[horde] Calendar and address book sharing with Outlook 2013+Android and Active Sync

Michael J Rubinsky mrubinsk at horde.org
Tue Jun 16 21:53:51 UTC 2015


Quoting Bjoern Voigt <bjoernv at arcor.de>:

> Michael J Rubinsky wrote:
>> 1) You need to enable separate calendar/addressbook/etc... support
>> on the sync preference page for each application.
>>
>> 2) Only shares that the user has write access to are sync-able.
>>
>> 3) Not every client supports separate activesync collections
>> (which is the reason for all the config switches and hooks).
> Thank you. Sharing calendar with Outlook 2013 works now. I see three
> calendar folders in Outlook 2013: local calendar, my Horde calendar,
> the shared calendar.
>
> Unfortunately sharing the address book still does not work as expected.
>
> I only see two address books in Outlook 2013: local address book, my
> Horde address book.
>
> If I create an contact in Outlook 2013 it will be synched to my
> standard address book in Horde.
>
> I also activated separate address books in preferences and selected
> the shared address book in Horde. But Outlook still only shows one
> address book. Isn't Outlook capable of showing multiple address
> books for one account? Or did I missed something?


Correct. Outlook's ActiveSync implementation does not support multiple  
address books.

> What about LDAP? Is it wise to use OpenLDAP for one shared address
> book? (I think with LDAP I have two options in Outlook to access the
> shared address book: Active Sync and LDAP.)

Bo idea, I don't use LDAP with Outlook to make any informed recommendations.

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