My installation is Corporate or Workgroup and on this page,
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=248830, it has this blurb:

"The Internet Mail Only installation option (IMO) of Outlook, unlike
the Corporate or Workgroup option, does not have the Out of Office
Assistant to automatically reply to messages when you are away from
your computer."

So my "Corporate or Workgroup" should have this option under Tools,
but it doesn't.


As per normal went hunting to see what I could find to resolve this.
Here, http://support.microsoft.com/kb/238280/en-us, it says:

"1. On the Tools menu, click Options, click Other, click Advanced
Options, and click Add In Manager.
2. If Exchange Extensions Commands appears in the list of
add-ins, click to select it.
3. If Exchange Extensions Commands is not on the list, click
Install. From the list of add-ins that appears, double-click
Emsuix.ecf."


This is what I have ticked in the place of what it says above should
be showing as "Exchange Extensions Commands":

- "Exchange Extensions property pages"



Just out of curiousity, I clicked on INSTALL to see what came up and
Emsuix.ecf doesn't appear though I don't know if that if of any
significance or or not.



Under Tools, it's not even that the Out of Office option is greyed
out, it just isn't there, period.



I did find this, http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=248830,
instructions on simulating and emulating the behaviour of Out of
Office, but hope that my installation can just be repaired or whatever
so that Out of Office is available as it's easier to use that than the
fiddly work-around with a template and rules.

TIA. D

Out of Office Assistant will only be available if you are using an Exchange
server since it is a server side operation.

--�
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, StargateFan asked:

| My installation is Corporate or Workgroup and on this page,
| http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=248830, it has this blurb:
|
| "The Internet Mail Only installation option (IMO) of Outlook, unlike
| the Corporate or Workgroup option, does not have the Out of Office
| Assistant to automatically reply to messages when you are away from
| your computer."
|
| So my "Corporate or Workgroup" should have this option under Tools,
| but it doesn't.
|
|
| As per normal went hunting to see what I could find to resolve this.
| Here, http://support.microsoft.com/kb/238280/en-us, it says:
|
| "1. On the Tools menu, click Options, click Other, click Advanced
| Options, and click Add In Manager.
| 2. If Exchange Extensions Commands appears in the list of
| add-ins, click to select it.
| 3. If Exchange Extensions Commands is not on the list, click
| Install. From the list of add-ins that appears, double-click
| Emsuix.ecf."
|
|
| This is what I have ticked in the place of what it says above should
| be showing as "Exchange Extensions Commands":
|
| - "Exchange Extensions property pages"
|
|
|
| Just out of curiousity, I clicked on INSTALL to see what came up and
| Emsuix.ecf doesn't appear though I don't know if that if of any
| significance or or not.
|
|
|
| Under Tools, it's not even that the Out of Office option is greyed
| out, it just isn't there, period.
|
|
|
| I did find this, http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=248830,
| instructions on simulating and emulating the behaviour of Out of
| Office, but hope that my installation can just be repaired or whatever
| so that Out of Office is available as it's easier to use that than the
| fiddly work-around with a template and rules.
|
| TIA. D

So even though I've a "Corporate or Workgroup" installation, as it
says below is one of the conditions for this to work, that doesn't
mean anything?

And, if I may ask, what does the "Exchange server" thing really mean?
I've never known what this is.

TIA.

************************************************** ****
On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 05:15:44 -0700, "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
wrote:

Out of Office Assistant will only be available if you are using an Exchange
server since it is a server side operation.

--?
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, StargateFan asked:

| My installation is Corporate or Workgroup and on this page,
| http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=248830, it has this blurb:
|
| "The Internet Mail Only installation option (IMO) of Outlook, unlike
| the Corporate or Workgroup option, does not have the Out of Office
| Assistant to automatically reply to messages when you are away from
| your computer."
|
| So my "Corporate or Workgroup" should have this option under Tools,
| but it doesn't.
|
|
| As per normal went hunting to see what I could find to resolve this.
| Here, http://support.microsoft.com/kb/238280/en-us, it says:
|
| "1. On the Tools menu, click Options, click Other, click Advanced
| Options, and click Add In Manager.
| 2. If Exchange Extensions Commands appears in the list of
| add-ins, click to select it.
| 3. If Exchange Extensions Commands is not on the list, click
| Install. From the list of add-ins that appears, double-click
| Emsuix.ecf."
|
|
| This is what I have ticked in the place of what it says above should
| be showing as "Exchange Extensions Commands":
|
| - "Exchange Extensions property pages"
|
|
|
| Just out of curiousity, I clicked on INSTALL to see what came up and
| Emsuix.ecf doesn't appear though I don't know if that if of any
| significance or or not.
|
|
|
| Under Tools, it's not even that the Out of Office option is greyed
| out, it just isn't there, period.
|
|
|
| I did find this, http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=248830,
| instructions on simulating and emulating the behaviour of Out of
| Office, but hope that my installation can just be repaired or whatever
| so that Out of Office is available as it's easier to use that than the
| fiddly work-around with a template and rules.
|
| TIA. D

Exchange is a corporate mail server ($$$) that allows for collaboration,
etc. If you don't have it, you cannot use Out of Office Assistant - yu will
need to use rules instead.

--�
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, StargateFan asked:

| So even though I've a "Corporate or Workgroup" installation, as it
| says below is one of the conditions for this to work, that doesn't
| mean anything?
|
| And, if I may ask, what does the "Exchange server" thing really mean?
| I've never known what this is.
|
| TIA.
|
| ************************************************** ****
| On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 05:15:44 -0700, "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
| wrote:
|
|| Out of Office Assistant will only be available if you are using an
|| Exchange server since it is a server side operation.
||
|| --?
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
|| reading.
||
|| After furious head scratching, StargateFan asked:
||
||| My installation is Corporate or Workgroup and on this page,
||| http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=248830, it has this blurb:
|||
||| "The Internet Mail Only installation option (IMO) of Outlook, unlike
||| the Corporate or Workgroup option, does not have the Out of Office
||| Assistant to automatically reply to messages when you are away from
||| your computer."
|||
||| So my "Corporate or Workgroup" should have this option under Tools,
||| but it doesn't.
|||
|||
||| As per normal went hunting to see what I could find to resolve this.
||| Here, http://support.microsoft.com/kb/238280/en-us, it says:
|||
||| "1. On the Tools menu, click Options, click Other, click Advanced
||| Options, and click Add In Manager.
||| 2. If Exchange Extensions Commands appears in the list of
||| add-ins, click to select it.
||| 3. If Exchange Extensions Commands is not on the list, click
||| Install. From the list of add-ins that appears, double-click
||| Emsuix.ecf."
|||
|||
||| This is what I have ticked in the place of what it says above should
||| be showing as "Exchange Extensions Commands":
|||
||| - "Exchange Extensions property pages"
|||
|||
|||
||| Just out of curiousity, I clicked on INSTALL to see what came up and
||| Emsuix.ecf doesn't appear though I don't know if that if of any
||| significance or or not.
|||
|||
|||
||| Under Tools, it's not even that the Out of Office option is greyed
||| out, it just isn't there, period.
|||
|||
|||
||| I did find this, http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=248830,
||| instructions on simulating and emulating the behaviour of Out of
||| Office, but hope that my installation can just be repaired or
||| whatever so that Out of Office is available as it's easier to use
||| that than the fiddly work-around with a template and rules.
|||
||| TIA. D