[ILUG] Using outlook wtih OS backends?

[Rory Browne]

Does this have what you want?
http://www.novell.com/products/openexchange/overview.html


On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 11:53:37 +0000, Gareth Eason <bigbro at skynet.ie> wrote:
> 
>         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
> >
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