Free-busy interop with Meeting Maker

[ewilen]

In order to support an evaluation/test install of Zimbra, I would like to provide some method for interoperation with Meeting Maker.

According to Interop - Are you free or busy? (duplicated at Are you free or busy? » Zimbra :: Blog), there's a method of doing freeb-busy interop with Meeting Maker. Howeve the documentation focuses on Exchange. Does anyone have any tips/examples on setting it up with MM 8.7?

I'd also appreciate any tips/best practices for sending invitations between MM and Zimbra; I'd have thought that MM's method of sending attachments to non-MM invitees would be readable by ZWC, but it didn't work for me on the first go-round. Not sure about the other direction.

Thanks in advance!

[msallee]

Originally Posted by ewilen

In order to support an evaluation/test install of Zimbra, I would like to provide some method for interoperation with Meeting Maker.

According to Interop - Are you free or busy? (duplicated at Are you free or busy? » Zimbra :: Blog), there's a method of doing freeb-busy interop with Meeting Maker. Howeve the documentation focuses on Exchange. Does anyone have any tips/examples on setting it up with MM 8.7?

I'd also appreciate any tips/best practices for sending invitations between MM and Zimbra; I'd have thought that MM's method of sending attachments to non-MM invitees would be readable by ZWC, but it didn't work for me on the first go-round. Not sure about the other direction.

Thanks in advance!

I am also interested in more information on how to sync free/busy information from Meeting Maker to Zimbra. I'm glad to write up docs if someone will share how they got it to work. I wonder if there could be something used similar to the Exchange connection:

# zmprov mcf zimbraFreebusyExchangeAuthUsername zimbra
# zmprov mcf zimbraFreebusyExchangeAuthPassword changeme
# zmprov mcf zimbraFreebusyExchangeAuthScheme basic
# zmprov mcf zimbraFreebusyExchangeURL http://exchange.mycompany.com

but this is just a guess. Anyone?

[fhouston]

Did anyone ever figure this out? We are going through this process right now and this would be helpful information.

[msallee]

Last I heard (as of April 2010), Meeting Maker was still dragging their feet on implementing the CalDAV compatibilty feature. But it still may happen.

Mark

[ewilen]

MM CalDAV compatibility is something else entirely from Zimbra free-busy interop.

[fhouston]

Has anyone used NotifyLink or NotifySync to help w/ this interop? I'll admit up front I don't know much about this product myself but I know the MM server we are trying to integrate w/ uses this to sync w/ mobile devices, I also noticed Zimbra can use it as well, so I didn't know if this could act as some sort of gateway mechanism. I just found out about this yesterday so I haven't really had a chance to look into it much yet.

[ewilen]

Well, I've gotten off the MM train a while ago.

I believe that MM has introduced some ability to publish calendars read-only via CalDAV. NotifyLink/Sync may independently offer this, perhaps with better features.

So what I can suggest is that if you can't get zimbra's free-busy interop working with MM, you might at least use Zimbra to subscribe to a MM calendar. You do this by creating a new calendar in the Zimbra web interface, then in the Create New Calendar dialog, you check "Synchronize appointments from remote calendar" and enter the URL of the remote calendar.