Free/Busy sharing in Outlook

See: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/291621 for some background instructions on how to use the Internet Free/Busy feature in Outlook.

 

 

 

In particular, you can configure a global Free/Busy lookup URL in Outlook that will get the information from WebMail. Note that the file type is set to .ifb

 

http://192.168.1.192/calendar/%NAME%.ifb

 

 

The above is an example of a WebMail URL with %NAME% being the part before the @ symbol in the invitees address.  If there is a match for any invitee e-mail address then FB data is retrieved by Outlook.

 

It is possible to have Outlook publish the data by FTP but if the calendar is being synced to Mailtraq then it will already know the user's schedule.

 

 

Mailtraq does not calculate past Free/Busy times, only Future times. In the above example the 'No information' marks the period before the Free/Busy search was made. The highlighted zone marks available time.

 

 

Note
One must first enable iCalendar in WebMail (global administrative option).