Adding a Sharepoint Calendar to Outlook

Adding a SharePoint Calendar to Outlook

This article describes how to add a SharePoint calendar to your outlook.

When adding a calendar to outlook, it will allow you to use all the functionality of your outlook program with a calendar that is also shared among your workgroup.  Many departments at ACES use a shared calendar to keep track of department events such as meetings, group activities, shared resources such as conferences rooms, etc.

There are two steps when adding a SharePoint calendar to your outlook. 

  1. Open the SharePoint Calendar and tell it to Open in Outlook
  2. Open outlook and confirm that you want to connect to the SharePoint calendar

Open the SharePoint calendar in outlook

  1. Navigate to the calendar you want to open
  2. Find the “Calendar” tab in the upper left.  Its usually right below the ACES logo
  3. Click it and then select the “Connect to Outlook” button.

4. A window appears confirming that you want to open the calendar in Outlook.  Click the “Open Outlook 2016” button to confirm.

5. In a moment, Outlook will open and a window asking if you want to connect your outlook with the calendar.  Click the “Yes” button to confirm.

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