Hybrid Free/Busy troubleshooter As customers move their organization into the Cloud or choose to coexist, there is a need to ensure that some of the basic functionalities users have grown accustomed to, continue to work. While some of you will move all of the users in a cutover fashion which...

For about as many years as you’ve used Outlook, you’ve likely used the guidance in the older Outlook meeting requests: Essential do’s and don’ts article. However, if you read the older document, you almost certainly noticed that the document only generally applies to newer Outlook versions. Over the...

Exchange 2010 had many new enhancements and improvements over prior versions of Exchange. One really cool feature was the introduction of the Calendar Repair Assistant (CRA). The CRA is a mailbox assistant that is configurable through the Exchange Management Shell and runs within the MS Exchange Mailbox...

Over the past year or so I have been working on this tool - adding functionality and checks based off my experience as an Outlook engineer, and from suggestions given by other engineers. Well, this February the tool has been released so that all our customers can download and use it to check for potential...

The key takeaway from my last post on this topic was that the Resource Booking Assistant never allows double booking of a resource room calendar as a result of a recurring meeting request (please see Automatic Processing of Recurring Meeting Requests with Conflicting Instances ). Since there are times...

Organizations often need to share availability (aka Free/Busy) information with other Exchange organizations. Depending on the version of Exchange Server you're on, there are different ways to do this. Let's take a look at three common scenarios and go through the exact steps required in order to achieve...

Exchange 2010 SP1 and Exchange Online (Office 365) incorporate federation to enable secure organization-to-organization free/busy and calendar sharing with other Exchange organizations. Also new is the ability for users to publish their calendar in iCal format to anyone, and for them to subscribe to...

The behavior of the Resource Booking Attendant may seem confusing when it comes to processing a recurring meeting request where individual recurrences conflict with existing calendar items. Some administrators have tried working with calendar processing settings in the hopes of allowing double booking...

To enable cross organization/premise Free/Busy lookup for users located on Exchange 2007 servers when there is an organization relationship in place with the business instance of the Microsoft Federation Gateway (default instance for Exchange 2010 SP1) it is necessary to add the availability address...

EDIT 4/15/2010: Fixed two typos in examples. The process of finding a conference room in the building you want to meet and then hoping it is available can be a time-consuming process. Well this is all about to change! In the release of Exchange 2010 and Outlook 2010 we have introduced a new feature called...

There is potential for calendar related problems when new diagnostic logging for Message Access, which is available in Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 2 (SP2) is raised from its default setting of Lowest . A Knowledge Base article and a fix are in the works at this time and will be available soon...

When you use a single server in your organization, but wish to publish Free/Busy for Exchange users from another organization (using the Add-AvailabilityAddressSpace cmdlet and InterOrg replication or third party solutions), it is important to remember the following: DAV requests made by the Availability...

Microsoft has learned of a potential change to the observance of daylight saving time (DST) in Iraq. This change may affect customers who use the Baghdad time zone. An early, unsubstantiated report says that the Ministry of Iraq has decided that the country will no longer observe DST even though they...

The government of Argentina has announced (read more about it here , here and here ) the implementation of daylight saving time (DST) in Argentina. The following are the start and end dates for the daylight saving time defined: Daylight saving time begins: Sunday, December 30 th , 2007 at 00:00...

If you have not used the Time Zone Data Update Tools in your environment previously and you have users with appointments that appear to be off by one hour during the week of October 28, 2007 – November 4, 2007 then you should consider whether or not to run the Exchange Calendar Update Tool (941018...

Back in February we have posted a video series on how to use DST 2007 tools. Those were a great success (based on the feedback we have received). I wanted to let you know that the original post has been updated because Steve Justice has recorded a new video series that walks through the process using...

EDIT: This post has been updated on 10/9/2007 to address comments and questions that we got from you on original post. The Exchange Calendar Update Configuration Tool was not designed to work in a report only mode through the tool's UI. However, there is a technical work around that will allow you to...

Well, it's that time again.  Time for the clocks to change, as a result of Daylight Savings Time (DST).  If you are an Exchange administrator, and haven't heard how the time changes impact your messaging environment, then you have probably been shipwrecked on a deserted island with no communication...

I wanted to let you know that there is going to be a DST related Webcast this coming Friday. Event details: Available on Friday, September 14th at 9am PT: Preparing for Daylight Saving Time: This Webcast will provide an overview of information on Microsoft products and resources available to help...

Update 4/16/2009: We have corrected an incorrect permissions entry in this blog post. Heard of the term calendar concierge ? Look up http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2006/07/24/428390.aspx . In this post I'm going to talk about what happened to the Auto Accept Agent in Exchange Server 2007 and how...

In this video, we are demonstrating how to use the updated Outlook Time Zone Tool to update a resource mailbox. We are also demonstrating one of scenarios where a meeting item may become double booked if Direct Booking is used. Please view this to help you understand the process of updating your resource...

If you did not see our Webcasts for daylight saving time changes in 2007 page yet, you should know that there are two DST Webcasts coming up this week: Preparing for daylight saving time: How to make the DST transition step-by-step Microsoft DST team members walk through how to use the Windows, Exchange...

EDIT: This post has been edited on 9/14/2007 to point to new versions of videos. We have put together three demos that you can use to familiarize yourself with the process of running the DST tools. We think that the following three scenarios cover what people need to run most often. DST: How...

If you have been checking our DST Webcast page , you could see the following Webcast is coming up shortly: Preparing for Daylight Saving Time: How To Make The Transition Step-by-Step Event ID: 1032330844 Language(s): English. Product(s): Exchange Server,Outlook,Windows. Audience(s): IT Professional....

When running the Exchange Time Zone Update tool, or the Outlook Time Zone update tool, issues may arise with Resource mailboxes. There are two methods of managing Resource mailboxes. The first method is using the Auto Accept Agent. The second method is by implementing Direct Booking using Outlook's Resource...