Freebusy Tool | Bulk Update publishing data period
Freebusy Tool | Bulk Update publishing data period
By default Outlook publishes 3 months of data ( or 2 months , not sure ). Recently working on a case I had to make it to 12 months for a large number of users. generally you as a admin need to open each ones outlook and change it from Tools -- Options --- Preferences --- Calendar Options --- Freebusy Options - Publish ___ Months.
If someone needs to know what does these number of months then please read :
http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/FreeBusy-Folders-Exchange-Server-2003-Depth.html
A tool is available at this link: http://www.swinc.com/fbupdate/files/FBupdate.zip
By default Outlook publishes 3 months of data ( or 2 months , not sure ). Recently working on a case I had to make it to 12 months for a large number of users. generally you as a admin need to open each ones outlook and change it from Tools -- Options --- Preferences --- Calendar Options --- Freebusy Options - Publish ___ Months.
If someone needs to know what does these number of months then please read :
http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/FreeBusy-Folders-Exchange-Server-2003-Depth.html
A tool is available at this link: http://www.swinc.com/fbupdate/files/FBupdate.zip
The Free/Busy Update utility allows you to update the free/busy data for a specified list of mailboxes using WebDAV for Exchange 2000 and Exchange 2003 (Exchange 5.5 is not supported).
By default, the Exchange server only publishes 3 months of Free/Busy information when generating free/busy messages using WebDAV or CDO.
The Free/Busy Update utility allows you to change this default to specify up to 12 months of FB information is published from CDO or WebDAV. It also updates a specified list of mailboxes to trigger the publication of this information.
Note: Changing the amount of published data from the default value beyond the 3 month default increases the CPU load on the Exchange server since more calendaring data must be processed in order to publish the larger free/busy window.
Courtesy : http://www.swinc.com
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