Publishing 12 months of Free/Busy information

[markj]

Hi,
I have been asked to modify the default of 2 months of Free/Busy information
that is published to 12 months for all Exchange users. We have approx. 600
users on one clustered Exchange 2003 mailbox server.
Are there any implications of making such a change?
Thanks,
Mark

 

[sparr]

Mark, I have been asked to do the same thing. How were you planning on
making the change? I found two ways: Group Policy or a Registry Edit. Both
ways work fine if the user uses the Outlook client, but what about those who
only use OWA or resources that we have setup? I am also concerned about the
possible impact on performance if we extend the Free/Busy default to 12
months.

Thanks.

 

[markj]

Hi,
We were going to use Group Policy. OWA and resource mailboxes are not really
a concern for us at this point.
We are considering publishing 6 months initially and then going to 12 if we
see no issues.
Mark