Re: mail/iCal playing with exchange

Thanks very much for your prompt reply Ronni, always appreciated.

Meeting requests already work under outlook with no intervention.

Is it the same process for sharing entire calendars?

I will try it on a PC tomorrow at work anyway if it is the same.

                      Regards,
                      Eugene
                     

On 22/02/2012, at 9:22 PM, Ronda Brown wrote:

> Hi Eugene,
> 
> By default, Apple's Mail app and iCal app cannot read Outlook's default 
> calendar invitation format. If you know that the recipient is an Apple user, 
> you can set Outlook to send out the meeting requests and event invitations in 
> the iCal format.
> 
> 1 Open Outlook.
> 
> 2 Select "Tools," then "Options," then "Calendar Options."
> 
> 3 Select "Advanced Options." Enable "When sending meeting requests over the 
> Internet, use iCalendar format" by checking the respective box. 
> 
> Click "OK/Apply" to save the changes. 
> From now on, when you send meeting requests and invitations from Outlook, 
> they'll be sent out in the iCal .ics format.
> 
> Cheers,
> Ronni
> 
> Sent from Ronni's iPad
> 
> On 22/02/2012, at 7:27 PM, Eugene de Gouw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I have my work account which is connected as an exchange server talking 
>> quite happily with mail. When someone uses outlook from a PC to send an 
>> invitation to me, Mail is quite willing to forward it through to iCal. All 
>> is good in the world, they are quite friendly and play nicely.
>> 
>> However, when someone sends me a calendar from outlook it sends an .xml 
>> file. On clicking this Final Cut Pro offers to open it for me - which is 
>> quite useless. 'Open with' only shows other applications which don't help 
>> either.
>> 
>> How can I get mail to accept a Outlook calendar and forward it to iCal? 
>> 
>> I'm running Lion, on 17" MBP, I think the exchange server is 2003.
>> 
>> Thanks.
>> 
>>                     Regards,
>>                     Eugene
>> 
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