[ILUG] Using outlook wtih OS backends?

[Justin Mason]

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Try Hula -- looks very promising. http://www.hula-project.org/Hula_Server

not sure how buildable/usable it is right now, but it looks like it should
be a good, *simple* calendaring system that understands that not everyone
works in a company identical to Microsoft; so for example, it JUST does
calendaring if you want, it has a web UI, and allows publishing of various
views on your calendar data based on how public each appt is.

Even if it's not entirely finished, I'm sure your C++ compiler would
be welcome. ;)

- --j.


Gareth Eason writes:
> 	   Hi,
> 
> 	While this looks like a good product - but have you seen the pricetag 
> attached? And how much _more_ than just calandering it does?
> 
> 	It's a drop-in replacement (or tries to be) for Exchange server - and 
> has about 85% featureset that I neither need nor want. I already have 
> several competent mail servers. Project management and time management 
> and tasking go through a seperate system (which uses SMTP to talk to the 
> aforementioned mail systems, as required.)
> 
> 	What I've been looking for is a calandering system - but apart from the 
> shared web calendars (some of which you can sync to iCal) I'm still 
> looking for something suitable.
> 
> 	Cheers for trying though :-)
> 
> 	Best regards,
> 	-->Gar
> 
> Rory Browne wrote:
> > 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
> >>>
> >>
> >>--
> >>Irish Linux Users' Group
> >>http://www.linux.ie/mailman/listinfo/ilug/
> >>
> >>
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