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"Cross Org Availability using Federation Trust and Organization Relationship" - Published by The Exchange Team 28 Jun 2011 1:30 PM

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Organizations often need to share availability (aka Free/Busy) information with other Exchange organizations. Depending on the version of Exchange Server you're on, there are different ways to do this. Let's take a look at three common scenarios and go through the exact steps required in order to achieve sharing of availability information between two on-premises Exchange organizations.

Scenarios:

1.       Scenario 1: Both organizations running Exchange 2010 SP1

2.       Scenario 2: One (or both) organizations running a mix of both Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010 SP1

3.       Scenario 3: One (or both) organizations running a mix of Exchange 2003, Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010 SP1

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A short backgrounder

If you want to synchronize addresses and free/busy information between multiple Active Directory forests (or multiple Exchange Organizations) in a cross-forest scenario without having a Windows domain trust: then GALsync is the solution for you.

Your user or group objects are created at your partner's sites as contacts and they are displayed in the Global Address List (GAL). GALsync can also synchronize free/busy data

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Information workers frequently need to collaborate with external recipients such as vendors, partners, and customers, and share their availability (free/busy) information, calendar, or contacts. So we speak about

1.     Federated free/busy sharing
Access free/busy information of an external user in a partner's company. The published Exchange availability service of the partner's company answers directly using the requested information from user's mailbox. No public system folder is used anymore.

2.     Federated calendar sharing
Access calendar information of an external user in a partner's company. The user has to ask the external user to share his calendar by using the features of Outlook or Outlook Web App.

3.     Federated contact sharing
Access private contacts information of an external user in a partner's company. The user has to ask the external user before to share his contacts by using the features of Outlook or Outlook Web App.

In this second part I will give a technical level overview about what Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Federation services provide and what the limitations are.

Continue reading GALsync and Federation using Exchange 2010 - Part II

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Information workers frequently need to collaborate with external recipients such as vendors, partners, and customers, and share their availability (free/busy) information, calendar, or contacts. So we speak about

1.     Federated free/busy sharing
Access free/busy information of an external user in a partner's company

2.     Federated calendar sharing
Access calendar information of an external user in a partner's company

3.     Federated contact sharing
Access private contacts information of an external user in a partner's company

In this first part I will give a high level overview about what Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Federation services provide and what the limitations are.

Continue reading GALsync and Federation using Exchange 2010 - Part I (Update)

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You might want to change from using availability service to classic public folder usage for accessing and storing free/busy information.

What you have to consider if using free/busy information with public folders in a pure Exchange 2010 environment after installing Exchange without a public folder store?

Continue reading GALsync Special - Part 7:: Free Busy with Exchange 2010 (Update)

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Continue reading How to check free/busy information in Exchange

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GALsync version 4 provides an important and heavily requested new feature: synchronization of free/busy information.

Aditionally it has a new Look & Feel following Exchange 2010 and Outlook 2010. Unless we spent a lot of time in developing this feature, this version is a no chargeable upgrade.

see upgrade instructions here . . .

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Galsync v4 With Extended Free/Busy Functions And New User Interfaces

Dueren, Germany, November 2009. The NETsec GmbH & Co. KG, supplier of productivity solutions for Active-Directory- and Exchange-Administrators, introduces the new version of Exchange-synchronization software Galsync on 15th November. Besides the synchronization of exchange address lists, Galsync v4 can now also synchronize the free-busy-information of contacts between various Exchange-Installations.

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Düren, im Oktober 2009. Die NETsec GmbH & Co. KG, Anbieter von Produktivitätslösungen für Active-Directory- und Exchange-Administratoren, stellt am 15. November die neue Version 4 der Exchange-Synchronisierungssoftware Galsync mit erweiterten Synchronisierungsfunktionen und neuer Oberfläche vor.

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Dueren, Germany  2009-10-12

NETsec announces a major release of its famous software GALsync for 15th of november. This release offers free/busy synchronization or so called InterOrg Free/Busy Replication between untrusted forests . . .

Continue reading Press Release: GALsync Version 4 now with Free/Busy

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What happens behind the scenes when synchronizing free/busy data between multiple Exchange organizations using GALsync?

When synchronizing different mail organizations GALsync reads the free/busy information of selected user objects in source and stores them in target as free/busy information related to the synchronized contact object.

GALsync does not sync free/busy every time it is modified in source. You might want to export free/busy times in a time window of minimal 5 minutes.

Continue reading GALsync Special - Part 2 :: Free Busy (Update)

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Microsoft offers some tools or build-in-features to make free/busy available.
The below described scenarios show some useful links helping you to configure free/busy access in different scenarios for trusted and untrusted relations.

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The Need
There are some companies - small or large, most working on international level - which have to handle multiple Active Directories and multiple Exchange organizations.
Outlook users inside one of each organization can list all mail addresses and some more information like phone numbers and departments in the so called Global address list.
Open Outlook, click New message, click To . . . and you will get all addresses of your companies employees. But: what about your colleagues in the other companies organization?

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