Appendix F: UICalendar Oracle Calendar Outlook Connector Install and Setup

Oracle Calendar Outlook Connector allows you to use Outlook to manage your UICalendar database. When you're finished installing Outlook Connector, your schedule will be available to you in UICalendar on the Web or at home, using either Outlook or a Oracle Calendar native client. This is really cool. Another cool thing is the Outlook Connector email client keeps email on the ACCC email servers, so you can read the email you leave on the server using the ACCC's WebMail Web service from anywhere there's an Internet Connection and a Web browser.

There's more information on installing Outlook Connector in the Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g Documentation Portal. Unfortunately, it is a two frame set of Web pages, with a table of contents on the left, and the Web pages opening on the right. The Outlook Connector section is about half-way down, with the heading: Oracle Connector for Outlook. It has all you need to know, including installation information.

See also Oracle Connector for Outlook Troubleshooting and FAQs, which has a lot of general and troubleshooting questions and answers, and the Oracle Connector for Outlook Readme.

• If you use Outlook in a "stand-alone" mode (all data is located on your PC and you do not access a Microsoft Exchange Server), then Outlook Connector can be used to connect Outlook with the UICalendar server, and you are an ideal candidate to use Oracle Outlook Connector using the instructions in this Web page.
• If you use Outlook to access your email and calendar on a Microsoft Exchange server but you do not cross-schedule with others, you should be able to install Outlook Connector using these instructions.
• If you use Outlook to access a Microsoft Exchange Server and you do cross-schedule with a small group (3-4 others), and if the entire group is interested in the possibilities of switching to UICalendar Outlook Connector, please send mail to uicalendar@uic.edu and we'll try to assist you. Note that we have not yet attempted this (the ACCC does not run Exchange), so you will be helping us to explore this area, which could eventually lead to monetary savings for departments that use Exchange.

Operating Systems

Microsoft Windows Vista - Home or Professional, Microsoft Windows 2003 Server, Microsoft Windows XP - Home or Professional, Microsoft Windows 2000
Note: Administrator privileges are required to install Oracle Connector for Outlook on Windows NT, 2000, XP, and Vista,.

Disk Space

200 MB minimum
Hard disk usage varies according to configuration. Custom installation options may require more or less hard disk space. The amount of online data the user accesses may also affect the disk space requirement.

Memory

Refer to the RAM requirements of your Microsoft Outlook client.

Microsoft Outlook

Microsoft Outlook 2000 with Service Pack 3 (SP3), Microsoft Outlook 2002 with Service Pack 3 (SP3), Microsoft Outlook 2003 (with Service Pack 2), not Outlook 2007 at this time. Other Service Packs may work, so says Oracle.

New this Version

Support for POP3 mail service.

Notes:

• Native Language version or Multilingual User Interface (MUI) Pack is required for non-English version localization.
• To ensure the best possible performance of Oracle Connector for Outlook, install the latest Microsoft Office service packs

Conduits for PDA Synchronization

• ActiveSync
  • 4.1 for Pocket PC devices
  • 4.2 or 4.5 for Windows Mobile 5 and Windows Mobile 6 devices
  • Note: ActiveSync 4.5 only supports Outlook XP or later.
• Windows Mobile Device Center (WMDC) for Windows Vista o
  • 6.1 or 6.2 for Windows Mobile 5 and Windows Mobile 6 devices
  • Note: WMDC 6.1 for Vista only supports Outlook 2003 or later.
• iPhone Synchronization
  • OutlookSyncClient with iTunes 7.4.2.4
  • Note: Some limitations such as I) modified recurring meeting instances (exceptions) from iPhone is not synchronized back to OCFO, and II) new recurring meetings created from iPhone does not get synchronized with Outlook (with or without OCFO).
  • Note: iPhone could only be synched with Outlook 2003 using iTunes. This is an iPhone sync requirement.
• PocketMirror 3.1.6 to 4.1.x
• Note: Chapura PocketMirror is used with Palm Desktop and Palm HotSync to synchronize with Palm devices.
• Palm Desktop 4.1.4 'Extended version' to synchronize directly between Oracle Connector for Outlook and Palm devices.
• Blackberry Desktop Manager (BDM) 3.6.0 to 4.1.1.x
  • Note: Versions after 3.6.0 require the "Oracle Connector BBDM Patch 1.1" to synchronize with BlackBerry devices. BDM version 4.2 is not supported due to changes made in the BDM software.

Preinstallation Requirements

• A supported Microsoft Outlook version must be installed on a supported platform.
  
  
• Windows 2000, XP, and Vista require you to have administrative privileges on your computer in order to install Oracle Connector for Outlook.
  
