There are a few different choices when wishing to publish your Exchange calendar to the internet. Some offer frequent and automatic updates, others require manual intervention each time you make a change. Publishing your calendar to internet can be useful when you want to share with someone who doesn’t have a University Exchange mailbox.

1. Publishing to Office Online

Office Online is Microsoft’s free service that allows Microsoft Live users to view and publish calendars to their website. The main pre-requisites are that both publisher and viewer need to have a Live account. Calendars are updated automatically every 20 minutes or so.

You can sign up for live accounts here. You have the option to create a new e-mail account that will provide you with hotmail, or have your @ncl.ac.uk e-mail address become your Live user ID. I’d probably recommend the @ncl.ac.uk route, but it depends what you are after.

The documentation on Office Online on how to publish calendars is very good and thorough, so rather than reinventing the wheel, here is the: Microsoft document.

2. Publish to a WebDAV Server

If you have access to a server that has WebDAV enabled you can publish the calendar information there without needing to have access to a Microsoft Live Account. Unfortunately, it is slightly more difficult to prohibit access. This would be acheived using file sharing permissions. Calendars are updated automatically every 20 minutes or so.

The Office Onlike document detailing publishing to a WebDAV server is here.

3. Save your Calendar as a Web-page

If you select your calendar and then select File – Save As Web Page you can generate files that you can publish on a web server. You have to manually re-save the calendar and re-publish the files every time you make a change to your calendar.