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On Dec 27, 6:59*am, "Hugh Jeego" wrote:
"Gordon" wrote in message ... "Hugh Jeego" wrote in message ... "Gordon" wrote in message ... "Rich Raine" wrote in message ... Here's a simple solution. *I did a google search for ical servers and found www.icalx.com. *Create an account and use it as the ical server with Outlook. It's free and works flawlessly. Two problems with that - firstly Outlook 2007 can only subscribe to a READ-ONLY internet-based calendar so you can't write to it (unlike the Mozilla Sunbird and Lightning offerings which can read AND write to an internet calendar) and secondly, there have been problems accessing icalx.com (certainly here - I used to use it and gave up). The Google Calendar synchronizing utility is the way to go. Doesn't that depend on how the calendar is set up to be shared? For example, anyone on an EXCHANGE server with the appropriate rights can change the calendar of someone else so isn't it just that Microsoft made it happen that way at their server and that at any other server it depends on how the calendar is set to be accessed? Yes with Exchange - but the OP is talking about Office Online which is an INTERNET calendar. Oh I see. Well, from what I can see having read the site, Microsoft have shut down all published calendars from Outlook 2007 to their servers so that is that. I hope I am wrong but that is what I read there.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Thank you... Where/what did you read about Microsoft shutting down published calendars? The following link describes that the preview feature will be disabled... but not publishing. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/ou...887591033.aspx |
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Viewing the calendars online is ending, not publishing. The people you share
with will need to use outlook or similar app to view the calendar (once they fix the problems with publishing). -- Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook] Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/ Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com/ Outlook Tips by email: EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange: Poll: What version of Outlook do you use? http://forums.slipstick.com/showthread.php?t=27072 "Hugh Jeego" wrote in message ... Oh I see. Well, from what I can see having read the site, Microsoft have shut down all published calendars from Outlook 2007 to their servers so that is that. I hope I am wrong but that is what I read there. |
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You are correct - only the ability to view and manage the calendars in a
browser is ending. AFAIK, this will happen closer to the release of office 2010. "Publishing calendars online and subscribing to them do not change. You can still publish and subscribe to calendars through Microsoft Office Outlook 2007. You can subscribe to published calendars if you use a program using the WebCal protocol, such as Outlook, Windows Live Calendar, Google Calendar, or Apple iCal. Calendar updates are sent through Outlook as before, and subscribers download updates just as they do today. The discontinuation of the online tools means you can no longer preview, edit or remove published calendars by using your Web browser. To preview a published calendar with a Web browser, you must subscribe to the calendar using a service like Windows Live Calendar. To change or delete a calendar, you must use Outlook. " -- Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook] Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/ Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com/ Outlook Tips by email: EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange: Poll: What version of Outlook do you use? http://forums.slipstick.com/showthread.php?t=27072 "543gbrvwec" wrote in message ... On Dec 27, 6:59 am, "Hugh Jeego" wrote: Thank you... Where/what did you read about Microsoft shutting down published calendars? The following link describes that the preview feature will be disabled... but not publishing. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/ou...887591033.aspx |
