I’ve added a new section to The Forum called the Idea Market. The purpose of which is to try to help develop new ideas and provide a place to exchange expertise in several different areas. If you have an idea for a new product, or a refinement to an existing product, or a piece of software, or a website, or anything else and would like some help in making it a reality post it in the Idea Market and see what happens.
Shortly after our upgrade from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007 we had several reports that the Out of Office assistant was no longer useable. The reported error was that the Exchange Server could not be found or that the server was unavailable. The Microsoft recommended solution was to use OWA to change the OOF settings which we found to be unacceptable. After some steady digging into the configuration we found a much more satisfactory solution which I have detailed below: