When you use Microsoft Outlook Web Access (OWA) in Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 or in Microsoft Exchange
2000 Server to create a new meeting request, you may not be able to view the Schedule+
Free/Busy data for some of or all the recipients of the meeting
request.
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This behavior occurs because of architectural changes in
OWA.
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When a user tries to view Schedule+ Free/Busy information,
Exchange Server determines which server in the site contains the Schedule+
Free/Busy Site Folder data. To do so, Exchange Server first connects to the
user's public folder database and then performs a query for the user's
Schedule+ Free/Busy information.
If the public folder database
contains a replica of the Schedule+ Free/Busy information for all the
recipients, the Free/Busy information is returned and displayed in OWA. If the
public folder database does not contain the Free/Busy information for all the
recipients, Exchange Server generates a referral to a server in the site that
contains a replica. However, for each recipient of the meeting request,
Exchange Server only queries the public folder database that contains the initial
Schedule+ Free/Busy information for the user who generated the meeting
request.
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To resolve this behavior so that Schedule+ Free/Busy
information is available for all the recipients, make sure that each server
that contains a replica of a Schedule+ Free/Busy site folder also contains a
replica of the Schedule+ Free/Busy site folder for every site.
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This
behavior is by design.
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