Setup ICal Server 3 and Contacts

I want to set up a shared calender for my family with Lion Server but:
-the only option i get in is to add locations and rescources witch no one can see except for the represtatative.
-If i add the webserver with webcal it works just fine with a calender for every user but not a shared one
-if i want to add the calender with ical i get the error Message that there is no running ical Server or i entered the wrong url.
We Have very slow internet around here so it would be important that the ical Account works that you dont need the slow webcal.
Thanks for your help :-)
Greeting Locke

Just bumping this, hoping that someone can provide some feedback on this. Thanks!

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I have an Airport Extreme Base Station at the office running the network. Behind it sits a Mac Mini Snow Leopard server running 10.6.3. The ports necessary for Mail, iCal Server and iChat work fine through that external connection. I can also connect with VPN from my 10.6.3 clients.
HOWEVER, when I connect with the VPN clients, I am suddenly unable to access the Mail, iCal Server, Wiki server and iChat server. All connections time out. I can ping the server and I can do other things that do NOT work on the public Airport like ssh or VNC. ssh and VNC are closed at the airport extreme.
So it's pretty odd. When I'm connected via the VPN, all ports that are forwarded to the Snow Leopard server time out over the VPN.
I've tried various and sundry configurations with the VPN client. This includes trying to send all traffic over the VPN, moving it up in the service order, etc. etc. Nothing fixes it. DNS resolution is working fine, however when I do a wireshark capture of ppp0 traffic, I notice that SSL and TLSv1 handshakes appear to occur on the public IP address instead of the private network IP address... and they're all resets.
Has anyone gotten this to work successfully? Like I said, all ports that are NOT forwarded through the Airport work fine over the VPN, but will not work when connected to the VPN. It's really bizarre.

New data: any ports that are normally forwarded on the Airport Extreme to the Mac Mini server will not work when connected to the VPN.
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ICal server and external invitations via 3rd party mail server

