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Introduction

Information workers frequently need to collaborate with external recipients such as vendors, partners, and customers, and share their availability (free/busy) information, calendar, or contacts.

In this third part I will describe the first required configuration tasks and the experiences we made with creating the federation trust using a current Exchange Comodo UC certificate.

Continue reading GALsync and Federation using Exchange 2010 - Part III - Provide a public certificate

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Information workers frequently need to collaborate with external recipients such as vendors, partners, and customers, and share their availability (free/busy) information, calendar, or contacts. So we speak about

1.     Federated free/busy sharing
Access free/busy information of an external user in a partner's company. The published Exchange availability service of the partner's company answers directly using the requested information from user's mailbox. No public system folder is used anymore.

2.     Federated calendar sharing
Access calendar information of an external user in a partner's company. The user has to ask the external user to share his calendar by using the features of Outlook or Outlook Web App.

3.     Federated contact sharing
Access private contacts information of an external user in a partner's company. The user has to ask the external user before to share his contacts by using the features of Outlook or Outlook Web App.

In this second part I will give a technical level overview about what Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Federation services provide and what the limitations are.

Continue reading GALsync and Federation using Exchange 2010 - Part II

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Information workers frequently need to collaborate with external recipients such as vendors, partners, and customers, and share their availability (free/busy) information, calendar, or contacts. So we speak about

1.     Federated free/busy sharing
Access free/busy information of an external user in a partner's company

2.     Federated calendar sharing
Access calendar information of an external user in a partner's company

3.     Federated contact sharing
Access private contacts information of an external user in a partner's company

In this first part I will give a high level overview about what Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Federation services provide and what the limitations are.

Continue reading GALsync and Federation using Exchange 2010 - Part I

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GALsync version 4 provides an important and heavily requested new feature: synchronization of free/busy information.

Aditionally it has a new Look & Feel following Exchange 2010 and Outlook 2010. Unless we spent a lot of time in developing this feature, this version is a no chargeable upgrade.

see upgrade instructions here . . .

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