Umm.

I've been writing a solution for Evolution that enables outlook and evo 
users to book meetings via each other's freebusy URLs.  A free/busy URL
is part of RFC2445 and is implemented in Outlook and Evolution.
Evolution takes it further by storing it's calendar data in an iCalendar
format text file. The thing they miss is to publish from that calendar
to a web or ftp server the free/busy information, thats where my project
comes in.

JiCal Works OK, I've had loads of posts from weird parts of the world
verifying it from Outlook. This release was for production stability,
the next is for performance (currently processes about 45 user's
calendars a second):

http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/jical

For you, there is possibly the auto-publish free busy in Outlook. You
need the 'web publishing wizard' whatever that is. Effectively that will
publish the freebusy file to whichever web server or ftp server you
choose with you chosen periodicity. I've done the same thing for
evolution in Linux.  For further info, look at these files in your web
browser:

http://www.eurekait.com/sfg.ifb - this is the freebusy file generated
from evo's iCalendar file. In short it's all the (ficticious) times
booked for this guy including the repeat events such as weekly meetings.

http://www.eurekait.com/sfg.vcf - this is a 'vcard' that can be loaded
into outlook, palm desktop, evolution etc etc and contains the free/busy
url.

Using the vCard you can then book meetings with this person via their
web server's free busy file (sfg.ifb)

So yes, there is a solution on Linux for this issue. Feel free to email
me with Qs.

Stuart

On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 16:08, Daniel Harper wrote:
> 
> This is slightly off topic but hopefully there is a partial Linux solution
> out there. I am looking for some calendar/scheduling software that:
> 
> You can use a Windows client to access within the LAN, and that you can also
> access and change via the internet.
> 
> Can anyone point me in the right direction?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Daniel Harper
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