Outlook 2003/2007 Calendar Tool - FreeMiCal

[DonDamm]

Have you ever wanted to export your Outlook calendar items in bulk instead of one at a time? If you have, you'll have found some of the odd limitations of Outlook.

First, Outlook limits the total number of items to somewhere between 2000 and 2500. That may seem like a lot, but if you have a full calendar and have several recurring events such as birthdays, you'll find they get cut off. Secondly, there is also a ten-year limit which plays havoc with recurring anniversary events and such.

What if you wanted to export your calendar to use in Thunderbird/Sunbird, or maybe in your Google calendar using the iCal format? You'd be flat outta luck!

That's why a friend of mine wrote a bulk export utility for Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007 called FreeMiCal. Even though 2007 has what seems to be a workaround (you can email yourself the calendar) the file produced doesn't conform exactly to the iCal spec and has the limitations as noted.

The simple way is to use FreeMiCal. It was written with an open license and is freely available through Source Forge.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/freemical

You do not have to have Outlook open for FreeMiCal to work. Give it a look.

[tain]

Sounds very interesting. Will definitely have to check this out. Thanks!

[tain]

.NET 2.0 or greater and Outlook 2003 or 2007 Interop Services required.

Blech