Unable to see free/busy information

Hi,
Exchange 2010 and Outlook 2010
Multiple Sites
Multiple DAGS
About 20 000 users
All users are working fine except for 2 so far with regards to Autodiscover
Symptom:
They are unable to see free/busy information from all other users.
AUTODISCOVER GET SETTINGS BEGIN
Enabled login on their Outlook and found the following:
Local autodiscover for domain.com Failed (0x8004010F)
AUTODISCOVER GET SETTINGS BEGIN
SMTP=[email protected]
AutoDiscover PreferLocalXML is ON.
Local autodiscover for Westernunion.com starting
Local autodiscover for domain.com Failed (0x8004010F)
AutoDiscover Warning: ExcludeScpLookup is ON.
AutoDiscover Warning: ExcludeHttpsAutoDiscoverDomain is ON.
AutoDiscover Warning: ExcludeHttpsAutoDiscoverDomain is ON.
AutoDiscover Warning: ExcludeHttpsAutoDiscoverDomain is ON.
AutoDiscover Warning: ExcludeHttpRedirect is ON.
AutoDiscover Warning: ExcludeSrvRecord is ON.
AUTODISCOVER GET SETTINGS END
Any ideas,

what the heck is this in there for?
AutoDiscover PreferLocalXML is ON
Between that that and all of the other settings I see, there is no chance that AutoD will work for them....
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[PS] C:\Windows\system32>
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Hi,
How many users encounter this issue, all users with Outlook 2010 or some specific users?
According to your post, the Error code 600 indicates that your Autodiscover service is working well. as for the certificate mismatch issue, we can also following the KB below to resolve it:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/940726/en-us
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retrieve it. Please directly access
https://mail.mydomain.ae/EWS/Exchange.asmx in IE and see whether a proper XML file is returned.
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[Forum FAQ] Why can't I retrieve Free/Busy information

