Administrator's Guide - Kerio Software Archive

Chapter 34Support for iCalendarThe support for iCalendar in Kerio MailServer enables various applications which can handlethe format (such as MS Outlook 2007, Apple iCal, Mozilla Calendar, Lotus Notes and XimianEvolution) to publish and subscribe to calendars via Kerio MailServer.By default, Kerio MailServer supports calendars in MS Outlook 2007, Windows Calendar onWindows Vista and Apple iCal on Apple Mac OS X.34.1 Web calendars in MS Outlook 2007MS Outlook 2007 allows sharing of calendars via the Internet. Calendars are available throughsubscription and publishing:• Calendar subscription — calendar subscription downloads the particular calendar froma web server to a local store.• Calendar publishing — calendar publishing is uploading of a calendar to a web store.For manipulation with calendars, MS Outlook 2007 uses iCalendar (iCal), a standard format forexchange of calendar data.Kerio MailServer supports the iCal format and it is, therefore, possible to subscribe calendarsstored on Kerio MailServer in MS Outlook as well as to publish calendars at Kerio MailServer’saccounts. In addition to subscription to their own calendars, users can also subscribe tocalendars shared by other users.Warning: In MS Outlook, subscribed calendars are available only in the read-only mode. Publishedcalendars are available on the server for reading only (this implies that it is not editpublished calendars when accessed by Kerio WebMail, for example).After authentication, the traffic is performed by the HTTP protocol. Therefore, the servicemust be running in Kerio MailServer. In addition to this, it is also necessary to map thecorresponding port on the firewall protecting the server. Otherwise, the service will not beavailable from the Internet (for details, see section 2.3).Subscription and publishing of calendars may be useful especially to view calendars of userswho do not have an account in Kerio MailServer or to publish calendar in the Internet.MS Outlook options and settings are addressed in a special document, the KerioMailServer, User’s Guide. This file is available at the Kerio Technologies website athttp://www.kerio.com/kms-manual.358