View Free/Busy between two exchange servers

[jdonalds]

One domain, two exchange 5.5 servers I want to be able to view the "free/busy" between users on each mail server? How would one accomplish that?

Thanks,
Jeremy

 

[zbnet]

Exchange doesn't care about domains - it cares about sites and organization, which you don't say.

 

[jdonalds]

I'm not sure that I follow. There is a site connector setup between the two servers. What do you mean by organization?

Thanks,
Jeremy

 

[zbnet]

You didn't originally say whether your two Exchange servers were in the same site or not, nor whether they were in the same organisation or not - the answer is different depending on where they are relative to each other.

If you have a site connector between your exchange servers, then they are in different sites within the same organization. Free/busy info is stored in a hidden public folder on each server - you can see this in the System Folders container (in Admin). For each site, replicate the free/busy folder to the other site in just the same way you would replicate normal public folders. This will cause each site to share its free/busy schedule with the other site. Depending on how dynamically people change their calendars, you could set a replication schedule for the folder so that the replica on the other site is fairly up-to-date.

 

[jdonalds]

Thank you I understand, though I've not done this before I will continue to research in order to complete. This will get me started and I'll figure out how enable the replication.

Thanks,
Jeremy