Out of office assistant

[Guest]

Hi
Hope somebody can answer this. I use Office 2003 but Outlook was upgraded to
Office XP some time ago. The Out of Office Assistant is loaded and present in
the drop-down menu but clicked on the reply is that the command is not
available. This problem has recently appeared without any explanation. I use
Exchange, version 5.0. I have access to Outlook 2000 through our company
server and the OOO asistant works there. problem is that only my colleagues
can see that I am away.

If using Outlook through Office 2003 then there is a remedy by changing the
sub-key name Resiliency but this option doesn't appear to exist from XP?

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Hi
Hope somebody can answer this. I use Office 2003 but Outlook was upgraded
to
Office XP some time ago.

That doesn't make any sense - XP/2002 is *older* than 2003. Typo?

The Out of Office Assistant is loaded and present in
the drop-down menu but clicked on the reply is that the command is not
available. This problem has recently appeared without any explanation. I
use
Exchange, version 5.0.

5.0? Not even 5.5? <cringe> Oh my - I must mention that that you are using
extremely old, and unsupported software. You should talk to whomever manages
your IT about this - they should be migrating you to E2003. They should have
done that long ago.

I have access to Outlook 2000 through our company
server and the OOO asistant works there. problem is that only my
colleagues
can see that I am away.

OOF replies to the Internet are disabled by default in Exchange. You need to
talk to your admins about that - there may be a very valid reason they don't
want to open it up. A lot of companies don't. And since you are using a
bronze-age version of Exchange, I don't know where that might be set. ;-)

If using Outlook through Office 2003 then there is a remedy by changing
the
sub-key name Resiliency but this option doesn't appear to exist from XP?

The version is actually called Outlook 2002...this can be confusing. See
http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;en-us;327353