Evolution and shared calendars with Exchange

[Bruce Dawson]

On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 09:30, Kevin D. Clark wrote:
> "Bruce Dawson" <jbd at codemeta.com> writes:
> > I'm not sure if this will "fit your bill" or not, but you can use the
> > "Publish Free/Busy Information" button. Its not as easy to use as
> > Exchange, and it doesn't seem to work everywhere, but its there.
> > Note that you'll have to have everyone look at your published free/busy
> > info, which I believe Exchange supports, but I don't know for sure.
> Thanks for the pointer.  I managed to find this selection under the
> "actions" menu.

Sorry. I forgot to mention that.

> Using this feature basically would mean that I'd have to manually send
> bits and pieces of my schedule to *everybody* who could conceivably
> schedule me for a meeting.  Hmm.  This doesn't seem too convenient.
> OTOH, it might be flexible enough for somebody who wants to let people
> outside of their organization know what their schedule will be like.

Err. Actually not. You publish your free/busy info to a web page, and
then people have that URL in their contact list (frequently in Outlook),
and then Outlook will use it to help in their scheduling. Evolution does
the same thing.

At least that's the way its supposed to work. I haven't been too
successful in getting people to update their contacts info for me to get
it to work broadly enough to be useful. Your mileage is likely to vary.

--Bruce
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