2007 - Out of Office   

We are just about to provide our users with Outlook & Exchange 2007.

The Out Of Office function is much better in 2007 (I love the fact that it 
works with your Smartphone!). I'd like to allow my users to send internal OOF 
messages and also OOF messages to accounts on their contacts list.

However, at the moment, I want to be able to prevent them sending OOF 
messages to external accounts not on their contacts list. I think this is 
dangerous, partly because it lets spammers know the account is genuine, but 
also partly because it potentially lets people know they are on holiday, and 
so their house is empty, so can be safely broken into. I'd prefer to block 
this by policy, because I dont' trust my users to understand the intricacies 
of this, until it is too late for them.

So I wondered how I allow them to send OOF to external people on their 
contacts list, but block them from being able to send to other external 
addresses - by some sort of global policy?

Any help gratefully received.

Cheers

Eric

date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 05:51:00 -0700   author:   Eric Baines

Re: 2007 - Out of Office   

On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 05:51:00 -0700, Eric Baines
 wrote:

>We are just about to provide our users with Outlook & Exchange 2007.
>
>The Out Of Office function is much better in 2007 (I love the fact that it 
>works with your Smartphone!). I'd like to allow my users to send internal OOF 
>messages and also OOF messages to accounts on their contacts list.
>
>However, at the moment, I want to be able to prevent them sending OOF 
>messages to external accounts not on their contacts list. I think this is 
>dangerous, partly because it lets spammers know the account is genuine, but 
>also partly because it potentially lets people know they are on holiday, and 
>so their house is empty, so can be safely broken into. I'd prefer to block 
>this by policy, because I dont' trust my users to understand the intricacies 
>of this, until it is too late for them.
>
>So I wondered how I allow them to send OOF to external people on their 
>contacts list, but block them from being able to send to other external 
>addresses - by some sort of global policy?
>
>Any help gratefully received.
>

Im not aware of any. It would be nice if this could be managed by
Group Policy.


>Cheers
>
>Eric

date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 13:33:53 -0400   author:   Andy David {MVP}