Questions[calendar](server)

After switching over our email from self-hosting to GMail, my Sr. SysAdmin is looking for us to consolidate our company calendars into one singular Google Calendar.

With our current system, if a user marks a vacation day, only the Office Manager is able to go back and edit the entry after that date (to prevent people from giving themselves free vacation days).

As far as I can tell, with Google Calendar, if the calendar is shared company-wide, any user can create, edit, and/or delete an event. Is there a setting somewhere to restrict access to completed events?

Our management team all use iPhones with the built-in iOS calendar app. We're looking into getting Microsoft Exchange for everyone here, but that'll take us some weeks to plan and roll-out across the enterprise.

In the meantime, I need to provide something, so group meeting availability can be determined from those calendars. Google Calendar would be ideal ("find a time"), if I could find a way to link to/export the iCloud calendars, but Apple don't seem to want to do that.

I could ask the management team to recreate their events for the next few weeks in individual Google Calendars, but they don't want to do that and it's wasteful rekeying of data.

Any suggestions you can provide will be gratefully received.

Trying to allow 3 people to view and ideally sync (create/edit) common (team) calendar events via Blackberry and hosted Exchange 2007 BES. My understanding is that BES does not support anything other than a users primary calendar to be synced wirelessly.

From what I've researched the only supported workflow is for user to create event in public calendar on Outlook and then invites team members individually as optional attendees so event displays in their calendar (and on their Blackberry).

I've seen some 3rd party utilities that claim to support syncing of public folders/calendars:

• Add2Outlook: http://www.diditbetter.com/add2outlook.aspx
• WICKSoft: http://www.wicksoft.com/contacts_calendars.htm (needs to be installed on local Exchange server)

I've also been told I can sync public/other calendars using Desktop Manager, but I need to avoid any tethered sync with this environment.

Am I missing an easier workflow here? There must be tens of thousands of BES users that require the ability to/view share a public, shared or team calendar on their Blackberry. How can I solve this?

Over the past few weeks I've been working to create a flawless Google Apps test pilot for our users despite Google's lack of official support for Exchange 2010 in all migration utilities. So far, I've been able to work out all kinks except one.

The last hurdle is the synchronizing of users' free/busy data between Exchange and Google Apps. Google provides the calendar connector kit with official support for Exchange 2003 and 2007, but I'm seeing WebDAV-related error messages in the logs and that's one of the big things removed between 2007 and 2010.

I don't mind diving back into troubleshooting, but since it's not officially supported, I thought I'd check here first to see if what I'm trying to do is at least possible. Has anyone else found a working solution for the synchronization of free/busy data between Exchange 2010 and Google Apps?

I would like to create a server-side Exchange calendar that is:

• A combination of a group of people's calendars (e.g., "Marketing Department Members")
• Filtered only to show those items marked "Out of Office"

Are there some ideas out there for programming Exchange server-side like this or using a package that's already implemented this?

The purpose is to create group calendars that everyone can view, showing who's out of the office in a department.

I know this can be done in Outlook with combined views and filtering, but it doesn't make any sense to create one or more of these on each and every user's PC in our organization.

Thanks for any help.