Visability of Calendar

J

John

Hi,

I believe the short answer is no, but I've been asked to check into
this, so here's the question.

Is there any program or anything that exists that would allow a
non-domain member to query a user's calendar free/busy time?

Example: We communicate with customers/vendors and want to schedule
meetings, which we can do using Outlook/Exchange. And, they can do the
same. But there is no way for a customer/vendor to know, when scheduling
a meeting whether the person is free at that particular time, unless
they call or wait for the person to decline and go back and forth.

So, we're looking for (ideally) a web solution where they could -

login (so anyone can't access the system)
enter a user name (or email address)
enter a date and see the free/busy time w/o details

Does anything (even remotely)like this exist? We are currently using
Exchange 2000, but expect to upgrade to Exchange 2003 next year.

Thanks.

John
 
S

Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]

This kind of functionality will be possible with Exchange 2007. Some current web solutions here: http://www.slipstick.com/calendar/olpubcal.htm You also might want to ask in an Exchange group what's possible with earlier versions.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
J

John

Thanks Sue. OWA is a possibility, although the desire is to just show
free/busy and not the details. Another option that I'm going to look at
is to use Crystal Reports to 'publish' a snapshot of the calendar at
regular intervals; i.e. once an hour. I'm not sure how well Crystal
interfaces with Exchange 2K (never tried that). We use it for reporting
from our ERP system (MS SQL based).

John
 
Top