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With Zimbra Collaboration Server, you | With Zimbra Collaboration Server, you can access all of your Zimbra Calendars using iCal or Calendar in the different OS X versions. | ||
This guide shows you how to access | This guide shows you how to access your Zimbra Calendar using OS X and iCal or Calendar. | ||
=Before You Begin= | =Before You Begin= |
Revision as of 17:01, 17 September 2015
Accessing Zimbra Collaboration Server with iCal o Calendar
Introduction
With Zimbra Collaboration Server, you can access all of your Zimbra Calendars using iCal or Calendar in the different OS X versions.
This guide shows you how to access your Zimbra Calendar using OS X and iCal or Calendar.
Before You Begin
This guide assumes that you have already are running OS X and you have the iCal or Calendar applications installed.
To access your email, you must have the following information:
- Your Zimbra email address and password.
- Zimbra mail server FQDN. This is usually in the form of mail.domain.com.
Your system administrator will be able to give you this information if you do not already have it.
Viewing your Zimbra Calendar using iCal or Calendar
The following steps show you how to read and write in your Zimbra Calendar using iCal or Calendar in OS X.
To view your Zimbra Calendar using iCal or Calendar and CalDAV
The recommended way, using Zimbra Collaboration Open Source version, to connect your Zimbra Calendar and iCal is using CalDAV. You will be able to do all the typical actions in a Calendar, and you will synchronize with your Zimbra Server, as follows:
- Create appointments
- Edit appointments created from the Web Client or another device
- Delete appointments
- Move appointments
- Dismiss appointments
- etc.
Zimbra Calendar and requirements
Since Zimbra Collaboration 6, you don't need any additional step or configuration in your server. You need to know the Calendar name that you want to use in the CalDAV client. The final URL to use in the CalDAV client would be:
https://zimbra.example.com/dav/<USERNAME>/CalendarNAME
You can also add your credentials into the URL. Note that this includes your password, which may not be recommended.
https://<USERNAME>:<PASSWORD>@zimbrahost.example.com/dav/<USERNAME>/Calendar
For example, here you can see 3 different Calendars in the Zimbra Web Client:
iCal instructions
- 1. Search in your Launchpad for the iCal application.
- 2. Click in the iCal or Calendar left-top menu and then Add Account:
- 3. Select Add CalDav Account option.
- 4. Select Manual in the Account Type, your email address in the User Name field, you password and the Zimbra FQDN in the Server Address:
- 5. If you don't have a valid SSL Certificate, you will need to accept the SSL message warning.
- 6. After a few seconds you will be able to see all your Zimbra Calendars as well as all your appointments.
You can use as well all the Zimbra sharing power with iCal or Calendar and CalDAV, for example: Imagine that you are the Responsible Person for one Department and you want to create a Calendar per each Technician, like in the next diagram:
The Responsible must create each Calendar and share with the rest of Technicians, giving them the read-only or read-write permission.
In this example, the Responsible creates a Calendar for Technician Bob. Go to the Responsible person Calendar, and right-click > New Calendar
Then, write the name for the Calendar, in this case Technician Bob, it's much better to use - or _ instead space.
Edit then the new Calendar with right-click > Properties and select Share Calendar
In the email field, select the Bob's emails address, and select the role you want for Bob, read-only or read-write.