Free/Busy information is a feature of Microsoft Outlook that allows you to see when others are free or busy so that you can efficiently schedule meetings. You can use Microsoft Outlook to publish Free/Busy information to any server
your and your coworkers have read/write access to. However, in some cases you’ll notice that you can’t retrieve Free/Busy information correctly from Outlook. You can try the below methods to troubleshoot and get the Free/Busy information again.
Since most users who often use this feature are using Exchange, all the information in this content is only based on Exchange.
General troubleshooting methods:
Method 1: Start Outlook using the ‘/cleanfreebusy’ command line switch
Method 2: Logon OWA to see if the Free/Busy information shows correctly
Method 3: Check the user’s Permission Level when only one user’s Free/Busy information can’t be displayed
Other causes
Autodiscover has not been setup correctly
Updates
Here are the detailed steps and explanation of each method and cause.
Method 1: Start Outlook using the ‘/cleanfreebusy’ command line switch
With the ‘/cleanfreebusy’ switch, it will clear and regenerate free/busy information when Outlook starts, sometimes this process fixes the problem that Free/Busy information doesn’t display correctly, and this is always the first thing we should try when
we can’t get the Free/Busy information from Outlook.
This switch can only be used when you are able to connect to your Microsoft Exchange server.
To start Outlook using the switch, we can press Win Key +
R to start Run, type ‘outlook.exe /cleanfreebusy’ in the blank box, then press
Enter.
Please note since Outlook 2013 only uses the availability service which is connected to Autodiscover, the command line switch ‘/cleanfreebusy’ has been removed as well as the associated code so that Outlook 2013 will not recognize this
command.
Method 2: Logon OWA to see if the Free/Busy information shows correctly
If you are using Cached Exchange Mode in Outlook and having trouble getting the Free/Busy information, please logon OWA, or switch to Online Mode to see if the Free/Busy information shows correctly.
If the Free/Busy information shows correctly on OWA or in Online Mode, this problem may be caused by the Outlook Data File(.ost) corruption, which leads to the sync failure. Therefore we should exist Outlook, browse to the Data File and rename it to “.old”.
The next time Outlook starts, it will regenerate a Data File to sync and we can check if the Free/Busy information can be retrieved.
The location of the Data File can be found from File tab ->
Account Settings -> Account Settings ->
Data Files tab. (Outlook 2010 and Outlook 2013)
Or Tools menu -> Options ->
Mail Setup tab -> E-mail Account -> Account Settings window ->
Data Files tab. (Outlook 2007)
If on OWA it displays fine but doesn’t show the information correctly in neither Cached Exchange Mode nor Online Mode, it may be caused by the firewall or anti-virus settings, disable them to verify if they caused the problem.
Method 3: Check the user’s Permission Level when only one user’s Free/Busy information can’t be displayed
When a user has set his Calendar Permission to None, other people will not be able to see his Free/Busy information. When we notice that we can get most people’s Free/Busy information but fail to get one specific person’s, please consider
to check his Calendar Permission:
In that user’s Outlook, right click on his default Calendar, click Properties, select
Permissions tab.
We need to at least switch the Permission to Free/Busy time to get his Free/Busy information correctly.
Other cause 1: Autodiscover has not been setup correctly
From Outlook 2007, Outlook uses Autodiscover to get the Free/Busy information. Once Autodiscover has not been configured properly, the Free/Busy information may not display correctly. If you are also seeing issues with Out of Office assistant, we may assume
that you haven’t correctly setup Autodiscover, since these two symptoms are common when Autodiscover is not configured correctly.
To verify that, please test Outlook Autodiscover Connectivity:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb123573.aspx
We can also learn Configure Exchange Services for the Autodiscover Service from:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb201695.aspx
Since Autodiscover Service is more Exchange related, we need to seek Exchange support and post the question in Exchange forum:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/exchange/en-US/home?category=exchangeserver
Other cause 2: Updates
Although Updates from Microsoft do no harm to the system for most of the time, the updates sometimes can mess things up.
Outlook 2013 November 2013 security update once became the culprit that caused some users not able to retrieve Free/Busy information from calendar scheduling. This occurs because Autodiscover fails for Exchange 2007 configurations. So in fact, this also
refers to the previous reason, Autodiscover is corrupted.
The fix for the issue above has been released:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2850061/en-us
Once you have some issues after updating and doubt it’s an update issue, you can always come to our forum to ask if there’s a recent update which causes the problem, we will be happy to support you. If a fix hasn’t been released yet, we suggest you uninstall
the suspicious ones from Control Panel -> Programs and Features ->
View installed updates to verify which caused the problem, also as a workaround.
Summary
The reason that we can’t get the correct Free/Busy information can vary. If you find it doesn’t work even after several general troubleshooting steps, please consider it’s Autodiscover related. For anyone who comes up against the issue that Free/Busy information
can’t be retrieved, please feel free to visit Outlook IT Pro Discussions from the URL:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/home?forum=outlook, we will be glad to help you.
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ExternalAuthenticationMethods : {Ntlm, WindowsIntegrated, WSSecurity}
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ExternalUrl : https://webmail.external.com/EWS/Exchange.asmx
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ObjectCategory : company.com/Configuration/Schema/ms-Exch-Web-Services-Virtual-Directory
ObjectClass : {top, msExchVirtualDirectory, msExchWebServicesVirtualDirectory}
WhenChanged : 10/20/2012 12:16:23 PM
WhenCreated : 4/1/2010 10:24:09 AM
WhenChangedUTC : 10/20/2012 4:16:23 PM
WhenCreatedUTC : 4/1/2010 2:24:09 PM
OrganizationId :
OriginatingServer : company-vadcp02.company.com
IsValid : True
RunspaceId : 36334262-34e3-4bb8-a2bc-2e6b9d232c81
CertificateAuthentication :
InternalNLBBypassUrl : https://company-vexcp02.company.com/ews/exchange.asmx
GzipLevel : High
MRSProxyEnabled : False
MRSProxyMaxConnections : 100
Name : EWS (Default Web Site)
InternalAuthenticationMethods : {Ntlm, WindowsIntegrated, WSSecurity}
ExternalAuthenticationMethods : {Ntlm, WindowsIntegrated, WSSecurity}
LiveIdSpNegoAuthentication : False
WSSecurityAuthentication : True
LiveIdBasicAuthentication : False
BasicAuthentication : False
DigestAuthentication : False
WindowsAuthentication : True
MetabasePath : IIS://company-VEXCP02.company.com/W3SVC/1/ROOT/EWS
Path : C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V14\ClientAccess\exchweb\EWS
ExtendedProtectionTokenChecking : None
ExtendedProtectionFlags : {}
ExtendedProtectionSPNList : {}
Server : company-VEXCP02
InternalUrl : https://webmail.external.com/EWS/Exchange.asmx
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AdminDisplayName :
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DistinguishedName : CN=EWS (Default Web Site),CN=HTTP,CN=Protocols,CN=company-VEXCP02,CN=Servers,CN=Exchange
Administrative Group (FYDIBOHF23SPDLT),CN=Administrative Groups,CN=company name Cente
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Identity : company-VEXCP02\EWS (Default Web Site)
Guid : 862cc8af-419a-432f-94f0-404c2ce267d9
ObjectCategory : company.com/Configuration/Schema/ms-Exch-Web-Services-Virtual-Directory
ObjectClass : {top, msExchVirtualDirectory, msExchWebServicesVirtualDirectory}
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WhenCreatedUTC : 9/15/2010 9:35:15 PM
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RunspaceId : 36334262-34e3-4bb8-a2bc-2e6b9d232c81
CertificateAuthentication :
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MRSProxyEnabled : False
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InternalAuthenticationMethods : {Ntlm, WindowsIntegrated, WSSecurity}
ExternalAuthenticationMethods : {Ntlm, WindowsIntegrated, WSSecurity}
LiveIdSpNegoAuthentication : False
WSSecurityAuthentication : True
LiveIdBasicAuthentication : False
BasicAuthentication : False
DigestAuthentication : False
WindowsAuthentication : True
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ExtendedProtectionTokenChecking : None
ExtendedProtectionFlags : {}
ExtendedProtectionSPNList : {}
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InternalUrl : https://webmail.external.com/EWS/Exchange.asmx
ExternalUrl : https://webmail.external.com/EWS/Exchange.asmx
AdminDisplayName :
ExchangeVersion : 0.10 (14.0.100.0)
DistinguishedName : CN=EWS (Default Web Site),CN=HTTP,CN=Protocols,CN=company-VEXCP03,CN=Servers,CN=Exchange
Administrative Group (FYDIBOHF23SPDLT),CN=Administrative Groups,CN=company name Cente
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Guid : 9a135075-f39d-490d-9e76-a51bed92d6fa
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WhenChanged : 6/22/2012 10:42:59 PM
WhenCreated : 9/16/2010 5:14:18 PM
WhenChangedUTC : 6/23/2012 2:42:59 AM
WhenCreatedUTC : 9/16/2010 9:14:18 PM
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IsValid : True
RunspaceId : 36334262-34e3-4bb8-a2bc-2e6b9d232c81
CertificateAuthentication :
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LiveIdBasicAuthentication : False
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DigestAuthentication : False
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ExtendedProtectionFlags : {}
ExtendedProtectionSPNList : {}
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InternalUrl : https://company-vexcp01.company.com/EWS/Exchange.asmx
ExternalUrl :
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DistinguishedName : CN=EWS (Default Web Site),CN=HTTP,CN=Protocols,CN=company-VEXCP01,CN=Servers,CN=Exchange
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Identity : company-VEXCP01\EWS (Default Web Site)
Guid : 8af81f84-1a16-4e2f-940d-e28756176d4b
ObjectCategory : company.com/Configuration/Schema/ms-Exch-Web-Services-Virtual-Directory
ObjectClass : {top, msExchVirtualDirectory, msExchWebServicesVirtualDirectory}
WhenChanged : 6/14/2012 3:39:15 PM
WhenCreated : 11/12/2010 9:25:27 PM
WhenChangedUTC : 6/14/2012 7:39:15 PM
WhenCreatedUTC : 11/13/2010 2:25:27 AM
OrganizationId :
OriginatingServer : company-vadcp02.company.com
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Hi, we are using Outlook 2013 with Office365 Exchange and when using the Scheduling assistant in Outlook users are seeing "No Information. No free/busy information could be retrieved". The scheduling assistant works fine in OWA.
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Since the problem only exists on Outlook Client, we can try running Outlook with the switch "/cleanfreebusy", this will clear and regenerate free/busy information:
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Click Add to create a new Profile.
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Retrieving free/busy information from the server takes very long time

