kolab along side Exchange

[Geoffrey]

Gunnar Wrobel wrote:
> 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.

I guess I'm getting stuck on the verbiage.  The bottom line is, yes, we 
want the folks on the Kolab server to be able to view the busy/free 
schedules of those folks on the Exchange server and the people on the 
Exchange server to be able to see the busy/free schedule of the folks on 
the Kolab server.

>> 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?

I really don't have any idea.  I know little about Exchange and Kolab. 
My thought process is that I look at my calendar and try to create a 
meeting the includes a set group of folks.  Somehow I can see whether 
the folks I want to include in the meeting are free or busy, regardless 
of which server they reside.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey

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