Use the Common PIM portlets with Exchange
The Common Personal Information Management (PIM) portlets Common Mail and Common Calendar can connect to a Microsoft Exchange server using the Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) protocol. A user provides the necessary configuration information through the portlets' preferences pages, and a portlet adapter communicates with Exchange to retrieve the user's mail or calendar information.
Common PIM portlet limitations with Exchange
When Common Mail uses Exchange, the following features are not available:
- Finding a message
- Single Sign-On
- Auto-detection of users' mail files when users authenticate with the LDAP server
When Common Calendar uses Exchange, the following features are not available:
- Ability to create anniversaries or reminders on the events page
- FYI fields on the events page, print page, and so on
- Accepting with comments
- View Invitee Status feature
- Group Calendar feature
- Single sign-on
- Auto-detection of users' mail files when users authenticate with WebSphere Portal
Security
See the following topics for security-related information on using the Common PIM portlets with Exchange.
- Enable SSL connections to an Exchange server for the Common PIM portlets
You allow Common Mail or Common Calendar to connect to an Exchange server over the WebDAV protocol with a secure SSL (HTTPS) connection by modifying the WebSphere Portal JVM to accept the Exchange server's SSL certificate and using the IBM Key Management Utility to make the certificate available to the Portal.
- Use the Common PIM portlets with Exchange and Java 2 security
In order for the Common Mail and Common Calendar portlets for Exchange to work with IBM WebSphere Portal when Java 2 security is enabled in the site, edit the WebSphere Portal policy files.
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