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exchange calendar 2013 is read only

Open orclex opened this issue 8 years ago • 14 comments

Hi,

I have installed thunderbird 45.0 and the exchangecalendar 3.7 addon. When configuring a new MS Exchange 2013 network calendar I enter the Server URL, email address, username and domain name. With previous installations I clicked on "check server and mailbox" and could select my calendar folder. After that the configuration was completed and I had access on my exchange calendar.

Now I click on "check server and mailbox" and get the message:

Only user availability status for the mailbox's calendar will be visible.

I can complete the configuration but my exchange calendar is read only. It is not possible to enable write access. I can disable the check box read only in the calendar properties but it still remains read only. I'm not sure if this is a bug in the exchangecalendar addon or a configuration problem with exchange 2013. But I know that it was working before and we had no change in the configuration on the exchange server except security updates.

Maybe someone knows the reason for that problem? Any ideas would be very appreciated!

Thanks you very much, Alexander

orclex avatar Apr 27 '16 13:04 orclex

can you check the permissions for that calendar in folder properties.

bavincen avatar Apr 27 '16 14:04 bavincen

Permissions are set to standard. Otherwise MS Outlook 2010-2016 and Outlook Web Access would not work too. I added for a test full permissions to a calendar folder but it is still only readable for the thunderbird exchangecalendar addon.

orclex avatar Apr 29 '16 07:04 orclex

I have this same problem with the latest beta version. If I uncheck readonly I still cannot add events. Most events have (busy) added after them. The calendar work in Outlook web version.

michael-higgins avatar May 09 '16 20:05 michael-higgins

I have the very same problem. The calendar is read only although permissions are standard. If I uncheck read only, nothing changes. I can't even see free/busy stats...

DdRanna avatar May 26 '16 20:05 DdRanna

I also have the problem I have tried everything to fix this. Various xpi's from 3.3.1 to 3.7 also this

  1. Removed all extensions from Thunderbird
  2. sudo apt-get purge thunderbird*
  3. rm -rf ~/.thunderbird/
  4. rm -rf ~/.cache/thunderbird/
  5. Reinstall & reconfigure mail, calendar

When I reinstalled TB and setup the calendar it is working untill I do the big restart or close Thunderbird when I open it again the calendar is read only I am currently using ver. 38.8.0 thunderbird and exchange plugin 3.7.0

Timberwolf76275 avatar Jun 09 '16 05:06 Timberwolf76275

Same problem here, only see busy status. It has worked fine for a long while, but with one of the recent updates stopped showing calendar events for one of my calendars. For another one, it still works.

45.2.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.3 exchangecalendar version 3.8.0

mtenorth avatar Jul 28 '16 08:07 mtenorth

All of you are using more than one exchange calendar with TB please confirm?

bavincen avatar Jul 28 '16 08:07 bavincen

Hi my IT. Dept found the problem you cannot use the password manager in t-bird there is a bug the best way is what is mentioned above.

Removed all extensions from Thunderbird
sudo apt-get purge thunderbird*
rm -rf ~/.thunderbird/
rm -rf ~/.cache/thunderbird/
Reinstall & reconfigure mail, calendar

but when you reinstall do not save password with password manager for the email or the exchange calendar after I did this it has been working fine for over 1 month

go ahead and add it I don't know if this fix works with windows but works with linux Mint Cinnamon 18 64bit

Timberwolf76275 avatar Jul 28 '16 08:07 Timberwolf76275

@bavincen Yes, I am using two Exchange calendars and several Google calendars

mtenorth avatar Jul 28 '16 08:07 mtenorth

can we add it to wiki @Timberwolf76275

bavincen avatar Jul 28 '16 09:07 bavincen

@Timberwolf76275 this resolves issue #464 ?

bavincen avatar Jul 28 '16 09:07 bavincen

Any news on this issue? Not using the password manager seems to be a workaround, but it's not really a solution.

mtenorth avatar Aug 05 '16 07:08 mtenorth

Unfortunately the error still exists in exchangecalendar v3.9.0 with Thunderbird 52.0.1

orclex avatar May 05 '17 07:05 orclex

The bug is still there do not save your password for the calendar and exchange works perfectly

Timberwolf76275 avatar May 05 '17 07:05 Timberwolf76275