Hello,

Today we’ll learn about how to set out of office on behalf of users. This can be be handy if a user leaves the company and didn’t set any out of office before leaving. It can also be helpful for any emergency leave.

Set Out of Office in behalf of User

To set an out of office you need some administrative privileges :

• Organization Management
• Recipient Management
• Helpdesk

You also need to do it from PowerShell, Microsoft gives us a cmdlet :

Set-MailboxAutoReplyConfiguration

If you look at the help, you’ll find some good example that will help you understand how to use this cmdlet despite the parametersets, validateset and parameter attributes missing.

Enable :

Set-MailboxAutoReplyConfiguration -Identity  Dumbo@itfordummies.net -ExternalMessage "This is a test mailbox !" -InternalMessage "You hit a test and dev mailbox !" -AutoReplyState Enabled

Schedule :

Set-MailboxAutoReplyConfiguration -Identity  Dumbo@itfordummies.net -ExternalMessage "This is a test mailbox !" -InternalMessage "You hit a test and dev mailbox !" -StartTime ([DateTime]::Now) -EndTime (Get-Date -Year 2020) -AutoReplyState Scheduled

Note : ParameterSets aren’t define, so pay close attention to the help documentation to really understand how to use this cmdlet.

Verify

Once the cmdlet ran, you can check it :

Get-MailboxAutoReplyConfiguration dumbo@itfordummies.net

Set Out of Office in behalf of User – Check