use Exchange functionality to create a shared calendar. We need one calendar in which we maintain our private appointments and daycare schedules of our daughter. This calendar should be at least accessible from MS Outlook so we can easily have our private and corporate calendar next to each other and both see our shared private appointments. (we don’t need/want to see each others corporate appointments)

Unfortunately there is no perfect solution for this purpose. In an ideal situation you would have one calendar in which you can seperate private and corporate appointments and share those easily over the web even when Outlook is connected with Exchange.

What do you need for this solution:

- MS Outlook 2003/2007/2010
- Internet access
- Windows Live (or hotmail) account
- Outlook Connector

How to implement the solution:
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