Enabling the Outlook information through SharePoint

I had a requirement to display a public calendar on Outlook through SharePoint web part. The easiest way to achieve this requirement is to use a Page View web part and access Outlook through Outlook Web Access (OWA). Following are the steps

• Create a page to display the web part
• Drag and drop the Page Viewer web part
• Open the tool pane and add the OWA url in the Link Path textbox (http://owa/exchange)

Above will display your Outlook inbox in the web part. The easiest way to find out the URL of the public calendar is to,

• Open OWA through a web browser
• Then select your preferred content and right click
• Then select open in a new window option
• Now copy the url from the web browser address bar to page view web part (Ex: http://mailserverName/public/CalendarName/?cmd=contents)

By default it displays the daily view of the calendar. To customise the look for monthly view, use following parameter

http://mailserverName/public/CalendarName/?cmd=contents &view=monthly

You can get more details about Outlook web access URL parameters from following link

Outlook web access URL parameters