Comments on: iCal - Exchange Time Zone Fix

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:09:49 +0000

Hey everyone. I’ve updated the script significantly. You can get it at http://thefragens.com/blog/2008/08/ical-exchange-time-zone-fix-chapter-2/

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 06:37:40 +0000

Dan, I may have found a solution I’d like you to try.

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 02:03:11 +0000

Martin, try re-downloading the script and try again. I was making some changes and you may have picked up a bum copy.

By: Martin

Martin — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 20:16:38 +0000

Quick question, I edited the script. Run it after selecting the message in mail, and yet nothing happens. No error, but I do NOT get the invitation moved to iCal, nor does it get automatically added...

Any ideas? Thanks.

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 03:56:36 +0000

Did the ‘Update’ I added to the end of my post help?

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 03:47:38 +0000

Hey Andy, I’ve just come here from Justins script blog. I initially tried using yours but had trouble with the mail rule firing correctly for new emails - as I mentioned on the other blog - If I manually apply the rule to ICS emails then it works fine - but thats not really a workable solution for me. Any ideas? Cheers,

By: Andy

Andy — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 00:35:41 +0000

Matt, we don’t connect iCal to Exchange. What we do is receive an Invite from Exchange via email and use the script to import it, with the correct time zone data, into iCal. The script should solve task 1, but isn’t going to help with task 2.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 23:47:49 +0000

How are you all connecting iCal to Exchange in the first place? I'm trying to use XCConnect from Xchange Network and I can update iCal and it goes to Outlook on a PC and then to Exchange, which is pretty good.

My two tasks are:

1) to be able to accept meetings from mail.app 2) to be able to see free/busy for my work colleagues that use Windows/Outlook/Exchange.

Any help/guidance would be greatly appreciated

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:27:53 +0000

Michael, glad it’s working for you.

By: Michael Jed

Michael Jed — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 10:59:16 +0000

I’ve been tearing my hair out over this bug in iCal since 10.5.x for a client. Waited thruOS X 10.5.1.2.3.4 updates. Finally I found this script today, modified it for Pacific EST (we’re in Australia) and it works! Everything was 10 hours (just happen to be 10+ hours GMT) out of place from certain Exchange servers, run the script directly from Mail and invite was added at correct time. Thanks!