setting Out of Office status in Outlook 98 and 2000

[Guest_imported]

Hi,
can you tell me, is the only way to set your status as 'Out of Office' by setting it via Tools --> Out of Office Assistant... ?

I ask this because recently I was on leave for a week and had set this period in my Calendar. I had set the period as an All Day Event with 'Show Time As: Out Of Office'. During this period it appears that the Out of Office status is not set even though my Calendar says so. Unfortunately I was unable to set the status via Tools because I was literally called out of the office before I went on leave!

So, in summary, can you use the Calendar to set the Out of Office status and invoke the rules, etc. that go with it?

I have Outlook 98 at work and Outlook 2000 at home

Many thanks.

Tarun

 

[Dreamboat]

Doubtful, Tarun. However, you should likely have been able to call you mail administrator and ask them to "turn it on" for you.

If you don't understand client-side and server-side rules, you may want to ask about those too.
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[Zelandakh]

You can ask for Outlook Web Access...

 

[tastyfish]

Thanks for the reply. It seems that you can mark time in your calendar as 'Out of Office' but your status isn't changed!! What's the point of making this status available in your calendar??

On the other note the last thing I want to see at home when I'm on leave is my work! But i take your point, cheers.

 

[Zelandakh]

If you use OWA you can switch on or off your office assistant you see...

 

[Dreamboat]

Tasty: Z is right. OWA is sort of the corporate world's answer to hotmail. If you don't know what that means, it means getting your company email from any computer. Yep--even your Mom's if she's online.

As for the out-of-office time on your calendar, well, there are people that want to be seen as out of office (unavailable) but still want their email. There are people who are on the road but don't want to put an out of office rule because they dial in from the hotel to get their email. The out of office "status" on the calendar is so no one can try to schedule a meeting with you and really has nothing to do with whether you receive your emails.

I know the explanation doesn't really help you, tho...
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[tastyfish]

thanks,
yes it does explain it. I used OWA at my previous place - my current place doesn't support it. This was all a pain as clients were requesting work via e-mail when they could've requested it via our central IT support centre and I faced a mini-mountain of work on my return :-(

we all learn... thank you for the replies.