I use outlook / exchange at work. I've just experienced, again, the
irritating situation where I send an email to a colleague addressed via the
corporate Global Address List only to have the out of office notification
returned to me.

I now have to go to my sent mail box, find the mail that I sent and resend
it to the original addressee's boss for action.

It would be most useful if one of the following could happen instead of the
simple 'J Bloggs is out of the office until monday':

a) when I enter the address in the To: line and hit Ctrl+K for name
checking, if I could be notified that a recipient had their Out of Office on
then I could send to a more appropriate recipient (whilst also reducing
redundant emails bouncing around the network).
OR
b) attach the original mail to the out of office mail so that I can simply
forward the original in place rather than having to search for a mail that I
may (or may not) have saved.

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You can, in an Exchange environment, tell who is in and who is out before
you send them an email. There are two quick ways:

1. Make a Group Schedule

2. Open an email from them, right click their name and wait a sceond or two
for the Free/Busy calendar data to appear. If your IT people have set it up
to do so, you'll also see their telephone number and building location.

Regards

Judy Gleeson
MVP Outlook
Trainer and Consultant

There are various articles about using Outlook he www.judygleeson.com
Canberra, Australia


"DaveL" wrote in message
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I use outlook / exchange at work. I've just experienced, again, the
irritating situation where I send an email to a colleague addressed via
the
corporate Global Address List only to have the out of office notification
returned to me.

I now have to go to my sent mail box, find the mail that I sent and resend
it to the original addressee's boss for action.

It would be most useful if one of the following could happen instead of
the
simple 'J Bloggs is out of the office until monday':

a) when I enter the address in the To: line and hit Ctrl+K for name
checking, if I could be notified that a recipient had their Out of Office
on
then I could send to a more appropriate recipient (whilst also reducing
redundant emails bouncing around the network).
OR
b) attach the original mail to the out of office mail so that I can simply
forward the original in place rather than having to search for a mail that
I
may (or may not) have saved.

----------------
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suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I
Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow
this
link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then
click "I Agree" in the message pane.

http://www.microsoft.com/communities...public.outlook