First let me say I am in no way a microsoft advocate. I run exclusively Free software at home, but the place I work is a microsoft shop.
Actually scripting is used a great deal in many companies. We use e-mail forms with alot of scripting behind them to make many things easier. For instance the helpdesk has a form that forces users to enter certain information before they can report trouble tickets. It's alot easier than dealing with an e-mail that simply states my screen looks funny. We have another that allows users to check the size of their mailboxes on the exchange server. We couldn't do any of this without scripting. These are just a couple of examples, but there are many uses for the features built into outlook. If people would actually try to learn more than a basic user's amount of knowledge before they come on here and bitch about how bad things are they wouldn't come across as being a bunch of idiots. But what can you expect from the average IT "professional"?
If you've never worked with scripting in outlook, buy a book, you may be impressed with what you can hack together with a form. If you have and don't like it, then disable it. It's not that hard.
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First let me say I am in no way a microsoft advocate. I run exclusively Free software at home, but the place I work is a microsoft shop.
Actually scripting is used a great deal in many companies. We use e-mail forms with alot of scripting behind them to make many things easier. For instance the helpdesk has a form that forces users to enter certain information before they can report trouble tickets. It's alot easier than dealing with an e-mail that simply states my screen looks funny. We have another that allows users to check the size of their mailboxes on the exchange server. We couldn't do any of this without scripting. These are just a couple of examples, but there are many uses for the features built into outlook. If people would actually try to learn more than a basic user's amount of knowledge before they come on here and bitch about how bad things are they wouldn't come across as being a bunch of idiots. But what can you expect from the average IT "professional"?
If you've never worked with scripting in outlook, buy a book, you may be impressed with what you can hack together with a form. If you have and don't like it, then disable it. It's not that hard.