Hello, we are running Outlook 2010 32-bit in Windows 7 64.bit, and have encountered a strange problem, whenever we want to book
a resource (i.e. conference room) from Scheduling assistant, it takes very long time, sometimes even more than a minute to see the utilization of the room, it being stuck at "Updating schedule information. Retrieving free/busy information from the server"
The interesting thing is that most newly deployed PCs exhibits this same behavior, while older machines with basically the same setup gets the availability information almost immediately.
It is unclear whether this is a server setting or desktop issue, as all new Windows 7/Outlook machines that are deployed from the WDS-server exhibits the same slow behavior.
Please advise any troubleshooting steps to investigate the very slow retrieval lookup of free/busy information from the Exchange server.

Hi,
Does this issue occur on OWA?
If no, it means the issue is mainly related to the Outlook client.
Regards,
Simon Wu
TechNet Community Support

Free/busy information error for users whose primary SMTP is internal domain

We have a scenario where we have some users on our network who use s web-based mail service but have AD logins as they need access to internal resources (file and print).
We have been asked to set up access for these users to the meeting rooms. An initial idea was to create a mailbox for each of these people and set up them up with an email address in the internal domain (company.local.co.xx). This has allowed them to use
the meeting rooms but they cannot retrieve the free/busy information. When looking at available times, get the standard message "Suggestions cannot be provided because free/busy data could not be retrieved"
It's not really clear why this isn't working. Suggestions?

Thanks for the response. Those were my initial thoughts too.
However, doing a test of the email configuration shows that it successfully finds the OOF, OAB, etc.
Hi,
Since the OOF and OAB Urls can be retrieved properly from Autodiscover service, please directly access the OOF url from IE and see whether a proper XML file is returned.
Regards,
Winnie Liang
TechNet Community Support

Free/busy information in 2007/2013 coexisitance

I'm in the process of migrating from a single server 2007 exchange environment to a multi server 2013 environment. I'm at the point where I want to move a small group of users to the 2013 serves to do some testing. The only issue holding that back
is anyone on the 2007 server cannot view free/busy information of a user on the 2013 servers. This does work when a 2013 tries to lookup a 2007 users free/busy information.
Anyone have any idea why that would be?

Hi,
Please check your Exchange 2007 Web service in CAS configurations. We need to set it with legacy.contoso.com. Just like:
Set-WebServicesVirtualDirectory –Identity “Exch07\EWS (Default Web Site)” -InternalUrl https://legacy.contoso.com/ews/exchange.asmx –ExternalUrl
https://legacy.contoso.com/EWS/Exchange.asmx
For more information about migrate from Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2013, please refer to:
Step-by-Step Exchange 2007 to 2013 Migration
http://blogs.technet.com/b/meamcs/archive/2013/07/25/part-3-step-by-step-exchange-2007-to-2013-migration.aspx
Thanks,
Winnie Liang
TechNet Community Support

Free/busy information unavailable in Outlook 2013 on Windows 8.1 on Exchange 2010

Hi,
This has been discussed a lot inf forums but unfortunately having followed all the guides I have found, I can't resolve it. I am the only user with the issue.
I have primarily followed https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/ee9e1b89-bea1-48aa-9008-cae205c5e816/forum-faq-why-cant-i-retrieve-freebusy-information?forum=outlook
including recreating my profile, installing http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2850061/en-us via
Ofifce 2013 SP1, verifiying the funtion works through OWA etc etc.
I have the full version of Office 2013 Pro not the Click to Run version. It seems to be the Outlook client itself not the Exchange server. I am at a loss what to do next... please help! :)

Hi,
Please also enable Automatic Replies in Outlook, check if this feature works well.
Since the issue only occurs to one client and it works on OWA, I suggest you try these steps below to troubleshoot the issue:
1. Start Outlook in Safe Mode. It is always a helpful method to troubleshoot Outlook client issues, when in Safe Mode, Outlook doesn't load with add-ins, we can check if this issue persists when add-ins are disabled:
Press Win + R, type "outlook.exe /safe" in the blank box, press Enter.
If there's no issue in Safe Mode that you can find free/busy information again, disable the suspicious add-ins to verify which one caused the problem.
2. Perform a clean boot. This helps determine whether the issue is related to some background programs, any 3rd-party programs will be disabled. If the issue doesn't occur in Clean Boot, then we may suspect it's related to some 3rd-party programs, the detailed
steps can be found in this link below:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929135
Regards,
Melon Chen
TechNet Community Support
It's recommended to download and install
Configuration Analyzer Tool (OffCAT), which is developed by Microsoft Support teams. Once the tool is installed, you can run it at any time to scan for hundreds of known issues in Office
programs.

Free Busy information not appearing correctly in Outlook

First some background:
For two of our Resource Mailboxes, we are having an issue where all times are showing outside of Work Hours (gray). The working hours for both of these rooms are set for 8-5, pst, just like all our other Resource Calendars. This occurs on all installed Outlook clients,
but does not occur through OWA (both logged in as the resource, and a standard user).
Things we've checked and confirmed are the same with a working resource:
Permissions for the Mailbox
Permissions for the Calendar
TimeZone Information
Work Week Information
Resource Policies
Steps we've taken to try and resolve the issue without affect:
Forcing a OAB update on Exchange and Locally
Changing Work Week/TimeZone
Changing Calendar share permissions
I'm a little lost at where to proceed next, I've got a mind to try and just kill our OAB and rebuild from scratch, but will talk that over with our Exchange Admin. I've done Compares on Get-Mailbox, Get-MailboxCalendarConfiguration, Get-MailboxCalendarFolder,
Get-MailboxFolder, Get-MailboxFolderPermission, Get-MailboxRegionalConfiguration and probably every other cmdlet one could run on a mailbox (except for probably exact the one I need).

