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provision calendar to outlook

When you are connecting the SharePoint Calendar to Outlook, there will be a dialog and a link asking you to accept the connection. Just copy that link and send it to your users, one click and they ...
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Column Type for User Fields

No you can not change Single line of text to Person or group. But you can change it to Multiple lines of text Choice (menu to choose from) Number (1, 1.0, 100) Currency ($, ¥, €) Date and Time ...
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Connect/Push Outlook calendar to SharePoint (not vice versa)

This may be a little late. We ran into a similar scenario and needed to migrate multiple outlook calendars with hundreds of events to SharePoint. Our solution was: Create a SharePoint calendar Link ...
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Outlook Calendar in SharePoint Online. Graph API?

Ended up using Layer 2 Cloud Connector to sync O365 Resource calendar (which can auto accept invites) events to a SharePoint list then in SharePoint used jquery FullCalendar. Layer 2 Exchange data ...
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Synchronize a specific category of calendar events to outlook

Outlook only knows the standard calendar columns that exist in a basic calendar in SharePoint. Outlook syncs the event content type columns that it has by default and will sync all the events found in ...
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Synchronize a specific category of calendar events to outlook

I think the simplest and most stable solution to this problem would be to create a workflow which runs each time a new item is added to the list (calendar). The workflow copies all items which match a ...
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Tasks in SharePoint Online don't show up in Outlook for all users

I think it could be related to the fact that Microsoft is removing the "Tasks" feature from SharePoint Online. According to the KB below, tasks in SharePoint Online will continue to sync only until ...
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SharePoint 2013 Emails

Have you already checked your emailserver? I had many cases where SharePoint sent emails, but the mailservers didn´t accept or drop them by various reasons. You could also check SharePoint logs if ...
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Outlook mail/Notification in SharePoint

First I'll suggest you to read this good article on how to setup OWA in I-frame. IF it doesn't resolve your issue, you can also retrieve the Email subjects with the help of REST call and them format ...
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Do we need to have exchange and Sharepoint installed on same server to sync to outlook

No, you should not (ever) install SharePoint and Exchange on the same server, it will most likely break the installation. I'm not sure what you are trying to sync, but if it is the synchronization of ...
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Incoming Email in SharePoint should have option of opening email from Outlook and reply

Create a calculated column and set it to return a number datatype. This allows you to enter and run code. Copy paste the following (enter the actual name of the senders email column): ="<a href='...
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Connect SharePoint calendar to O365 Outlook Calendar

Go to the site>choose the site Calendar>Calendar (in the tab)> Click on the button "Connect to Outlook": The calendar should appear in Outlook under Other Calendars like this:
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SharePoint group sync with Outlook group

As a short answer: Unfortunately , it's not possible , You can sync contact,calendar and task list with outlook but there is no way to sync groups that because of There is a major design and ...
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Is there a way to use outlook mail groups as a Sharepoint group?

SharePoint groups and domain groups are different, also you can use outlook e-mail groups for granting permissions. If you want to see outlook groups at people picker, you need to define outlook group ...
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Adding meeting in Outlook calendar

At first you will need some information for the meeting: time, location,description etc. Where does this information comes from? Predefined or user related? Another question would be: Where to place ...
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Automate storing of Outlook emails (not just attachments) to SharePoint Online document library

This is now possible, though the action is in preview. The action is "export email", and is an action, not a trigger. So first have a trigger based on receiving an email, then "export email", then a ...
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Why users who are members of Office 365 group can view the Group inside their outlook, while owner only can not

This is by design from Microsoft. The behavior is a bit strange as we need to add the user as Owner and Member both. I have faced a similar issue in the past and when I dug up, I observed that when we ...
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Outlook Calendar sync to SharePoint

I'm afraid you can't establish Outlook->SharePoint calendar sync, only the vice versa is possible. However, a one (and IMHO proper) way to do this would be the following: Move all the items from the ...
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SharePoint 2013 On-Premise NTLM-Authentication in Office 365 Outlook Addin

Any Ajax/HTTP JavaScript request you'll made from the browser/OL add-in will automatically support NTLM authentication (with a behavior -SSO or credentials-prompt) depending on the client. However, ...
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How to sync Sharepoint online site calendar with outlook?

usually right after you click that button there is an authorization pop up in outlook that needs to be okeyed. Look around for that popup looking at the application bar below if something is blinking....
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Updating calendar events linked to Outlook

You can do this by turning on incoming email in your SharePoint calendar settings. If you email the event to the email address as an invitee, then any time you send out an update, that update will be ...
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Send a request for a resource to a user in another tenant?

You need to enable external sharing on your first tenant site and need to invite second tenant by email address.
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Sharepoint 2013 task list sync to outlook is throwing error

Found some related information online today as there is some sort of master task list in the "My Site" area of SharePoint. From what I learned from this article is that the "connect to outlook" button ...
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Send email to Outlook Group Mailbox through Workflow

The way I got around this was setting up my workflow to e-mail myself, creating a rule in Outlook that recognized a unique subject (like "[SP] New Item Created"), and redirected it to desired group. ...
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2010 Email Outlook Calendar Invite

I've figured it out on my own using help from the following site: http://weblogs.asp.net/wkriebel/106767 Which explains the proper syntax for referencing the ICS file which should be as follows: ...
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Sharepoint or Outlook

Assuming that Sales Rep is People and Group column, you can create a view with filter Sales Rep = [Me]. So whenever Sales Rep comes to this view he/she will see only there records. For reference: ...
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User getting error while clicking on Open this Task from Outlook 2010/2013

As given in the error message, the issue is with the Body column of workflow tasks list. For the approval workflow, there would be a tasks list. In the workflow task list, Body column is Enhance Rich ...
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Sharepoint to generate the email but doesnt want to send

The workflow (SharePoint SMTP service) sends the email to Exchange; Outlook has nothing to do with it. If you want a messaging process where the user can prepare/alter the message you have to built ...
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Drag attachments from outlook to sharepoint?

try below steps and see if that's works. Open your SharePoint site Select the Document Library to store the file Select the "Explorer View" of the Document Library Now open Outlook Open the Email ...
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Create email programatically

There are few things we need to check. Is Outlook installed on your SharePoint 2013 server? If yes then, have you referenced it? Ways to reference the dll which is to be used in Application Page or ...
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