Restrict visibility of attendee availability in meeting requests?

[aliciaJ]

My CIO does not want his "attendee availability" to be visible to others when they try to schedule a meeting request for him in Outlook. (i.e. he wants his line to show up as "no information" instead of "busy" or whatever)

Does anyone know of a way to hide this for a single user or for all users?
(he knows exchange admins can see it, but he doesn't want "regular" users to see when he's available or busy)

(Most users are on Outlook 2K and we're running 5.5 SP3 if that helps anyone with suggestions)

Thanks in advance for any suggestions,
aliciaJ

 

[Richardo]

Hi,

Free/Busy information is rather public, the only way I can think of preventing other people seeing what time you have free or busy is by having an All Day Event booked for every day. (All day events appear at the top of the Calendar screen, not spread over the entire day so it won't make a mess of their calendar.)

Bosses hey, who'd have 'em!

Richard

 

[Guest_imported]

In Outlook on the CIO's computers, go to Tools - Options - Calendar Options - Free/Busy Options and set the number of months of free/busy info to publish to 0.

Search the Microsoft Support Knowledge Base (Product = Outlook 2000 and Keywords = free/busy) for other interesting details of free/busy data.

Rich

 

[aliciaJ]

Thanks guys - I'll present both options and see what he prefers.

aliciaJ