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"543gbrvwec" wrote in message ... On Dec 27, 6:59 am, "Hugh Jeego" wrote: "Gordon" wrote in message ... "Hugh Jeego" wrote in message ... "Gordon" wrote in message ... "Rich Raine" wrote in message ... Here's a simple solution. I did a google search for ical servers and found www.icalx.com. Create an account and use it as the ical server with Outlook. It's free and works flawlessly. Two problems with that - firstly Outlook 2007 can only subscribe to a READ-ONLY internet-based calendar so you can't write to it (unlike the Mozilla Sunbird and Lightning offerings which can read AND write to an internet calendar) and secondly, there have been problems accessing icalx.com (certainly here - I used to use it and gave up). The Google Calendar synchronizing utility is the way to go. Doesn't that depend on how the calendar is set up to be shared? For example, anyone on an EXCHANGE server with the appropriate rights can change the calendar of someone else so isn't it just that Microsoft made it happen that way at their server and that at any other server it depends on how the calendar is set to be accessed? Yes with Exchange - but the OP is talking about Office Online which is an INTERNET calendar. Oh I see. Well, from what I can see having read the site, Microsoft have shut down all published calendars from Outlook 2007 to their servers so that is that. I hope I am wrong but that is what I read there.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Thank you... Where/what did you read about Microsoft shutting down published calendars? The following link describes that the preview feature will be disabled... but not publishing. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/ou...887591033.aspx OK sorry my mistake. I misread that. I read it as "discontinued". |
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Hello Guys,
This is Mark, I appreciate all the info on this issue. I've used the google sync option for viewing/editing purposes due to lack of email accts from our proider. It helped but my question is can I download it to my outlook so I can view calendar or send it to other staff members so they can view or it. Or do I have to login my google acct and view staff members calendars? Also, when will the publishing part be fixed, time frame anyone? Thanks, Mark Arellano "Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote: Yeah, this is not the first time there have been issues. It's fine for home use - for sharing with family - but if calendar sharing is critical to business, I'd either go with a hosting account that has guaranteed uptime or set up IIS on the internal network. I don't think you can publish to gmail using outlook - you can sync the gmail calendar to outlook and share the gmail calendar though. Syncing gmail calendar with multiple copies of outlook is not recommended - you risk losing data. I haven't checked too deeply with other hosting services - I have a cheap godaddy hosting account but it doesn't appear to have webdav enabled. -- Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook] Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/ Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com/ Outlook Tips by email: EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange: Poll: What version of Outlook do you use? http://forums.slipstick.com/showthread.php?t=27072 "Rich Raine" wrote in message ... Diane, Thanks for the time you spend working on all this with us... I have the same problem with several computers. It used to work fine but now for the last couple of weeks it doesn't... You have mentioned the server may be flukey.... but as I scan back into 2/2008 messages I noticed there were server problems noted as now... frankly I'm spending more time attempting to find if the problem is on my side or Microsoft's than I can posting calendars. Is there a way for us to use Google Calendar as the server? It works fine. Thanks for your efforts... "Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote: If everyone is on the same network, you may be able to set up a webdav server on a desktop in the network. See http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/ol2007/publishcal.htm. If you need internet access to the calendar, you'll need web server that supports webdav. I use Intermedia.net to host our websites (on windows 2008) and can publish my calendar to it, but any host that supports webdav should work. -- Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook] Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/ Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com/ Outlook Tips by email: EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange: Poll: What version of Outlook do you use? http://forums.slipstick.com/showthread.php?t=27072 "tim l" wrote in message ... Sharing a calendar is essential to my business. Are there alternatives to Office Online for this purpose? tim l wrote: Can not publish calendar 25-Dec-09 I've tried deleting the calendar form "tools... accounts... internet calendars" And I still can not publish. Still get the same error: The upload of "Calendar" failed. There was a problem uploading the file to the server. Previous Posts In This Thread: Submitted via EggHeadCafe - Software Developer Portal of Choice Anouncing the Eggheadcafe.com Code Snippet Submission / UrlKicker App http://www.eggheadcafe.com/tutorials...gheadcafe.aspx |
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Try this workaround - its supposed to work (but isn't working for me).
