Here’s a quick way you can set Out of Office via the Exchange Management shell for a User
Steps to Set Out of Office
- Log onto an Exchange Server or onto a machine with the EMS
- Create a folder to the root of the C Drive called “Support”
- Create 2 txt files named “InternalMessage.txt” and “ExternalMessage.txt” in the Support folder just created
- Now in the InternalMessage.txt type what you’d like your Internal Out Of Office to be
- And in the ExternalMessage.txt type what you’d like your External Out Of Office to be
- Now Run the Below commands to Set the Out of Office replies you created , be sure to change the User in Bold to the one you need to set OOF on
$internalmessage = get-content C:Supportinternalmessage.txt
$Externalmessage = get-content C:Supportexternalmessage.txt
Set-MailboxAutoReplyConfiguration User -AutoReplyState enabled -ExternalAudience all -InternalMessage $InternalMessage -ExternalMessage $ExternalMessage
- Now the users OOF will be set and turned on J
If you wish to turn Out of Office off, simply run “Set-MailboxAutoReplyConfiguration User -AutoReplyState disabled” J
