Outlook 2010 Desktop Shortcut to Public Calendar

[guitarzan]

I am using Outlook 2010 with Exchange 2007. With Outlook 2003, I could do a right-click over a public calendar, and drag it onto my desktop (and select "Create Shortcut"), which would create a nice shortcut directly to my calendar, if I wanted to jump there quickly.

Doing the same in Outlook 2010 seems to not be possible? I can't right-click drag/drop anything to my desktop.

I found this link:

http://www.outlook-tips.net/2010/134/tip-742-outlook-2010-and-shortcuts-to-public-folders/

which implies that the following command from a desktop shortcut will open the Public Folder I want from a desktop shortcut:
outlook.exe /select “outlook:\\Public Folders – frank@slipstick.com\All Public Folders\folder\subfolder”

except, it doesn't work... it opens outlook, but opens the Inbox as normal. Does anyone know how to create a desktop shortcut to a Public folder? Seems so simple, yet I cannot figure out how.

 

[kjv1611]

I've never tried myself, but it seems like it's working here:

http://www.pcreview.co.uk/forums/desktop-shortcut-outlook-calendar-t2200081.html

Maybe you need to specifically refer to Outlook from it's full file address as apposed to in name only? I know I've seen differences with some things like that.

Make sure you modify it to your version of Outlook, of course.

 

[guitarzan]

Thanks for the reply. Yes I am hard-coding the location of Outlook.exe to the correct spot, but still no dice. That web page is referring to Outlook 2003, which ironically was really simple to do what I wanted... All you had to do was right-click drag the public calendar to the desktop! But in Outlook 2010, it seems you cannot right-click drag anything anywhere outside of Outlook.

The only sites I found that claimed to get this to work in 2010 created a shortcut manually, as described in your link... and this DOES work for me, as long as I want to access the persons Mailbox Calendar. For example, this works for me:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\OUTLOOK.EXE" /select outlook:calendar

Public folders require some extra syntax to be accessed from a shortcut. This works fine in Outlook 2003:
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\OUTLOOK.EXE" /select "outlook:\\Public Folders\All Public Folders\Calendars\Joes Calendar"

Outlook 2010 however, does not call the first level "Public Folders". It calls it "Public Folders - joe@domain.com". The link I gave claims that the following should work in Outlook 2010:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\OUTLOOK.EXE" /select "outlook:\\Public Folders – joe@domain.com\All Public Folders\Calendars\Joes Calendar"

... but it doesn't for me. Strange. (Actually I was incorrect in my OP, it does throw an error, "Cannot display the selected folder or item") I was very careful with spelling, so I don't think I have a typo

 

[DjembeDiff]

In Outlook, right-click on the specific public calendar, select properties, reference Location: and be sure the joe@domain.com part is accurate. I struggled with this for quite a while and finally got it to work. Good luck