Although SP1 allows self-signed certificates for Federation, you cannot use these with Outlook Live federation, and you’ll need to perform an extra step. To get this up and running in Exchange 2010 SP1 is actually now pretty simple. But the end user just gets unfriendly error messages and “permission denied” errors. The options are there, it looks like it tries to do it. One of the areas users might expect to “just work” is free/busy and calendar sharing between on-premise and cloud. But for now, I’m focusing on the user experience with free/busy and calendar sharing.
#ADDING A SHARED CALENDAR IN OUTLOOK 2010 CODE#
I’ll be covering a unified login in a further article (once I’ve re-written the code we use in-house into a re-distributable form). So, with Outlook Live and Exchange 2010 On-Premises there is a pretty good opportunity to get Exchange working seamlessly between both systems. A seamless experience makes life easier for users and thus easier for IT… That’s especially important with a service like Outlook Live, aimed at Education institutions, where typically staff, faculty and some students will continue to be hosted on-premise and the majority of students will be hosted in the cloud. For a modern “under the hood”, see this article.Īs organizations move to make use of cloud based services, like Exchange Online or Outlook Live, it’s pretty important to be able to integrate both the on-premises service and the cloud service so that end-users can continue to work as normal. It does give you some background as to how Office 365 does Federation, though some steps have changed. The information here relates to pre-Hybrid configurations that used the Consumer MFG.
#ADDING A SHARED CALENDAR IN OUTLOOK 2010 HOW TO#
…clicking the “Yes” button will deliver instructions to the owner of the calendar explaining how to properly setup the appropriate sharing permissions on his folders.PLEASE NOTE: This is NO LONGER supported and provided as-is for information ONLY. If for some reason an error message is generated that looks like this…
Click here if you are trying to open a shared messages folder. Note that in this example we are using a shared calendar folder however, the same procedure would work for a shared contacts folder. In this article we will cover the flip side of the coin…how someone using Outlook 2007 can connect to the folder that was shared. In previous articles, we explained how to setup sharing permissions on a particular folder in an Exchange environment in Outlook 2011 and Outlook 2007.