Public calendars and privacy

I want my iCal data to show up on Google calendar (and possibly other aggregation services with iCal support, like netvibe.com.)
I've been publishing my calendar as private data on .Mac (as well as on icalx.com.) The services above only integrate with public calendars.
Does anyone have a sense of how private my data is on a public server (oxymoronic, I know.) Would folks have to know my username and calendar name in order to find it, or would the calendar appear in some web searches or on lists of public calendars?
thanks,
Dan

I've copied the fix from Bernie300374 here: On your settings in iTunes under the info tag, un-check the sync ical calendars box. On the settings on your iphone, select mail, contacts, calendars, then your .Me account. Turn off your calendars and select the option to delete them on your phone which will come up. Wait a few minutes, then re-select the calendars to on and select the option to merge.
If that doesn't work, check your calendars on your mobile me page online, some of my events had been repeated, think mobileme got confused, I had to reset all the online data.

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How can we see attendee tracking for meetings in a public calendar?

Good Day,
We have a Public Calendar that is used to create company wide meetings. When my enduser creates a meeting on this public calendar, he cannot see who has accepted or declined the meeting. He has access to the Tracking button in the Ribbon. Tracking
does show all who were invited. Tracking only shows "None" in the Response field.
I did some testing and when I attempted to create a meeting with attendees, I was met with the following alert pop up.
"This meeting is not in the Calendar folder for this account. Responses to this meeting will not be tallied."
How do we create meetings on the public calendar and be able to review attendee responses? This is MS Outlook 2013, and the exchange is MS 365. Also, I created a Calendar within the users account and was met with the same response.
Thank you,
Damon L. Morton
IT Services Engineer

Hi,
You meet the message because responses are only automatically processed when the meeting is in the default calendar. As mentioned, you are using a public calendar.
To workaround this problem in your scenario, you will need to track the response manually.
Open the meeting request and switch to the tracking page. Right click in the response field and choose the desired response.
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Public Calendar & Contacts on Android

I am setting up an Office 365 test environment and have a question regarding Public Calendar and Contacts being sync'd to Android and IOS. I know you cannot sync this information using Public folders and would like to know the best practice to get this done.
The two suggestions I have had are:
1. Create a Office 365 account called PB Contacts and and one called PB Calendar and share those calendars with users and these will show up on my mobile devices.
2. Use SharePoint- how do I configure this and is it as user friendly and robust as it is in Outlook?
Thank you!
Mark

I would go with First Option, as it looks simple and easy to implement and manage.
Not sure how will you do it in SharePoint
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CU8 Update - Public Folder Calendar and Contacts show up in OWA that no longer exist and I cannot access when selecting.

We recently updated to CU8. I went to test out the new Public Folder access to calendars and contacts. I first go to Calendars in OWA and I see a list of several calendars. I see one that is listed twice, one I can open and the other states "Couldn't
open calendar - A connection couldn't be made with the shared calendar. Remove the calendar and try to add it again, or ask the owner to share it again." I also see other calendar's that we used in the past but no longer reside under public folders.
I get the same error on them.
For People, I can go there and I see a section called "Public Folder" and there is a contact list called "IT Team Contacts". When I click on it, it states in the middle pane "Your request can't be completed right now.
Please try again later." This contact list is not on our public folders.
Any ideas on why we I'm seeing these issues?
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Jeff Dailey

Seems like some orphaned PF favorites. You should be able to remove them from Outlook, or via MFCMAPI

Calendar apps: 1. That my wife and I can share. 2. That shows some of the text in the full month view. 3. That can have "public" events and "private" events.

Hello All,
I am looking for a calendar app that my wife and I can share on both of our iphones. I am new to this and haven't found an app that will do what I want.
1. I want the full month view to show some of the text of each event: Like Pocket Informant and Monthly Calendar Mocha do (not just a dot).
2. That both of us can post and see each other's events.
3. That each of us can post "private" events that the other person won't see on their phone. Things like, "Wife's surprise party."
4. That sync's both calendars automatically.
I know a lot of people use Fantastical, but I don't think that would give me the text in the full month view.
Is there an app that can do all of the above?
Thanks in advance.
Rick

Sharing and syncing is a feature of the calendar database; you can have multiple calendars, and each can be private, shared with specific other iCloud users, or public. If you have a Mac you can set that up in the Calendar app; for either Mac or Windows you can set it up by logging in to iCloud.com using your Apple ID.
The other calendar apps all use the Apple calendar database; they just have different ways of presenting the content, and can also take advantage of "hidden" features of the Apple calendar database (such as adding icons to entries).

