Set Out of Office Reply after you've left for a trip using OWA (Outlook Web Access)

(Originally posted on 5/2/2008 at Perimeter, by Jim LaBarr)

Using OWA to Set Your Out of Office Assistant

What if you forget to set your Out of Office Assistant before leaving Perimeter?

Occasionally Helpdesk receives a request to set someone's Out of Office Reply, because they forgot to do it before leaving. But due to privacy considerations, the IT Department will not go into your account. Now there is a way for you to set your reply message from any computer that has an Internet connection.

Background on Out of Office Assistant

The Out of Office Assistant makes it easy to setup an automatic reply message. People who send mail to your account while the message is turned on will receive an email reply with whatever text you have written. The message is dispatched only once to each email address that sends mail to your account.

To Setup an "Out of Office" message using OWA:

1. To launch OWA, go to http://mail.perimeter.org and enter your usual Username and Password.
2. Click on the Options icon or the word Options at the bottom of the Folder List at the left. The Options icon looks like a sheet of paper.
3. Click on the radio button next to I'm currently out of the office,
4. Type the text of your message in the box titled AutoReply only once to each sender with the following text:. Include your name in the message.
5. Click the Save and Close icon at the top.
6. After you're done, click on Log Off.