Configuring User Calendars — Microsoft Exchange
Configuration of user calendars has the following prerequisites:
You must have a network connection to your e-mail server.
You must have the URL of the Microsoft Exchange server. Consult with your mail server administrator to obtain this information.
Each user account must be configured with the user's e-mail address as recognized by the e-mail server. Navigate to
Navigate > Applications > Administration > System-Wide > User Management > Users. Click the
User ID link to open the Edit User panel and specify the user's e-mail address.
Note: This typically needs to be done only for users that have been created manually in My webMethods. Users derived from an LDAP directory would normally already have an e-mail address.
To configure user calendars for Microsoft Exchange
1. In My webMethods: Navigate > Applications > Administration > System-Wide > Calendars Management.
2. Click the User Calendars tab.
3. On the User Calendars Configuration panel, enter the following:
External User Calendar—Select Microsoft Exchange from the drop-down list.
External host name or IP—Enter the URL for the Exchange e-mail server; for example,
main.mail.server.com. To use a secure connection to the server, you must specify a server URL starting with https://. Otherwise, the http protocol is used by default.
Email User Attribute—This is the attribute from User attribute page that is used to pass the e-mail account name to the server to identify the correct user calendar on the Exchange server. The default value
email passes the e-mail address entered on the Edit User page; in most cases, this is the information required by the server. If this value does not work, consult with your mail server administrator to determine the required value. In this case, you must define a new dynamic attribute at the role level and configure it to pass the required information.
Calendar Data Caching—This value specifies how often the user calendar information is retrieved from the mail server. Select a value from the drop-down list. The information is cached in
My webMethods Server until the next refresh time. Select No Cache to retrieve the calendar information from the mail server with each request.
Time Window —This value specifies the calendar time period that is retrieved from the mail server, beginning with today's date. Select from the drop down list.
Time Slot—This value defines the time divisions displayed in the user calendar. Events that are of a shorter duration than the selected value are "rounded up" to the selected value. Select a value from the drop-down list.
Exchange User—The user name for connecting to the Exchange server.
Exchange User Password—Password for the Exchange user.
4. Click Update.
5. In My webMethods: Navigate > Applications > Administration > System-Wide > User Management > Users.
6. Click the User ID link to open the Edit User panel.
7. Click the Calendar tab. The calendar appears in the User Personal Calendar panel.