Adding Holidays to Your Outlook Calendar

Australia Day is wrong

Mikel Ward — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 05:39:42 GMT

I just did this for Australia, and it said Australia Day was Sunday January 27. It is always on January 26, which is a Saturday this year. (There is also a public holiday called "Australia Day Observance" or "Australia Day Holiday" on Monday January 28.)

http://www.australiaday.gov.au/pages/page512.asp

http://www.business.vic.gov.au/scripts/nc.dll?BUSVIC:STANDARD:1001:pc=PC_50544.html

I wish you gave users an easy way to report bugs!

re: Adding Holidays to Your Outlook Calendar

Jeffrey W. Cox — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 18:31:05 GMT

Very nice!

You learn something new everyday. Funny; I've always wanted a feature similar to this, and, being that we sell an add-in for Outlook and work very deeply in Outlook, I didn't know this was there.

Thanks very much for the post!

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re: Adding Holidays to Your Outlook Calendar

Kim — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 19:17:55 GMT

Any Suggestions on how to update over 3000 outlook users, that all do not use the same workstation everyday would be very useful information.

Kim

re: Adding Holidays to Your Outlook Calendar

jschneider37@hotmail.com — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 23:23:45 GMT

If I'm inviting people to an event via. a webpage, how can I include a link that says "Add this event to your Outlook Calendar"?

re: Adding Holidays to Your Outlook Calendar

Anand — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:51:58 GMT

First three steps to add 2008 Holidays in the Outlook2003 are manual. Can it be automated, so users don't have to manually click "Add Holidays.."?

I can launch Outlook.exe /hol "holfilename" but it still prompts me to click OK on above your 3rd step.

I was wondering if anyone else know how to make this copletely automated.

re: Adding Holidays to Your Outlook Calendar

Frank — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 00:42:49 GMT

I was also looking for any suggestions to doing this on a massive scale (6000 users). Currently Outlook 07 doesn't have the holidays installed. I can install them manually but how would I go about it using say Group Policy or login Script?

Thanks guys!

re: Adding Holidays to Your Outlook Calendar

Sean — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 22:42:09 GMT

If you have SUA or Cygwin available (or stronger skills than I in PowerShell) it should be a fairly trivial matter to simply find & xargs in a replacement. Put the new .hol file in a shared location and then push them out by running a script like the below on each box:

find -name Outlook.hol | xargs mv SharedLocation\Outlook.hol

That will replace every instance of a file named Outlook.hol with the new shared one.

re: Adding Holidays to Your Outlook Calendar

Adam — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 17:51:13 GMT

The 2008 update didn't work for me. It said the expected version of the program was not found. I am running Microsoft Outlook 2003. Help?

re: Adding Holidays to Your Outlook Calendar

Sierra — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:43:28 GMT

Current syntax to add a holiday is Event Name,YYYY/MM/DD Once this is posted to the calendar, it is defaulted to "show item as" = free, and "all day event" = checked. I understand this is a HOLIDAY, which would be shown on your calendar this way BUT is there a way to be more specific (to indicate times and busy status)? Please advise.

re: Adding Holidays to Your Outlook Calendar

outblog — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 01:57:00 GMT

Sierra: The holiday file only supports adding all day events to the calendar that are shown as Free.

You could write a macro to add many appointments to a calendar with more specific settings, such as free/busy or start and end times.

Another option would be to save the appointments in an iCalendar or PST and import them onto your calendar.

re: Customize Calendar

Barb Wash — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:31:01 GMT

We can not customize the calendar.

We would like SAT/SUN in one block leaving 6 days showing.

Mon., Tues., Wed.,one page

Thurs., Fri., Sat/Sun., on the other page.

When we print the calendar for our planners that is how 2003 worked...

This is very frustrating...

re: Adding Holidays to Your Outlook Calendar

I J Black — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 03:31:58 GMT

However often I try, I can't get Outlook 2007 to show any holidays, including the default American ones. It does show alternate calendars but no holidays. Every response I've gotten from allegedly knowledgeable people, including on this site, sends me to a MS page about Outlook 2003 and updating its hol file. My hol file, dated from 2006, came with the product, MS Office 2007 Enterprise Edition.

Please help!

re: Adding Holidays to Your Outlook Calendar

Azhar — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 08:10:24 GMT

how can I launch outlook from sharepoint site? Like I have a link called MY INBOX in sharepoint site and when i click it, it should launch outlook.