Oracle Calendar will remain fully functional until August 18th, 2006. It will available in a read-only status for some months after that date so users can recover calendar information from the previous year.

Resources currently in Oracle Calendar will be automatically moved to GroupWise with the same name and owner. New resources will be entered by ITS GroupWise administrators on request.

Unfortunately, there is no product or service available that can move all of the calendar data from our Oracle Calendar sytem to GroupWise at a server level. It is possible for an individual user to export a range of data from their personal Oracle Calendar account to a file of a common format (iCal) that can be imported into GroupWise. This process is not flawless. For example, the links between instances of reoccurring meetings will be broken after they are imported in to GroupWise.

If the Oracle Calendar Sync software is unable to specify a Timezone, it will be unable to Sync to Sundial. This problem is caused by the misplacement of a file named "timezone.ini". The following steps explain how to fix the Timezone options in Oracle Calendar Sync. Go into the Start Menu -> Programs -> Oracle Calendar Sync for Palm -> Settings and in the settings to into the Time Zone category. If the Time Zone field is blank, you will be unable to Sync to Sundial.

No changes are expected for the academic calendar. For employees, we will be unifying holidays and the policies relating to vacation, sick, personal time, and things like that. Stay tuned – we will post the new policies as soon as they are finalized. As of July 1, the School of Medicine will become the College of Medicine. It will remain with PHEC which, as a separate corporation, will have its own Board of Trustees, most of whom will be appointed by Drexel.

A window titled Connection Manager will pop up. You may see an option called Off-line and that is all you will see. Your name should already be filled in for you in upper case letters including the middle name. Your name is linked to your Penn State Access ID. If you are wondering where this information came from, you can see it the official Penn State online Directory; this is your full name for display, according to Penn State's official records. It is comprised of all name components.

ITS maintains the Oracle Calendar service. If there are questions not answered here, go to the following website for more information:

You must change your Netlink password in order to change your Oracle Calendar password. To prevent inadvertent changes to your Netlink password, the ability to change your calendar password has been disabled in Oracle Calendar.

Yes, although you will need an additional program that will serve as a "conduit" between your hand PDA's programming and the VUcal's server database. The programming to facilitate this is called "CorporateSync", and versions are available for the Palm (MS Windows and Mac OS platforms), Pocket PC (MS Windows only), and WinCE (MS Windows only) PDA systems. Contact ITS's Software Licensing for more information on obtaining the programming.

OIT works with departments and other units to activate Oracle Calendar (formerly CorporateTime) accounts. In order for your unit to be activated in Oracle Calendar, ask your unit representative to review the information and complete the form at the following URL: www.oit.umd.edu/projects/calendar/request.html.

Cost. At .65 per month per user, it will cost Capital College less to support the Oracle Calendar both in staff support time and licensing fees. ITS has had the Oracle calendar service for a couple of years now. IIT has been duplicating licensing fees, staff support and service for that period of time. During that time, IIT has talked with other users of Oracle Calendar at Penn State.

The next time you log in to Calendar, the In-Tray will NOT come up first. Instead, it will be minimized at the bottom of your screen or be behind your schedule the next time you start Oracle Calendar. For this to continue to work, you will have to repeat step two each time you exit the calendar. Clicking the little "x" in the upper right corner won't do. This answer courtesy of Derek Nelson and revised for Oracle Calendar by Robert C Brinkley (robertb@psu.edu). (Derek.Nelson001@dsw.

From the Menu, click Tools/Manage Groups. A Manage Groups window will come up and the window will probably be blank with the word (None). The window will say "Manage your Groups from this dialog. Select a group from the box and modify it, or click New to create another group. Type the last name of a person for your group and click on the button that looks like a check mark, or, if you prefer, just hit the Enter key. That person will be added to the window underneath the members window.

helpdesk@psu.edu or http://css.its.psu.edu/consulting/consult.html can be contacted if there is a need for assistance. You did not have an account on the PSH Oracle server so one was not created for you at University Park. If you are interested in an The PSH calendar server is being shut down permanently March 30th, Friday. You might be trying to logon to that server. You did not have an account on the PSH Oracle server so one was not created for you at University Park.

If you wish to add an external attendee to your Address Book, or propose meetings to entries in your Address Book, you must enable your Address Book in Oracle Calendar: make sure you have enabled your Address Book in Tools, Options (Windows) or Oracle Calendar, Preferences (Macintosh):

Is conflict resolution performed when events are modified on both my PDA and the calendar server? (Windows only)

Yes. When you install the Oracle Calendar conduit, it syncs the Oracle Calendar asks with your PDA's To Do List.

We recommend that you sync your PDA with the Palm Desktop address book, not the Oracle Calendar address book. This is because your Oracle Calendar address book is stored locally (offline) on your hard drive, where the lock manager can make sure that your files don't get overwritten by another application. To make sure that your Palm Desktop address book is accessible to only one process at a time, the Oracle Calendar client must be closed when you sync your address book.

Sometimes techies are too tough and demanding on new and hot releases! It costs money to develop such amazing toys. I am buying this thing as soon as it hits the market. Worth every penny I don’t need it personally, but we always turn captioning on in the evenings so as not to wake the little one upstairs. I suspect 3rd party widgets will be allowed, but downloadable only from cingular or Apple sites, to make sure they do not break anything (such as promises).

Yes. Oracle Connector for Outlook connects directly to the database on the Oracle Calendar server so that you can schedule with other Oracle Calendar users and benefit from real-time scheduling. Outlook users gain all the benefits of the Oracle Calendar solution, including interoperability with the full range of Oracle Calendar clients (Windows, Mac, Unix, Linux, and Web), wireless connectivity, and personal digital assistant (PDA) synchronization tools.

Unlike the other Calendar clients, the ICON.web client can be made available both from on-campus as well as outside of it, giving you access to your information from anywhere. The ICON.web client supports the same calendar functionality as the desktop client including designate access and the resource scheduler. The only exception is the Address Book. The ICON.web client enables you to create and store your own set of contacts. These contacts will be available to you throughout ICON.web.

Answer: Your new Oracle Calendar will be a blank calendar with no appointments. You can start using the new Oracle Calendar right away. None of your existing appointments or tasks on the IIT Oracle Calendar server will be available to you after March 30th.

Download the version 9.04 Oracle Calendar? client. To do this, click on the following link: cal_win_9042.exe. If you prefer, get the installation file transferred by your assistant or yourself to a thumb drive or a CD and take the file home. You will need to logon to the secure server with your Penn State Access ID and password and have been pre-authorized to access the site. If you are having any problems, call Toni Moore at 717-948-6188. Toni takes care of the Oracle calendar accounts.

This answer is courtesy of the Office of Information Technology, (OIT) at the Georgia Institute of Technology who kindly gave us permission to post. What has happened is that you forgot the password for your Oracle Calendar offline agenda. This happened to me the other day because I changed my Oracle Calendar password. It's very easy to fix thanks to our friends at OIT. The simplest way to correct this problem is by deleting the local files that comprise the offline agenda.

Oracle's Calendar Client does not support Windows Mobile 5. If the device is able to connect to the internet via your cradle then you should be able to install Synthesis SyncML client and synchronise using that. You will need to enter the following settings into your SyncML client: How do I use my Palm Pilot/ Pocket PC? Your PDA should have come with a getting started guide, we advise that you familiarise yourself with this.

When a user receives a file attached to a meeting or a task from another Oracle Calendar account user, the file attachment is stored on the server:

if you can sign-in to the web client by following the steps outlined in Is there a quick way to check my calendar when I'm not at my own computer?, the calendar server is not unavailable