Go to office.com and sign in with the same Live ID you use to publish your calendar and select "Save my e-mail address and password", Outlook should work just fine after restarting to publish or update a subscribed calendar again, until you sign out of Office Online and/or LiveID. -- Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook] Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/ Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com/ Outlook Tips by email: EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange: Poll: What version of Outlook do you use? http://forums.slipstick.com/showthread.php?t=27072 "Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote in message ... No time frame on a fix for publishing. gmail supports ical - you go into calendar details and get the ical url to give out to others. -- Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook] Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/ Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com/ Outlook Tips by email: EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange: Poll: What version of Outlook do you use? http://forums.slipstick.com/showthread.php?t=27072 "Mark Arellano" Mark wrote in message ... Hello Guys, This is Mark, I appreciate all the info on this issue. I've used the sync option for viewing/editing purposes due to lack of email accts from our proider. It helped but my question is can I download it to my outlook so I can view calendar or send it to other staff members so they can view or it. Or do I have to login my google acct and view staff members calendars? Also, when will the publishing part be fixed, time frame anyone? Thanks, Mark Arellano "Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote: Yeah, this is not the first time there have been issues. It's fine for home use - for sharing with family - but if calendar sharing is critical to business, I'd either go with a hosting account that has guaranteed uptime or set up IIS on the internal network. I don't think you can publish to gmail using outlook - you can sync the gmail calendar to outlook and share the gmail calendar though. Syncing gmail calendar with multiple copies of outlook is not recommended - you risk losing data. I haven't checked too deeply with other hosting services - I have a cheap godaddy hosting account but it doesn't appear to have webdav enabled. -- Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook] Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/ Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com/ Outlook Tips by email: EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange: Poll: What version of Outlook do you use? http://forums.slipstick.com/showthread.php?t=27072 "Rich Raine" wrote in message ... Diane, Thanks for the time you spend working on all this with us... I have the same problem with several computers. It used to work fine but now for the last couple of weeks it doesn't... You have mentioned the server may be flukey.... but as I scan back into 2/2008 messages I noticed there were server problems noted as now... frankly I'm spending more time attempting to find if the problem is on my side or Microsoft's than I can posting calendars. Is there a way for us to use Google Calendar as the server? It works fine. Thanks for your efforts... "Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote: If everyone is on the same network, you may be able to set up a webdav server on a desktop in the network. See http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/ol2007/publishcal.htm. If you need internet access to the calendar, you'll need web server that supports webdav. I use Intermedia.net to host our websites (on windows 2008) and can publish my calendar to it, but any host that supports webdav should work. -- Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook] Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/ Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com/ Outlook Tips by email: EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange: Poll: What version of Outlook do you use? http://forums.slipstick.com/showthread.php?t=27072 "tim l" wrote in message ... Sharing a calendar is essential to my business. Are there alternatives to Office Online for this purpose? tim l wrote: Can not publish calendar 25-Dec-09 I've tried deleting the calendar form "tools... accounts... internet calendars" And I still can not publish. Still get the same error: The upload of "Calendar" failed. There was a problem uploading the file to the server. Previous Posts In This Thread: Submitted via EggHeadCafe - Software Developer Portal of Choice Anouncing the Eggheadcafe.com Code Snippet Submission / UrlKicker App http://www.eggheadcafe.com/tutorials...gheadcafe.aspx |
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Diane,
Ur awesome and thanks for spreading the news. It worked, so now i have to fix it this for 30 staff members at work but it's work it b/c they use this outlook tool everyday and rely on it for communications. Thanks a bunch! Mark Arellano "Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote: Gmail has their own sync tool for calendars - http://www.google.com/support/calend...n&answer=98563. I don't recommend using this on multiple computers, so use it like you do office online- one uploads, others download. There is also http://www.daveswebsite.com/software/gsync/ -- Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook] Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/ Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com/ Outlook Tips by email: EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange: Poll: What version of Outlook do you use? http://forums.slipstick.com/showthread.php?t=27072 "Hugh Jeego" wrote in message ... You actually CAN "sync" of a sort to Google. You have to keep uploading the ICS every time you change it - at least that is how I read their report on it. I tell you though, it really gets me. I have been relying on uploading my working calendar from my work laptop to the Microsoft online calendar thing and then I had been subscribed to it at home where I couldn't alter it, only look at it which was just fine. I need to know what is going on at home, in my calendar. Now I cant do that. The only alternative I can see is to get something like exchange or find a hosting account SOMEWHERE that will allow ics to sync. I don't know of such a place, though, if someone else does. I also just found this on a search. http://gcaldaemon.sourceforge.net/ which is a free app to sync icalendar between Google and your computer. Haven't tried it yet. Hope it works. "Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote in message ... Yeah, this