Turning on Out of Office notification for users
I receive requests on a regular basis to turn on the Out of office notification for users (usually exec's). So I setup a profile of the user on my outlook client log into their account using my admin credentials and turn on the OOF notification for them.This morning I setup the OOF notification for a user closed outlook logged back into my account sent a test message and recieved an OOF notification for that user, an hour laterI recieve calls from other users saying they sent emails to that account and did not recieve an OOF notification. I had another coworker test and he did not recieve an OOF notification.I have done this in the past and get mixed results, sometimes it works other times it will not. AmI doing something wrong?
September 1st, 2009 5:24pm

I would check it out in OWA. And whenever you set up OOF you could send a test message to the user to confirm it's working. Remind users that OOF fires only once per sender. BTW, you can set the OOF in OWA and not have to set up a profile for that user's mailbox in Outlook.
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September 1st, 2009 9:33pm

I would check it out in OWA. And whenever you set up OOF you could send a test message to the user to confirm it's working. Remind users that OOF fires only once per sender. BTW, you can set the OOF in OWA and not have to set up a profile for that user's mailbox in Outlook. Lanwench,I was finally able to get the OOF working using OWA, even though when I got into the account it notified me OOF was on. I turned it off then back on and OOF worked.
September 1st, 2009 11:07pm

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