Hi,
Do you mean the issue doesn’t happen when users view room’s free/busy information from Scheduling Assistant in OWA?
Please make sure the date and time zone are the same in Exchange server, Outlook clients settings, user local machines and Domain Controller. Also double confirm the work hours for these two room mailboxes are configured the same for 8:00AM to 5:00PM. Please
run the following command in Exchange server to check the calendar processing for these two problematic room mailboxes:
Get-CalendarProcessing Room1 | FL
Get-CalendarProcessing Room2 | FL
Regards,
Winnie Liang
TechNet Community Support

OWA 2010 address book error retrieving free/busy information

Hi All
I get the following error when viewing a contacts free/busy information in the OWA 2010 address book.
Outlook 2010 clients cannot view contacts free/busy information either. There's a "not connected" error on the client.
This issue started after a service pack or update was applied. Which one I don't know as it was done by another admin.
Has anyone seen this error before or does anyone know what this error is pointing to?
Many Thanks
Roger
Request
Url:
https://remote.mydomain.com:443/owa/ev.owa?oeh=1&ns=ReadADOrgPerson&ev=LID
User: Test User
EX Address: /o=First Organization/ou=Exchange Administrative Group (FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)/cn=Recipients/cn=Test User7cc
SMTP Address: [email protected]
OWA version: 14.3.210.2
Mailbox server: SBS.mydomain.local
Exception
Exception type: System.NullReferenceException
Exception message: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
Call stack
System.Diagnostics.SharedPerformanceCounter.GetCategoryData()
System.Diagnostics.SharedPerformanceCounter..ctor(String catName, String counterName, String instanceName, PerformanceCounterInstanceLifetime lifetime)
System.Diagnostics.PerformanceCounter.Initialize()
System.Diagnostics.PerformanceCounter.IncrementBy(Int64 value)
Microsoft.Exchange.Diagnostics.ExPerformanceCounter.IncrementBy(Int64 incrementValue)
Microsoft.Exchange.InfoWorker.Common.Availability.Query`1.ExecuteWithPerformanceMeasurement()
Microsoft.Exchange.InfoWorker.Common.Availability.ThreadContext.<>c__DisplayClass6`1.b__5()
Microsoft.Exchange.InfoWorker.Common.Availability.ThreadContext.Set(String label, ThreadCounter threadCounter, ClientContext clientContext, RequestLogger requestLogger, ExecuteDelegate executeDelegate)
Microsoft.Exchange.InfoWorker.Common.Availability.ThreadContext.Set[T](String label, ThreadCounter threadCounter, ClientContext clientContext, RequestLogger requestLogger, ExecuteDelegate`1 executeDelegate)
Microsoft.Exchange.InfoWorker.Common.Availability.Query`1.Execute()
Microsoft.Exchange.Clients.Owa.Core.Utilities.ExecuteAvailabilityQuery(OwaContext owaContext, AvailabilityQuery query, Boolean expectFreeBusyResults, Boolean expectMergedFreeBusyResults, AvailabilityQueryResult& result)
Microsoft.Exchange.Clients.Owa.Premium.ReadADOrgPerson.GetFreeBusy(OwaContext owaContext, String recipientPrimarySmtpAddress, ExDateTime startDate, ExDateTime endDate, HttpContext httpContext, String& allDayFreeBusy, String& workingHoursFreeBusy, String&
oofMessage)
Microsoft.Exchange.Clients.Owa.Premium.ReadADOrgPersonEventHandler.RenderFreeBusyData(String smtpAddress, ExDateTime startDate, ExDateTime endDate, Boolean renderOof)
Microsoft.Exchange.Clients.Owa.Premium.ReadADOrgPersonEventHandler.LoadInitialData()

Free/busy data and the offline address book are two separate services.
Free/busy uses Exchange Web Services (EWS). The offline address book uses a different web service connecting to the OAB virtual directory.
Are you using SBS? SBS does some things differently so I recommend that you post this in the SBS Forum:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/smallbusinessserver/threads
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