Outlook 2003 - setting "working" hours on a person by person basis

[Scott M. Lyon]

My employer is considering switching to a form of flex-time (basically we'd
each pick our "work day" schedule, but we'd have to stick to it day in and
day out), but I want to add some more fuel to the fire to encourage them to
decide to implement it.

That said, we all have Outlook 2003 (which we use for scheduling meetings
and e-mail), and I'd like to figure out a way that each person could set
their "working hours" up, such that any meetings scheduled for the person
would confirm that the hours were within the person's working hours.


And I'm not having a lot of luck finding it. Yes, I found where you can set
the start and end of your workday, but that doesn't seem to affect
scheduling meetings.


For example, let's say that my agreed-upon "flex time" schedule was to work
from 9 am to 6 pm, and someone else's was to work from 6 am to 3 pm. I may
not know their schedule, so if I schedule a meeting from 4 pm to 5 pm, I'd
like for outlook to warn me that it's outside their work schedule (or that
the time is unavailable or whatever).


Any ideas?

Or I should say, any ideas other than having everyone create a false
"appointment" for their non-working hours, for every day of the week (for
example, I'd have one of these fake appointments from 6 pm to 9 am the next
day).

I'm not sure that this is going to be a practical solution, which is why I
need to find a better/easier way to do this.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

You can't find it, because it does not east in current versions. the combination of Outlook 2007 + Exchange 12 will be able to do that, though.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers