Setting out of office for another user

[Randee]

I am trying to set the out of office assistant for my boss. I have been able
to add his mailbox to my acct. I don't see a seperate folder for his in box
but can see his incoming mail. I can also see the junk e-mail box. How do I
get access to change his settings such as if he needs me to update his out of
office message? When I open the out of office, it shows mine.

Please help soon!
Thank you!

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Not possible without creating a mail profile that has you boss's mailbox as
the main mailbox.
For this, you'd need to get Full Mailbox access on your boss's user objects
in AD U&C (ask your mail admin); Outlook permissions will not do the trick.

If you have access to the mailbox of your boss via OWA, you might be able to
turn it on/off there as well.

For more information on how to create a separate mail profile, see;
http://www.howto-outlook.com/faq/newprofile.htm

 

[Sameguy]

You can do it through Outlook Web Access, assuming you have "Full Mailbox
Access" permissions. Simply login to OWA as your account that has access to
his, then add /bossAccountname/Inbox to the URL. So if your boss's account is
"Bossman", your URL string should be something like
https://owa.yourdomain.com/exchange/Bossman/Inbox. That should get you into
his account via OWA, and from there you can go into the Options and change
his out of office.

http://techierambles.blogspot.com/2010/02/change-out-of-office-message-for.html

 

[VanguardLH]

Randee wrote back on 17-Jul-2009:


You can do it through Outlook Web Access, assuming ...

After almost 6 months, you thought Randee was still waiting for a solution?

 

[Sameguy]

Nope, but I thought it might be helpful for someone else if they happen to
run across this string of posts and want to know how to do it. The answer
says it's not possible, which is incorrect. As long as you have OWA setup and
the proper permissions on the Exchange mailbox, you can change the out of
office for someone without having to setup a separate Outlook profile or
logging in with their credentials. I don't know if this works the same in
Exchange 2007 or 2010, but I can verify that it works correctly in an
Exchange 2003 environment.