Re: General XFB specification available?

"Jeroen van Meeuwen (Kolab Systems)" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.devel.kolab,gmane.comp.kde.kolab.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2012-11-09 09:03, Christian Hilberg wrote:
> Hi Jeroen,
>

Hi Christian,

> Am Donnerstag 08 November 2012, um 15:19:33 schrieb Jeroen van
> Meeuwen (Kolab Systems):
>> If you're looking for another justification - Microsoft Exchange 
>> (and
>> Outlook/OWA) have similar "extended Free/Busy" functionality.
>> Also not really an RFC standard though, I believe.
>
> Talking to the developers of the Exchange plugin(s) for Evolution,
> it became clear that you are indeed right. M$ has a spec for that
> (see [0]). It is m XML format they use, and it includes "Subject"
> and "Location" event details in the freebusy response, which
> trivially map to "X-SUMMARY" and "X-LOCATION" in the icalendar
> vfreebusy object Evolution expects.
>
> Thanks again for your hint, it is very helpful.
>

Please also note that the XML you are seeing is (I believe) an Exchange 
2010 EWS data exchange format, and Exchange 2010 also provides Internet 
Publishing of Calendars, which I believe is in .ICS format.

Kind regards,

Jeroen van Meeuwen

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