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relating to meeting requests, such as a Tentative response followed soon after by a Decline or

Accept response. The user sees only the most recent message.

Figure 1.15

Resource type is desig-

nated when the mailbox

is created.

The Scheduling Assistant makes the process of scheduling a meeting using either Outlook

or Outlook Web App much simpler and recommends best meeting times based on requested

attendees.

Availability Service

Earlier versions of Exchange used a system public folder for publishing a user’s free/busy

information. Periodically, the Outlook client had to connect to this public folder and update

the user’s free/busy times. Exchange 2010 supports a new Web Service that runs on the

Client Access server role and provides an interface to all users’ free and busy times. Outlook

2007/2010, the Outlook Web App 2010, and Entourage clients are able to use this new Web

Service, so the Availability service ensures that free and busy times published by older clients

are accessible via the Web Service and free and busy times published by Outlook 2007 and

later are available via the system public folder.

Autodiscover

One of the most time-consuming things that an Exchange administrator has to do is to help

conﬁgure Outlook clients to connect to the Exchange server. In the past, proﬁles had to be created

via scripting or proﬁle utilities. Exchange 2010 introduces a feature called Autodiscover that makes

conﬁguration of Outlook 2007 (or later) proﬁles much simpler. Once the user provides their name

and their email address, Outlook 2007 (or later) automatically discovers the correct server and

updates the server if the mailbox moves (even if the original server is no longer online).