How can I retrieve & display Outlook/Exchange Calendar events in my web application?

Question

I'm building a web application (built in html/JavaScript/jQuery) that has a built-in calendar. I would like to pull in my Outlook/Exchange Calendar events and display them in my web application's calendar. What is the best way to do that from a JavaScript/jQuery environment? I've been searching all over for plugins or examples of how to talk to Exchange/Outlook and retrieve events but I haven't found a solution yet. We are currently using MS Office/Outlook 2010 and I'm not sure what the Exchange version is but can find out if that's relevant. I don't need to modify the calendar events, just read them. (Note that I can't just use an OWA Web Parts link such as " https://webmail.mycompany.com/owa/?cmd=contents&module=calendar&view=monthly " to display the calendar in an iframe; I need to have access to the actual event data so I can include other UI elements that I need for my application.)

Answer 1

You're going to need a combination of OAuth and the outlook API. I doubt it will be easy but here are some starting points... http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh826535.aspx

https://developers.google.com/accounts/docs/OAuth2UserAgent