Thanks very much for your prompt reply Ronni, always appreciated.
Meeting requests already work under outlook with no intervention.
Is it the same process for sharing entire calendars?
I will try it on a PC tomorrow at work anyway if it is the same.
Regards,
Eugene
On 22/02/2012, at 9:22 PM, Ronda Brown wrote:
> Hi Eugene,
>
> By default, Apple's Mail app and iCal app cannot read Outlook's default
> calendar invitation format. If you know that the recipient is an Apple user,
> you can set Outlook to send out the meeting requests and event invitations in
> the iCal format.
>
> 1 Open Outlook.
>
> 2 Select "Tools," then "Options," then "Calendar Options."
>
> 3 Select "Advanced Options." Enable "When sending meeting requests over the
> Internet, use iCalendar format" by checking the respective box.
>
> Click "OK/Apply" to save the changes.
> From now on, when you send meeting requests and invitations from Outlook,
> they'll be sent out in the iCal .ics format.
>
> Cheers,
> Ronni
>
> Sent from Ronni's iPad
>
> On 22/02/2012, at 7:27 PM, Eugene de Gouw <edeg...@iinet.net.au> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have my work account which is connected as an exchange server talking
>> quite happily with mail. When someone uses outlook from a PC to send an
>> invitation to me, Mail is quite willing to forward it through to iCal. All
>> is good in the world, they are quite friendly and play nicely.
>>
>> However, when someone sends me a calendar from outlook it sends an .xml
>> file. On clicking this Final Cut Pro offers to open it for me - which is
>> quite useless. 'Open with' only shows other applications which don't help
>> either.
>>
>> How can I get mail to accept a Outlook calendar and forward it to iCal?
>>
>> I'm running Lion, on 17" MBP, I think the exchange server is 2003.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Eugene
>>
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