Publish Calendar Outlook For Mac

One of the new and higher (including SP2 and SP3) that I’m excited about (and already making use of) is the ability to share calendars from Exchange either in iCalendar or HTML format. So – why is this useful? Doesn’t Exchange 2010 already have improved Calendar sharing with the new federated sharing features available from RTM? Well, yes it does. And this new features doesn’t replace federated sharing, however if you want to share calendars now is that the world doesn’t run Exchange 2010. Some organisations will move to it over the next year or two; but lets face facts – some enterprises out there may move to Google Apps, Zimbra or something else, so Federated Sharing isn’t going to be an option. While a workaround might be to create partner mailboxes or use third party software, it would be nice to have a solution that “just works” and enables the business to collaborate with partners easily without worrying too much about what technology each other uses.

Only with open standards can this happen and with SP1 that’s now a reality. The ability to publish calendars with anonymous viewers (and that’s an important point, which I’ll come back to) means that should the admin enable it, the user can now go in via OWA, select the calendar they wish to share and choose to publish it. They then receive a set of URLs that they can share via email. The recipient then can simply refer to the calendar via a web browser, or by using any iCalendar compliant software or web app they can subscribe to the shared Calendar. Getting back to the anonymous part, there are two options. The end user can publish a calendar with a “public” URL that is searchable.

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The other option is a “restricted” URL with an obfuscated URL. Additionally, the user can restrict what will be shown for each calendar they choose to publish. On top of this, the admin can restrict via sharing policies the maximum amount of information users can publish, and sharing policies can be tied to a certain set of users. So there is some risk in enabling the facility, but by default no user’s calendars are shared, and there are a number of controls available to user and admin to pull the feature in line with the business and individual user’s requirements. Now you know a little more about the new feature, let’s take a look at how it comes together from a user perspective, and how it’s configured by the admin. The User Experience If a feature is going to work well it has to be easy for a user to find and configure. Exchange 2010 SP1 doesn’t disappoint as the feature is listed in both OWA and Outlook in the same place as other calendar sharing options.

Thanks for spending the time Steve, great blog! Have you managed to publish the Priority i.e. High or Low by any chance? If you set the priority on a calendar entry in Outlook it does not appear to update in the published.ICS.

Start Outlook and select 'Calendar.' Right-click the calendar you want to publish, point to 'Share' and select 'Publish to WebDAV Server.' The Publish Calendar to Custom Server window opens.

You get PRIORITY:5 in the OCS no matter what you set it to on Outlook. If however you ‘Save Calendar’ direct from Outlook the PRIORITY number changes 1=High, 9=Low – but it seems to lose this when published via Exchange 2010 (Actually Exchange Online but it should be the same thing). Is there a PS setting I am missing? I use a CalPress plugin on my WordPress site which I want to modify to do something different for calendar entries set to High priority.

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However if I can’t get the.ICS to tell me what entries are High then there’s no point:-(. Hey Alessandro, We are having an issue with the Calendars not updating in any client (Outlook, OWA, iCAL) and I tried your suggestion – but unfortunately, it’s still not updating – even if I click refresh in Outlook or refresh the page in OWA. We have even gone to the trouble of installing a fresh CAS with the latest SP (2) and rollups (5 v2) – but same problem (admittedly, this has been joined to the existing infrastructure). I would be very grateful for any tips on troubleshooting this – it seems like it should be so simple, but it’s as if Exchange just simply is not updating the shared calendar. Still not sure I follow. Here’s an example 1.