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SharePoint and Outlook

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SharePoint and Outlook

You might be surprised by the amount of things you can do with SharePoint and Outlook. The best way to understand them is to think about where there's duplication between SharePoint and Outlook. By that I mean what does SharePoint have that Outlook also has? Well, first off we think of Outlook as an email program, and SharePoint isn't. So, there's no duplication there. But Outlook is also a calendar application and SharePoint has calendars. Outlook is also a tasks application and SharePoint has task lists. Outlook has contacts and so do SharePoint. But the great thing is you don't have to give up either of these. You can have both, because they both perform very useful things for us. I'll show you what I mean. Just take a look at the calendar in SharePoint. This is a team calendar on a team site, so it's shared by multiple people. What I am going to do here is go to the Calendar section of my Ribbon. Come over to this Connect & Export section and click Connect to Outlook. Now, they…

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