ICal, MS Outlook, and Titles in published calendars

I need to publish my calendar, and would like to use iCal to do it. However, I only need the equivalent of free/busy information to show (I don't want to show any other information about events). I thought that unchecking "Publish Titles and Notes" would accomplish this, but when I subscribe to the calendar using Outlook (as some of my subscribers will), I can see the event title.
Is there any way to fix this?

I am also looking for a way to publish my iCal calendars, but only show the times as "busy" and not show any specific proprietary data. MS Outlook and Google Calendar have this functionality worked out, just curious if there is a way to do this on .MAC.

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Imported ical from outlook and the date across the top of the weekly view all show the date i imported..

imported ical from outlook and the date across the top of the weekly view all show the date i imported..

I'm confused, what does iCal have to do with this, it seems as though you went from Outlook to Entourage, is that correct?

Outlook 2013 is not publishing calendar to webdav using settings successful with Outlook 2010

I am successfully publishing availability data (an ics file) to a webdav server, using Outlook 2010. The format of the URL is https://[domain]/public_html/calendar/
When I use the same URL in Outlook 2013, it returns the message "Contacting web server" and then "The upload to 'Calendar' failed. Failed to sign in."
Of course, there's no sign in dialog box provided. So, I change the URL to the format https://[login name]:[password]@URL/public_html/calendar/
There is no "Contacting web server". Instead, Outlook goes directly to the error message "The upload of 'Calendar' failed. The calendar was not published because the connection to the server failed. Make sure your computer has a network connection
and that you typed the correct Web address."
There's nothing wrong with the connection; I've tried this and its failed many times. So, I conclude that Outlook 2013 doesn't like a web address that includes the login credentials.
What changed with Outlook 2013 that prevents it from publishing to the same location successfully published to, by Outlook 2010?

This problem continues, and it's a showstopper. Honestly, this is so easy to reproduce and so fundamental that I'm surprised that Microsoft hasn't done anything with it. Tony Chen, your answer isn't really an answer
at all. Why mark it as an answer?
Here are the specifics. I have Microsoft Outlook 2013 (15.0.4667.1000) MSO (15.0.4667.1001) 32 bit (part of Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2013).
In my calendar, I select "Publish Online > Publish to WebDAV Server". I then have a dialog box that requires that I enter the publishing location URL.
I enter a URL (which is my company's internal WebDAV server URL), in the same form as the example given:
https://mycompany.com/calendars/
and then I click "Advanced". I select "Automatic Uploads: Upload updates periodically", with the Update Frequency checkbox checked (to select the server's recommended settings). I click "OK", and my calendar is published
periodically to the WebDAV server, as expected.
If I monitor traffic with fiddler, I can see that outlook periodically does a PROPFIND and then PUT of my ical data to https://mycompany.com/calendars/myfile.ics.
Next, suppose I want to change the publish settings in some way. So in my calendar, I select "Publish Online > Change Publishing Options".
Now, the "Location" text box has the previous URL I entered,
plus the name of my .ics file. So it looks like this in the text box:
https://mycompany.com/calendars/myfile.ics
I click "OK", and I get an error popup that says "The address you typed is not valid. Check the address, and try again." Note that I didn't type the address at all - it is what outlook put there for me.
As a side note: in Outlook 2010 the URL shown is the same (i.e., the URL includes the .ics file) but the text box is inactive (greyed out) and the "OK" button does not produce this error message).
So, already something has gone very wrong. In order to try to work around this, I then edit the text box to remove the .ics file (i.e., to put the URL back to what I originally typed,
https://mycompany.com/calendars/). But now, one of two things will happen, neither of which is ok.
In some cases, Outlook will continue to publish periodically, but when it does, it will do a PUT to
https://mycompany.com/calendars/ - without the myfile.ics suffix. Naturally, this fails, because the server doesn't know what .ics file it's supposed to put the PUT payload into.
In other cases, Outlook ceases publishing altogether. It will do a PROPFIND to the URL, but then no PUT. I have not yet figured out the circumstances of these two failure modes, so I'm not yet sure why one happens and not the other. But
they are both wrong.
So, the long and short of this is, you cannot change publishing options in Outlook 2013, because the functionality (which worked fine in Outlook 2010) is just plain broken. I have given the steps required to reproduce this problem, and it seems like
it would be easy to address. Yet it has been sitting for 1.5 years with no fix. What will it take to get this fixed? Microsoft people, please advise - if I can get it fixed by opening a support case then please say so; paying is not an obstacle.

