Publishing free/busy information assumes that it is available via the
Internet. You will need either a FTP site, a web site or someplace
dedicated on the Internet to publish this information, perhaps a space on
MSN or other free service.

From the Outlook Help files:
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.
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After furious head scratching, aehan asked:

| Hello again
|
| I don't have an FTP site, I believe I can have a web page through my
| ISP, but I have never used it.
|
| Is this the key to publishing Free Busy? If so I will look into it.
|
| Sorry to be such a novice, I really appreciate your help.
|
| Aehan
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|
|| Again, here is the link to a wealth of information on sharing
|| Internet Free/Busy but you have posted nothing about what resources
|| you have to accomplish this. Do you have an FTP site, a Web Page
|| (perhaps through your ISP), etc.
||
|| It is very hard to tell someone how to park a car if they don't even
|| have a car.
||
|| --�
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| 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, aehan asked:
||
||| 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.
||||
|||| --�
|||| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||||
|||| 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:
||||
||||| 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?
||||||
|||||| --�
|||||| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||||||
|||||| 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:
||||||
||||||| 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!
|||||||
|||||||
|||||||
||||||| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|||||||
|||||||| F1 is the best place to start.
||||||||
|||||||| --�
|||||||| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||||||||
|||||||| 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 !
|||||||||
||||||||| Thanks