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Syncing your Zimbra calendars in iCal using CalDAV now displays free/busy information, comparing your calendar schedule with the availability of others when scheduling appointments.

To view free/busy information, schedule an appointment on your (or another person’s) Zimbra calendar in iCal. In this appointment I am scheduling a meeting on my own Zimbra calendar to request a meeting at 11 A.M. with John, one of my coworkers.

Enter a name for the appointment, then click ‘Add Attendees’:

Next, enter the email address of the person you would like to invite to the event in the ‘Attendees’ field:  Read more... (290 words and 8 images, estimated 1:10 mins reading time)

        

Between ActiveSync support and integration with MobileMe, covering both Enterprise and Personal needs respectively, version 2.0 of the iPhone software brings comprehensive support for over-the-air synchronization, putting the iPhone at the center of many of our digital lives.

01.com’s Zimbra servers already support ActiveSync, and upcoming with Zimbra version 5.0.8 will be full support for the iPhone and iPod Touch push email, too.

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Located at the Apple Consultants Network: At-a-Glance website, the story is entitled: Consultant Opens the Door to Multi-platform Collaboration with Zimbra on the Mac.

The story is a brief overview of our Mac consulting at an advertising firm in downtown Chicago that provides comprehensive branding services for a variety of Fortune 500 companies, where we installed and support a Zimbra 4.0.4 server running OS X Server on an Xserve, among other select services.

More evidence Microsoft Exchange is not required for enterprise collaboration, nor blackberry/treo/windows mobile synchronization! You can see the full story on Apple Computer, Inc.’s Consultant Network website here.  Read more... (115 words, estimated 28 secs reading time)