XADM: Configuring the Schedule+ Free/Busy Connector

ID: Q147698

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SUMMARY

This article details the steps for configuration of the Microsoft Schedule+ Free/Busy Connector included with Microsoft Exchange Server.


MORE INFORMATION

There are two requirements that must be completed and verified prior to configuring the Microsoft Schedule+ Free/Busy Connector. The first is that the Microsoft Mail Connector must be configured correctly and verification of mail receipt on Microsoft Mail Postoffices should be performed. The second is that Directory Synchronization must be configured and functional between all Microsoft Mail Postoffices that will participate in the Free/Busy exchange of information and the Global Address list on the Microsoft Exchange Server must contain all ADMINSCH accounts from the Microsoft Mail Postoffices.

During the installation of the Microsoft Exchange Server, you must choose to install the Microsoft Mail Connector in order to have the Microsoft Schedule+ Free/Busy Gateway also be installed. If you did not install the Microsoft Mail Connector on a Microsoft Exchange Server that will handle the Microsoft Schedule+ Free/Busy Connector, run Setup.exe in maintenance mode and choose this option.

The installation routine will create an account on the server the Free/Busy Gateway is installed on with a friendly name of Microsoft Schedule+ Free Busy Connector and an alias of AdminSch. This account is located in the Recipients container. In addition to the above, a Microsoft Exchange Service is added to the Microsoft Exchange Server called MS Schedule+ Free/Busy Connector. By default, this service is set to manual. Once configured, you should change this to start automatically using the Control Panel's Services applet.

In the Microsoft Exchange Administrator program, create a Distribution List consisting of all your Microsoft Mail or PROFS ADMINSCH accounts. The Distribution List name can be any name. This list will be used when configuring the Microsoft Schedule+ Free Busy Connector recipient.

In order to monitor the activity on the gateway ( in other words, receive any error messages), you can either create a new Microsoft Exchange Mail account or use an existing account. This account is used in the configuration of the Microsoft Schedule+ Free Busy Connector recipient.

In the Administrator program, open the property page for the Microsoft Schedule+ Free Busy Connector mailbox and perform the following steps:

  1. Click the change button associated with the Administrator's mailbox and choose either the account created to receive the messages from the gateway or another account of your choice. Click OK to add this user to the field.


  2. Click the Change button associated with the Microsoft Schedule+ Distribution List and choose the Distribution list created above.


Adminsch.exe must be run so that the Microsoft Exchange Server Connector PO can be added to the list of Postoffices. It is suggested that the Update Frequency be set to the same as your settings in Adminsch.exe. It is NOT suggested that you set this value to less than 15 minutes because this can create additional traffic on your network. In addition, the shortest time frame for the Schedule Distribution processing on Microsoft Mail is 15 minutes.

Now start the MS Schedule+ Free/Busy Connector service from the Control Panel, (you probably want to make this an automatically starting service as well).

Ensure that the Microsoft Mail side is running Schdist.exe. Microsoft Exchange user's Free/Busy information will now be sent to all Microsoft Mail AdminSch accounts included on the Distribution List, and the Microsoft Exchange AdminSch account will receive Free/Busy updates from Microsoft Mail.

For more information on configuring Microsoft Mail with Schdist.exe and Adminsch.exe see Q141755.

Additional query words: XCLN Free/Busy configure 


Keywords          : kbsetup kbusage XADM 
Version           : winnt:4.0
Platform          : winnt 
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Last Reviewed: March 19, 1999