Sharing calendar appears on another persons device - security and privacy risk

I really wanted to raise this as a bug, but couldn't find anywhere to do that.
On my wife's iPhone which is running iOS 7, I wanted to share her iCloud calendar to my Apple ID so that I could see her calendar from my iPhone (also iOS 7). Although I received the email telling me to accept the shared calendar, when I clicked the link it told me I was not authorized. I then discovered that my parents had received the sharing invite on their phone (iOS 4.2.1) which they accepted and could see her calendar.
This is a security and privacy risk because they are not connected to my iCloud account and it is not the account we specified to share with. Also we did not specify their account to share with. How can this happen? Their iPhone was never registered to my Apple ID. The only connection I can think of is that I believe my email address (which is also my Apple ID) is listed as their secondary email address or something.

Sorry just realised it was their iPad 3 that received the invite not their iPhone, and it would have been running iOS 6

Using public google calendars and having others subscribe on the Iphone.

I recently created a public calendar in google. I have sent the ics link out to all those who want to see it and most have subscribed to the calendar.
If the others want to get alerts when there are changes made to the calendar, how does that work? Can I do this in the google calendar? Does the iphone user do it on their end? Can this not happen with a public calendar?
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ICal and access to Public Calendars on Exchange

Dear all
I've been reading as much as I can on this subject, and all I've found so far is that it works, but you need Exchange 2007 and SP2. Well, I've finally been able to upgrade my exchange 2007 server to SP2, but now I can't find any documentation on how you actually access those public calendars.
By public calendars, I mean that calendars stored in the Public Folders tree on the exchange server, not calendars associated with a mailbox or resource mailbox.
Things I've tried,
- Subscribing to the calendar using the OWA web address of the calendar - failed
- Setting up delegate access, but only mailbox calendars are shown - failed
- Tried removing and recreating my Mail/iCal/Address book settings in Snow Leopard, no change - failed
I hope I'm just missing something, and that this is actually possible to do.
Thanks in advance for any help.

Same problem here. I previously used Entourage (2004) and had access to the public calendar (we'll call it "Jumper"), but I get an error when trying to connect to Jumper in iCal. When I try to connect I get "The server responded with an error: There was an unexpected error with the request (domain EWSExchangeWebServicesErrorDomain / error 94)." I notice when I go to the "Window" menu there are several listings of Jumper (I'm assuming each failed attempt created a window). Selecting those windows opens a blank calendar with Jumper listed in the left column and the exclamation point next to it. Clicking the exclamation point brings up the message "iCal can't refresh the account 'Jumper'." I'd hate to go back to Entourage as well, especially since the version our company provides is PPC based.
I'm not sure, but it could be in my case it's because the host of the public calendar may still be in the old email server (2003). They had to move my account over to the 2007 server in order for iCal to work with it. Don't know if this helps anyone else, but I'm going to request that the host be moved to the 2007 server and see what happens. I'll report back on my findings.

Exchange Server and Remote Access to Public Calendar

Hello:
We use Outlook 2010 with Exchange Server at the 45 person architecture firm I work at.
We have a public calendar (set up in public folders) that is used by staff to note their time away from the office (doctor’s appt, vacation, client meeting, etc). The owner of the company wants to be able to remotely access that public calendar to be
able to know when staff are out of the office. Can it be set up on his Surface 2 or phone (iPhone) so that when he’s not in the office, he can see that public calendar?
I’ve search online and from what I can tell, the only way to make it work is with third party software.
Is that true? Or is there another way to make it work? Is VPN an option?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Joe

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After the Anywhere wizard opens, it says this - "The external host name you choose should ideally be one that is already included in the Exchange certificate configured on the Client Access server. Otherwise you will need to create a new certificate for
Exchange." So I can name the external host, where do I find the Exchange cert? When accessing the firewall to allow Anywhere through, it says this: To enable remote Outlook users to connect to Outlook Anywhere the perimeter firewall for the network must
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System preferences security and privacy is greyed how do i fix it? wifi connection to public not working ether

system preferences's security and privacy are greyed out and it freezes how do i fix it? and when i try to connect to my school wifi it says that is not connected but it is how do i fix that too?

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If the issue is not resolved, try performing the steps in this article to boot to Safe Mode, then leave it to retest the issue:
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To start up into Safe Mode (to Safe Boot), follow these steps.
Be sure your Mac is shut down.
Press the power button.
Immediately after you hear the startup tone, hold the Shift key.
The Shift key should be held as soon as possible after the startup tone, but not before the tone.
Release the Shift key when you see the gray Apple logo and the progress indicator (looks like a spinning gear).
After the logo appears, you should see a progress bar during startup. This indicates that your computer is performing a directory check as part of Safe Mode.
To leave Safe Mode, restart your computer without holding any keys during startup.
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Maintennace of public Holiday Calendar and Work Schedules

Dear All,
Can the access to maintain Holiday Calendar and Generation Of Workschedule be Given to Users in Production Server.If No why?
Thanks,
Punam Jha

Hi Poonam
The access to maintain holiday calendar and generation of wrk schedules could be given to either personnel adminsitrator or time administrator with appropriate authorizations...normally one or 2 power used would be given access like you have mentioned.
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Cannot add icloud public calendar to outlook

