Entourage 2004 and sharing your own calendar

[David Wise]

I admit.. This one has me stumped

OSX 10.4.10, Entourage 2004 11.3.6 with all updates applied, Exchange 2003
server fully patched, frontend - backend scenario.

Entourage is configured to hit the frontend via https.

What I'm trying to do: simply share my calendar via right clicking on the
Cal, clicking on 'sharing' and selecting a user.

I've tried this and it's worked well for any number of folks, but I've got 3
particular user instances that will throw "Unable to modify permissions on
the server" when I attempt to add them and go to save it.
Amazingly enough, this does not happen when doing the same kind of thing
with my Outlook 2003 client - so I doubt it's actually a user permissions
issue

After reviewing the user permissions anyway, I find no differences between
them and users that it does work appropriately for. Fortunately, we've got
zip in the way of AD policy pushed out to the users, since we've implemented
AD strictly for the use of Exchange at this point.

I've waded through event logs on the webserver pair and the mailbox server
cluster, and http error logs on the webservers, to no avail.

Has anyone else experience this behavior? Any ideas on where else I could
look for clues to help me solve this?

I was hoping to locate an Entourage log file on my local machine that might
point me in the right direction, but I don't see one in the obvious
locations.

Thanks for any insight in advance,

Cheers!
-Dave

 

[Thomas H. Hart III]

My problem was similar but not identical. Here is what I posted earlier this
week:

I solved my problem regarding sharing Calendars with my assistant in
Entourage when connected to an Exchange Server so thought I would pass the
solution along in case anyone else runs into this issue.

In Outlook, I could share my Calendar (or Contacts or any other folder)
simply by right clicking on the folder, selecting Folder Properties,
clicking the Permissions tab, and assigning my assistant the permissions I
wanted her to have. My assistant did not have to be a Delegate to access my
Calendar.

This also worked when I was in Entourage connected to an Exchange Server and
my assistant was in Outlook. However, when I switched my assistant to
Entourage and tried the same thing, her Entourage could not find my Mailbox.

The solution I finally figured out was to make my assistant a Delegate and
limit her properties to the same as the Permissions assigned to her in each
Folder. None of the tutorials or help information stated that both Delegate
and Permissions needed to be added; in fact, they are treated as alternative
approaches. Nevertheless, in my experience, both Delegate access and
Permissions need to be granted by me.

Finally, if there is no connection at first, try clearing the cache in the
new folder.

Tom Hart