Setting Out of Office replies for Outlook 2010

By Lindsay,
Out of office replies for Outlook 2010 is a great feature for informing customers and co-workers that you are away for a period of time. 

First off in Outlook 2010 go to the File tab, then Info, then click on the Automatic Replies (Out of Office) button;

You are then presented with the following window;

So your options are:

Date and time range - pretty obvious.
Separation of people inside and outside the organisation - Great, you can have separate messages.

Lets look at the Outside my organisation settings, as these are the most important.

Now this is the most important part.  For reasons of security I would not tick the Anyone outside my organisation.  Alternatively a pretty generic reply such as away for a few days may cover it. 

 Have an alternative contact point in the message.  Do not specify exactly when you are away.

There are other options as well, look at the Rules button bottom left.  There's not a lot you can't do with rules.