- In Outlook, enable your out-of-office message, set it to start right now.
- Click Save.
- Immediately see a pop-up asking if you want to turn that off.
WTF Microsoft? Who would ever do that?
I suppose someone might have turned it on for the wrong dates, but 99.99% of the time this is just annoying.
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You’re supposed to be out of office, get off of Outlook.
i have to agree to disagree here. in my career i have seen far, far too many people with their out of office message long out of date, and still running after they are back. this is a very useful feature that has cut back on those experiences significantly.
… you haven’t met people… have you?
do I agree that MS is infuriating because it knows that stupid people exist and they just assume you’re one of them? absolutely. but there are people that do that.
There’s probably a better way to present the popup/query, mind, more like confirming things are accurate than “ARE YOU SURE?!”
I agree with you but I would say it should not be a pop up at all. It should be a status message in the toolbar.
There’s probably a simple explanation for this. My guess is that during testing, people left the setting on and spammed hundreds of people over a period of months without even realising what was going on.
It’s designed to take over when you’re out of office (and not using Outlook anyway). When you get back from your holiday or whatever, you probably want to turn off the auto reply if you use it the way it was designed. I guess they could’ve only shown the banner after Outlook restarts, but then you have to deal with those people that refuse to reboot their laptop for years on end.
Ideally, you would set this up ahead of time and won’t need to see it. But the thing that annoys me about outlook’s out-of-office thing is that by default, it just turns on for people in your organization. So if you forget to turn it on for everyone you can have an annoyed client wondering why you haven’t responded all week.
