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re: Publishing a calendar using Office Online

Johan Nordberg — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 10:21:29 GMT

How can I have WebDAV support on my own calendar website? Are there any APIs to use on ASP.NET?

// Johan

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outblog — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 18:48:33 GMT

Hi Johan:

You can enable WebDAV through the Internet Information Services Manager tool on your server. For Windows Server 2003, click the Web Service Extensions node for the server, select WebDAV, and then click Allow.

You will need to enable Write access on the folder where you want to be able to publish your calendar, and need to make sure that the appropriate users have file system permissions to write in that location as well.

Since WebDAV is just an extension to the verbs supported by the server, you could theoretically support it through ASP.NET as well, but it’s better to use the built-in support from the server instead of rolling your own implementation.

--Ryan

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Update Frequency of Office Online

David Rettig — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 21:14:17 GMT

How often does the Office Online calendar update? The settings say "Update this calendar with the servers recommended frequency". What is the recommended frequency?

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Nick S. — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 01:04:09 GMT

Great program!

One question - when I publish my Outlook 2007 calendar, the recipients (subscribers) lose the color-coding that I have attached to each event/appointment category.

On my side, I've assigned different appointments into different color catories, but when they view the calendar through Outlook 2007, the events are always pale green.

Any ideas about this? The color coding really helps for our organization.

Thank you very much for your insight!

-Nick

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Lea — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 17:23:07 GMT

My calendar only shows 12PM - 11PM and most of our events are a.m. events....

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Outlooker — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 16:29:26 GMT

Hi,

This is an off topic question for this blog post.

I am curious to know the size of the outlook team ?

How many

1) Program Managers (and their feature area) ?

2) Developers

3) Test Engineers,etc

and how many of you involved in this team blog ?

Thanks in advance

re: Publishing a calendar using Office Online

Josianne — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 09:59:23 GMT

Answer for Lea: To change the window of times you can see on your calendar -

1. Go to the Tools menu.

2. Select Options (the last item on the drop down list)

3. Click on Calendar Options…

4. Look for Start Time and End Time. Change to the time you want to have. My day runs from 7:30 to 5, so that's what I put in.

5. Click OK in the Options window and in the Tools windows.

That's it. Now when I view my calendar it shows me from 7:30 to 5.

Josianne

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Botzy — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 10:43:51 GMT

Running an Oracle Application Server with webdav enabled, would this functionality be available as well?

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outblog — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 18:55:59 GMT

Botzy: We haven't tested this feature with Oracle Application Server, but if it supports write functionality via WebDAV, it should be compatible. You just need to use "Publish to WebDAV Server" option instead of publishing to Office Online.

--Ryan

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outblog — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 19:00:20 GMT

Catching up on replying to comments...

Nick S: The color coding for categories is a personal setting, which is tied to your account. Those colors are not shared with others when using Outlook's sharing features.

David Rettig: The calendar updates with a frequency provided by the server. Usually it's in the range of 20 minutes, but it can change based on server load and other factors. This interval applies to both checking for updates in the calendar for subscribers and publishing changes from your calendar to the server.

--Ryan

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Seth — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 00:39:06 GMT

What's the deal with ICS versus VFB files? We've got some folks publishing from Outlook 2007 to a WebDAV site and it publishes OK, but Outlook 2003 subscribers to that ICS file can't actually display the free/busy info. If I publish from Outlook 2003 it produces a VFB file and both 2003 and 2007 seem to be able to read that. It'd be nice to be able to have access from both versions of the client without having to run a server-side process to convert the ICS to VFB when it gets updated.

re: Publishing a calendar using Office Online

outblog — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 01:54:33 GMT

Seth:

You can publish the VFB information from Outlook 2007 using the same mechanism you use in Outlook 2003; this functionality has not been removed.

The ability to publish your calendar to Office Online or a WebDAV server is not designed to replace the capability provided through Internet free/busy. While the two features are similar, you cannot use the new capability in Outlook 2007 in conjunction with Outlook 2003 clients to show free/busy for other users.

--Ryan

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Dave — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 22:36:07 GMT

Can the calendar that's published on Office Online website be refomatted into something that can be incorporated into an existing website?

What would be great is if you could alter the contents of the calendar via CSS or at least provide a month overview or list of upcoming events that you could include on your website.

Being able to do that with the ease of publishing from a shared community calendar within Outlook public folders would be fantastic.

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Kevin — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 10:21:02 GMT

Hi - Thanks for the blog post. A few questions about internet calendars in Outlook 2007:

1 - Can I specify a different color for an internet calendar to which I am subscribed? If I go Tools -> Options -> Calendar Options to change the background color, it only affects my main "Calendar".

2 - When I open Outlook into the calendar view, can I have my subscribed internet calendar shown by default? Current behaviour is I exit Outlook with my internet calendar in view (checked), but when I restart it's unchecked and not shown. Would be nice if that was either a saved state or configurable.

Thanks,

Kevin

re: Publishing a calendar using WebDav server

Hem — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 15:25:33 GMT

Hi when i am publishing calendar using WebDav , it gives me error like "Access to the resource was denined.If you have signed into and saved your Windows Live ID with a Web site,sign out of that web site, and then try this operation again"

can any body suggest me an idea what should i do

Thanks

re: Publishing a calendar using Office Online

Manish — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 15:39:35 GMT

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?

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outblog — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 21:15:51 GMT

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.

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Manish — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 15:09:11 GMT

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.

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Alistair — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 02:53:41 GMT

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:

http://calendars.office.microsoft.com/en-us/pubcal/viewer.aspx?path=/pubcalstorage/j7dm080z40175/Benjamin_J._J._Voigt_Calendar.ics&tz=60&vw=1

And a related PC World article.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,134979-page,1-c,stepbystep/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.

sync'ing multiple outlook calanders and contact lists

Craig — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 07:54:36 GMT

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.

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Farshid Miri — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 13:18:11 GMT

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

re: Publishing a calendar using Office Online

Nat Turner — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 17:56:44 GMT

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

re: Publishing a calendar using Office Online

Jeramie — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 06:54:31 GMT

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?

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outblog — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:37:35 GMT

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

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NickParker — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:57:01 GMT

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!

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Alistair — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:27:50 GMT

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!!!

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Erik — Wed, 07 May 2008 13:05:16 GMT

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,

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Lee — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 07:34:52 GMT

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?

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outblog — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 08:18:06 GMT

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

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SamiOZen — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:27:09 GMT

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.