Calendar sharing for specific domain

• Friday, February 18, 2011 11:46 AM

   

   
  

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  Hi all,

          im trying to setup calendar sharing between two partner organisations.

  In my test lab - i have gone through the following docs/links...

  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd351201.aspx

   

  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff607475.aspx 

  http://blogs.technet.com/b/ucedsg/archive/2010/09/02/how-do-i-enable-the-new-internet-calendar-sharing-ics-with-exchange-2010-sp1.aspx 

  http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/exchange2010/thread/2229748b-b083-4bd1-9410-888ecbbdc987 

  http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/exchange2010/thread/7ab7ab1d-2f6e-4554-85e2-7f49b3562625/

  I initiall had issues because i set the external url without the /owa - but one of the about articles helped out with that.

  I am not at the point where i have succesfully published a users calendar externally, when i do it anonymously. However, if i create a sharing policy for a specific incoming domain only (e.g. partnerCo.com) - the calendar is no longer shared accoring to the get-mailboxCalendarFolder -identity <mailbox> command... additionally, i no longer have the option of sharing the calendar via OWA.

  As a side note, i have also noticed, that when i do have anonymous sharing enabled, if, from outlook 2010, i try to share the calendar with a person from the partner organisation, i get an error "Calendar sharing is not available with the following entries because of permission settings on your network" - other posts, such as this one - http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/exchangesvrclients/thread/d9b33281-d7bb-4608-8025-16fb26643d0d/ have suggested to choose the name from the GAL - however, this person is in another org, so they're never going to be in the GAL! So i find that answer very perplexing.

  The goal is to have each organisation be able to see the others free/busy information, so that they can book meetings together. I assumed this would be possible using the full outlook client with calendar sharing - but what ive seen at the moment has me worried it may be for web use only.

  Any help, much appreciated.

   

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