Outlook Scheduling Assistant between Exchange 2010 and Exchange 2016 can not be contacted

Wendell Jones 21 Reputation points
2022-07-07T19:20:33.503+00:00

Afternoon,

I am migrating Onsite Exchange 2010 server mailboxes to Onsite Exchange 2016 server mailboxes. Everything SEEMS to work fine. I have moved about 10 mailboxes with no issue. The email clients automatically associate the mailbox to the correct exchange server without manual assistance. I have noticed the following behavior. I can send and receive external as well as internal email messages. I can also send and receive calendar invites between the two servers. The calendar events are updated correctly when accepted, rejected or when scheduling a new time. I can even write appointments directly to calendars between both servers.

The issue occurs when trying to use scheduling Assistant. I receive the following:

No Information. No Free/Busy information could be retrieved.
The recipient's server could not be contacted. Contact Administrator.

I have rebooted the exchange 2016 server and it did not correct the problem. I have tried using OWA as well as Outlook client with the same results.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you very much.

Wendell Jones

Exchange Server Management
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  1. Aholic Liang-MSFT 13,826 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
    2022-07-11T09:48:05.563+00:00

    Hi @Wendell Jones ,

    The possible cause is that after the mailbox move is complete, the Exchange Server 2016 continues to proxy the EWS request to Exchange Server 2010 .
    Please refer to the resolution in the following link to restart the Autodiscover Application Pool and the Exchange Web Services Application Pool and see if it works.

    Can't see Free/Busy info after a mailbox moves to Exchange 2013 or 2016 - Exchange | Microsoft Learn


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