It is a network latency problem - check with your network admin. Free/busy is stored on either the Exchange server or if not using one, the server where you chose to populate your free/busy information.

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After furious head scratching, da crusher asked:

| Hi All,
|
| We are running Outlook 2003 sp2, Exchange 2003 SP2 - I have a user
| who has the proper permissions to update other users' calendars - she
| does this by going to File Open other users' folder Calendar.
| The other user's calendars take anywhere from 15-60 seconds before it
| is fully populated and she can see all the entries. If she tries to
| make a change or add an entry before it is fully populated, she
| receives an error. Once it is fully populated, it works fine.
|
| Is there any way to adjust this? They are not in cached mode, so I
| would think it should be almost instantaneous(?).
|
| Thanks in advance!!