Populateing Calendar Server with calendar events???

Hi all, is it possible to populate a user's calendar in Calendar Server with particular events? We are building a communications environment that will initially be comprised of Comms Express and Messaging server and later Calendar Server. This is for a student communications (ie email and possibly later calendar) system.
I'm interested in knowing whether a user's calendar can be populated with predefined events. In our case, that would be to populate a student's calendar with the student's exam timetable?
Thanks in advance,
Stewart

mcleans wrote:
Hi all, is it possible to populate a user's calendar in Calendar Server with particular events? You could do this a few ways:
=> add the events directly into the users calendar using WCAP and the calmaster account to 'proxyauth' into the account.
=> create a calendar and invite the users to the 'event'
=> import the events from an .ics file from the command line.
=> create a resource and get the users to subscribe to the resource - the user can then create a calendar group which combines all the subscribed groups with their own personal calendar.
Each option has it's own strengths/weaknesses such as how to update the events if things change, how to administer/access/edit the 'source' of the calendar data for non-administrators, how the events 'appear' to the user, whether you want to allow the user to delete the event, whether the event needs/should alert the user when it occurs (alarms) and so on. You would be best trying all four and seeing which matches your requirements the closest.
Regards,
Shane.

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