Unfortunately, this is the dead end. I have found what this software is and why it will never give me the functionality I want.
First of all, Boeing have developed a Free-Busy connector for Exchange, not a complete CalDAV proxy. This is a web application (an ASP by the way) which takes someones e-mail as an input and returns their Free-Busy information in a format compatible with some CalDAV servers. I have tried using it with Bedework CalDAV server and I found it absolutely useless. This is a very good first attempt, but there are the following shortfalls:
- You need to run this special connector service, and you need to run it on a Windows machine.
- This initial implementation does not have any built-in security. It just accesses the Exchange server through one preconfigured account. You canot use different users for different requests
- This will only allow you to see whether john@example.com is free or busy from 9am to 10am, but would not let John know if you are busy.
- This example service in not available in the wild.
On the other hand, this is a good first step towards integration with Exchange. If the community demonstrates any interest, there will be someone to make further road.
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You may have a look at DavMail POP/SMTP/Caldav Exchange Gateway at http://davmail.sourceforge.net, which now includes a Caldav gateway to Exchange, although it was only tested with Thunderbird/Lightning.
DavMail Exchange Gateway looks like it's an awesome solution.
Unfortunately my provider (work) uses OWA light, and this doesn't seem to be compatible with OWA (non-light).
Almost there... =)
Well, you may try with the latest 2.1.0 release with Exchange 2007 support, which provides OWA "light" :-)
why don't you try "Zarafa", it support MAPI and CalDAV and it is based under Linux.
if you are interested, you should download the 6.30 versie.
cheers
Suyi
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