Q: XP Pro setup ie SP2
Office 2003
Home Exchange installed
I not have two users on the machine, “his” and “her”. His is an admin and its
limited user.
I initially both admins and all entries are in her vision
account her into his calendar entries / appointments etc of its security
account
For I turned her into a limited user. The “shortcut” for his
calender is still in its Outlook, but an error “do not have permissions to
expand/open” always comes up.
I tried logging in safe mode, click on the properties of its Outlook folder 977 503 [ with. PST] and giving her “read” permissions but still I
allow calnder her access to his, her, is a limited user.
I even tried to do the same and giving “full” consent [although I did not want her to give "modify" access]
Any way I can do [maintain the security of my users, but a user can use Outlook
limited details - especially the calendar - for an admin user]?
Thanks
Re:I cracked it!
(despite being told it can't be done by 2 M$ MVPs
I moved the pst file to another partition on the pc
then I unticked "read only" for the parent folder, gave her read permissions and it works a treat.
Thanks for the help
Re:when I right-click on the calender and go to Admininstration there is a tab that says "this folder is available to…"
BUT it is greyed out!
If I could make that live then I reckon we've cracked it!
Re:The plot thickens
I haven't tried this, but you might simply right-click your Calendar within Outlook, choose Properties, and look for a way to grant permissions to other accounts on the computer. I'm only familiar with an Exchange environment, and that was with 
Exchange 5.5SP4 (yes, a relic) and Outlook2000.
Re:the reason I want to do this is that I run a desktop calender proggy called Rainlender, which reads the calenders and displays the appts in a nice fashion on-screen. She never opens Outlook – the whole excercise is geared to the Rainlender install on her account being able to read my calender and thus displaying important dates/appointments on her desktop…
I will try as you suggest above – presumably then I have to figure out how to get Rainlender to see this new "install" of outlook too……
Re:If it would be ok for her to use his Outlook, you can do this:
1) from her user account, click on the Start menu and then find an Outlook icon. Right-click & drag it to the desktop screen so you've made a new shortcut to Outlook. Yes there was one already, this is for a reason
2) right-click this icon and choose Properties. Its Properties panel appears. Open this pic () for reference.
3) in the Target box, put runas /user:<her username> /savecred in front of the existing stuff.
4) in the Start in: box, change it to someplace inside of her profile, such as C:\documents and settings\<her username>\Desktop.
5) now give it back the familiar Outlook icon, rename this shortcut to distinquish it from the others, and run it. You should get a command-line box that asks once for "his" password, and then it'll remember it.
Any good? :confused: XP Pro can do this, XP Home cannot. Keep in mind that the Outlook session will see into all of "his" stuff, including the file system and Favorites.
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