I work and live in a mixed Mac/PC environment. The PCs are Windows 7 professional with Outlook 2010. The Macs are Yosemite. I would like to be able to subscribe to a public icloud calendar on one of the PCs. We could do this a week ago.
Now when we add the calendar it crashes Outlook. Furthermore, I noticed that the calendar address no longer ends in .ics which Outlook requires.
The new icloud control panel crashed Outlook as well.
I tried joining the private calendar and it does not show up in Outlook either.
Is the new icloud interface not ready for prime time?
Any solutions or work arounds?
Thank you in advance for any help,
Debbie

My Mac's not yet on Yosemite, so Yosemite's not the culprit.
An iCloud calendar populated from an iPad that I previously shared with my Outlook 2010 client on Windows 7 without error caused Outlook to crash, when Outlook initiated a sync attempt with my subscribed calendars, today (13th November 2014). Removing the calendar subscription allowed Outlook to run without crashing. Re-subscribing using the iCloud-provided public calendar URL once again cause Outlook 2010 to crash.
My Windows 7 PC and Office 2010 are current with all updates as of 13th November 2014.

Add items into Exchange public calendar?

I'm trying to find out where I can find out if this is possible.
Our work has loaner hardware that our users can check out. We use Exchange's public folders/calendar to see if the hardware is checked out on a particular day or not.
I'd like to see if I can find a way to see if a particular day has any items on it, and if not, allow the user (via Coldfusion) to reserve the item, which means Coldfusion would need to write info back to the public calendar that the item in question is checked out.
First of all, is this possible? How difficult would it be? And where can I find information on how to do this?
Any help, suggestions or other info would be appreciated.
Thanks!
Steve

Hi all,
Today I tried to do more tests and now I've some other news to you!!!
Let me explain:
i looked that if i use one-way synchronization from Outlook to BB time and date of the appointments are correct.
Then I also discovered that by using two-way synchronization, with the notification before the changes, details of appointments are wrong and the appointments should be added on the day on which you are synchronizing and should occured for all the day; however, using the "synchronize again" button, with the second pass, the appointments were added with correct date and time!!
The problem with this second way is that changed or deleted appointments are added back to the device (BB or PC that is) from which they were deleted!
I hope these further information should give you any idea to help me to understand where the problem is.
Thanks

How do I "unsubscribe" to a public calendar I've linked to?

I stupidly added a phases of the moon public calendar to appear on my "home" calendar and I don't want it there. Is there a way to delete all the events that appear every other day without having to do it day-by-day manually and get that silly subscription off my "home" calendar? I don't want to delete the "home" calendar because it has all the events I care about and want to keep. Help?
Thanks.

JinxieS,
Try the solution posted in this -> http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=7720556#7720556 thread.
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Confused with Calendars and TimeZones

Hi, I'll explain what I want to do. I have a table with several of what I call a "Time Ranges". Each Time Range has a day (day of week), beginTime and endTime. I also have different clients, each from a different country. Each client has a timezone associated (the format of this timezone is not defined just yet, but it should be something like -3, -4, +1, etc).
I want to get the current date, and be able to figure out if it is within a certain time range. For example, right now in Argentina is
11:48 AM GMT-3
This should match these time ranges:
11:00~12:00 | -3
10:00~11:00 | -4
13:00~14:00 | -1
And should not match this time range:
11:00~12:00 | -4
I'm trying to get the "current time for a certain time zone" with Calendar, and then be able to extract the time from that Calendar and compare it with my beginTime and endTime. I'm not getting anywhere.
Something like this:
Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance(TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT-08:00"));
System.out.println(cal.getTime());Is printing GMT-3 time. Please help.

manugarciac wrote:
Ok, I did it like this. The TimeRange Class has this method:
public boolean isActive(String timezone) {
Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance(TimeZone.getTimeZone(timezone));
if (cal.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK) == this.day) {
Time time = new Time(cal.get(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY), cal.get(Calendar.MINUTE), 0);
return (beginTime == null || time.after(beginTime)) && (endTime == null || time.before(endTime));
return false;
}Timezone should come in this format: "GMT-04:00" and Time is java.sql.Time.
The only downside is that the Time constructor I used is deprecated. It says I should use the one that uses milliseconds since 1970. That kinda sucks, as I don't really care how much time passed since that time for this time. Any ideas of what I should use?forget java.sql.Time. use Calendar.set(int year, int month, int date, int hourOfDay, int minute) to set beginTime and endTime. use Calendar.compareTo(Calendar anotherCalendar) for the test.
Edited by: pete_d on Sep 10, 2010 3:09 PM
Not sure exactly what's going on in your TimeRange class but if the hour, minute, second and time zone in addition to the day of week (it seems that it does) for both begin and end time, then you can use this to create a Calendar instance to compare with the current time or to whatever other Calendar instance you want to check using its year, month day.

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