After a few seconds, Bob will receive an email with the invitation to the Calendar resource, once accepted, the iCal or Calendar will be able to sync as well the Shared Calendar:
Log trace when sync
When the appointments are pulled from the Zimbra Server to the CalDAV client, you will be able to see the next log traces in the /opt/zimbra/logs/mailbox.log. You can see that these came from OS X and iCal or Calendar:
2015-07-09 04:27:47,921 INFO [qtp509886383-455:https://192.168.211.20:8443/dav] [aname=admin@zimbralab.local;ip=192.168.211.1;ua=Mac+OS+X/10.10.5 (14F27) Calendar/2034.9-Calendar;] FileUploadServlet - saveUpload(): received Upload: { accountId=18fab885-e345-436f-8428-805d7835d019, time=Thu Jul 09 04:27:47 BST 2015, size=181, uploadId=0ed0f6ed-3a87-433a-a2b2-805338441498:908cad5b-0fbc-425a-bab8-8ad8cf51fe34, name=null, path=null } 2015-07-09 04:27:47,926 INFO [qtp509886383-455:https://192.168.211.20:8443/dav] [name=admin@zimbralab.local;aname=admin@zimbralab.local;ip=192.168.211.1;ua=Mac+OS+X/10.10.5 (14F27) Calendar/2034.9-Calendar;] dav - DavServlet operation PROPFIND to /home (depth: zero) finished in 5ms 2015-07-09 04:27:47,932 INFO [qtp509886383-455:https://192.168.211.20:8443/principals/users/admin%40zimbralab.local/] [name=admin@zimbralab.local;aname=admin@zimbralab.local;ip=192.168.211.1;ua=Mac+OS+X/10.10.5 (14F27) Calendar/2034.9-Calendar;] dav - DavServlet operation OPTIONS to /principals/users/admin@zimbralab.local/ (depth: zero) finished in 0ms 2015-07-09 04:27:53,523 INFO [qtp509886383-456:https://192.168.211.20:8443/principals/users/admin%40zimbralab.local/] [aname=admin@zimbralab.local;ip=192.168.211.1;ua=Mac+OS+X/10.10.5 (14F27) CalendarAgent/316.1;] FileUploadServlet - saveUpload(): received Upload: { accountId=18fab885-e345-436f-8428-805d7835d019, time=Thu Jul 09 04:27:53 BST 2015, size=743, uploadId=0ed0f6ed-3a87-433a-a2b2-805338441498:5c7aa1df-c8c8-4a55-b819-2c2438867ba6, name=null, path=null } 2015-07-09 04:27:53,526 INFO [qtp509886383-456:https://192.168.211.20:8443/principals/users/admin%40zimbralab.local/] [name=admin@zimbralab.local;aname=admin@zimbralab.local;ip=192.168.211.1;ua=Mac+OS+X/10.10.5 (14F27) CalendarAgent/316.1;] dav - DavServlet operation PROPFIND to /principals/users/admin@zimbralab.local/ (depth: zero) finished in 4ms 2015-07-09 04:27:53,531 INFO [qtp509886383-455:https://192.168.211.20:8443/principals/users/admin%40zimbralab.local/] [name=admin@zimbralab.local;aname=admin@zimbralab.local;ip=192.168.211.1;ua=Mac+OS+X/10.10.5 (14F27) CalendarAgent/316.1;] dav - DavServlet operation OPTIONS to /principals/users/admin@zimbralab.local/ (depth: zero) finished in 0ms 2015-07-09 04:27:53,537 INFO [qtp509886383-455:https://192.168.211.20:8443/principals/users/] [aname=admin@zimbralab.local;ip=192.168.211.1;ua=Mac+OS+X/10.10.5 (14F27) CalendarAgent/316.1;] FileUploadServlet - saveUpload(): received Upload: { accountId=18fab885-e345-436f-8428-805d7835d019, time=Thu Jul 09 04:27:53 BST 2015, size=89, uploadId=0ed0f6ed-3a87-433a-a2b2-805338441498:63eeb561-9ae3-43e1-a5a1-5bc53bd555ee, name=null, path=null } 2015-07-09 04:27:53,542 INFO [qtp509886383-455:https://192.168.211.20:8443/principals/users/] [aname=admin@zimbralab.local;ip=192.168.211.1;ua=Mac+OS+X/10.10.5 (14F27) CalendarAgent/316.1;] dav - DavServlet operation REPORT to /principals/users/ (depth: zero) finished in 5ms 2015-07-09 04:27:53,569 INFO [qtp509886383-455:https://192.168.211.20:8443/dav/admin%40zimbralab.local/] [aname=admin@zimbralab.local;ip=192.168.211.1;ua=Mac+OS+X/10.10.5 (14F27) CalendarAgent/316.1;] FileUploadServlet - saveUpload(): received Upload: { accountId=18fab885-e345-436f-8428-805d7835d019, time=Thu Jul 09 04:27:53 BST 2015, size=2153, uploadId=0ed0f6ed-3a87-433a-a2b2-805338441498:97a9d0de-8eb5-4545-bf27-c64ca5338f5c, name=null, path=null } 2015-07-09 04:27:53,633 INFO [qtp509886383-455:https://192.168.211.20:8443/dav/admin%40zimbralab.local/] [aname=admin@zimbralab.local;ip=192.168.211.1;ua=Mac+OS+X/10.10.5 (14F27) CalendarAgent/316.1;] dav - DavServlet operation PROPFIND to /home/admin@zimbralab.local/ (depth: one) finished in 64ms
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