Free/busy doesn't update when direct booking resources

[jp]

I have a question regarding free/busy information and resources. In
my production environment I've created several resource accounts and
enabled
them for resource scheduling in Outlook. When I invite any of these
resources to a meeting, the free/busy information doesn't update on
its
own even when I have set it up to publish every 2 minutes. The only
time it updates is when I open up the resource mailbox, which of
course defeats the whole purpose of setting up resource accounts.

Am I missing something here? Is this a common problem with respect to
direct booking? All I would like is for the free/busy to be accurate
so it's not misleading to the end user.

We are running multiple Exchange 2003 servers but centrally host the
free/busy system folder so server to server replication would not be
causing this behavior. All clients are running Outlook 2003.

Thanks in advance,
jp

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Check the steps on this page for your method of booking - you may have
missed somehting but I can't tell from your post:
http://www.slipstick.com/calendar/skedresource.htm

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my personal
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After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer, jp asked:

| I have a question regarding free/busy information and resources. In
| my production environment I've created several resource accounts and
| enabled
| them for resource scheduling in Outlook. When I invite any of these
| resources to a meeting, the free/busy information doesn't update on
| its
| own even when I have set it up to publish every 2 minutes. The only
| time it updates is when I open up the resource mailbox, which of
| course defeats the whole purpose of setting up resource accounts.
|
| Am I missing something here? Is this a common problem with respect to
| direct booking? All I would like is for the free/busy to be accurate
| so it's not misleading to the end user.
|
| We are running multiple Exchange 2003 servers but centrally host the
| free/busy system folder so server to server replication would not be
| causing this behavior. All clients are running Outlook 2003.
|
| Thanks in advance,
| jp