[CalendarServer-users] Attendes from Outside

Jakob Peterhänsel jakob at hjemme.dk
Sun Jul 6 03:30:21 PDT 2008


Hi Gerhard,

1: Yeah, for some very strange reason, Apple has choosen to make an  
Enterprise calendar server that will not work in an enterprise  
environment.
Seems they don't think it's important to keep the featureset of  
standalone iCal functionality in a corporate environment.
I would like to know where that one and only - very lonely - company  
exists, that never invite customers or partners to a meeting, is.
iCal Server 1.x seems to have a featureset that only allows you to  
invite people in the Directory (OD or XML based).
 From what I can read from the 10.6 road map, version 2 will add the  
exiting new feature of being able to handle 3.th. party attendees to  
events... so, we are all left in our own internal meeting loop for the  
next year. I can see for me, the Dilbert strip...

Sorry if I sound a bit negative in this regard, but we have more than  
one custumer that are 'b bit pissed' over this situation, as the 10.4  
version did all they needed, and now that are actually set back on  
feature set, in order to see each others availability... bad move  
Apple... !



2: Delegation, as far as I know, Only works with Open Directory based  
accounts. iCal does not know how to use XML based accounts. You NEED  
to have an OD set up in Directory Utility for this to work.

Hope it helps,


     Jakob Peterhänsel

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- JP, May 2006

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On 25/06/2008, at 12.52, Gerhard Rauth wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I'm running CalendarServer in the latest Version on my iMac for
> testing. Most is fine. May goal was to have in my calendar in ical the
> appointments both on my iMac and MacBook. Well and some other
> Calendars for resources. If I make new Appointment in the normal
> calendar (not stored on CalDAV) I can invite attendees without
> problem. If I start to type I get people out of the adressbook and
> mail sends perfect. But the first problem is when I schedule an
> appointment with 3 people from my company I have to type the email
> address like it is in teh accounts.xml that CalendarServer will notice
> them. If I just type the name or ID nothing will happen. The next
> problem is that I can't sent to an attendee from outside. Even if I
> drag an drop the vcard to my server based calendar. In the terminal I
> get a message that there was an error during post.
>
> I don't want to have to keep for one appointment 2 records one in the
> normal iCal calendar and one in the server based one. What do I wrong
> - or is it just not possible what I want?
>
> The next problem is that I want to delegate a calendar for reading to
> another person. It looks like it dosn't work with iCal. Is there an
> other way?
>
> Thank you for you help in advance!
>
> Kind Regards
>
> Gerhard
>
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