Unable to "invite" in ical on exchange server

I am able to receive and accept invitations, but am unable to "add attendees" to a calendar event in ical. I feel like I am 90% there, just need someone to help with ical settings.

The handling of invites in general is incredibly flawed. My colleagues can send invite replies back to me that don't get processed at all (yes, I have the box in Mail ticked) - from iCal!
The worst part is, there's no way to manually update the status of invitees, so I'm stuck with pen and paper. AU$4000 notebook computer and I have to use paper...
Lame Apple!

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ICal and Exchange Server 2003

Hello from Barcelona,
I am a new mac user trying to sync iCal with Exchange Server 2003. I have followed all instructions regarding domain, user name, password and URL address but it does not work. The last answer received was "account info not found" & "“HTTP/1.1 440 Login Timeout”. Incredible but when using the program AddressX (downloaded from internet) with the above mentioned configuration...it works and can get my company's global book address.
Just to make sure I am following all "mac" rules. What I am using is:
Domain/UserName
Password
https://company.com/exchange/User.Name
Am I missing any important thing? Please help!!
Thanks in advanced!!

There are several discussions regarding this same topic on the Apple forums and elsewhere. None of them have solved the problem. This seems to be an issue that has been around for a long time but never addressed by Apple or Microsoft. From some simple tests that I have done, it appears the the Microsoft Exchange Server is not interpreting the iCal event (.ics extension) properly. I have seen discussions saying that Apple is not formatting the event properly or is using a newer standard that MS Exchange does not support. I believe it is the later as I can make the event work properly without any software changes but I have to do some steps manually. Here is how I can make it work and why I believe something is wrong in MS Exchange:
- create event in iCal and add an Outlook user
- send the event/email (ignore this email on the PC as it does not work)
- open the just sent email and save the attached iCal event
- find the saved iCal event and add a letter to the extension such as ".icss"
- (Note: I don't know if there is a way to rename an attachment already in a message)
- attach this renamed event to a new message and send it to the Outlook user
- the Outlook user must open the message, save the attachment and rename it back to ".ics"
- double clicking / opening this renamed file now works perfectly in Outlook
Now, if I could only automate some of these steps on the Mac before I send the message would be very helpful. This is not a great solution but I use it for events that I want to sync between my home Mac and my office PC.
Because the renamed attachment (.icss) works through Exchange (by ignoring it), I am lead to believe that MS Exchange will interpret an ".ics" extension and mess up the handling of it for some reason. Microsoft is never one to follow standards very carefully or adopt them very quickly. Our company is using Exchange 2003 so maybe that is part of the problem as it is an older version.

ICal / CalDAV: Unable to invite others - OS X Mavericks / Server

Hello,
we recently upgraded our OSX Server from Mountain Lion to Mavericks including the Server App. We ran into migration problems with our iCal Database.
Once the DB got fixed, thanks to community help, everything seemed to work. Now after two months one person reportet that she is unable to invite a specific subset of people from the company. I checked her account and can confirm the issue.
In the availability pane, the people to be invited are greyed out and not available all the time. Interestingly, when I do a calculation of the next availability, the Server concludes April 1st as the first possible date. I really hope that's not a aprils fools joke... ;-)
Any idea how to solve the issue?
Thanks!

Read this and it should help you maybe to solve your issues with changing or customizing your Mac. The app there called 'CandyBar' and they described how it will work without any problems.
http://idevicedailys.com/os-x/howto-use-candybar-os-x-mavericks/
It is a very nice and easy to use solution to still be able in customzing any Mac installed with Mavericks.
Myself i tried this way for theming my Mac's desktop and it works for me like a charm on OS X 10.9.

How to setup Invitations in iCal on a Server

Hi everyone!
Since some time now, I'm facing slight difficulties using iCal in conncetion with its built in invitations feature. So here's my problem:
Some how we're not able to send innvitations via iCal to some of our staff members. We have 15 staff members, all using thier own CalDAV Account on a SL-Server (MacPro). As you create an event an want to invite somebody, iCal often doesn't recognize the Person to be invited.
I know that iCal uses the adressbook app to find the people to be invited.
So this is where our second issue arises. We're using a CardDAV Account containing a serverbased addressbook that contains vcards of all employees, customers, partner etc. Each employee has its own Mac mini running Lion.Their adressbook app is set up with this one cardDAV Account. This way we should all be using just one addressbook located on the server right? (this is basically what we would like to have. A single addressbook located on the server containing every vcard we need. Everybody should have the permit to add, delete or modify each vcard contained).
Unfortunately all client-macs show multiple vcards of each vcard located on the server so that I suppose there's something wrong with the syncing process. Also, if someone creats a new vcard on its client within the adressbook on the server, this new vcard isn't published, so nobody else can see it or have accsses to it via iCal.
Any ideas where this issue could come from?
Back to iCal: as we add some staff members to newly created events in iCal, some staff members are recognized by iCal showing the ?-statussymbol, and some are not recognized showing a small lightning-statussymbol. This is an issue we'd likt to fix.
I have to appologize in case you don't get my point. So to make it more clear what we would like to come out with at the end, let me tell you our goal:
We'd like to have a single adressbook located on our server. Each staff member conntects to this adressbook via a single CardDAV (all members will use the same account), so that each staff member has access to the addressbook located on the server and is capable of adding, deleting or modifiying the contained vcards. If a staff member adds, deletes or modifys a vcard, this should be automatically updated to the server an synced to all other staff members.
After this is done, we'd like iCal to properly handle invitations. iCal should recognize all staff member by name and automatically adds its email address. iCal should invite the added staff member to the event, so that the invitee will recieve the inviatation within its iCal only.
If you have any questions regarding my explained issue, please feel free to contact me. This is a rather urgent matter for us, as we're experiencing these issues for about 2 years now...
Looking forward to your answers!
Regards,
Moritz

