Free/Busy Posted to Server

[ruger3717]

Since we are not utilizing an MS Exchange server, I thought the next best
thing would be to publish free/busy info to our server. I was able to post
my info, but when someone uses that same server path under my contact setup,
Outlook does not find the free/busy info. What am I doing wrong?

Joe B

 

[Diane Poremsky]

Version of Outlook? How are you publishing it? Does the other user have the
necessary permissions?

 

[ruger3717]

Outlook 2003. I am actually testing it on my own machine, so I set up a
dummy contact and attached my calendar file path to it. I published it using
Tools>Options>Calendar Options>Free/Busy Options>Publish at my location.

 

[Diane Poremsky]

did you make a dummy outlook profile for the other contact and test with
that? what path did you enter?

 

[ruger3717]

No, I don't think outlook is that smart. It should simply be looking for the
free/busy file for that contact as entered in the contact's info. I will try
to be more clear on what I did.

My profile -
I published my free/busy time using Tools>Options>Calendar Options>Free/Busy
Options>Publish at my location. I entered
"file://\\server\folder\calendar.vfb"
This worked. My vfb showed up on the server in that location.

Test (dummy) contact -
Following the instructions from MS knowledge base article 827775, under this
Test contact, on the details tab, in the Internet Free-busy address box I
entered "file://\\server\folder\calendar.vfb"
This does not seem to work. Any suggestions on where the error lies?

 

[Diane Poremsky]

the dummy needs to log into outlook and let outlook upload his FB so you
have something to see...

 

[ruger3717]

How does Outlook know the file was not uploaded by the dummy contact? Is
there a qualifier that links that F/B file to only my profile? Seems to me
that Outlook should load the F/B file it is pointed to under the contact's
info. In fact, I created a new contact with my information and it won't load
the file either. There must be something wrong in the path that tells
Outlook where to look for the information, but I followed Microsoft's
directions.

Any other ideas?

 

[ruger3717]

Hmmm...ok, this is strange. I had a couple of coworkers try to set this up
and here are the results:
Coworker using Outlook 2007: worked just fine
Coworker using Outlook 2003: does not work. Won't load F/B info.

Not sure why it works with one and not the other