Cheryll,
Is your campus moving away from Oracle Calendar? This seems to be a feature in OC that our users are looking for as well going into our Zimbra conversion. I think 6.0 is supposed to address this directly, but the recent workaround that was posted is close.
Justin Wainwright
University of Michigan-Dearborn
Systems Administrator
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cheryll McCormick" <cmccormick@newman.uwsa.edu>
To: "Zimbra Admins" <zimbra-hied-admins@sfu.ca>
Sent: Thursday, May 7, 2009 10:59:46 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Still have issues with groups in calendar
I posted the message below to the Zimbra Forum, but haven't gotten any responses. A couple of you from this list responded that I should use the Zimbra internal distribution lists, but when I create those internal distribution lists, I still can't select the list and have it expand within calendar. Very frustrating! Again, any thoughts would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Cheryll McCormick
University of Wisconsin System Administration
Office of Information Services
Messages posted to Zimbra Forum
"This is going to be tricky to explain. We are currently in Beta testing
mode prior to going to production this summer. We are using Active
Directory for both GAL lookups, as well as for authentication. This has
worked very well with the mail portion of Zimbra, however, I am running
into issues with the calendar portion. Specifically, has anyone been
able to have groups that are defined in Active Directory expand so that
when you select the group for a meeting, it can schedule meetings for
the individuals in that group rather than having to selecting each
group member separately? At some admins' advice, I created an internal
Distribution List for a test group. That didn't work either. Then I
configuring the GAL for both internal and external AD lookup, but when
I tried to create a meeting and select a Distribution List that I
created in the internal directory, nothing displays in the search. If I
manually type the name of the Distribution List and just go ahead and
schedule the meeting, it will put the calendar on the individuals
calendars, but I have no idea if I've selected the correct people for
the meeting since it doesn't tell me who's on the list I just typed.
We are running zcs-NETWORK-5.0.13_GA_2791.SLES10_64.20090206110511. If
anyone has any experience, or suggestions, I would appreciate your help."