Free/Busy not available past end of year

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Duncan - 18 Nov 2004 19:49 GMT

Hello,

I have an Exchange 2003 Standard server on a Windows 2003
Standard server. None of my clients can see past the end
of the year in their free/busy options. I was hoping this
was just an Office 2000 issue (which all of my end users
have) bu the same issue happens on Outlook 2003 SP1. Any
ideas? Please?

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook] - 19 Nov 2004 23:02 GMT

Do they have their free/busy set for more than 2 months?

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After furious head scratching, Duncan asked:

| Hello,
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| have) bu the same issue happens on Outlook 2003 SP1. Any
| ideas? Please?

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Duncan - 30 Nov 2004 06:01 GMT

Well, I've done that on a few of the users, but it's November 29th so the two
month standard should show past the end of the year. I just applied the
service pack (with my fingers crossed) to no avail. The only thing I can
think of now is to change to native mode, but that has it's own problems.
This is a nice clean install of Exchange 2003 - it's only been up for eight
months or so. I hope you have a brilliant idea to get help me ... I have
users down my neck right now. Thanks!

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Marion - 30 Nov 2004 12:03 GMT

> Well, I've done that on a few of the users, but it's November 29th so the two
> month standard should show past the end of the year. I just applied the
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> months or so. I hope you have a brilliant idea to get help me ... I have
> users down my neck right now. Thanks!

I also have the same problem, running an Exchange 2000 environment in
Native Mode (so I don't think swapping to this is going to help). I
have about 7 exchange servers in the UK, plus others overseas, and
none of the Free/Busy Information is showing for accounts on any of
these servers past December 31st.. I've got users breathing down my
neck too, so any help would be much appreciated!

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Lee Jarvie - 30 Nov 2004 20:47 GMT

> > Well, I've done that on a few of the users, but it's November 29th so the two
> > month standard should show past the end of the year. I just applied the
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> these servers past December 31st.. I've got users breathing down my
> neck too, so any help would be much appreciated!

I just ran into this myself, but found the following. It only occurs
if your Outlook client is publishing the default amount of free/busy
data (2 months). When it publishes this data, one month prior to the
current date is published and whatever is left is published from
future dates. So, if you're set to two months, you get the past
month, plus the next month published. If you publish 12 months of
data, you get the past month and 11 months of future data.

It just so happens that if you are publishing the default, the end of
the data falls at the first of the year right now. Increase the
amount published by opening Outlook and going to
Tools-Options-Calendar Options-Free/Busy Options.

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