Configure Automatic Replies for a user in Exchange 2010

re: Configure Automatic Replies for a user in Exchange 2010

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re: Configure Automatic Replies for a user in Exchange 2010

Bharat Suneja [MSFT] — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 21:23:51 GMT

@YannickS: Here's the updated link to that post:

List users with email forwarding enabled

exchangepedia.com/.../list-users-with-email-forwarding-enabled.html

re: Configure Automatic Replies for a user in Exchange 2010

YannickS — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 06:52:14 GMT

its completly off topic.

but i found one of your scripts on your blog.

but the downloadlink is broken, is there a way to get this file?

exchangepedia.com/.../list-users-with-email-forwarded.html

regards Yannnick

re: Configure Automatic Replies for a user in Exchange 2010

David Carr — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 20:00:33 GMT

I like this option. I am sure our admins will be happy to implement this for users who may have to be out of the office suddenly or for extended periods of time.

re: Configure Automatic Replies for a user in Exchange 2010

Bharat Suneja [MSFT] — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 18:04:29 GMT

@Ben: There's no rule-based management for OOFs (except ability to send – or not – differnet OOFs to internal/external users and restrict external OOFs to Contacts).

You can forward inbound mail for a user, as shown in Configure Mail Forwarding, but it's not directly related to OOFs.

re: Configure Automatic Replies for a user in Exchange 2010

Ben Pilbrow — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 09:48:10 GMT

@Bharat - unless I'm being blind, the Get-InboxRule cmdlets only manage "normal" Exchange rules and you cannot change the forwarding rules for automatic replies.

Is there some way of specifically manipulating the OOF forwarding rules, and if not has the Exchange team considered implementing such a feature? This would be very beneficial for a lot of users, including myself in the scenario when a user is off sick and their mail needs to be forwarded with the OOF to somebody else.

re: Configure Automatic Replies for a user in Exchange 2010

Jay — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 17:50:09 GMT

Thanks Bharat, I did not attempt with the Powershell command, but adding the User Options role, allowed our security admins to get to the "Manage Another User" option from webmail. Thanks!

re: Configure Automatic Replies for a user in Exchange 2010

Bharat Suneja [MSFT] — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 16:15:35 GMT

@Thomas & Eric: You can manage Inbox Rules for your users using *-InboxRule cmdlets:

re: Configure Automatic Replies for a user in Exchange 2010

Eric — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 16:00:50 GMT

What Thomas said - can we also check and manage user's Outlook rules?

re: Configure Automatic Replies for a user in Exchange 2010

Bharat Suneja [MSFT] — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 15:49:41 GMT

@Jay: Either the Mail Recipients or the User Options management role should work.

This command shows all role entries for the Mail Recipients management role. The output displays each cmdlet the role assignee can run, and also the cmdlet's parameters that the assignee can use.

(Get-ManagementRole "Mail Recipients").RoleEntries

The Set-MailboxAutoReplyConfiguration cmdlet is included in the role entries. You can also see the parameters of the cmdlet allowed for this role.

Or use this command to get a complete list of parameters allowed:

((Get-ManagementRole "Mail Recipients").RoleEntries | ? {$_.Name -eq "Set-MailboxAutoReplyConfiguration"}).parameters

Similarly, for the User Options management role:

((Get-ManagementRole "User Options").RoleEntries | ? {$_.Name -eq "Set-MailboxAutoReplyConfiguration"}).parameters