As many of you know, there will be a change next year in the transition dates for US daylight saving time. I won't go into all the gory details here, but if you want them follow this link http://www.microsoft.com/windows/timezone/dst2007.mspx This site Read More

The Exchange Server 2007 Availability service improves free/busy data access for information workers by providing secure, consistent, and up-to-date free/busy data to clients that are using Availability Web Service (like Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 Read More

Seeing that we have seen some support calls on this already, we wanted to highlight a KB article that was written about the above mentioned issue. The article in question is: Meetings are unexpectedly moved one hour ahead in the last week of October in Read More

Paul Tischhauser demonstrates the "Scheduling Assistant" feature in Outlook 2007 that is enabled with Exchange 2007. You can see the video here: Jason Mayans discussed the behind-the-scenes evolution of this feature on his Exchange 2007 IW Connections Read More

From working with customers there seems to be some confusion around how Free Busy information is generated and read by the client.  There is even further confusion about how to balance Free Busy access across multiple sites.  In this post I Read More

Someone asked the following, so I thought I would try and address the issue as I think it is one that is commonly misunderstood:   Could you enlighten us on what happens when an Outlook user uses the permissions tab on a folder to grant access Read More

This is my 4th blog post on the subject of Exchange 2003 Auto Accept Agent. If you want to see previous posts, you can see them here: one, two and three.   The listings of Mailboxes that are registered on any given server are currently homed in Read More

iCal, or internet calendaring, generally isn't heavily used or widely understood. When it is used, it generally creates some confusion since it produces different results based on what server and clients are used. Rather than babble on about all the RFC Read More

OWA normally posts only 2 months of FB data by default, this is done across all users on the Exchange server. Outlook has the ability to let each user post as much or as little FB data as they need. (Tools | Options | Calendar Options | Free/Busy Options). Read More

One question I see asked a lot is if there is a way to publish Free/Busy information for all users from the server-side.  In Outlook the default is to publish 2 months of Free/Busy information  per user. So is there a way to extend the default Read More

Exchange Free Busy (FB) data itself is not simple or easy to read. This will describe what the data looks like in the Exchange store, how it’s calculated and processed through the Outlook client.   FB describes when a user is busy over a Read More