Test the Out of Office Assistant?

[Hollenbeck, Christopher J.]

Is it possible to test whether a user has their Out of Office assistant
on? Reason I ask is that I want to develop a tracking
"macro"/subroutine that can be called when assigning custom tasks to
users where I can test whether the person is "out of the office" and
prompt the current user on whether or not to assign the task to that
person. Is this possible? I have only seen the ability to test my
personal Out of Office settings using the session object after creating
a CDO session (the property is OutofOffice), looks something like:

Set objSession = ,,False,False
objSession.Logon
MsgBox objSession.OutOfOffice 'returns True if Out of Office Assistant
is turned on

I understand the reasoning why it returns mine, since I don't provide
another profile to log the session into, but even providing a different
mailbox name didn't seem to work either...

Just curious if someone had a solution already out there...

Thanks,

Chris

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Does it work if you use a dynamic login to log onto the other person's
mailbox (assuming your account has permission)?

 

[Hollenbeck, Christopher J.]

By dynamic login are you referring to an account with sufficient mailbox
privileges to "mimic" another user? Would I need to create a profile
each time for a specific user's mailbox? If I had an Admin account
(mailadm) and I wanted to check Test User's account (testuser) how does
the session login line reflect that? With the reading that I have done,
I understood that the session object referred to my session...

-----Original Message-----
From: Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook] [mailto:[email protected]]
Posted At: Monday, February 16, 2004 7:57 PM
Posted To: program_forms
Conversation: Test the Out of Office Assistant?
Subject: Re: Test the Out of Office Assistant?


Does it work if you use a dynamic login to log onto the other person's
mailbox (assuming your account has permission)?

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

See the Help topic on CDO's Session.Logon method for a detailed explanation
of how to perform a profileless logon using the server name and mailbox
alias only.
--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

By dynamic login are you referring to an account with sufficient mailbox
privileges to "mimic" another user? Would I need to create a profile
each time for a specific user's mailbox? If I had an Admin account
(mailadm) and I wanted to check Test User's account (testuser) how does
the session login line reflect that? With the reading that I have done,
I understood that the session object referred to my session...

-----Original Message-----
From: Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook] [mailto:[email protected]]
Posted At: Monday, February 16, 2004 7:57 PM
Posted To: program_forms
Conversation: Test the Out of Office Assistant?
Subject: Re: Test the Out of Office Assistant?


Does it work if you use a dynamic login to log onto the other person's
mailbox (assuming your account has permission)?