schedule recurring Out of Office

Hi All I want to schedule recurring out of office every day. i have shared mailbox and i want to set out of office for shared mailbox for every email which is received from 9PM to 6AM as the users w...

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exchange

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office 365

On-Premises

Victor_Ivanidze
Aug 05, 2020
Alternatively you can use ScheduledOOF flow for Office 365 tool.

HidMov

Iron Contributor

Aug 09, 2019

Hey maxwell2k19

You can set this up with Powershell. Set-MailboxAutoReplyConfiguration can set up auto reply for the shared mailbox

Set-MailboxAutoReplyConfiguration -Identity "Shared Mailed box" -AutoReplyState Scheduled -StartTime “09/08/2019 18:00:01” -EndTime “10/08/2019 09:00:00” -InternalMessage “We're not around!” -ExternalMessage “Dear customer, we're not around, we'll answer your query 9am tomorrow”

You can set this to run as a scheduled task every day to save you having to remember to set it.

Quick note on putting multiple lines in your auto reply; I've found that the one-liner isn't great for one liners, so to get around this we put the the reply as HTML which is then passed to a variable. So for example

$reply = "<html><head></head><body>Line 1Line2Line 3Line 4Line 5 </body></html>"

Simply call the $reply for the -InternalMessage and -ExternalMessage portion.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,

Mark

Victor_Ivanidze

Bronze Contributor

Aug 05, 2020

Alternatively you can use ScheduledOOF flow for Office 365 tool.