Shared Free/Busy Information in Outlook at CONTROL
Prerequisites
- Outlook 2000/2003/2007
- Your UNIX home-dir mapped to drive letter (Z: is assumed)
Procedure
- Create the calendar directory in your public_html directory on the
UNIX servers (must be readable and executable by others, i.e. r-x)
- Go to Tools -> Options and select Calendar Options...

- Here you should specify your work hours and days, usefull for
others when scheduling meetings
- The "When sending meeting requests over the Internet, use
iCalendar format" should be enabled which ensures that programs like
Google Calendar also can be used for inviting attendees to meetings
- Click Free/Busy Options

- Select the number of future months to publish
- Set the update frequency (e.g. 10 minutes)
- Enable "Publish at my location"
- In the text field insert
file://z:\public_html\calendar\<USER>.vfb where <USER> is
your username, which must be the prefix of @ in your email address as
well (Note the drive letter is assumed to be z:)
- In the "Search location" text field write
http://www.%SERVER%/~%NAME%/calendar/%NAME%.vfb (Type exactly as written)
- Click OK until you're back in Outlook.
- Select Tools -> Send/Receive -> Free/Busy Information in the menu to upload you're free/busy information now immediately
- You can now schedule a meeting by choosing Schedule in the
Appointement editor

- In the "All Attendees" list type the e-mail address of attendees. Must be
control.aau.dk until personal websites move to es.aau.dk. If you have
the es.aau.dk in your Contacts address book then under details (in
edit Contact Information) put
http://www.control.aau.dk/~<user>/calendar/<user>.vfb in
the Internet Free-Busy address where user is the control username)
- External addresses can also be added so they will receive meeting
invitations and cancellations. The Accept/Decline functionality is in
iCalendar format so e.g. Google Calendar also will have these
buttons. It is not possible to see Free/Busy inormation for these
users (however it is possible to import/export calendars between
e.g. Outlook and Google Calendar using Internet Calendars (ics files)
in Outlook 2007. This will enable you to browse other calendars like
your own with the level of detail the user set on export)