Adding Holidays to Your Outlook Calendar

re: Adding Holidays to Your Outlook Calendar

ausafonly — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 11:54:21 GMT

I have added India holidays in outlook 2010 connected with exchange server in my organization but even after adding it India holidays are still not visible it shows only US holidays can some one please help me am i doing something wrong or its a bug

re: Adding Holidays to Your Outlook Calendar

Ciels — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:37:30 GMT

Hey there! Did you get an answer to your question? I'm also interested in knowing.

Thanks

re: Adding Holidays to Your Outlook Calendar

Azhar — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 06:10:24 GMT

how can I launch outlook from sharepoint site? Like I have a link called MY INBOX in sharepoint site and when i click it, it should launch outlook.

re: Adding Holidays to Your Outlook Calendar

I J Black — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 01:31:58 GMT

However often I try, I can't get Outlook 2007 to show any holidays, including the default American ones. It does show alternate calendars but no holidays. Every response I've gotten from allegedly knowledgeable people, including on this site, sends me to a MS page about Outlook 2003 and updating its hol file. My hol file, dated from 2006, came with the product, MS Office 2007 Enterprise Edition.

Please help!

re: Customize Calendar

Barb Wash — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:31:01 GMT

We can not customize the calendar.

We would like SAT/SUN in one block leaving 6 days showing. Mon., Tues., Wed.,one page

Thurs., Fri., Sat/Sun., on the other page. When we print the calendar for our planners that is how 2003 worked...

This is very frustrating...

re: Adding Holidays to Your Outlook Calendar

outblog — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 23:57:00 GMT

Sierra: The holiday file only supports adding all day events to the calendar that are shown as Free.

You could write a macro to add many appointments to a calendar with more specific settings, such as free/busy or start and end times.

Another option would be to save the appointments in an iCalendar or PST and import them onto your calendar.

re: Adding Holidays to Your Outlook Calendar

Sierra — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:43:28 GMT

Current syntax to add a holiday is Event Name,YYYY/MM/DD Once this is posted to the calendar, it is defaulted to "show item as" = free, and "all day event" = checked. I understand this is a HOLIDAY, which would be shown on your calendar this way BUT is there a way to be more specific (to indicate times and busy status)? Please advise.

re: Adding Holidays to Your Outlook Calendar

Adam — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:51:13 GMT

The 2008 update didn't work for me. It said the expected version of the program was not found. I am running Microsoft Outlook 2003. Help?

re: Adding Holidays to Your Outlook Calendar

Sean — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 20:42:09 GMT

If you have SUA or Cygwin available (or stronger skills than I in PowerShell) it should be a fairly trivial matter to simply find & xargs in a replacement. Put the new .hol file in a shared location and then push them out by running a script like the below on each box: find -name Outlook.hol | xargs mv SharedLocation\Outlook.hol That will replace every instance of a file named Outlook.hol with the new shared one.

re: Adding Holidays to Your Outlook Calendar

Frank — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:42:49 GMT

I was also looking for any suggestions to doing this on a massive scale (6000 users). Currently Outlook 07 doesn't have the holidays installed. I can install them manually but how would I go about it using say Group Policy or login Script? Thanks guys!