HELP! Any information on Customizing Out of Office Assistance

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Hi there, I have look everywhere for information on how I can actually
customize the Out of Office Assistance in outlook, or even create my own.

But basically here is what Im trying to do. I want to be able to program
when I save the Out of Office assistant it basically takes the data from the
assistant and Then use web services to take that data and input it into a
sharepoint database.

All the webservices part and all that I can figure out, but I guess I cant
modify the out of office assistant form, so I would have to create a new for
or add-in to do this right?

But then comes the question of how do I actually activiate out of office and
input the out of office message from a form? That would be a start if you
guys know.

Only thing I can think of is that it is some kind of hidden rule that you
just add and activate or what not.... anyway any help or suggestions would be
appriciated!

Thanks!


Chris
 
The Out of Office Assistant message is simply a regular Outlook message, stored as a hidden message in the mailbox, that the Exchange server uses to respond to incoming messages. What you're talking about would have to operate completely separately from the very simple OOA mechanism built into Outlook.
 
Ya I figured that. Anyone know if you can turn this on / off through the API
or with the VBA editor? Property's etc? If i can figure that Part out I can
at least pass the Text and turn it on somehow by creating my own form that
has additional info for sharepoint as well.....
 
You can turn the OOA on/off with CDO 1.21. IIRC, there is sample code at http://www.cdolive.com/cdo5.htm or somewhere else on that site. There is no "form" involved, though, remember: The OOA message just a normal mail message without any other functionalty.

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
Cool, thanks, looks like CDO might give me some more insight on some exchange
changes. Thanks.
 
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