freebusy share between scalix and exchange 2000

[help]

Hello all,

I have a 2000 exchange server on one side and a scalix server on the other side and I just want the users for the two environment can use freebusy information. How can I do that ?

Thanks,
Jean-philippe.

[ScalixSupport]

Hi,

neither Microsoft Exchange can do Scalix FB lookups nor can Scalix do FB lookups on an Exchange server. Net-net, I don't believe this is possible.

Cheers,

Sascha.

[help]

Oh, that's bad for us... and do you think is possible to synchronise data between my exchange server and my scalix server ?

Thanks,
Jean-Philippe.

[jg]

Sorry, but currently there isn't an "open" protocol that we could hook a synchronisation of Freebusy information between Scalix and Exchange into.

Longer term the iCal standard "may" provide a method for Freebusy exchange between hetro-geneous systems, see Section 4.6.4 in:
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2445.txt

Personally I've not looked in detail at this area and on a quick glance it isn't clear to me how such a request/reply exchange would occur, between either users or servers. In either case the client and/or server would have to support this mechanism. Scalix does not at this point in time.

The Outlook Client does provide the ability to publish Freebusy information to a .vfb file. I've never tried this and you have to have some way to tie user information to the URL/web/file server where the .vfb file is published to enable user lookup.

This might provide you with something to fill the gap, but this isn't something we have either specifically tested at Scalix or something that we'd generally recommend.

Cheers,
JG

[jg]

Looks like the Outlook freebusy publication to .vfb isn't going to fly, see the response to your post:
http://www.scalix.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=2145