Question : Autodiscovery workaround for Free/Busy and OOF status in Exchange Server 2k7 + Outlook 2007

Hi All,

Does anyone know any other work around for failed autodiscovery service in Exchange Server 2007 ?

When trying to view other users availability I get the following message.

Suggestions cannot be provided because Free/busy data could not be retrieved.
No free/busy information could be retrieved.

When trying to configure out of office attendant I get the following message.
Your out of office settings cannot be displayed, because the server is currently unavailable. Try again later.

here's the tweak that i know to make the "Plan a meeting" feature in Outlook 2007 working.

1. make sure in Calendar "Change Sharing Permission" set the "Default" to have permission on "Free/Busy time" option.

2. Do this two registry hack in every client PC using Outlook 2007 SP1 (attached snippet)

the question is, how do you enforce this registry hack throughout the domain and make every single Outlook 2007 user to have the option no. 1 as well ?

any idea would be appreciated very much.

thanks.

Code Snippet:

         
             --"under this registry folder a value called: Read URL : this value is empty put this URL and restart your PC."
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Outlook\Options\Calendar\Internet Free/Busy]
 
"Read URL"="https://servername.domain.com/ews/services.wsdl"
"--------------------------------------------------------------------"
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Outlook\Options\Calendar
Value Type: DWORD
Value Name: UseLegacyFB
Value: 1

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Answer : Autodiscovery workaround for Free/Busy and OOF status in Exchange Server 2k7 + Outlook 2007

For us Autodiscover was working great. The following link below nailed it perfectly for me

http://adventuresofanitpro.blogspot.com/2008/10/problem-with-autodiscover-on-exchange.html

Removing KB948609 from the exchange server resolved the issue. See links below

http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PageIndex=0&SiteID=17&PageID=0&PostID=3760137