How to show busy/free on my calendar items?

Thanks. I checked that, and as far as I know the server specified there is
correct. I added "/public" to the end just to try it, and nothing changed (I
would have thought it would at least complain about being an invalid path, or
something). It looks like my calendar uses the left edge of each appointment
box to show whether I created the appointment or not. It's black when I
created it, and gray when someone else did.

Someone at work just told me that there's no way to get Exchange to show
busy/free/tentative along the left edge of each appointment, but that doesn't
seem right to me.

"William Smith" wrote:

> In article <56B378F0-BBB3-4B70-B1C4-081351DEE704 DeleteThis @microsoft.com>,
> th77 <th77 DeleteThis @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I cannot figure out how to get my calendar view to show events coded as
> > busy, free, or tentative. But there must be a way to have this displayed
> > without going into each event... I'm thinking of how the left edge of the
> > event is empty, solid blue, or striped when I look at my calendar through
> > Outlook. Am I missing something simple? Thanks!
>
> If you're using Exchange, which this sounds like you are, then this
> functionality is handled by the public folders server. Can you verify
> that you have the correct public folders server entered into Entourage?
> Go to Tools --> Accounts --> <your Exchange account> --> Advanced. The
> server name will typically end with "/public".
>
> bill
> --
> William M. Smith
> (Microsoft Interop MVP - Mac/Windows)
>
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In article <AB1AEFAC-D3AE-4997-9A49-ED7BF1B8965D DeleteThis @microsoft.com>,
th77 <th77 DeleteThis @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> Thanks. I checked that, and as far as I know the server specified there is
> correct. I added "/public" to the end just to try it, and nothing changed (I
> would have thought it would at least complain about being an invalid path, or
> something). It looks like my calendar uses the left edge of each appointment
> box to show whether I created the appointment or not. It's black when I
> created it, and gray when someone else did.

That sounds correct.

> Someone at work just told me that there's no way to get Exchange to show
> busy/free/tentative along the left edge of each appointment, but that doesn't
> seem right to me.

You mean Entourage? It does have some appearance issues.

By default, Entourage enters calendar items as "Busy". You can verify
the status of any appointment by opening it and selecting Options -->
"Show Free/Busy Status As". The selected item in the sub-menu is the
status.

All appointments will appear on the Month view of your calendar. You
won't be able to see the status but you'll see every event.

However, the other views (Day, Work Week, Week) will only show
appointments that are Busy, Tentative or Out Of Office. They will not
show Free.

It stinks. I'm not sure if this is by design or just a bug. Maybe this
will be changed in Office 2008.

bill
--
William M. Smith
(Microsoft Interop MVP - Mac/Windows)
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"William Smith" wrote:

> > > Thanks. I checked that, and as far as I know the server specified there is
> > correct. I added "/public" to the end just to try it, and nothing changed (I
> > would have thought it would at least complain about being an invalid path, or
> > something). It looks like my calendar uses the left edge of each appointment
> > box to show whether I created the appointment or not. It's black when I
> > created it, and gray when someone else did.
>
> That sounds correct.

Okay.

> > Someone at work just told me that there's no way to get Exchange to show
> > busy/free/tentative along the left edge of each appointment, but that doesn't
> > seem right to me.
>
> You mean Entourage? It does have some appearance issues.

Yeah, whoops, "Entourage".

> By default, Entourage enters calendar items as "Busy". You can verify
> the status of any appointment by opening it and selecting Options -->
> "Show Free/Busy Status As". The selected item in the sub-menu is the
> status.
>
> All appointments will appear on the Month view of your calendar. You
> won't be able to see the status but you'll see every event.
>
> However, the other views (Day, Work Week, Week) will only show
> appointments that are Busy, Tentative or Out Of Office. They will not
> show Free.
>
> It stinks. I'm not sure if this is by design or just a bug. Maybe this
> will be changed in Office 2008.

Thanks for listing out this information! It's nice to have another person's
experiences to compare against.
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