kolab along side Exchange

[Gunnar Wrobel]

Quoting Geoffrey <lists at serioustechnology.com>:

> Gunnar Wrobel wrote:
>> Quoting Geoffrey <lists at serioustechnology.com>:
>>
>>> We have a unique requirement in that we would like to set up a Kolab
>>> server, but have users on the Kolab server view busy/free times from an
>>> existing Exchange server.  Anyone know if this is possible?
>>
>> As you can configure the URL for the free/busy view in most clients it
>> should not be a problem. This would be a different thing if you somehow
>> need to share calendar information between the two systems. But it does
>> not sound as if this is what you want.
>
> Actually, that is what we want, sorry for the lack of clarity.

I don't see how that could be possible. You have one set of users with  
their calenders on Exchange and another set of user with their  
calendars on Kolab. If you now wish to synchronize the actual calendar  
data between both systems you would need to have all users defined on  
both systems.

But to be honest I still don't quite believe you really want to sync  
the calendar data between both systems. I still have the impression it  
is just about accessing the free/busy data.

>
> We want the Outlook users who are connected to the Exchange server to be
> able to see the Thunderbird users connected to Kolab.  As well as the
> reverse.

I don't know how Thunderbird or Outlook generate the free/busy URL  
they use for a user. The default will probably be to look up the user  
on the server the user doing the lookup resides. But I assume that you  
could have an address book with alternative URLs for each user which  
would override the default. Or am I wrong?

Cheers,

Gunnar

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