Setting default calendar to iCal Server

Can anyone help me figure out how to set up our network accounts (actually PHDs) to automatically use the users' calendars on the server instead of the default 'Home' and 'Work' local calendars? I would like to make it easy for our employees to use their server-based calendar by default, so that scheduling will work properly, etc.
I am using an Advanced setup; I seem to remember reading elsewhere that this is easier in other installations, but hopefully it is also possible somehow in Advanced.
Thanks for any advice on this,
Greg

I haven't found a network setting for that yet. However, you can make event invitations default to the network calendars by closing the heading on the local calendars (on the users iCal). Of course, deleting the local calendars works, too.

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Posted: Dec 18, 2007 9:49 AM in response to: William Read
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Have you tried this?
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Screenshot of the error message:
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