Automated Out of Office Assistant; external auto-reply

[Phill]

We are about to migrate to Exchange/OL 2003 and are testing now. The
Out of Office Assistant must be manually turned on or off. Is there a
way to add another rule or create a new one that will
activate/deactivate the OOA within a certain date/time range? Also, how
would I configure OOA to reply to external people (from what I've read,
it will not auto-reply to senders not on our system)? Thanks...

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

We are about to migrate to Exchange/OL 2003 and are testing now. The

Out of Office Assistant must be manually turned on or off. Is there a
way to add another rule or create a new one that will
activate/deactivate the OOA within a certain date/time range?

Not built into current versions of Outlook or Exchange.

Also, how
would I configure OOA to reply to external people (from what I've read,
it will not auto-reply to senders not on our system)? Thanks...

OOA sends replies to everyone if your server is configured to allow automatic replies to the Internet.
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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

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

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

No. The admin needs to enable replies to the internet on the Exchange
server,

 

[Guest]

Sue: How do I configure that? I haven't been able to find that setting. TIA

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

See http://support.microsoft.com/Default.aspx?id=840158

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

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