is not the first time there have been issues. It's fine for home use - for sharing with family - but if calendar sharing is critical to business, I'd either go with a hosting account that has guaranteed uptime or set up IIS on the internal network. I don't think you can publish to gmail using outlook - you can sync the gmail calendar to outlook and share the gmail calendar though. Syncing gmail calendar with multiple copies of outlook is not recommended - you risk losing data. I haven't checked too deeply with other hosting services - I have a cheap godaddy hosting account but it doesn't appear to have webdav enabled. -- Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook] Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/ Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com/ Outlook Tips by email: EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange: Poll: What version of Outlook do you use? http://forums.slipstick.com/showthread.php?t=27072 "Rich Raine" wrote in message ... Diane, Thanks for the time you spend working on all this with us... I have the same problem with several computers. It used to work fine but now for the last couple of weeks it doesn't... You have mentioned the server may be flukey.... but as I scan back into 2/2008 messages I noticed there were server problems noted as now... frankly I'm spending more time attempting to find if the problem is on my side or Microsoft's than I can posting calendars. Is there a way for us to use Google Calendar as the server? It works fine. Thanks for your efforts... "Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote: If everyone is on the same network, you may be able to set up a webdav server on a desktop in the network. See http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/ol2007/publishcal.htm. If you need internet access to the calendar, you'll need web server that supports webdav. I use Intermedia.net to host our websites (on windows 2008) and can publish my calendar to it, but any host that supports webdav should work. -- Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook] Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/ Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com/ Outlook Tips by email: EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange: Poll: What version of Outlook do you use? http://forums.slipstick.com/showthread.php?t=27072 "tim l" wrote in message ... Sharing a calendar is essential to my business. Are there alternatives to Office Online for this purpose? tim l wrote: Can not publish calendar 25-Dec-09 I've tried deleting the calendar form "tools... accounts... internet calendars" And I still can not publish. Still get the same error: The upload of "Calendar" failed. There was a problem uploading the file to the server. Previous Posts In This Thread: Submitted via EggHeadCafe - Software Developer Portal of Choice Anouncing the Eggheadcafe.com Code Snippet Submission / UrlKicker App http://www.eggheadcafe.com/tutorials...gheadcafe.aspx . |
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On Dec 29, 11:18*am, Mark Arellano
wrote: Diane, Ur awesome and thanks for spreading the news. It worked, so now i have to fix it this for 30 staff members at work but it's work it b/c they use this outlook tool everyday and rely on it for communications. Thanks a bunch! Mark Arellano "Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote: Gmail has their own sync tool for calendars - http://www.google.com/support/calend...n&answer=98563. I don't recommend using this on multiple computers, so use it like you do office online- *one uploads, others download. There is alsohttp://www.daveswebsite.com/software/gsync/ -- Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook] Outlook Tips:http://www.outlook-tips.net/ Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center:http://www.slipstick.com/ Outlook Tips by email: EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange: Poll: What version of Outlook do you use? http://forums.slipstick.com/showthread.php?t=27072 "Hugh Jeego" wrote in message ... You actually CAN "sync" of a sort to Google. You have to keep uploading the ICS every time you change it - at least that is how I read their report on it. I tell you though, it really gets me. I have been relying on uploading my working calendar from my work laptop to the Microsoft online calendar thing and then I had been subscribed to it at home where I couldn't alter it, only look at it which was just fine. I need to know what is going on at home, in my calendar. Now I cant do that. The only alternative I can see is to get something like exchange or find a hosting account SOMEWHERE that will allow ics to sync. I don't know of such a place, though, if someone else does. I also just found this on a search.http://gcaldaemon.sourceforge.net/ which is a free app to sync icalendar between Google and your computer. |
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I'm publishing it with a non-live address for the passport/live id. I'm
guessing that something you did deleted the cookie (or something else) that was interfering with the authentication. I know from past experience that saving the liveid password is bad and it can affect the ability to log into sites so I never save it. Your problem and my initial problem publishing was probably due to something along this line. -- Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook] Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/ Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com/ Outlook Tips by email: EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange: Poll: What version of Outlook do you use? http://forums.slipstick.com/showthread.php?t=27072 "Susan Abraham" wrote in message ... This workaround didn't work for me, but I got something else to work by trial and error. But please read this to the end, because while my solution worked, I did also accidentally delete my future calendar items. The windows live id I was using for publishing my calendars was not affiliated with an email account. I think that's going to be a requirement in the future because they want you pushed to their online email access services. So I created a new windows live account with a @live.com handle. I then went to account settings in Outlook for published calendars and clicked "change account". Followed the process to get rid of the old and set up the new. Republished my calendars. This seems to have worked. However, I did manage to accidentally delete all of my future calendar items. I'm not sure if that was due to the way I did this, or something else I tried in the last few weeks of frustrations. |
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