Hi everyone,
OS 10.6.5 Server:
Services running
AFP
DNS
iCal
Open Directory
Push Notification
We are currently testing iCal server and have configured it to send out invites via our mail server (which is running on a different server) by creating the com.apple.calendarserver user on our mail server.
Email notifications are then configured under the Enable Email Invitations tab in the iCal service of Server Admin as follows:
IMAP
Email address: [email protected]
Incoming server: mail.mytest.com
Port: 143 (not using SSL)
Username: com.apple.calendarserver
Password: secret
SMTP: mail.mytest.com
Port: 25 (not using SSL)
Server requires authentication
Username: com.apple.calendarserver
Password: secret
My test OD users are able to send out invites both internally to other iCal users and externally via email.
So for example, I invite someone to a meeting and enter their gmail address ([email protected]), the invitation goes out correctly - when I log into gmail I see the invitation.
When responding to the invitation (clicking Yes), the mail server receives the response from gmail and the iCal server collects the message via IMAP.
However, the iCal server doesn't seem to parse the received email correctly as I get the following error in the iCal error logs:
[twistedcaldav.extensions#info] Cannot authenticate proxy user 'com.apple.calendarserver' without X-Authorize-As header
2011-03-03 17:44:03+1100 [-] [mailgateway] 2011-03-03 17:44:03+1100 [AuthorizedHTTPGetter,client] [twistedcaldav.mail#error] Mail gateway failed to inject message <[email protected]> (Reason: 400 Bad Request)
2011-03-03 17:44:03+1100 [-] [mailgateway] 2011-03-03 17:44:03+1100 [AuthorizedHTTPGetter,client] [twistedcaldav.mail#debug] Failed calendar body: BEGIN:VCALENDAR
2011-03-03 17:44:03+1100 [-] [mailgateway] VERSION:2.0
2011-03-03 17:44:03+1100 [-] [mailgateway] CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
2011-03-03 17:44:03+1100 [-] [mailgateway] METHOD:REPLY
2011-03-03 17:44:03+1100 [-] [mailgateway] PRODID:-//Google Inc//Google Calendar 70.9054//EN
2011-03-03 17:44:03+1100 [-] [mailgateway] BEGIN:VEVENT
2011-03-03 17:44:03+1100 [-] [mailgateway] UID:43121576-1183-40C8-82D8-A052754AD1CE
2011-03-03 17:44:03+1100 [-] [mailgateway] DTSTART:20110406T080000Z
2011-03-03 17:44:03+1100 [-] [mailgateway] DTEND:20110406T090000Z
2011-03-03 17:44:03+1100 [-] [mailgateway] ATTENDEE;[email protected];CUTYPE=INDIVIDUAL;PARTSTAT=DECLINED;RO
2011-03-03 17:44:03+1100 [-] [mailgateway] LE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;X-NUM-GUESTS=0:mailto:[email protected]
2011-03-03 17:44:03+1100 [-] [mailgateway] CREATED:20110303T062518Z
2011-03-03 17:44:03+1100 [-] [mailgateway] DESCRIPTION:
2011-03-03 17:44:03+1100 [-] [mailgateway] DTSTAMP:20110303T064335Z
2011-03-03 17:44:03+1100 [-] [mailgateway] LAST-MODIFIED:20110303T064335Z
2011-03-03 17:44:03+1100 [-] [mailgateway] LOCATION:
2011-03-03 17:44:03+1100 [-] [mailgateway] ORGANIZER;CN=com.apple.calendarserver+07b1c044-9d98-4cdc-afe3-48139218ee35
2011-03-03 17:44:03+1100 [-] [mailgateway] @mytest.com:urn:uuid:B72794FB-3242-48D7-AC22-A584D279B9F9
2011-03-03 17:44:03+1100 [-] [mailgateway] SEQUENCE:3
2011-03-03 17:44:03+1100 [-] [mailgateway] STATUS:CONFIRMED
2011-03-03 17:44:03+1100 [-] [mailgateway] SUMMARY:one more test
2011-03-03 17:44:03+1100 [-] [mailgateway] TRANSP:OPAQUE
2011-03-03 17:44:03+1100 [-] [mailgateway] END:VEVENT
2011-03-03 17:44:03+1100 [-] [mailgateway] END:VCALENDAR
2011-03-03 17:44:03+1100 [-] [mailgateway]
I have set a rule on our mail server to bypass any spam filtering for all messages sent to the [email protected] address, but this doesn't seem to make any difference.
Does anyone else have this working ? Any ideas ?
Many thanks
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The issue is not "user authorization". The issue is that the 3rd-party service does not accept all incoming relay requests unless there is authentication with a registered account (which we have). This protects the 3rd-party service from becoming the relaying host for the universe's spoofed and anonymous spam. My deduction is that there is no mechanism in UTL_MAIL to designate not only the 3rd-party ip-address:port (by-passing the local sendmail server) but also providing the username:password for the account there for authentication.
Plan A: I have attempted to follow directions for client-side SMTP Authentication for Relaying on the sendmail.org site.
I have not been successful in completing a simple mailx interactive test, much less completing a UTL_MAIL configuration.
I am scouring the user universe for someone who has put all the pieces together successfully and can advise. . . .
Edited by: StevenInTallyFl on Mar 26, 2010 3:50 PM
to clarify that I cannot get from UTL_MAIL to 3rd-party IP directly

Time machine backing up iCal events and Contacts with icloud

Is Time Machine backing up my iCal events and contacts? The reason I ask is because I have it set so they are stored ONLY on iCloud, NOT locally. Is this getting backed up too by Time Machine? I hope so! Because, if something were to fail, or if I were ever to accidentally delete a contact, I might like to be able to travel to the past and recuperate that contact.
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Greg

Hope you will see this... I had the exact same question and need to be sure what I understand. It is easiest for me to have all contacts, calender contacts only as iCloud rather than machine based. But I want to be sure if there is a massive error on icloud (I have had them on mobile me, me.com) that I can restore from my external hard drive where I do regular time machine backups. How does that work? Does the time machine recognise what is on the calendar regardless of its origin (cloud, gmail, exchange) and then restore it to the machine. At which point I would need to manually edit them all to put them in the right cloud based storage??

Setup iCal server accessible to the LAN via web browser

Hello guys,
I am newbie in mac server and I believe there are lots of guys over there that could help me.
Here's my environment:
Software/Server: Mac OS X Server 10.6
Hardware: Mac Mini Server Snow Leopard
LAN/internet Setup:
Broadband -> router -> mac mini server
-> mac users
-> pc users
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The mac mini is already running (OS is already installed) and act a normal computer usage like internet browsing, doing some documents and so on and so forth. But now, we decided to make the mac mini server as a server(calendar (iCal) server, address book server, web-server). I'm not so much familiar with DNS, DHCP or networking things to make the client computers connected to server.
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1. How can I setup the mac mini server and calendar server to be accessible via web browser to the mac and pc users?
2. Do I still need to setup DNS and public IP for my server?
3. Where can I get a step by step tutorials that I could follow?
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Emmman

I can't find any clear and step by step instructions with my concern. I am not expecting this to be easy(can setup even non-IT) as apple advertise but as I am reading the documentations I notice these things to be properly setup:
1. Functional DNS system. - This is a high level networking Stuff(Non-IT can't even understand it).
2. IP addresses, reverse IP's etc - Non-IT can't even understand it
3. Router Configurations - Non-IT can't even understand it.
and so on and so forth.
We, the newbie on mac server just need a clear and step by step scenario on how to setup the whole thing.
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2008-01-07 11:26:46-0600 [-] [caldav-8008] [HTTPChannel,4634,192.168.1.139] PROPFIND /principals/_uids_/BA237A85-F880-4A89-B1C1-F07E72A1508E/ HTTP/1.1
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2008-01-07 18:25:37-0600 [-] [caldav-8008] [-] reactor class: <class 'twisted.internet.selectreactor.SelectReactor'>
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ICal server and Email invitation config

Hi all,
I'm trying to setup email invitation with an external mail service (GMAIL.com). I used config informations from gmail (the same from mail app) but I got "IMAP factory connection failed".
Exactly the error log reports: "[*twistedcaldav.mail.IMAP4DownloadFactory#error] IMAP factory connection failed*"
Can someone help me?
Thanks

an update:
I'm using google APP for my mail domain. My actual setting are:
Mail Server Type: IMAP
Email Address: [email protected]
Incoming Mail Server: imap.google.com
Port: 993 Use SSL, checked
User Name: [email protected]
Password: PlainTextPassword
Outgoing Mail SMTP: smtp.gmail.com
Port: 587 Use SSL, checked
Server requires authentication Checked
User Name: [email protected]
Password: PlainTextPassword
With these settings, ical server log answer with an IMAP connection failed. I can't send email invitation.
Anyone can help me?

Ical server and google calendar

Hi, I was wondering if anyone has found a way to have a google calendar run the same way in ical as ical server so that all everyone can view the google calendar through ical server.
We currently have our calendar on google calendar and would love to migrate it across to our server.
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Hi,
This is am ichat forum for 10.5 (leopard) - your question is about ical and perhaps 10.6?
tim

Problems with ical server and mail

I have a Mac Mini with Mac Os X Snow Leopard Server. I have a external mail and when I receive a invitation ever it adds to local calendar, but I want to add in server calendar. How to configure it for add invitation to my server calendar?
Another problem I have with calendar that's I can't send invitation to contacts I have added in CardDav Server, just I can send invitations to local contacts.
And another question how to sync the user's contacts with CardDav account?
Message was edited by: jvcapo

this is a big pain in the ***, bug!
when you have more than one calendar account (lets say one local one CalDAV iCal starts doing silly things.
what i found that worked is click on the calendar you want the event to be in and drag the .ics to iCal from Mail and drop it on the calendar (in the middle of iCal NOT the Calendars name)
i have write up a bug report to apple so hopefully it gets fixed now that MobileMe uses CalDAV.
seems to be a problem that mail app doesn't see CalDAV calendars.

ICal Server email invitations - how to test and get this feature working

iCal Server email invitations - how to test and get this feature working
Thanks Apple for introducing this nice little feature into iCal but then completely neglecting to write any sort of useful manual that can explain what to do when it doesn't work after you set it up for the first time.
At long, long last we have finally got there after about 6 months of fiddling on and off, so I thought I had better post up the process since many have similar issues and it is hard to ascertain what is going on.
Using an external email server was just a waste of time and it still wouldn't handle the replies properly even though it was supposed to handle '+addressing'. In the end I set up a special gmail account for the iCal server and finally got it working. I list here the process of configuring and testing the system to check that each little stage is working.
Set up a Gmail account in Apple Mail to access and test in the usual way for any email account (e.g. [email protected].);
Set the iCal server email to access the same email using the following settings:
IMAP
SMTP
[email protected]
smtp.gmail.com
Port: 993 [x] Use SSL
Port: 587 [x] Use SSL
User & Pwd
Login
User & Pwd
To test the settings:
send out a test email from Apple Mail to a non-server email address that you can access to check it has been received;
send out a test email from your non-server email account to [email protected] and check that it is received;
this tells you that the GMail account is setup correctly and working
Testing iCal:
I noted that iCal was deleting any emails that arrive in the inBox in Apple Mail as soon as they arrived (this is to be expected);
test that the invites are being sent from iCal by setting an event in iCal and inviting your non-server address (you may not see any sign of this in Apple Mail but you should catch it in the iCal server log and possibly in the Gmail sent mail box);
check that the invite is received at your non-server account and Accept it in iCal on another machine - the reply is automatically sent back;
the replies appear in Apple Mail but are quickly deleted by iCal. But their record for you to see is left in Gmail under 'All Mail';
Accepted invites appear as a notification button on the top left hand bar on iCal where you click to acknowledge them and then the attendee is shown as a green circled tick instead of a grey circled ?.
this shows that iCal invitations are working correctly. Whenever an event is updated, all invitees should be updated by email automatically.
I hope this helps anyone - I could certainly have done with something similar when I started with looking at this.
Anatole
The Error and Access logfile in the Server app under iCal server are very useful in determining any errors. I got lots of imip errors when I didn't quite have the settings right. The port is critical and it won't tell you this is the problem if it fails.

iCal Server email invitations - how to test and get this feature working
Thanks Apple for introducing this nice little feature into iCal but then completely neglecting to write any sort of useful manual that can explain what to do when it doesn't work after you set it up for the first time.
At long, long last we have finally got there after about 6 months of fiddling on and off, so I thought I had better post up the process since many have similar issues and it is hard to ascertain what is going on.
Using an external email server was just a waste of time and it still wouldn't handle the replies properly even though it was supposed to handle '+addressing'. In the end I set up a special gmail account for the iCal server and finally got it working. I list here the process of configuring and testing the system to check that each little stage is working.
Set up a Gmail account in Apple Mail to access and test in the usual way for any email account (e.g. [email protected].);
Set the iCal server email to access the same email using the following settings:
IMAP
SMTP
[email protected]
smtp.gmail.com
Port: 993 [x] Use SSL
Port: 587 [x] Use SSL
User & Pwd
Login
User & Pwd
To test the settings:
send out a test email from Apple Mail to a non-server email address that you can access to check it has been received;
send out a test email from your non-server email account to [email protected] and check that it is received;
this tells you that the GMail account is setup correctly and working
Testing iCal:
I noted that iCal was deleting any emails that arrive in the inBox in Apple Mail as soon as they arrived (this is to be expected);
test that the invites are being sent from iCal by setting an event in iCal and inviting your non-server address (you may not see any sign of this in Apple Mail but you should catch it in the iCal server log and possibly in the Gmail sent mail box);
check that the invite is received at your non-server account and Accept it in iCal on another machine - the reply is automatically sent back;
the replies appear in Apple Mail but are quickly deleted by iCal. But their record for you to see is left in Gmail under 'All Mail';
Accepted invites appear as a notification button on the top left hand bar on iCal where you click to acknowledge them and then the attendee is shown as a green circled tick instead of a grey circled ?.
this shows that iCal invitations are working correctly. Whenever an event is updated, all invitees should be updated by email automatically.
I hope this helps anyone - I could certainly have done with something similar when I started with looking at this.
Anatole
The Error and Access logfile in the Server app under iCal server are very useful in determining any errors. I got lots of imip errors when I didn't quite have the settings right. The port is critical and it won't tell you this is the problem if it fails.

ICal Server setup help !!!

Hello All,
I would like to share my experience with setting up the iCal server and all the hick ups I had to get it finally working. At least what worked for me. Check the basics before you start.
This is all done from after installing the server in Advanced setup or so to say normal installation as it was under Tiger. I'm trying to summarize what I have done. It took me a lot of hours do. So if I mis something feel free to reply with the missing things. Maybe together we can setup a working manual for all others that have problems with the setup and lack documentation from Apple.
1) Make sure your DNS is setup properly and working. Test it with:
type: “named-checkconf” in de root account of the terminal. Nothing should happen thats OK
type: “named-checkzone” in de root account of the terminal make sure you use the complete path and bare in mind that Apple changed the DNS setup again pointing to something like var/named/zones/db.example.come.zone.apple. The serial of the DNS should load and you should receive a OK. Make sure that your server IP is also mentioned in the system preferences/network DNS so you can use for example the server.example.com in server admin.
2) Either use SSL or don't when you want to use, use it everywhere otherwise it something will slip trough and want work. Without SSL it appears to work easier in the setup from local iCal client to server. But SSL is of course more secure. I want talk about Kerberos because I'm not able to get that to work yet.
3) Make sure you set it up from an "Open directory", "Local directory" should/could work to but I haven't test that yet and I seriously doubt it would work properly.
That being said I now can share my setup with you (switch your firewall of during setup it's easier to troubleshoot, switch it on again if everything works. If it stops working after the firewall is on again, well you know where to look for the problem :-)):
1) After setting up the Open Directory Master I switched on SSL and created a own certificate for my server. I didn't protected the certificate with a password as it gives a lot of extra problems with setting things it up. You can than select the certificate under Server Admin/Open Directory click on setting and click the tab LDAP. There you can select it.
2) Make sure your webserver is running and you have a working website where you can go to. Under Server Admin make sure that under the selection Sites that your FQDN is filled out. Being something like www.example.com and not example.com. The second one could cause iCal web part to not work accordingly at least that is my experience. After that choose security and make sure SSL is on and your certificate is selected. The rest of the website settings is pretty basic I didn't changed to much. I do know that I switched on some extra modules. Being bonjour_module, authzsvnmodule, davsvnmodule. This prevented further in the installation the 210 error when I went to the Calendar under my webbrowser. I wouldn't know which of the 3 is doing the trick I only know that after this it worked for me.
3) Pffffff OK go to the iCal Server settings under the Server Admin. The settings are straight forward but again make sure SSL is on and your certificate is selected. And look at your host name which should be someting like server.example.com. If you are not able to get DNS setup properly you could try your machines example.local name. But that again could give troubles when you want to use local iCal client outside the door on a laptop for example.
These where all the server admin setting. Now go to the Workgroup Manager and selected the group/groups you want to have Calendaring switched on and choose the way people are able to logon. This you can do by going to the group select the default website and services you want to give. Then select under Allow the way people can logon to this website or iCal services.
When that's done you should have everything up and running on the server site. So now go to a local iCal client and go to preferences/accounts/server setting. Click the + on the left bottom site and fill out a name and password leave the server option for now to auto. This way and when everything is setup properly you should get something like https://server.example.com:8443/principals/_uids_/14A0DD22-86CA-4F55-96D9-9CB461640D52/. The end number should refer to your name and password account so the number want be the same as in this example. Well if it works you are one of the lucky people and you are able to setup a shared Calendar from there. It would help a lot if you have more than one machine to test. Because it didn't worked on my MacBook Pro getting a famous error "iCal unexpected secure name resolution" But it did worked on my wifes iMac. So the server settings are OK. Now the good part when it's not working is that you can go to your webbrowser and type or copy the following: https://www.example.com:8443/principals/users/shortname (naturally use your own server name and user name). There you can see details of the principals settings. Including youre uids number. This number is unique for your name and password. Copy this number. Then go back to iCal switch of the auto find in iCal client under preferences/accounts/server settings. The first part of the link is https://server.example.com:8443/principals/uids/(Now paste you number here). Hit enter and see what happens. It the name server is not working for you than use for example iso server the name mail if you have it setup in the DNS is should work. It did worked for me and it gave me a nice shared calendar which you can name for yourself. Every group member should be able to see this agenda once hooked up to it via iCal client and prefences/accounts/server settings.
If you go to your website or www.example.com/groups you should see youre shared group. Sorry I only tried it with one group sofar. If you make changes to the calendar from the webbrowser it will show up after a refresh in your iCal client and visa versa. The only thing I still have problems with is the events for more days. They show up on the web as events but when I click them they produce a unwanted error. But when it's based on a single day than it work perfectly.
Hopefully you have a working iCal server to now. If you find something interesting or you think I left some important things out. Please reply and fill out the blanks.
I just hope that it will save some time for the new once setting this up.

Thank you for sharing your experiences. I am looking at setting up an iCal server myself for our business. However, our situation is a bit different. Could you also share what kind of workgroup you set it up for? And maybe help me answer a few questions below. Thanks in advance!
First a little background. We are a small management company. We have individual clients that we manage. We need to have access to their calendars to schedule events, etc. The thing is that we would be the only ones looking at everyone else's calendars at once so that we can coordinate our own schedules so that we can be where it is most important but still not lose track of other activities.
1. What kind of machine are you running the iCal Server on? Xserve? MacPro?
2. Is it possible to view multiple users' calendars within a single calendar view?
3. Does setting up this kind of calendar server sound like the setup for our situation where only we, the management, will be able to view all calendars?
4. How difficult will this set up be on our clients and their machines since we have little control over their personal machines? (The majority of our clients are all Mac users. There may be one PC user.)

10.8.2 iCal and Contact Servers giving out wrong certificates

I am flummoxed. I set up a new server a week or two ago in Mountain Lion. I'm hosting an iCal server and a Contacts server. For about two weeks, everything worked fine. Now, the iCal and Calendar servers are trying to hand out certificates to me as a remote user with names I've never heard of and can't explain: one is boswellhome.homeserver.com (see picture below), and the other is actiontec electronics (in the same place as "boswellhome" below). I have no idea who boswell home is, what these certificates are, where they came from, or why there are now there.
In my Server app, everything looks the same as it was - the proper certificates are listed, and in the Manage window, everything is set up properly, with the proper self-signed certificates I set up.
I have no idea what to do. Any ideas?

PROBLEM SOLVED: The certificate was given out by the server which is on a Dynamic public IP address. When the public IP address changed, it was, evidently, grabbed by the boswellhome. Thus, when the clients searched for the original IP address, it "found" the boswell home. So, I updated my A record with the new public IP address, and, voila, everything works again.

ICal and contact duplicates in my iPhone and MacBook

Hi,
I have seen other discussions related to this subject but I can't seem to fix it. I have duplicates in my iPhone and MacBook of both iCal events and contacts. I am probably doing something wrong because if I add an event on my MacBook it will appear (fast enough!) in my iPhone, but it will not work the other way. Same thing with contacts. It is a bit of a nightmare and I would like to be able to have things once and automatically synced... if possible, of course, but I assumed this is what iCloud was about.
Can anyone with this stuff under control give me a hand?
Much appreciated

Your iPhone can take a screen-capture by holding down the bottom 'HOME' button
for 2-3 seconds, and then depressing the top 'RESET' button momentarily while
continuing to hold down 'HOME'. You will see a simulated white 'flash' on the iPhone
screen, and the screen capture will appear as a photo in your latest Camera Roll.
Unintended shots can be deleted from the Camera Roll just like any photo you might
take using the iPhone's camera.

ICal Server Utility...any point?

I've got our calendar server up and running. Its an OD replica from our primary OD master. Workgroup manager shows all my users and groups.
Since we have multiple boardrooms which need to be bookable I am trying to use the iCal Server Utility. To setup locations and resources, I had to authenticate using my OD admin password instead of my admin user account which I though was weird. And obviously had to change the authentication to password instead of kerberos in the preferences.
So I have my 3 boardrooms setup in the iCal server utility, so now what do I do to book a boardroom?The ical server admin .pdf isn't exactly clear.
On my laptop I have my ical account all setup and seems to be working fine. I can invite people and even groups which is great. But how do I book the boardroom? It certainly isn't listed in invitees when I try to type in 'boardroom' nothing auto completes.
I have also added our video camera as a bookable resource but this also doesn't show up under invitees?
Documentation is light on the ground and the built in 'ical server utility' is no help either. Anyone have any experience?

New problem. I see the the Locations created previously on both the Replica and the OD Master using the iCal Server Utility. But I can't add the permissions using:
sudo calendarservermanageprincipals --add-write-proxy groups:groupname locations:mediaroomdownstairs
I get
Invalid principal ID: locations:mediaroomdownstairs
So I thought I would just delete both locations and try it again. But I get Permission Denied error in the iCal Server Utility. Tried it on both the OD Replica running the iCal server and on the OD Master since I have to authenticate as the diradmin I thought it might stored on there.
So then using the tips listed here:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10403050
Opened up Workgroup Manager and in Preferences I turned on 'Show all records', and went to the 'bullseye' tab. From the drop down I can see my Resource (Video Camera) that I added in iCal Server Utility this morning but under Places there are no listings of the two meeting rooms. I tried this on both the OD Master and the Replica running the iCal server.
So that explains why I get the invalid principals. But the question is, how do I either delete the old records when I can't find them on either server, or modify them to allow read and write proxies.
Please help as its driving me crazy.

Setting up ical server

Hi
can anybody give me some advice about ical server and the possible implementation within our company.
1.Can we set up calenders that only certain people can amend eg. we want to set up a calender for holidays but only certain people can alter the details.
2.Can you set up calenders that only certain people can view.
3. Can you stop people from creating calender types on the server
4.Can we access the calenders through our webmail as we use kerio mail server
hope someone can help

1 and 2. Yes. The person setting upp/adding a calendar delegates "permissions" to people from iCal by adding names of people who can either read and write to it or just read it. An "unticked" user can only read.
I think a user neeed to add his own calendar to see the calendars he/she is delegated (?).
3. I don't know. If a user has calender "priviledges" in OD in WGM he/she can create calendars but if they are not delegated only he/she can see it/them. If a user doesn't have calendar "priviledges" I'm not sure but I don't think he/she can use any (CalDAV server) calendar with iCal.
4. I don't know. If using the Wiki server you are supposed to be able to see/use the calendars from a webbrowser. Haven't tried that yet.
We use CommuniGate Pro 5.2.x which now handle CalDAV calendars and you can use the web calendar with iCal interchangeably. Setting up shared calendars in CommuniGate Pro needs quite a bit of tinkering though. If you do the setup/config it's easy for the users. Haven't tried mobile phone sync yet with CommuniGate (Exchange compatible or AirSync?).
You can still use publish and subscribe iCal ≤ 2.x style but to a separate WebDAV share (?). CommuniGate Pro used to (besides MAPI/Exchange/Outlook compatibility through a plug-in - like Kerio does) only support webcalendar "protocol" with no webbrowser integration.
I can't tell you what Kerio can do (yet) when it comes to iCal/CalDAV compatibility/setup/config.
Maybe others can fill in the "blanks"?

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