Update / clarification 6/6/2008: The original information in this blog post was meant to let you know about some "gotchas" when you are using pre-Outlook 2007 clients with the new Exchange 2007 feature. However, after Exchange 2007 shipped we learned of one scenario where you can run into problems (duplicate OOF messages) if you ...

The Out of Office (OOF) feature is commonly used by end-users to let other people know when they are not available to respond to e-mail.  Exchange 2007 Out of Office capabilities such as scheduled OOF, different external and internal OOF messages and the ability to control what kind of OOF to send on a per-domain basis improves the experience

Here’s an interesting historical question - when we say Out of Office, why does it sometimes get shortened to ‘OOF’? Shouldn’t it be ‘OOO’? Inside Microsoft, ‘OOF’ means not just the message which says you’re Out of Office, but it has grown to mean the act of being Out of the Office too - ...

Outlook 2007 is the latest version of the e-mail client for accessing an Exchange mailbox. To make this version of Outlook very flexible, it can connect to a mailbox on the following versions of Exchange: Exchange 2000 Exchange 2003 Exchange 2007 However, if your mailbox is on an Exchange 2007 server, there are many new Outlook features that ...

There are 2 ways that Exchange Server 2007 UM is integrated with your OOF.  The first is from the telephone using Outlook Voice Access (OVA) and the 2nd is from the desktop using Outlook or Outlook Web Access (OWA): 1. By using logging into OVA, you can change your telephone greeting to an Out-of-office greeting and you can also turn on your ...

We will be conducting focus group sessions (with Exchange Administrators) at the below dates/times on email management, email policies (retention, expiration, deletion, journaling, compliance, etc), as well as Calendaring (focus on Free/Busy issues and OOF). During these sessions, we will also show prototype concepts of future directions we are ...

Hi!  I am Alvin Mok, a Program Manager on the Exchange team.  I started Exchange in Transport, responsible for SMTP and NNTP.  After several re-orgs, I am now involved in planning for the next version of Exchange, specializing in the following areas: calendaring sharing, free/busy, OOF, etc.  I am always interested in hearing ...

Exchange Free Busy (FB) data itself is not simple or easy to read. This will describe what the data looks like in the Exchange store, how it’s calculated and processed through the Outlook client.   FB describes when a user is busy over a range of time, it doesn’t describe each appointment in that time frame. So when you see a ...

Mike, one of our readers, sent us the link of a funny story how an out of office reply got printed on a bi-lingual traffic sign. Thought that it was pretty funny: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/7702913.stm That got me thinking of some of funny OOF messages that I have seen over time. After performing a quick search, I ran into few places that ...

A few days ago, we posted blog Exchange Server 2007 recipient management one-liners covering common recipient management scenarios in Exchange Server 2007 using Exchange Management Console (''console''), and the one-liners behind the scenes - single-line commands in Exchange Management Shell (''shell'' or ''EMS based on Windows ...