  
• Outlook 2000 must be installed in the Corporate or Workgroup (CWG) mode. To verify your Microsoft Outlook configuration, click the Tools menu and select Options, then Mail Services, then Reconfigure Mail Support.
  
  
• To avoid losing information, Oracle recommends that you synchronize your offline folders before upgrading.
  
  
• You must reinstall Oracle Outlook Connector when you upgrade Outlook itself.

Downloads for all the Oracle Calendar clients, including the Outlook Connector, are on a single Web page: UICalendar Downloads

For more information, including details on various versions of Outlook, see the Oracle Connector for Outlook section in the Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g Documentation Portal.

Before you install the Outlook Connector, you have to export your current Outlook data into an Outlook .pst file so you can import it back into the Outlook Connector after you install it.

1. Open Outlook and select File -> Import and Export
2. Select Export to a file and click Next>
3. Select Personal Folder File (PST) and click Next>
4. Select Outlook Today or Personal Folders -- whatever you normally need to do to get Outlook Today form your to calendar display -- and click Include subfolders and click Next>.
   
   
5. Select a local disk for the the copy to be written onto and a unique filename, say copymove.pst and click Next>
6. Select a unique folder name for the copy, so you'll be able to recognize it in Outlook; say, Copy to move, and click OK.
   
   
7. A progress box will open. If you have a complicated Outlook calendar, it can take a long, long time to export your data, so have patience. It might appear to be stalled, even, but wait a while; it might not be. It will say that it's exporting your Calendar, your Notes, etc.
8. You might want to open it in Outlook when you're done just to make sure it worked out OK:
   1. File -> Open -> Personal Folders File (PST)... or Outlook Data File... in Outlook 2002/XP and 2003
   2. A file open dialog box opens; find the file that you just created (the file name you selected in step 5), and select it.
   3. It will open in Outlook with the Name you selected in step 6 as the heading. In older Outlooks, click little down arrow by the name to open the folder list. Click the + to open and check the various Outlook folders to make sure everything is there. In Outlook 2003, be sure to also compare the Calendars.
   
   

Configure Outlook 2000 for Corporate or Workgroup Mode.

1. Start Outlook, go to the Tools menu, selection Options, select the Mail Delivery or Mail Services tab, then click the Reconfigure Mail Support... button.
2. The E-Mail Service Options wizard opens. Click the radio button for Corporate or Workgroup and click Next>.
   
   
3. A dialog box will open warning you that Outlook will be changing its Internet support to Corporate/Workgroup Support and asking you whether you're sure you want to proceed. Clicking Yes will cause Outlook to restart.
   
   
4. Restart Outlook. Since most MS Office installs install only the parts of MS Office that you'll be using, you'll be asked to for your MS Office install disks at this point.
5. Close Outlook.

1. Close Outlook if open.
2. Go to Download Links page above and click on the download link to download the Oracle Outlook Connector Installer.
3. Click on download link for Outlook Connecter.
   1. Either save the file to your disk and double-click on downloaded file, or
   2. Open the file.
4. Click Next> on the introductory screen .
5. Enter your name and organization on the Customer Information screen, then click Next>.
6. Choose the location for the Outlook Connector software to be installed on the Destination Folder screen, then click Next>.
   
   
7. The next screen allows you to add support for different languages. Select any that you may want and click Next>.
8. Click Next> on the Start Copying Files screen.
9. On the Profiles screen, click the radio button beside Create a new profile and click Next>.
10. Leave the Start Oracle Connector Configuration Wizard checked and click Finish.

1. On the Oracle Connector Configuration Wizard Welcome screen, click Next>.
2. Click Corporate Time Outlook Connector to highlight it and click Next>.
3. Fill in the boxes on the Services Settings screen:.
   
   • Server name: uicalendar.uic.edu
   • Account Name: your netid, so Ada Byron Lovelace would put in adabyron
   • Password: enter your ACCC common password , if you want to.
   • Mail Incoming Server Name (IMAP): Ada gets her email on an ACCC server, so this is mail.uic.edu
   • Mail Account Name: your netid, if your account is on a UIC server. (It doesn't have to be.) Ada's is: adabyron
   • Outgoing Server Name (SMTP): Ada's working on campus, so she can use: smtpserv.cc.uic.edu
   • Display Name: is your name as you want it on your email messages: Ada Byron Lovelace
   • E-mail Address: is the return address to be used on your email messages; Ada's is: adabyron@uic.edu
4. We have to work a bit with the email settings.
   1. Click the More Settings button.
   2. Then on the IMAP4 tab, click Advanced.
   3. Check The server requires a secure connection (SSL).
   4. Click OK two times.
5. Then click Next> and Finish and you're done installing the Outlook Connector.

You can revisit the Configuration Wizard if you need to change something. You can't change anything to do with the Oracle Connector configuration within Outlook.

