Exchange Server Cookbook

9.12. Recreating the Schedule+ Free/Busy Folder

Problem

Your users can't see each other's free/busy time, so you need to recreate the Schedule+ Free/Busy system public folder.

Solution

Using a graphical user interface

1. Download the guidgen tool from http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/tools/2003.asp.

2. Open guidgen.

3. Select Registry Format from the GUID Format control group and click Copy. (See Figure 9-5.)

4. Click Exit. The newly generated GUID is now on the Windows clipboard.

5. Open Notepad (or another text editor) and paste in the GUID. Then edit it to conform to the format ADSI Edit requires:

   • Remove all the brackets, dashes, and braces.

   • If you're performing the restoration on a Windows 2000 machine, take each two-digit hexadecimal grouping and add 0x in front of it, then a space after it. For example, 123456 will become 0x12 0x34 0x56.

   • If you're performing the restoration on a Windows Server 2003 machine, insert one space after each two-digit hexadecimal group. For example, 123456 will become 12 34 56.

6. Copy the reformatted GUID back to the clipboard.

Figure 9-5. The Create GUID window of GUIDGen

To reset the folder GUID using ADSI Edit for Windows 2000, do the following:

1. Open ADSI Edit (adsiedit.msc).

2. Find the object for the administrative group in which you're recreating the folder. The object you're looking for will be tucked away under:

   CN=Administrative Groups,CN=Organization,CN=Microsoft Exchange ...