SOS. I am having trouble with my Outlook 2002. I am trying to set
up an "out of office assitant". It says i need to have Microsoft
Exchange for this to work. So i went back to my Office XP disk
and tried adding it in seperately and then i tried reinstalling
Office XP, and still nothing. Anyone have any suggestions, thanks!
Exchange is not part of Office. Exchange is software that runs on
another computer, the mail server, and Outlook connects to it. The
only people who use Exchange are company networks.
When you set up Outlook, there is a screen that mentions "Service
Options" (this is from Outlook 2000). One is Internet only, which is
what you probably have. It uses standards like POP3, SMTP and IMAP.
The other is "Corporate or Workgroup", which you use "connect to
Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Mail 3.x, " etc.
One advantage of Exchange is that the Out-of-office rule is stored on
the company computer, not on yours. So you can use a laptop, or be
not connected for whatever reason, and the out-of-office rule will
still work.
On the other, you would depend on a company's IT department for some
of your configuration work.
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