Using the Calendar Connector to view Novell GroupWise and Lotus Notes schedules

You can use Calendar Connector, which is included in Exchange 2000 Service Pack 1 (SP1), to query the free-and busy-calendar information of Novell GroupWise users and Lotus Notes users, and vice versa. This article describes the configuration procedure that you must perform before you install Calendar Connector on an Exchange 2000 server.

In a typical configuration, Calendar Connector runs as a Microsoft Windows 2000 service on a single server that is running Exchange 2000. Calendar Connector uses the Novell GroupWise or the Lotus Notes computer's client software to communicate with a single computer on the Novell GroupWise or Lotus Notes computer. Both the server that is running Exchange 2000 on which Calendar Connector is installed and the server that is running Novell GroupWise or Lotus Notes with which Calendar Connector communicates directly are called bridgehead servers.

In Exchange 2000, a bridgehead server is a connection point from one routing group to another routing group, a remote system, or another external system.

Before you install Calendar Connector on Exchange 2000, follow these steps:

1. Define a Novell GroupWise organization or a Lotus Notes organization to which Calendar Connector connects.
2. Install a Novell GroupWise or a Lotus Notes connector to the Novell GroupWise or Lotus Notes organization.

After you have completed these two steps, install Calendar Connector on a server that is running Exchange 2000, and then configure the Novell GroupWise organization or the Lotus Notes organization.

For additional information about how to set up Calendar Connector on an Exchange Server 5.5 computer to use the router for the Microsoft Exchange Novell GroupWise Connector that resides on an Exchange 2000 server, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: Microsoft continues to update the tools that support interoperability among Lotus Domino R5 and Lotus Domino 6, Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, and Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Active Directory. The updated tools for Lotus Domino replace the following tools that are included with Exchange Server 2003 and with Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 2:

• Exchange Connector for Lotus Notes
• Calendar Connector for Lotus Notes
• Migration Wizard for Lotus Notes

To obtain these tools and to obtain guidance and additional resources, visit the following Microsoft Web site: These updated tools provide additional functionality and address several issues that customers reported with earlier versions of the tools.