Outlook version issues with Internet Free/Busy?

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harddrive1610@lycos.com - 11 Mar 2005 17:00 GMT

Hi,

We are investigating the user of Internet Free/Busy for our project as
we have people from several companies who need to share their
calendars. While we are running Outlook 2003, others are not.

Do you know if there are issues with OL 2003 reading a VFB file from OL
2000 or OL 2002? or vise versa?

thanks!

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Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook] - 11 Mar 2005 17:09 GMT

IFB uses the iCalendar specification so it should be compatible, but I
haven't done any testing to confirm that or heard of anyone else who has.
IFB just doesn't seem to be that widely used.

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MillerJamesD - 10 Apr 2006 17:05 GMT

I have puzzling issue, where everyone uses Outlook 2003, with POP email only
- no Exchange server. Everyone access vfb files via a secured FTP server,
using their own user id and password.

Summary: 90% of our users work fine. 10% do not. For those not working, a
vfb file is created, but the icon looks different, and the file cannot be
viewed, renamed, nor deleted.

Everyone (including those with apparently corrupted vfb files) can view
free/busy time slots for anyone, except of course or those corrupted vfb
files.

Even for those with corrupt vfb files, they get success messages when they
click Send/Receive - Free/Busy Information. We tried isolating to FTP user
id's but that did not matter. We tried the Outlook.exe /cleanfreebusy
switch too.

I am perplexed. Outlook logging did not reveal anything.

Any help would be very much appreciated!
Thanks,
Jim

>IFB uses the iCalendar specification so it should be compatible, but I
>haven't done any testing to confirm that or heard of anyone else who has.
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