Automatic Out of Office Assistant

[RobPotts]

Hi,

I use Outlook 97 and am fairly good at keeping my calander up to date in it, I do however have a problem remembering to set my out of office assistant. Iwould like my out of office assistant to recognise when I'm out of the office all day and turn itself on. Is this possible, if so How do I go about it.

Thanks in advance
Rob

 

[joegz]

Outlook is not that intuitive. What you want I don't believe is possible. joegz
"Sometimes you just need to find out what it's not first to figure out what it is."

 

[jnicks]

Do you mean,

If nothing has changed by 10:00 AM,

Then

Turn on Out-Of-Office.

?

Would that do?

The first part is pretty easy, there are several ways, but I don't know of a programmatic way to tell Office to reset its configuration.

 

[jnicks]

Back again,

There is a script for turning on OOA.

http://www.cdolive.com/outofofficecalendar.htm

If your Exchange admin will test this and approve it, then the rest is trivial,

e.g.

At 10 AM look at the last used date for a file or two, such as USER.DAT in the windows area. Which file(s) to look at would have to be tested. One could also look in other areas that change with users at the keyboard, caches or favorites...

If the last used date is yesterday, fire off the script that says Out of Office.

Be kind, plop a message on the screen in case the user walks back from a late running meeting.

Yes, it could be done without too much tech strain.