[ILUG] Using outlook wtih OS backends?

[Gareth Eason]

	The big downfall I found with calandering products in the Open source 
arena as that I didn't seem to get a choice about group-only publicity 
and public-publicity without jumping through hoops every time I made a 
change to my calendar data.

	Surely typical requirements are that you have three sets of calendar data:
	1. personal - you want the hours blocked off publicly, but not what you 
are doing during those times.
	2. group-public - I work with (say) a group of people - and these are 
the only people I wish to be able to share this data with. Again, 
optionally, the hours may be blocked off publicly, but not what I (or 
other members of the group) am doing. Often, this is a 'shared' calender.
	3. public - This is where I (potentially) want to put my world travels 
and exploits and times and dates I'll be in what pub on what continent - 
public to the internet so that people can find me and join me for a 
swift half *cough* if they so desire.

	I'm currently using a hacked collective of iCal (on OS X) and outlook / 
exchange / evolution (on Win/Linux) to manage my calendaring data - but 
I would really rather roll it into one. While Exchange is by far the 
best calendaring (with group working) program I've come across, it is 
slow, cumbersome, very poor off-line, Windows only, etc.

	Oh - and synchronising data to my phone and setting reminders is very 
very not optional :-)

	I suspect I may have to find some time myself and crack out the old C++ 
compiler :-)  But if anyone know's of something that can do some/all of 
this stuff, please do let me know :-)

	Best regards,
	-->Gar

Des Keane wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 14:51:56 +0000, Braun Brelin <bbrelin at openapp.biz> wrote:
> 
>>Does anyone know if Outlook 2000 supports non-microsoft calendaring
>>servers?  I.e. can I use Outlook 2000 and some sort of OSS calendar
>>server, preferably something that supports iCal?
> 
> 
> You can publish your free/busy information onto say a
> webserver/ftpserver and get some distance with that approach. You can
> query others' fb info in the same way. So this lets you check if
> someone else is available when scheduling a joint meeting, then
> Outlook will e-mail them the invite, then they'd import it into their
> calendar. So it's not full group calendaring, but it's dead easy.
> 
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/196484
> 
> des
>