Programmatically update Free/Busy Information via CDO or MAPI?

[Scott Townsend]

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]]

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.

 

[Scott Townsend]

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<-

 

[Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]]

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.