Re: [Evolution] Advice needed for Exchange-like calendaring

[Ronald Kuetemeier <ronald kuetemeier com>]

Bryce, 
I added some comments. I just gave a presentation and demo at CLUE,
(Colorado Linux Users and Enthusiast) about the architecture on how to
do exactly that, ie integrate Outlook and Evolution to schedule
meetings.
I use one extension I wrote to Evolution to publish free_busy and a
icalendar data on a Webserver via Web-Dav and integrates Outlook via
it's publishing capabilities and samba.  I can send you the pdf file if
you want to, might not be so useful without me talking to it.  But might
give you an idea what tools to use if you want to roll you own and not
depend on none free tools.  But requires some knowledge from the sys
admins.
Ronald  
     

On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 10:54, Bryce Harrington wrote: 
> At OSDL we're trying to come up with a calendaring solution but are
> running into trouble.  We're wondering if others have gone through this
> before, and could provide some advice.
>
> Up 'til now we've run a pretty much all-Linux shop except for a few
> desktops.  The desktop Windows users now want to be able to do
> calendaring with Outlook, just like they could with an Exchange setup.
> While most of the company uses Evolution/Pine/Et al, it's the Outlook
> users that are going to drive this decision.
>
> The functionality needed:
>
>       From inside of outlook:
>       1) From inside of outlook. Create a
>          meeting by selecting a list of attendees
>          and having the tool (outlook) display
>          the available times.
No problem, easy to do.  Publish free busy on a Web server.

>       2) Be able to designate a proxy for a person,
>          that person should get a copy of all meeting
>          requests and be able to respond as the person
>          requested for the meeting.
Tricky but could be done with procmail in the mail delivery chain.

>       3) And of course sync up with the individuals
>          outlook/Evolution calendar when they get
>          back online. e.g. You can make appointments
>          without the individual actually being online
>          at the time of the appointment.
If you use Evolution or Outlook and the meeting request gets accepted by
the person it will show up in the new free busy data. Before that the
data on the Web server doesn't reflect a new meeting.


> Have others been able to fulfil these features using something other
> than Exchange?  #2 looks like it requires something server-side to
> handle the ACL.
>
> Bryce
>
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