Publishing a calendar using Office Online

Questions:

1) can an ical subscriber download attachments for items in the published internet calendar? 2) If above is yes then, does it not pose a security threat?

Manish:

You can optionally download attachments to subscribed web-calendars. Outlook defaults to not downloading attachments automatically for subscribed calendars. To enable attachments, you need to open Account Settings, switch to Internet Calendars, open the specific calendar, and then check the box to enable attachment download.

Question:

I want to test whether outlook actually blocks downloading attachments when subscribing to a calendar with attachments. Can you please provide me a link to a published calendar WITH attachments? In Outlook 2007, attachments are not published. So even if I attach files or paste in-line images in the calendar, they do not get published.

Did the browser based calendar get cut? The ICS file still gets published but during the beta you could get access to your calendar. See live example below: calendars.office.microsoft.com/.../viewer.aspx And a related PC World article.

www.pcworld.com/.../article.html Why was this web based calendar feature disabled? It's a fantastic feature and clearly still available. The Office UI indicates it is available and also says other people can find or search for your calendar. This doesn't appear to be the case and is very misleading and confusing for end users.

I have several computers - a laptop (home), a home desktop, a work desktop and a PDA (Windows Mobile 5.0). I use outlook for my calander and contact lists. Is there a way to sync all of the calanders and contact lists? I would especially like my home laptop and home desktop to be sync'ed, and can use my PDA to keep my work computer updated and sync'd with one additonal PC (home desktop?). I have all of these nice tools - but I want only ONE calander (and I prefer only one contact list, but I can live without that). Any thoughts? Thanks,

Craig.

I have configured my web server for webdav and could synchronize my outlook 2007 clients through that. but my boss and its secretary want to use one calendar and both of them want to have write access to the calendar.

I published my boss calendar to the webdav, so he can make changes to the contents of the calendar but the secretary can't make change to the calendar but just read access.

Is there any way to solve the problem so they both have write access to the calendar.

Thanks

Miri- Frankfurt

Hi. When I'm trying to publish my calendar to Microsoft Online, I get the following error: The upload of "Calendar" failed. Server returned an error. Any ideas? Please help! Thanks, Nat

nat [at] novotrix.com

I'm looking for the answer to the post made by Alistair. What's this "Anyone can view and search for this calendar on Office Online"? How is this accomplished?

Alistair & Jeramie:

This feature is still available in Outlook 2007. You can publish your calendar from Outlook to Office Online and have a web experience as well as the ICS file available for anyone to access. When you send the invitation, recipients with Outlook 2007 are given the option to either subscribe to the calendar or preview the calendar online. Those without Outlook 2007 receive a webcal and http link to the website they can use to view the calendar online. --Ryan

I have setup my own WebDAV server and have setup my Outlook 2007 to publish to the server. What I'd like to know is, when I make a change to my calendar, will it update/publish automatically, if so, when? After I add/edit the new item? Or, after a preconfigured amount of time?

Similarly, if somebody has added my calendar to their outlook, how do they have their outlook update the calendar if there is a newer one on the webdav server?

I know they are subscribed to it, but do they have to do something to check for updates then update it, or does it happen automatically?

My main reason for asking is, I'd like to use published calendars as a way of distributing our Term Calendars at the school I work for. I'm just worried about certain parents still on dialup and their outlook trying to check every hour for calendar updates, or if it'll just do it on send and recieve? Thanks!

Hi, different Alistair here ;) I am in the same situation as Miri. The CEO & CFO's PA needs to be able to see and change her bosses calendars. I have set up a WebDAV published calendar (using myself as a guinea pig). It seems to me that the publish process is one way. Changes made on the ics do not flow back to the original shared calendar. Whassup with that? All the references above to update frequency seem to be for the Office Online scenario. The setting on Outlook only allows you to specify whether or not you use the server's update frequency. It doesn't indicate what frequency is used if you don't use the servers setting. In addition I can't see anywhere to set the frequency if you are not using the servers settings nor can I find anywhere that indicates how to set the frequency on the server if you are using the WebDAV solution. HELP!!!

Great article! Thanks for that. What I would like to find out is if it would be possible that the "subscribed" people of the calendar would have any option of actually putting something *in* the calendar (i.e. have write access). Thanks,

E.

Hi, i am looking for the same answer to Erik's and many others questions concerning how to enable "write access" to the published WEBDAV internat Calendar so outside users can post meetings and update the calendar if given permission to. Any thoughts please?

Erik, Lee:

The ability to publish a calendar from Outlook to WebDAV or Office Online is a one-direction sharing relationship. It only supports publishing your calendar as ICS to a shared/public location, but does not synchronize a calendar between Outlook and that location.

If you are using Exchange in addition to Outlook, you can share calendars through Exchange with read/write permissions, but there is no equivalent way to do that with Outlook and WebDAV.

--Ryan

Mrb;

Sharepoint services kurulu olan ortamda kullanıcılar daha önce Outlook kullandıklarından kişisel takvimlerindeki öğeleri Sharepoint üzerindeki takvime eklemek istemekteler. Ancak Outlook tarafına eklenen sharepoint takvimi read only olduğu halde bunun mümkün olup olmadığı yada nasıl çözülebileceği hakkında bilgiye ihtyacım bulunmaktadır.

Bu mümkün müdür?

Tşk.