Ouf of office funtion should have a start and expiry option

[Guest]

I would like to suggest that a start date/time & expiry date/time on the
Outlook out of office function. In serveral cases I have turned my Out of
Office on and locked my machine. Upon my return to the office, I unlock my
machine and continue using Outlook because it was never closed...the only way
for me to know that I still have it on outside of remembering to turn it off
is for someone to get around to telling me after sending me a piece of
mail...It would be nice to just turn it on and set an option to indicate that
it should expire on a set date, but not be forced to use that option every
time I turn it on. The ability to also set a do not start time would also be
nice..not as big as the expiry option though. ( as an aside, this would also
cut down the number reject e-mails from spam messages that are sent over the
course of a weekend..If I am returning to the office on the Monday, messages
sent to me on the weekend do not need to get an Out of office from
me...)....but than again I guess that would be based on my business and
weather I function on weekends of not...none the less, having the option
would be great.

To add to this suggestion would be the abilty to perhaps set rules around
out of office...for example, we have people in our office that only work
three days a week...and those days are set..if they had the abilty to set a
option on the out of office to say...for the days that they are not in the
office indicating that they are out of the office, or whatever message they
want to leave....it's just annoying cause at times these people forget to
turn the out of office on for the days they are not working

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[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

"There are seldom technological solutions to behavioral problems."

Having said that, how would you account for all of the exceptions, such as
those with rolling workweeks (5 days on, 3 days off, etc), people working on
their off days, or shift workers?

Not so easy anymore, eh?


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After furious head scratching, airwolph asked:

| I would like to suggest that a start date/time & expiry date/time on
| the Outlook out of office function. In serveral cases I have turned
| my Out of Office on and locked my machine. Upon my return to the
| office, I unlock my machine and continue using Outlook because it was
| never closed...the only way for me to know that I still have it on
| outside of remembering to turn it off is for someone to get around to
| telling me after sending me a piece of mail...It would be nice to
| just turn it on and set an option to indicate that it should expire
| on a set date, but not be forced to use that option every time I turn
| it on. The ability to also set a do not start time would also be
| nice..not as big as the expiry option though. ( as an aside, this
| would also cut down the number reject e-mails from spam messages that
| are sent over the course of a weekend..If I am returning to the
| office on the Monday, messages sent to me on the weekend do not need
| to get an Out of office from me...)....but than again I guess that
| would be based on my business and weather I function on weekends of
| not...none the less, having the option would be great.
|
| To add to this suggestion would be the abilty to perhaps set rules
| around out of office...for example, we have people in our office that
| only work three days a week...and those days are set..if they had the
| abilty to set a option on the out of office to say...for the days
| that they are not in the office indicating that they are out of the
| office, or whatever message they want to leave....it's just annoying
| cause at times these people forget to turn the out of office on for
| the days they are not working
|
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| This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the
| suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click
| the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the
| button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft
| Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane.
|
|
http://www.microsoft.com/office/com...5a51d&dg=microsoft.public.outlook.calendaring