Resource Scheduling - The operation timed out

I have been a lot busy for last few months and I had good stuff to write about. But thanks to nisha ( the cyclone in chennai ) .. I got some time out .. I will cover an interesting topic today that is not easy to find on the internet. But before I begin .. as custom .. I will talk about myself and then the technical stuff ..

I completed one year in this city of humidity / cyclones / heavy rains ( Good for me at times ) .. It was a slow start but the last few months have moved at the speed of F1. There have been ups and downs .. But I am confident of a great future.

We shifted to a new building and it is a cool place .. I have a permanent place to sit ( Finally .. As I thought a manager should have one .. But my company did not feel that way ) .. Roll # 1 .. Just opposite to my Boss's cabin .. I have to walk half a mile to take a print out and 3 steps to get a thrashing from my boss .. Not a good place .. But my boss is happy as he has a printer in his cabin and all his team in front of his eyes ...

The city girls have been kind to me .. Sangeetha ( Where I had food ) and Nisha ( The cyclone ) .. Lets move on to the technical stuff ..

We recently moved out data center and it was sever by server ... So we were actually decommissioning - shipping - reinstalling with a new name .. In the process .. we came across a problem that the conference room ( Mailbox enabled AD accounts ) stopped showing the free / busy info and when we clicked " Resource Scheduling " it gave an error - Operation time out.

It happened as all the information for free / busy is stored in the system folder ( Schedule free + busy ) and old PF server was moved and renamed. This is what needs to be done to fix it :

1) Open PFADMIN and add the new server with PF as replicas under ( Schedule free + busy )

2) Correct the site folder server name .. This is how you do it.

• Open an Active Directory editor, such as ADSI Edit.
• Locate the public folder information store you want to designate as the Site Folder Server, by expanding the following: CN=, CN=, CN=InformationStore, CN=, CN=Servers, CN= ,CN=Administrative Groups, CN=, CN=Microsoft Exchange, CN=Services, CN=Configuration,DC=,DC=com.
• In the right pane, right-click CN= and select Properties.
• In the Attributes field, scroll down and select the distinguishedName attribute.
• Click the Edit button, and then copy the entire attribute to the Clipboard.
• Expand the Configuration container, and then expand CN=Administrative Groups,CN=,CN=Microsoft Exchange,CN=Services,CN=Configuration,DC=,DC=com.
• Right-click the administrative group you want to modify and select Properties.
• In the Attributes field, scroll down and select the siteFolderServer attribute.
• Click the Edit button and paste the value for the distinguishedName attribute into the Value field.
• Double-check the contents of the Value field to ensure the paste was done correctly, and then click OK to save the change.Click OK to close the administrative group properties dialog box.
• Exit ADSI Edit and restart the Microsoft Exchange Information Store service on all Exchange Server computers in the site for the change to take effect or wait for replication.

Note : On the client side, click Start, click Run, type Outlook /cleanfreebusy, and then press ENTER. Alternatively, send a test meeting request to all users homed to this server and ask them to accept the request.