{"id":2553,"date":"2012-04-02T11:37:56","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T15:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/it\/?p=2553"},"modified":"2012-05-08T12:04:25","modified_gmt":"2012-05-08T16:04:25","slug":"bu-bmc-freebusy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/it\/2012\/04\/02\/bu-bmc-freebusy\/","title":{"rendered":"Outlook\/Exchange update \u2013 free\/busy information shared with BMC for scheduling meetings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You are now able to more effectively set up meetings with members of the BU Charles River Campus (CRC), Boston University Medical Campus (BUMC), and Boston Medical Center (BMC) community whose email is on a BU or BMC Exchange server.\u00a0 This feature was always available to you, but you could only see free\/busy information of others at BU.\u00a0\u00a0 The update allows you to view this information for many more individuals.<\/p>\n<p>When creating a meeting request, click the \u201cTo\u2026\u201d button, add individuals from the Global Address List (BMC individuals are indicated by the person icon with a globe next to it).\u00a0 After adding, click the scheduling assistant tab and you will see free\/busy information for your invitees. \u00a0This will allow you to avoid sending a meeting invite for a time the recipients have marked busy or away.\u00a0 Please note that you cannot see details about their calendar, only free\/busy information.\u00a0 For more information on how to schedule meetings in Outlook, please visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/office.microsoft.com\/en-us\/outlook-help\/schedule-a-meeting-with-other-people-HP010354402.aspx\">http:\/\/office.microsoft.com\/en-us\/outlook-help\/schedule-a-meeting-with-other-people-HP010354402.aspx<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Should you have any questions, please contact your IT provider:<br \/>\nFor individuals with BU email: BUMC IT Service Desk at 8-5914 or\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/ithelp\">www.bumc.bu.edu\/ithelp<\/a><br \/>\nFor individuals with BMC email: BMC ITS 4-4500 or\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/internal.bmc.org\/its\/\">internal.bmc.org\/its\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You are now able to more effectively set up meetings with members of the BU Charles River Campus (CRC), Boston University Medical Campus (BUMC), and Boston Medical Center (BMC) community whose email is on a BU or BMC Exchange server.\u00a0 This feature was always available to you, but you could only see free\/busy information of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5559,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2553"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5559"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2553"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3564,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2553\/revisions\/3564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}