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Originally Posted by Rich Graves  3) a) Create all the course calendars within a system account, b) automatically set share permissions appropriately (and regularly update them as enrollments change), c) make those calendar shares appear for d) Outlook and e) webmail users, f) make sure that the right things hapen when courses drop/permissions revoke (i.e., no dangling share pointers in either Outlook or webmail), and g) make those calendars show up as "busy" in user free/busy lists. |
I currently have several 'calendar' users who have their calendars shared to employees. I manage the permissions and shares through these users. (they have no password so they're only accessible through the admin console)
b - I haven't seen any way to automatically do permissions for calendar shares, this would be something nice to have.
d - As long as the user has view permissions they should be able to add them in Outlook, however it is a manual process to add the shared calendar in Outlook, it does not automatically sync. We're using Outlook 2003. I don't think it's capable of using the automatic share messages sent by the calendar in Zimbra.
e - the webclient will add the calendar via the accept button in the share message.
f - That's a setting when the calendar is added to the user's calendars in the webclient. As for outlook, that's probably a setting in there.
As for 'a' - I also have this with a Holidays calendar, which is another calendar user that is pulling from a remote .ics file. You should be able to get it to do that so you can use your current schedules you have created if you find that easier.
Hope I've been some help
p24t