Outlook Out of Office Assistant: The command is not available

Symptoms

When you click Out of Office Assistant in the Tools menu in Outlook 2003 you may receive the following error message:
 * The command is not available. See the program documentation about how to use this extension.

Cause

This behavior may occur if the following key is present in the registry:
 * HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook\Resiliency

Resolution

To resolve this problem, quit Outlook, rename the Resiliency registry key to Resiliency.old and then restart Outlook. To do this follow these steps:
 * 1) Quit Outlook if it is running
 * 2) Press CTRL+ALT+DELETE, and then click Task Manager.
 * 3) Click the Processes tab, and then verify that Outlook.exe does not appear in the list of processes.
 * 4) Quit Task Manager.
 * 5) Click Start, click Run, type regedit in the Open box and then click OK.
 * Important: This section, method of task contains seteps that tell you how to modify the registry. However, serious problems might occur if you modify the registry incorrectly. Therefore, make sure that you follow these steps carefully. For added protection, back up the registry before you modify it. Then you can restore the registry if a problem occures. Fore more information about how to back up and restore the registry, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knoweldge Base:
 * 322756 How to backup and restore the registry in Windows.
 * 1) Locate and then click the following registry key:
 * HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Outlook
 * 1) Right-click the Resiliency subkey (if it exists), and then click Rename.
 * 2) Type Resiliency.old and then press ENTER.
 * 3) Quit Registry Editor.
 * 4) Start Outlook and then click Out of Office Assistant on the Tools menu.

Source:http://support.microsoft.com/kb/327353

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