Setup OWA Out Of Office Assistant
Outlook Web Access (OWA) is a web based interface used to access and exchange account. The “Out of Office Assistant” is used when you are going to be away form you computer or out of the office for an extended period of time and want an e-mail automatically sent to everyone who writes you while you are out. In your return out of office message you can let people know that you are out and when to expect you back. You may want to include the name and contact information for whoever is acting as your alternate while you are gone.
To Setup Out of Office Assistant in Outlook Web Access
1. In the Outlook Web Access Client, select or click the “Options” tab along the lower left hand corner.
2. Select the “I’m currently out of the office” option and type in your auto-reply message in the “Auto Reply only once to each sender” field. Then type in the message which will be used to automatically reply to incoming e-mail while you are away.
3. Click the “Save and Close” option along the top. That’s it your Done Just remember to turn it off when your back in the office.
That’s it your done!
This setup only works with internal Exchange server email accounts! It doesn’t work with external smtp email accounts.
That is because the exchange server will handle the replies. You may be able to have it setup some other way though, like through your domain hosting company. Please let me know if you have any questions.