1. Make sure Outlook and Oracle Connector are closed.
2. Start -> Programs -> Oracle Connector for Outlook -> Oracle Connector Configuration Wizard

Now is the moment of truth -- you open Outlook. If Outlook doesn't open -- and it might not -- go back to Part 4: Configure Outlook and make sure that all the info there, including your passwords, if you put them in there, are correct.

After you get into Outlook, you'll find that it's empty, but don't panic. You still have everything in Copy for Moving. If your first try to bring it back fails, you can try again, because you'll still have Copy for Moving.

1. Open Outlook. If it doesn't open without errors, go back to Part 4: Configure Outlook and make sure that all the info there, including your passwords, if you put them in there, are correct.
2. With your Oracle Outlook Today open, select File -> Import and Export...
3. In the Import and Export Wizard, select Import from another program or file, and click Next>.
   
   
4. On the Import a File screen, select Personal Folder File (PST), and click Next>.
5. On the Import Personal Folders screen, use the Browse button to find the Copy to move personal folders file you exported in Part 1 and select it. The options at the bottom of the screen are concerned with what to do with duplicates; you won't have any duplicates, so they won't matter, so you can keep the default, replace duplicates with items imported. Click Next>.
   
   
6. Select the Copy to move folder to import from (the name you selected in Part 1 above), select Include subfolders, and click the radio button by Import items into the same folder in: and select Oracle - Your Name from the dropdown list. (These should all be the defaults.) Click Finish and wait a long time again.
   

1. Close Outlook.
2. Start-> Settings -> Control Panel -> Mail
3. Click the E-mail Accounts button.
4. On the E-Mail Accounts window, there is a dropdown list at the bottom left labeled Deliver new e-mail to the following location:
   Select your Oracle Outlook account from the list. (Not very obvious, is it?)
5. Click: Finish -> Close

When you log back into Outlook; Outlook Today will have your UICal data in it and UICal will be your default info.

This is for version 10.1.3, which is the current version as I add this. There is no particular reason to expect that it will work in other versions of Outlook Connector. If you find out that the instructions are out-of-date, please let us know at uicalendar@uic.edu.

1. Close Outlook.
2. Start-> Settings -> Control Panel -> Mail
3. Click the E-mail Accounts button.
4. View or Change Existing E-mail Accounts
5. Click Next.
6. Select Oracle Connector for Outlook.
7. Click Change....
8. For Outgoing mail (SMTP): use mail.uic.edu
9. Click More Settings....
10. On the Outgoing Mail tab:
    • With the Settings pulldown set to General :
    • Set Secure Server Connection Using to SSL.
    • With the Settings pulldown set to Authentication :
    • Check The server requires authentication and
    • Fill in the netid and password boxes.
      

Also, you will have to subscribe to the mailboxes of the email account that you selected for UICal.

Here is how to do it for Outlook XP:

1. Open Outlook.
2. Tools -> IMAP Folders -> Subscribe/Unsubscribe .
3. Highlight a folder/mailbox you want to subscribe to (to be useable in Outlook), and click Show. When I was testing this, Outlook subscribed Ada's mailboxes properly by itself. All I had to do was...
4. Click OK when you are finished.

Is the Outlook connector only showing you two weeks into the past and into the future?

That's the default date range. Having to set a date range for the calendar in Outlook isn't something you used to have to do, but it's a bug in the newer versions that you do. Here is how.

Here is how to do it Oracle Calendar 10.1.2 with Outlook 2003:

1. Open Outlook.
2. Tools menu -> Options... -> Oracle Connector tab
3. Click the Calendar Options... button (at the top)
4. Select Display Range from the Settings dropdown list.
5. Select the date range that you want in the Display my Calendar folder box.
   
   
6. Click OK then OK.
7. You may have to restart Outlook for the changes to take place; I didn't with Outlook 2003.

And here is how to do it for Oracle Calendar 10.1.2 with Outlook XP:

1. Close Outlook.
2. Start-> Settings -> Control Panel -> Mail
3. Click the E-mail Accounts button.
4. Click View or Change Existing
5. Select Oracle Connector.
6. Click Change.
7. Select the Startup tab.
8. Be sure Enable offline agenda is check.
9. Click OK, Finish, Close, etc. to exit and close the Control Panel.

Then open Outlook again.

1. Open Outlook.
2. It should now ask you if you want to Connect or Work Offline. Select Connect.
3. Right-click on the calendar icon of folder in the navigation pane.
4. In the right-click menu, select Properties.
5. Select the Synchronization tab.
6. Click the Filter button.
7. On the Appointments and Meetings tab, set the number of weeks in the past and the future that you want to see.
8. Click OK, and so on, to close the Properties.