Thank you-you gave me exactly what I needed! -now that I know it can be done
I will have a highly technical person do all this for me (for me it's like
driving a car- I may not be able to build the engine but I sure can drive
it!) In the meantime I will try the rules and see if I can figure it out.
Again thank you.

"Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote:

you can do it in a virtual server - but you need both SharePoint and
exchange server to enable the features - you'll also need your mail
delivered to exchange. Those two apps are not the easiest things for a
technically challenged user to configure...

why not use rules to replicate the out of office feature?

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"dinwiddie" wrote in message
...
Ok, all of you high tech users are going to scream when you read this
question so turn on your flame throwers and get set:

On both the Office 2003 and the new beta for 2007 it requires a server to
use two features SharePoint and Out of Office assistant- I want to use
those
features but it seems to indicate a lot of cost and work to set up a
server-
If I “load” Virtual Server” will that allow those features to activate?
That
is, will I be able to use the virtual server to manage them?

Thanks!
from a Operationally astute but Technologically challenged user