[ILUG] Using outlook wtih OS backends?

[Gareth Eason]

	   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
>>>
>>
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