I am working on a piece of Outlook 2010 educational prompt where I created multiple e-mail addresses in two profiles, but I am having the problem that in the scheduling window the different accounts can only see their own meeting status and not of any other user. Other person's status is only white with backslashes saying "no information" and "no free/busy information could be retrieved". How do I make the different accounts see each other's status in the central calender when doing a scheduling?

Watch this and see if it is what you are talking about.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLG6clch2RY

Also read this.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/291621

Are you using Calendar Groups Like in this article? If not can you be more specific about the issue. Which scheduling window are you referring to?
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mvpawardprog...look-2010.aspx

Also are both of the accounts using an Exchange server? If so each account must publish their free/busy information. Click File > Options > Calendar Options > Free/Busy Options. Also you can't have the month value for publishing set to zero.

Hey, thanks for taking your time. No Exchange servers involved, I am simply using different Office profiles on the same computer to simulate different persons. The problem is they can't see each other's free/busy time in the calendar. Take a look at the picture:

http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/9350/52828365.png

I simply want the account of the meeting inviter (and those of the invitees) not to display the 'no information' backslashes, but to be able to see when the other is busy or not from their calender. What's the most simple way to achieve this? It's only a simulation but I don't want to have to photoshop it. I want to see it working.

Ah, if you're not using exchange you have to set this up a little differently. The accounts have to access a shared database of your free/busy info that you set up. See here for pictures and detailed steps.

To summarize:
When in the Free/Busy Options menu under calendar options, the third box “Publish at my location:” needs to be checked to enable free/busy publishing for non-Exchange accounts. The Publish at my location file path is the location Outlook uses to publish your free/busy information. Use your alias (part in front of the @ of your email address) as the file name.

The Search location path tells Outlook where to look for other people’s free/busy information. This is a global setting and applies to all contacts unless the contact contains a different Free/Busy URL.
In order to be able to publish your free/busy information, you need a default search location in the Search location. You may also need to close and reopen Outlook for the free/busy URL to work.

The syntax is for the URL locally would be like this:
file:// in the format:
file://\\server\directory\FreeBusy\name.vfb

After some more frustration, I have no choice but to post again. Here's my free/busy options window:



And I see no files created, the folder is empty and everything else is the same. What am I doing wrong? Can't people at the same computer share their free/busy info without using a server or the internet at all?

I can potentially see another issue because other profiles have to use the same publishing path which wouldn't be the case if they were on another computer. Shouldn't they have their own .vfb file to save their info to?

I'm sorry I have never heard of anyone trying this without an exchange server involved. I think the principle here is to share your calendar information with users on different computers. It wouldn't make much since to need to communicate free/busy time with different accounts in the same outlook so it is designed to publish the information somewhere whether it be a file, server, or the internet. That being said it should still be possible to do it. Read this article for more info on the way Free/Busy is intended to work.
http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/...003-depth.html
Free/Busy information is stored on the server and cannot be cached. Make sure Outlook is "Connected" and not "Offline". Try running Outlook in non-cache mode to see if that helps.
If that doesn't work then I am out of suggestions at the moment, but I will keep playing with it to see if I can replicate your problem and find a fix.

Thanks for the links anyway, I am likely giving up on this for now, I got around it for what I needed it and that's enough time spent.

But if you still find anything post it here please, it will send me a message to alert me, I would like to know it, I just can't spend any more time on this.