{"id":837,"date":"2016-07-06T15:55:55","date_gmt":"2016-07-06T04:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/?post_type=article&p=837"},"modified":"2016-07-06T15:55:55","modified_gmt":"2016-07-06T04:55:55","slug":"outlook-office-certain-days-week","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/article\/outlook-office-certain-days-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Outlook Out Of Office On Certain Days of The Week Only"},"content":{"rendered":"

This article will show you how you can set up an autoresponder for Outlook 2016, 2013 and 2010 based on the day of the week. \u00a0This method is not perfect by any means however it will allow you to achieve the goal just the same. \u00a0These methods work well for staff members who only work a few days of the week and keep on forgetting to turn on their out of office at the end of the day.<\/p>\n

Solution 1 – Outlook with Exchange \/ Office 365 Mail<\/h2>\n

In this solution we will look at how you can set up autoresponders in your Outlook which are run from the exchange server. \u00a0There is one caveat with this method however and it will be based on the time zone of your exchange server. \u00a0If you are using Office 365 it is quite possible that your mail servers time is on Greenwich mean time +0 so this method won’t work if you are on Office 365 and located across the world. \u00a0If you’re in this boat you can try the\u00a0alternative solution\u00a0below.<\/p>\n

What we are going to do is set up a series of Exchange based rules in our Outlook based on the internet headers of incoming messages. \u00a0As this is an advanced topic we will assume that you have a higher than average level of computer knowledge and will skip the basic commands.<\/p>\n

Step 1<\/h3>\n

Before we go any further we need to see what the time zone of our Exchange server is. \u00a0An easy way to do this is to open up any email message in outlook, click on file and then properties.<\/p>\n

\"Out-of-Office-Specific-Days-Only\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Looking at the internet headers we can see that the server’s time zone is +0000. \u00a0If you’re local computer is too far away from this it’s not going to produce accurate results. \u00a0Realistically however a few hours either side of this will work for what we are going to achieve as most people don’t work throughout the night.<\/p>\n

Step 2<\/h3>\n

\"Out-of-Office-Specific-Days-Only1\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Whilst we are in the Internet headers, copy to a text document the bit which is highlighted above. \u00a0In this example we are going to copy Transport; Wed,<\/strong><\/p>\n

Close the properties page<\/p>\n

Step 3<\/h3>\n

We are now going to create a series of rules in Outlook for the specific days we wish to send an auto reply on.<\/p>\n

Open up your Outlook Rules and create a rule with the following settings:<\/p>\n

Apply rules on messages I receive<\/strong><\/p>\n

With specific words in the message header<\/strong><\/p>\n

Copy and paste the text we saved before in the specific words – add any other days you wish at the same time<\/p>\n

Have the server reply using a specific message<\/strong><\/p>\n

Click on Specific Message – Leave To, CC and BCC blank. \u00a0Enter your response in the Subject and Main Text Area<\/p>\n

\"Out<\/a><\/p>\n

Click on Save<\/strong> and close<\/strong><\/p>\n

It should look something like this<\/p>\n

\"Outlook<\/a><\/p>\n

From here you can add any exceptions etc… and then click on Finish.<\/p>\n

Notes: As mentioned above, this won’t work for those whose physical location is too far away from their exchange server.<\/p>\n

Alternative Solution\u00a0– Outlook with Exchange –\u00a0When the Time Difference Too Great<\/h2>\n

If the server that receives your mail is on a time zone different to your location you still can set up the Out of Office Replies for specific days of the week, issues may arise however if you receive a lot of correspondence internationally as we will be setting up the Out of Office messages based on the SENDING computer \/ server’s\u00a0time. \u00a0This shouldn’t be a problem however if most of your correspondence is in the same country.<\/p>\n

What you will need to do is set up your Out of Office Auto Replies exactly as per the solution above however we will need to use a different snippet of text from the message headers, the one that starts with Date:<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"Out-of-Office-Specific-Days-Only3\"<\/a><\/p>\n

As per this image this is the sending computers date.<\/p>\n

Conclusion<\/h3>\n

Whilst these are not perfect ways of setting up Out Of Office Auto replies for specific days of the week and may not suit everyone as there is the potential for something to slip through the cracks if times are incorrect, for people that only work part time it might just help someone out.<\/p>\n

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This article will show you how you can set up an autoresponder for Outlook 2016, 2013 and 2010 based on the day of the week. \u00a0This method is not perfect by any means however it will allow you to achieve the goal just the same. \u00a0These methods work well for staff members who only work […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","article-category":[28],"article-tag":[647,648],"class_list":["post-837","article","type-article","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","article-category-microsoft-outlook","article-tag-outlook-auto-reply-specific-days","article-tag-outlook-out-of-office-specific-days-of-week"],"yasr_visitor_votes":{"stars_attributes":{"read_only":false,"span_bottom":false},"number_of_votes":16,"sum_votes":68},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"article-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article-category?post=837"},{"taxonomy":"article-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4it.com.au\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article-tag?post=837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}