Issue with Outlook 2013-Notifications from published Calendar

Hi Every body,
I'm setting up for my little company published calendars on a Webdav servers (i'm using IIS on a 2003 server and Office 2013).
Publishing calendar works fine so far.
But i'm facing up a real issue:
When a user add other's published calendar the first user will also recieve Calendar alerts (appoitement alerts) from the added calendars (others users). Since i have arround 10 Shared calendar it's very frustating for users to be disturbed because of other's
calendars.
I've been looking for a way to disable those alerts but i can't find a way. on the Outlook settings.
(I also want to keep personal alerts up)
Please help me i'm becoming very frustaded.
Best regards
Fred

Well that's not the same calendar in outlook it's a realy different calendar that you get from your webdav server.
so i remind the whole process just to be clear =)
10 differents users are publishing their own outlook calendar on the webdav server.
So there is 10 differents ICS calendar into the server. But remember ICS calendar are copy from the originals calendar they need to be kept up to date.
Then some users pick the calendars they need from the server and add it into they own outlook.
in this way it appears as a whole different calendar in outlook.
When you publish a calendar from outlook,(right clikc onto the calendar => share => publish into webdav server) your have 3 ways to publish it, 3differents options. I can't translate properly since my version is in french. But just to make it short:
1)
The first way to publish it is not useful in my case because it doesn't provide enougth information into my ics calendar. about my appoitements.
2)
The second option looks good to me because it does'nt provide VALARM option Inside the ICS calendar.
But with this option the message inside appoitements are missing.
3)
The third option Include everything about the appoitement (and the VALARM). An thats actualy my problem.
And Yes i'm editing the ICS file that what make me understood how the whole process works.

How can a hyperlink be included in a published calendar event?

In a published calendar (via MobileMe), I created an iCal event that included a hyperlink (http://www....) and refreshed the published calendar. When I looked at the published version of the calendar, the hyperlink appears in the event (and functions), but the calendar is distorted. If I remove the http:// and leave the rest of the internet address the distortion is gone and the calendar views normally. But, I lose the hyperlink.
Is there a technique to publish a calendar with events that include hyperlinks?
Thanks.

The URL is in the event title (at the end)--I hadn't previously noticed the URL data element (but as you stated, it doesn't show in the published calendar event).
Yes, I'm viewing at ical.me.com/....
I'm using Safari Version 3.2.1 (5525.27.1).
The distortion is in the weekly view (day and month are OK)--the event is on Saturday (8 am to 5 pm). Essentially, the time scale on the left edge of Sunday (first day of the week) breaks off around 8:30 AM and appears in Saturday and is appended to the Saturday event. The Apple logo and the phrase "Created using .Mac" that is usually at the bottom of the time scale appears where 9:00 AM should be on the time scale to the left of Sunday. Sunday through Friday are grayed out each day from around 8:45 AM until midnight. Any events during those times appear on Saturday.
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I have a reoccurring problem with appointments that are set in Outlook that will appear immediately on my iPhone calendar, but when I check back later sometimes the event has been deleted from my iPhone calendar but not from my Outlook calendar. It's driving me mad. Some of the times it does this is when I send an invite through outlook for an event to another user. The event will appear on my iPhone calendar but once the other person accepts my event invitation it will disappear from my iPhone calendar, but remain on my Outlook calendar. It doesn't do this everytime, but seems to be when I notice this happening the most.
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http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/outlook-meeting-requests-essential-dos-an d-donts-HA001127678.aspx
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Published Calendar

Hello,
there seems to be a problem with the Published Calendar funktion in Exchange 2010. Wenn I publish my calendar over the OWA Site and import the published calendar ics File (lets say in my iphone), I have some problems with the recurring Meetings-Appointments.
If a recurring meeting is changed (not the whole series), I see both meeting instances (original an changed) in the published calendar.We use only the OWA and not Oulook, so there is no other way to export our calendars.
Our Exchange Server is 2010 with SP3.
Is there a way to correct this problem?
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I tried using http://www.icalx.com to publish a calendar, but when she tries to subscribe she gets an OLE error that it isn't a valid .ics file.
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Hello,
I bought an iMac few days ago. I would like to sync ical on my iMac with my professional calendar I use in my company (from outlook web access).
I was easy to manage it on my iPhone (I just add a new "exchange" mail account and ask for a calendar sync only) and it worked very quickly.
But I cannot do it with the iMac, and I don't undersatnd why?
the domain is is used for my iPhone is the following :
owa.companyname.com
I tried all the solutions I found in this forum but it doesn't work.
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Hello again,
False alarm..... it didnt work sorry.
I removed the iCal accounts from my mac, and also from my iphone. Then when my partner sent me a calendar invite it simply didnt arrive at all!
She has a hotmail account installed on her IOS iphone 5.
She is sending the invite to my exch 2013 email address which is not associated with any icloud account.
My exch 2013 email is installed in both my Outlook for mac 2011 and IOS device Iphone 5s.
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OK: I am in Geneva when I make my reservation to fly from NY to Los Angeles. I enter a single event: my flight with start time in NY and end time in LA. I enter a second event - a wedding in Los Angeles.
Now I'm in Istanbul and trying to make plans with family and friends. The folks in NY just want to know what time the wedding is in L.A., not what time it will be in NY when the event happens. The folks in Geneva just want to know what time my flight arrives in NY so they can talk intelligently about what time my rendezvous in Manhattan will be....
All I want is to have the freedom to ONLY EVER see the time in the time zone of the event. I want to be free when I travel to re-set the clock to show me the time of the place I am in, without that changing ANYTHING in my calendar display.
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ICal, MS Outlook, and Titles in published calendars

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