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 schedul...
Updated Jul 01, 2019
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Some great new features there people.
in regard to "centalised OOF"
@ Petri, if you give helpdesk sufficent rights to the mailbox then helpdesk could go in via OWA and set status.
@Exchange - what would be good is to be able to delegate OOF access in the same way you can delegate folder access, rehter than the need to give more rights then need be?
It would be good to see such functionality in terms of an telephonist/helpdesk being able to change status, esp with the integration you are doing with phone systems. This assumes the OOF is setup/configured by the user,but not activated.
This is a basic "presence state"
If you (MS) are wanting to get into integration with phone systems then centalised status management is a key feature of current solutions.
Would you see it more likely that a third party phone system integrated with exchange would provide such functionality/ability rather than MS?
i.e. the third party app has full access rights to the mailbox and controls what is accessed in the mailbox (i.e. the ability to change/config OOF only)?
in regard to "centalised OOF"
@ Petri, if you give helpdesk sufficent rights to the mailbox then helpdesk could go in via OWA and set status.
@Exchange - what would be good is to be able to delegate OOF access in the same way you can delegate folder access, rehter than the need to give more rights then need be?
It would be good to see such functionality in terms of an telephonist/helpdesk being able to change status, esp with the integration you are doing with phone systems. This assumes the OOF is setup/configured by the user,but not activated.
This is a basic "presence state"
If you (MS) are wanting to get into integration with phone systems then centalised status management is a key feature of current solutions.
Would you see it more likely that a third party phone system integrated with exchange would provide such functionality/ability rather than MS?
i.e. the third party app has full access rights to the mailbox and controls what is accessed in the mailbox (i.e. the ability to change/config OOF only)?