Since you are showing more than 1 of the same user, I imagine that you have the open directory bridge 'Search for user accounts' enabled in the AB service.
The ? symbol is normal when iCal doesn't know where to lookup the user's free/busy details.
On the client side, perhaps 1 AB entry contains the info needed and the other doesn't.
Instead of typing the name in ical attendees, try dragging the entry from AB.
Try one occurence of a user, then the other occurence of the same user.
I'm thinking when you let ical choose, its grabbing the incomplete entry in some cases..
this might not be the solution, but hopefully puts you on a path towards it :-)

Updated to 10.6.3, can no longer sync iCal with Exchange Server

My syncing with our exchange server used to work fine. I updated my 3 Macs and now they all have the same issue. They will not sync with the server and they all show 4 notifications that have not yet been responded to. When I view the notifications, they are all for old entries. I accept all 4, but doesn't seem to work - still shows iCal offline. Anyone else having this issue? Any suggestions? I tried removing the calendars cache file and plist files.

I spent an hour on the phone with Apple today, got elevated to an engineer AND talked to a Server Guy at my University.
The cause is still unclear, but the remedy has become painfully clear. To have a working copy of iCal, Mail, and AddressBook, one needs to remove all three accounts from the three client apps, and restart from Mail. This approach is the only way to preserve correct links among the three client apps.
I got iCal working temporarily by deleting my Exchange account and rebuilding it. The problem is that by rebuilding an iCal account, it created duplicate accounts in Mail and AddressBook. Also, the Apple apps autodiscovered slightly different server names, which caused problems sending me and I was getting duplicate email messages as well as contacts and calendar events. I deleted the redundant mail and contact accounts, but continued to have problems with sending mail and I lost my ToDos in Mail. So, I bit the bullet and have blitzed all my exchange accounts on my MBP and am waiting for it to repopulate the 5+ GB of data. Then tomorrow, I will do the same on my iMac.
Sheesh!

Unable to connect to the MS Exchange server after upgrading to ios 7.1.2

I received a new iPad 4 through work. Upgraded to ios 7.1.2, but now I'm not able to connect to the Exchange server. Contacted IT through work, they have no idea how to correct it. They say all of my settings are fine. The error message says "Cannot Get Mail   The connection to the server failed." Any thoughts?

Appears to be a wifi connection problem. Did it work prior to the iOS update?
Try this - Reset the iPad by holding down on the Sleep and Home buttons at the same time for about 10-15 seconds until the Apple Logo appears - ignore the red slider - let go of the buttons. (This is equivalent to rebooting your computer.) No data/files will be erased. http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1430
Since it's a company wifi, you won't be able to do many of these.
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1. Turn Off your iPad. Then turn Off (disconnect power cord for 30 seconds or longer) the wireless router & then back On. Now boot your iPad. Hopefully it will see the WiFi.
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http://tabletcrunch.com/2012/09/27/fix-ios-6-wifi-problems/
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If any of the above solutions work, please post back what solved your problem. It will help others with the same problem.
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ICal and Exchange Server

Does Apple's licensing of Active Sync lead to any speculation of better integration of Apple applications with Exchange Server on the desktop?
Right now running Leopard in a Exchange Server business world is not ideal in the least...
Has anyone speculated on this, or has anything of the sort come from Apple? Links would be greatly appreciated (if they exist)...

I am in a similar position.
Hopefully, the iCal Server will not slow down the adoption of better enterprise Exchange Server compatibility. I do not see my company switching from Exchange Server anytime soon.
What are your thoughts on actually using the iPhone as the mechanism to keep the two synchronized? For example, iPhone negotiates calendar and contact information via Active Sync with Exchange Server. You then cradle the iPhone to your desktop and it syncs with Address Book and iCal - now your data is everywhere it needs to be...
Seems clunky, but at least it would be something for Leopard users (who also own an iPhone) in the interim...

I have problems to connect iCal 6.0 (Mountain Lion) with Exchange Server 2007

I used ICal with Exchange Server 2007 without problems with Lion. After I adopted Mountain it has been impossible to use ICal and I have obliged to use Outlook because It was not possible to connect ICal with Server.
I reinstalled Mountain and rebuilt Outlook data base, canceled cache and so on but without results. How cn I do?

I was having problems with this too. I remember it working okay in iOS 7 and then it breaking in iOS 8.
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I am unable to eprint from my exchange server email address and I can print from other accounts such as @att.net aacounts. This problem has started in the last week. I have reinstalled the printer and varified the allowed address.
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Welcome to the HP Support forums. I gather that in the last week or so you have been unable to print emails from your exchanger server email address.
I have included a document here that has trouble shooting steps to take when an ePrint job fails.
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Removing an ical revert to server

I have a tricky one for you all.
I use iCal with iCloud on my MacBook Pro. I am getting this annoying message I am stumped how to remove. It's like the Zombie that will not die. Is there a way to kill the offending message via command line?
It looks like when I once used iCal with Exchange Server is where the issue is.
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J

Oops - forgot to upload the Zombie iCal message.
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ICal falls short for enterprise use in an Exchange server environment

(Cross posting from the "Using Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard" discussion).
I work at a very large software company on a team of people who all use Macs. We were thrilled to install Snow Leopard and begin using the new Exchange server features in Mail, Address Book and iCal. Sadly, though, some very rough edges on the iCal experience are making many people go back to running Entourage, or even Outlook in Parallels (ugh).
Specifically, iCal does not allow you to control how and when notifications are sent when you edit an existing event. As a meeting organizer, if you make a change, such as adding a new attendee to a meeting that includes 40 other attendees already, all 40 of those existing attendees get a notification, forcing them to re-evaluate the meeting in their inboxes.
There is no way to save a draft of a meeting invitation without sending it to the attendees. Often the chore of assembling the correct mix of attendees for a meeting takes significant time. If you are unable to complete the agenda or other planning aspects of the event in a single sitting, you must send the meeting as is, which is not a real option if your respect your colleagues time, because they will be receiving multiple updates to your meeting as you complete it.
Declining a meeting automatically notifies the meeting organizer without giving the invitee a choice. This also creates a lot of unnecessary "noise" in peoples inboxes. Sometimes it is desirable, but not always- the ability to control notification is a very sensitive issue in the context of meeting etiquette.
You cannot Reply, Reply All, or Forward a meeting calendar event from within iCal.
There is no support for rich text in the meeting calendar event's "Notes" field - the field in iCal that is used to represent the meeting invitation email's body text. This strips out meaning and complicates the workflow for attending a meeting.
Getting people to participate in collaborative work in large distributed organizations is a challenge as it is. We cannot afford to use tools that work against the goal. Apple, please hurry up and provide the rest of the features required to really USE an Exchange calendar client in an enterprise environment.

"He also wants to get his calendar appointments and address book (contacts), but he doesn't want to use Entourage"
You need to use GroupCal by Snerdware but we have found it not to be a really good product in our office. The address book has the ability to sync to exchange server many have indicated it doesn't work (Address Book/Preferences/General Tab/Sync with Exchange)
You could try Thunderbird mail product not used that but I doubt any of the Tasks, To-Dos and Calendar come over...now Entourage used to be horrible with this sync but now with 11.3.6 (or whatever it is now) our users see calendar events, to-dos and the LDAP directory
Though I am a Mac fan, still in a windows world you cannot be too choosy they should just use entourage for an outlook like product.
NOTE do NOT go to Exchange 2007 tons of IMAP problems our Mac users are unable to get mail (and yet our Windows Admin could care less)
good luck

Exchange invitations in iCal

I recently updated to Lion and somehting strange has happened with my email.
I work in a company that has runs exchange server. I used to receive meeting invitations including details about meeting time as well as dial in information and PIN codes for conference calls. I would either "Accept" or "Decline" to join a meeting and if I accepted, then the meeting details wouls automatically show up in iCal. In addition to that, those same details would also show up on my iPhone.
Right around the time I upgraded to Lion and set up iCloud, something strange has happened. I still receive invitations to meeting from my colleagues but now when I accept the invitiation, the event does not show up in iCal and the details are completely lost.
Needless to say I have been missing a lot of meeting lately!!!! Doh!!! Maybe this is a feature?
Suggestions?
Thanks, in advance for assistance.
John

Hi Jim,
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Calendar (Mavericks): Reply to event or calendar invitations
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH14977
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Hello,
I'm trying to get iCal to link up to Microsofts Exchange server. I need to be able to set up and receive calander events and my MAC is NOT able to receive or send invites or even create a new event. It is not seeing the PC network in iCal.
thnaks.

I figured it out! If you happen to have this very same problem, you probably don't have Calendars synced in your "iCloud app" in System Preferences for your MacBook. It synced my two calendars right away.

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I have setup apple mail to talk to our exchange server works fine. I have the address book pulling down from our exchange server working fine. However receiving invites from exchange is suppose to automatically go into may iCal the settings are ticked and some have but not always is there something I can check. New to apple using
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