The only impact would be a larger Free Busy public folder and very slight increase in network traffic, which is really negligible. However, if you change default publishing interval from 15 minutes to some thing like 5 minutes or less than that, there will be increased talking between client and server. But again if you are running on a 100MB switched network, you wont see the impact at all. We publish 12 months data and update every 10 minutes. No problems at all. Regards, Raj mailto:raj.periyasamy@xxxxxxxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: Christian.Schramm@xxxxxxx [mailto:Christian.Schramm@xxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 9:39 AM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] Free/Busy-Options --> performance influence of exchange server http://www.MSExchange.org/ Dear list, In Outlook 2000 and XP there is an option to change the value for the published free/busy information of one user under (Extras / Options / Calendaroptions / Free/Busy-Options). The value translated from Germany is "Publish free/busy information of the next X months to the server". Default is 2 months. I would like to know, what performance issues I run into when setting this value up to one year? Any other side-effects? Thx and Greets, Christian ------------------------------------------------------ List Archives: http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist Exchange Newsletters: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/newsletter.asp Exchange FAQ: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/larticle.asp?type=FAQ ------------------------------------------------------ Other Internet Software Marketing Sites: Leading Network Software Directory: http://www.serverfiles.com No.1 ISA Server Resource Site: http://www.isaserver.org Windows Security Resource Site: http://www.windowsecurity.com/ Network Security Library: http://www.secinf.net/ Windows 2000/NT Fax Solutions: http://www.ntfaxfaq.com ------------------------------------------------------