We use a school-wide calendar that we have had viewable in an iFrame on our website for quite some time.  It appears that a couple weeks ago it started failing.

This was difficult to diagnose, because when not logged into live.com, the behavior changes depending on if we are on our internal network.  
  • Inside our offices, the calendar appears on the page as it always has.
  • outside our network, the page fails to load and displays an error resolving the URL.
This master calendar of ours is what we have students, teachers and parents reference for upcoming events.

What changes need to be made to this to make it function as we have been using it?

Testing on my own account, the behavior is duplicated:
  1. I view my calendar.
  2. I click "Share" and select the calendar.
  3. I select "Get a link" and choose "Links to event details".
  4. I select the "View in a web browser (HTML)" URL.
  5. I load that URL into a separate browser window and I get the error: 
    Firefox: Firefox can't find the server at cid-f2330174b08b9a40.calendar.live.com.
    Chrome: The server at cid-f2330174b08b9a40.calendar.live.com can't be found, because the DNS lookup failed.
    IE: 
    Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage.  This problem can be caused by a variety of issues, including:
    • Internet connectivity has been lost.
    • The website is temporarily unavailable.
    • The Domain Name Server (DNS) is not reachable.
    • The Domain Name Server (DNS) does not have a listing for the website's domain.
    • There might be a typing error in the address...
Can this be fixed?  How do we share our Master Calendar to viewers outside of our network/domain?

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