Creating Your Own Free/Busy Server

If you don’t have Exchange Server in your organization, you can still publish your free/busy information to enable others, whether inside or outside your organization, to view that information for scheduling purposes. As explained earlier in this chapter, Outlook 2007 can publish to FTP, HTTP, or file URLs. Which type you choose depends on the availability of such servers in your network, whether outside users need access to the free/busy information, and firewall and security issues for incoming access to the servers. For example, if your network does not allow FTP traffic through its firewalls but does allow HTTP, HTTP would be the choice for your free/busy server. However, keep in mind that publishing and ...

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