How to turn off Free/Busy in Outlook 2003

[Mike Bra]

I am having a problem using outlook 2003 against an exchange 5.5
client. When other users attempt to access my calendar using outlook
2000 (which we do often) the free/busy data is corrupt. I can login
to my account with outlook 2000 and the /cleanfreebusy switch and this
will correct the information, however, the next time I use Outlook
2003 the data is corrupted again. Note that exchange 2003 runs fine,
without complaint, but the Outlook 2000 clients are unable to access
my calendar. I would like to set my Outlook 2003 so that it does no
update the free busiy information at all, and therefore does not
currupt the data. Does anyone know how to do this?

 

[Megan Kielman]

You have a much bigger problem that needs to be looked at closer but to
answer your question...

Go to Tools, Options, Calendar Options, Free/Busy Options and set it to 0.
Also make sure that you don't have any delegates or others with access to
your calendar b/c if they make changes to it, depending on what their client
settings are for Free/Busy, it will recreate the the Free/Busy map showing
however many months the delegate has specified in their client.