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As the second article
of the Offline series, I'd like to talk about scanning and fixing your
offline folder, the calendar service and how to get more out of it.
Publishing
free/busy time
Before you leave
your office and head out to a client site, or just going offline, you
might want to consider publishing your free/busy time schedule first.
For Microsoft Exchange users, when someone schedules a meeting with you,
he or she can see your free/busy times by default. For others, you may
want to consider publishing your scheudule to a shared location on the
Microsoft Office Internet Free/Busy Service. (For more information, check
out http://freebusy.office.microsoft.com/freebusy/freebusy.dll) Alternatively,
you may also publish your schedule information on an Internet or Intranet
site. For details, click
here
You may limit others'
access to your calendar within the Microsoft Office Internet Free/Busy
Service, and regardless of access level, they will not be able to see
the details of your appointments.
For Outlook XP users,
you may also publish your calendar as a web page. However, the information
published is not updated dynamically as you update your calendar. With
this method, others may also see the details of your appointments. For
more information on how to set this up, click
here
Problematic
Offline Folder
A program to scan
and fix your damaged offline folder (.ost file) is installed along with
Outlook. This program is called scanost.exe. Its location is not too intuitive
and is usually not under your default path so it won't run if you just
type scanost into Run... or in the command prompt. You can perform a search,
or simply go to drive:\program files\common files\system\mapi\1033\scanost.exe.
Scanost will compare your .ost file against your mailbox on the Exchange
Server and try to fix any difference it finds. If there is anything it
can't fix, it will be noted in the scan log so you can manual resolve
the problem.
Did you find this
article useful? Do you want to see more of this kind or something else?
I would really appreciate your comments, feel free to email
me!
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