Sanity check Outlook ICS files publishing calendar to web

[pablo007]

Hi all, I think I am going mad, we want to synchronize our school calendar hosted onsite with exchange 2016 and outlook 2016 with our school website hosted online, I exported the ICS file and sent them (the hosting/support company) the URL they asked for.

 

I was under the impression that we could now create an entry in outlook and it would automatically synchronize? but this isn't working surely I don't have to export and resend the ICS after every new calendar entry?

 

can anyone sanity check my understanding please?

 

thanks in advance

Pablo

[mavhc]

So you're in OWA, click a calendar, share, send an email to yourself at an external address, and at the bottom of the email is says:

 

Having trouble viewing the calendar? Try adding an Internet calendar and providing this URL.

 

And the hyperlink on URL should be the calendar feed.

 

https://outlook.office365.com/owa/calendar/e14a6d05....sch.uk/dd4c.....715/reachcalendar.ics

[pablo007]

Sorry Mavhc i have obviously poorly worded this question. I wanted to know if an ICS file synchronized constantly with Outlook, i have since learnt that it is largely down to the software that the ics feeds into, on this ocasion every hour but thanks for your response.

 

Pablo

[mavhc]

If you give them that url as a feed then yes, it's always up to date. Question is are they continuously syncing it

 

However you said you exported a file, which would indicate it's a snapshot of the current calendar.

 

URL generally means your side is updated, file would mean it's not.

 

Then it depends on their side syncing.

[pablo007]

@mavhc that's a perfect explanation thank you appreciated.