Yes, the Outlk11.adm administrative template file has a setting for that.

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"mtler" wrote in message ...
Is there a way of setting up "free/busy options" to be the same for all of
the Exchange users via ESM or GP? I want to publish Calendar 6 moths in
advance without asking each user to chage that in their Outlook?
I have Exchange2000 and Windows 2000 Active Directory.

Thank you