Free Busy in 2006

[MAB]

Of our 300 or so users of Outlook Calendaring we can only see the free/busy
information for 2006 on a handful of them. We don't have any trouble with
free/busy up to the end of 2005.

I had read some of the other postings and MS always recommended changing the
default 2 month publishing of free/busy to something larger, so we changed it
to 6 months, but there was no change.

Any other suggestions?

 

[H]

Try the following for the clients that can't be seen in 2006,

Close Outlook
at the run command dialog box type "outlook.exe /cleanfreebusy"

This should clean up the users free/busy database and make them availble to
be seen in the scheduler. Not sure why this only happens for the 2006 year.

 

[MAB]

Thank you, H. It turns out that a 2-step process did the trick. First we
increased the publish time to 6 months, then we ran the cleanfreebusy
utility. Neither one itself was effective, but both in this order cleared
everybody up.

I wonder why we didn't have any trouble going into 2004 or 2005, but such
are the mysteries of software.

Marge

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

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After furious head scratching, MAB asked:

| Thank you, H. It turns out that a 2-step process did the trick.
| First we increased the publish time to 6 months, then we ran the
| cleanfreebusy utility. Neither one itself was effective, but both in
| this order cleared everybody up.
|
| I wonder why we didn't have any trouble going into 2004 or 2005, but
| such are the mysteries of software.
|
| Marge
|
| "H" wrote:
|
|| Try the following for the clients that can't be seen in 2006,
||
|| Close Outlook
|| at the run command dialog box type "outlook.exe /cleanfreebusy"
||
|| This should clean up the users free/busy database and make them
|| availble to be seen in the scheduler. Not sure why this only happens
|| for the 2006 year.
||
|| "MAB" wrote:
||
||| Of our 300 or so users of Outlook Calendaring we can only see the
||| free/busy information for 2006 on a handful of them. We don't have
||| any trouble with free/busy up to the end of 2005.
|||
||| I had read some of the other postings and MS always recommended
||| changing the default 2 month publishing of free/busy to something
||| larger, so we changed it to 6 months, but there was no change.
|||
||| Any other suggestions?