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Programmatically update Free/Busy Information via CDO or MAPI?

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Scott Townsend - 02 Jan 2007 22:21 GMT
Programmatically update Free/Busy Information via CDO or MAPI?

We have an App that creates Appointments in User A's Calendar. Though if
User B goes to see if the User  A is available for another meeting our
meeting does not show up in the Free/Busy data for User A until User A has
opened outlook and either waitecd 15 minutes or closed it.

Is there a way to Programmatically update Free/Busy Information via CDO or
MAPI?

Thanks,
 Scott<-
Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook] - 02 Jan 2007 22:42 GMT
The server updates the free/busy information at set intervals and provides
that information to Outlook. You can't update the free/busy information, the
server has to request it.

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> Programmatically update Free/Busy Information via CDO or MAPI?
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> Thanks,
>  Scott<-
Scott Townsend - 02 Jan 2007 23:06 GMT
So when our App Ran at 5:30AM it created 3 appointments.

I went in at 9:30AM to schedule a meeting with the user and his schedule
showed that he was free.  If I open his Calendar it shows me the three
appointments that were created.

The Three appointments only showed  in the Scheduling tab after I created an
appontment on his calendar (I'm a Exchange Admin) via Outlook.

Any Suggestions?

Thanks,
  Scott<-

> The server updates the free/busy information at set intervals and provides
> that information to Outlook. You can't update the free/busy information,
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>> Thanks,
>>  Scott<-
Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook] - 03 Jan 2007 14:05 GMT
Either the free/busy update interval hadn't occurred yet by 9:30 or the
appointments weren't created completely correctly. Either way you have no
way of forcing a free/busy update from the Outlook side of things.

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Ken Slovak
[MVP - Outlook]
http://www.slovaktech.com
Author: Absolute Beginner's Guide to Microsoft Office Outlook 2003
Reminder Manager, Extended Reminders, Attachment Options
http://www.slovaktech.com/products.htm

> So when our App Ran at 5:30AM it created 3 appointments.
>
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> Thanks,
>   Scott<-

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