The configuration process of the calendar integration consists of two phases: This functionality can simplify your work, by eliminating the need to jump from one interface to another.Įxchange 2016 and SharePoint 2016 calendar integration Site mailboxes can be accessed both from an Outlook client and a browser.

Site mailbox – this powerful feature, available since Exchange & SharePoint 2013, lets you create a common location to save, edit and look for emails & documents alike.

Thanks to this, you can use Outlook to, for example, view and create meeting requests or book equipment, and all the changes will be automatically reflected on the corresponding SharePoint site.

Calendar integration (calendar overlay) – enables you to synchronize Exchange and SharePoint calendars completely.

As a quick recap, I will shortly explain what the integration of those two elements is all about: This article is dedicated to calendar overlay and creating a site mailbox with an email-enabled library. The first part of the article also contains information about the test environment I use.

In the previous article about Exchange vs SharePoint integration, I have explained how to configure email alerts and an email-enabled library.

Outlook 2016 shared calendar setup