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iCal, Exchange2007 and shared calendars

Hi there,
as there's no dedicated iCal topic I thought I'd dare to post this here, it's the most appropriate.

Just installed my brandnew snow covered cat, connected Mail/Addressbook/iCal to our company's Exchange2007, so far, so good.

Now, I'd like to open shared calendars (that's what they're called in Outlook) in iCal. This is NOT the same thing as a delegation! Has anyone gotten this to work? What am I missing?

thanks a lot
simon

MacBook Rev.A, Mac OS X (10.6)

Posted on Aug 28, 2009 4:53 AM

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Aug 28, 2009 8:26 AM in response to zaxxon72

Sorry, I'm still working on that problem myself. It does appear to be a permissions issue on the server for the shared calendar, but I haven't yet identified what's necessary. Entourage 2008 EWS can see the shared calendar in Read Only mode, but can't view the permissions, so something more is needed. I'll post back if I can identify specifically what settings need to be made on the shared calendar to get around the "no access" problem.

Aug 31, 2009 11:48 AM in response to jhall1303

Anyone?

I tried the delegation method mentioned previously - entered the owner's name of the shared calendar (me), and it acts like I don't exist.

The auto discovery for email (and my general calendar) works fantastic, but I rely on this shared calendar! I'd really like to be completely free from Entourage and Cisco VPN. There's gotta be a way!

-phil

Sep 2, 2009 9:01 AM in response to zaxxon72

are you talking about calendars within the public folders, or the calendars of colleagues and resources that have been shared with you?

i haven't tried public folders, but i can overlay the calendars of colleagues and resources (eg meeting rooms) on my own calendar (as described above - prefs > accts > exch > delegation > +...).

these seem to work fine (though i can't see what my colleagues are up to when using teh availability picker window)

Sep 2, 2009 10:51 AM in response to bglad

*+"are you talking about calendars within the public folders, or the calendars of colleagues and resources that have been shared with you?*"+

Yes, this needs clarification.

Perhaps this needs to be a separate thread but for me, I'm talking about the calendars that can be created within the public folder. Several years ago using Entourage, I created a scheduling calendar in the public folder that I can specify who gets access and in what capacity. The problem with Mail/iCal is there seems to be no way to view the public folder or it's contents. It's the same problem on an iPhone.

-phil

iCal, Exchange2007 and shared calendars

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