Thunderbird Lightning Exchange Calendar

Thunderbird Lightning Exchange Calendar

2021, Jan 21    

Howto: Exchange Calendar in Thunderbird Lightning

Attention: This method works fine for pulling events from Exchange calendar but has issues when pushing into Exchange. e.g. changing status to Accepted or Declined does not work. (for me workaround is to accept or decline on my cell phone)

There is another (paid) option. See discussion on confluence page: https://confluence.oraclecorp.com/confluence/display/cel/Configure+Thunderbird+Calendar+for+Exchange

Thunderbird - Lightning - Calendar

You need following Add-Ons:

Install them and restart Thunderbird

Check in Add-Ons if enabled:

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Open TbSync (Tools -> Synchronization Settings (TbSync)) -> on Linux (in Edit menu)

Account Actions -> Add new account -> Exchange ActiveSync

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Select Microsoft Office 365 and provide Account Name (any name) and your SSO login as below:

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After clicking Add Account you will be redirected to SSO login page. Login with your SSO credentials 04.lighta.png

After successful login you can see your account:

04.light.png Enable and synchronize this account needs to be checked and under Available resources select what needs to be synchronized (Calendar). After that click on Synchronize now

In this window you can set Periodic synchronization -> this is the number of minutes every which the synchronization will take place.

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In the above example every 5 minutes calendar will be refreshed.

To force refresh of calendar (and not wait for the number of minutes for periodical refresh) you can click in the bottom right corner as below:

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In the opened window click on Synchronize now as shown before.

If everything went fine you should see in Calendar tab entries from Exchange calendar:

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