Viewing Free/Busy in New Meeting Requests

[yipperzz]

Hi,

I have a problem with some users when trying to schedule meetings in
Outlook. We are running Exchange 2003 w/SP1 and all clients are
running Outlook 2003 w/SP1. Everyone is using Cached Mode except for
myself.

When inviting people to a new meeting request, the free/busy times do
not show up when you hit the "Scheduling" tab. The times are greyed
out and say "Updating schedule information. Retrieving Free/busy
information from server" but it never updates after several minutes.

The weird thing is when you first open Outlook, you can create a
meeting and see the free/busy times. But if you create another
meeting, it gets greyed out. This is happening to only a few users. I
even tried the "outlook.exe /cleanfreebusy" switch and it does not
work. It will let you do one meeting request but any more and it will
grey out. Also tried removing clients from cached mode and it did not
work. Not sure what else I should try. Is there something else I am
missing? Thanks for the help.

Paul

 

[yipperzz]

Is there any sites that talk more about this? I haven't been able to
find much about this subject...

Thanks!

 

[yipperzz]

help please?

 

[yipperzz]

Any MVP's around?? It's hard to believe nobody else has ever seen this
issue before. Any suggestions? Thanks.

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Problem with your post - you neglected to include the previous
thread/question, making it impossible for anyone to answer. Most of us use
a read newsreader and clean up the newsgroups (delete old messages) every
day or two. Your thread appears out of the blue with no history.

Please repost the original question, complete with Outlook version, SP level
and Exchange version, if present.


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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After furious head scratching, yipperzz asked:

| Any MVP's around?? It's hard to believe nobody else has ever seen
| this issue before. Any suggestions? Thanks.

 

[yipperzz]

Sorry about that. I'm a newbie to newsgroups. Here's the original
post:


Hi,

I have a problem with some users when trying to schedule meetings in
Outlook. We are running Exchange 2003 w/SP1 and all clients are
running Outlook 2003 w/SP1. Everyone is using Cached Mode except for
myself.

When inviting people to a new meeting request, the free/busy times do
not show up when you hit the "Scheduling" tab. The times are greyed
out and say "Updating schedule information. Retrieving Free/busy
information from server" but it never updates after several minutes.

The weird thing is when you first open Outlook, you can create a
meeting and see the free/busy times. But if you create another
meeting, it gets greyed out. This is happening to only a few users. I
even tried the "outlook.exe /cleanfreebusy" switch and it does not
work. It will let you do one meeting request but any more and it will
grey out. Also tried removing clients from cached mode and it did not
work. Not sure what else I should try. Is there something else I am
missing? Thanks for the help.

Paul

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