Hello

I've been looking for information on how to publish my free/busy time to the
web and came across this series of questions and answers. I have sympathy
with Ty - I don't understand fully either. The thing is - does this apply
only if you have Exchange Server? I am working on a stand alone PC and
accessing the Internet and Outlook Email through an ISP using a POP server.
Can I still publish my free/busy time? What's confusing me is the reference
to a shared location - which makes me think I can't do it... Again, please
forgive an amateur, we don't profess to know as much as th experts, and
that's why we ask.

Thanks for your help
Aehan

"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:

WHAT is not clear? We are not mind readers.

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After furious head scratching, Ty asked:

| No obvioulsy the instructions are not clear, because it is not
| working. I'm trying to publish my calendar(s) on the web.
|
|
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|
|| Here, then let me help you out:
||
|| Publish your free and busy times for others to see
|| Show All
|| Hide All
|| For people who don't have access to your Outlook calendar, you
|| can publish the times that you are already booked and the times that
|| you are still available to a shared Internet or intranet location.
|| (If you're a Microsoft Exchange user, others in your organization
|| can see your free/busy times (free/busy time: In Calendar, time
|| status and user defined labels are indicated by colors and
|| patterns.) by default when they schedule a meeting with you.)
||
|| Regardless of how you publish your free/busy times, you can
|| change how often Microsoft Outlook publishes this information and
|| for what period of time.
||
|| 1.. On the Tools menu, click Options, and then click Calendar
|| Options.
|| 2.. Click Free/Busy Options.
|| 3.. To specify how often Microsoft Outlook automatically
|| updates your free/busy information on your Exchange server or one of
|| the servers used in the situations described below, enter a number
|| in the Update free/busy information on the server every x minutes
|| box.
|| 4.. To specify how many months of free/busy data is
|| available on the server, enter a number in the Publish x month(s) of
|| Calendar free/busy information on the server box. You can publish up
|| to 36 months of free/busy schedule information.
||
|| To publish your free/busy times to the Internet or Intranet,
|| do the following:
||
|| a.. In the Publish at my location box, type the name of the
|| server where your free/busy information is stored.
||
|| Notes
||
|| a.. The name you specify, such as
|| file://computername/public/name.vfb, can include FTP, HTTP, or file
|| URLs. b.. Anyone who you give the location to or who
|| acquires it through
|| other means can access your free/busy times.
||
||
|| What about those instructions are not clear?
||
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|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
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|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
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|| After furious head scratching, Ty asked:
||
||| Geee - thanks so much for that help. Duh !
|||
||| Everyone knows F1 is for help - since it didn't help me I thought I
||| would ask the group - didn't think I would get such a stupid answer!
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||| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
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|||| F1 is the best place to start.
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|||| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
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|||| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|||| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted
|||| without reading.
||||
|||| After furious head scratching, Ty asked:
||||
||||| I'm interested in Publishing my FREE and BUSY TIMES to the web. I
||||| see this feature is in Outlook 2003.
|||||
||||| When I check off Publish at my Location what do I put down?
|||||
||||| Any help would be appreciated !
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||||| Thanks