Has anyone got Contact and Calendar sharing to work?

I cannot believe I've been duped again. This borders on false advertising as far as I am concerned. How is it that Apple can connect and share Contact and Calendars with Exchange beautifully, but can't create this functionality in their own Server? Maybe it can be configured via the command line, but if I wanted to do that, I wouldn't be a Mac User. I am an Apple Consultant and every small business I service wants this more than any other function. They don't want a stupid WIki page, they want to use iCal and Address Book. Ultimately, I have to recommend MS Small Business Server. An absolutely pathetic situation.

BrianFL -
I guess it depends on your needs. I run a shared mac-only office environment and came up with a few solutions with Lion Server. (minding that I don't interact with Exchange at all)
I'm in an environment where all users are authenticated to the Lion Server
== iCal ==
1. Delegated Locations & Resources: From the Server App, with iCal Server on, you can create Location / Resource calendars, and then designate who has the authority to manage the calendar. For our purposes, I created one Calendar, and then the the delegate, I added the apropriate use group. From there - each user has creates a CalDAV with their user cred's in iCal - and then (this is the important part)  Select the created account - and select the calendar(s) you wish to view in the delegation tab. From there - that one Resource calendar can house any number of calendars inside it.
The only downside here - is that iOS doesn't really deal with delegated calendars well - so you won't be able to see shared calendars you've setup.
Create a phantom account. This isn't quite as clean, but you could create a dummy user on the Lion Server - and then have users all create accounts in iCal using the same Cred's. Not as secure though.
An Upside is that iOS devices will be able to get at these.
== Address Book ==
Unfortunately, Here, I've had to rely on a phantom user account called "OfficeShared" which contains groups, contacts etc. that everyone in the office shares. I'd be interested if anyone had any tips here. (Keeping in mind that Open Directory may very well be a possible option if you're dealing with MS server)
Of course, if you're using Microsoft Applications, your MS Small Business server will always be ideal - but I've found OSX server to be a no-maintenance, no babysitting solution for an office full of Macs.

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