Out of Office Assistant from Exchange 2K 1

[joanneh]

Hello,
Is there a factility for an administrator to create an Out of Office message on behalf of someone else.
Over the past couple of months we have had people go on holiday/long term leave who have forgotten to set up the factility from their own Outlook, so we need to do it from "behind the scenes".
Any help gratefully received.

 

[charlie2908]

The quickest and easiest way to do this is to reset the users password in AD and then log on to the mailbox via webmail and turn on the Out Of Office Reply.

 

[Treyze]

Another way to do this without resetting the password is to:

1. logon to the exchange server and give the domain administrator full rights (assuming you are part of this group) to the users account. you may need to view and show advance features in "AD users and computers"

2. go to Start/settings/control panel/mail on your local machine and click on show profiles. Add a user profile and configure the account. On you way out, make sure you have "Prompt for profile to be used" checked.

3. Open Outlook and in the drop down list, select the user in question and turn on the "Out of Office Reply" At this point you are logged in as the user and any changes will affect the user.