It might come in handy if you know how to get a list of users who have out of office message turned on. Exchange 2010 shell gives you that ability now.
You can even change the message, set the audience (internal or external), turn it off etc with the shell.
To get a list of users who have out of office scheduled, run the following command.
Get-Mailbox | Get-MailboxAutoReplyConfiguration | Where-Object { $_.AutoReplyState –eq “scheduled” }
The above command gives you much more than you need, including the actual message, start time, end time etc.
If you are only interested in the list of users, run
Get-Mailbox | Get-MailboxAutoReplyConfiguration | Where-Object { $_.AutoReplyState –eq “scheduled” } | fl identity
If you want to get the settings for a particular user (for example Rajith), run
Get-MailboxAutoReplyConfiguration –identity rajith
You can also change the out of office settings for a particular user with the Set-MailboxAutoReplyConfiguration cmdlet.
For example, to turn off the out of office for the user account “Rajith”, run
Set-MailboxAutoReplyConfiguration –identity “Rajith” –AutoreplyState disabled
Similarly, if you want to extend the out of office message for a user (change the end time), run
Set-MailboxAutoReplyConfiguration –identity “Rajith” –EndTime 01/12/2009 17:00:00
You can change the actual out of office message (internal and external) by running
Set-MailboxAutoReplyConfiguration –identity “Rajith” –InternalMessage “I won’t be around today guys” –ExternalMessage “I am out of the office today”
Do note that this cmdlets will only work in Exchange 2010 Shell!
Anonymous November 19, 2009 at 12:20 am
Very cool.. really enjoy your blogs, thanks Liam
Rajith Jose Enchiparambil November 19, 2009 at 8:45 am
Thanks Liam.
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Rajith Jose Enchiparambil December 19, 2009 at 12:08 pm
Thanks Sh-eli.
Anonymous July 23, 2010 at 1:26 am
Hi does anyone know how to get all the mailboxes with OOF enabled, disable it, then re-enable it for those same users?
The reason is I want to run it at midnight each night as a scheduled task to reset the 'sent to' list. I have a lot of requests to sent OOF once per day per sender, instead of once per OOF period.
I need some help piping this together
Get this and store in variable
Get-Mailbox | Get-MailboxAutoReplyConfiguration | Where-Object { $_.AutoReplyState –eq “scheduled”
Then do this
Set-MailboxAutoReplyConfiguration –AutoreplyState disabled
Then do this
Set-MailboxAutoReplyConfiguration –AutoreplyState enabled
Anonymous July 23, 2010 at 1:30 am
Thanks for posting the article.
I think it should be 'Enabled' instead of 'Scheduled'
Where-Object { $_.AutoReplyState –eq “Enabled” }
Anonymous March 21, 2011 at 7:57 am
Thanks for the post it really helped
Rajith Jose Enchiparambil March 21, 2011 at 9:34 am
Thanks Anonymous.
Michael June 9, 2012 at 3:36 am
It would be nice to block OOF messages by Organization Units. We have an “OldEmployees” OU that we move old employees to until we archive their messages.
Rajith Enchiparambil June 26, 2012 at 2:05 pm
Good thought Michael.
Oscar July 24, 2012 at 6:15 pm
This is some ‘Kung Fu’. Thanks so much, searched everywhere on how to set a users out of office assistant while they are already gone! And this worked like a charm. The only thing I couldn’t get shell to accept, was the time. So I just set the date for one day later for their return. Any ideas on why the time failed?
Rajith Enchiparambil July 26, 2012 at 9:08 am
Hi Oscar,
Are you using the correct time format? Say if the user has their mailbox regional settings set to GMT & if you configure the time in US format, it won’t take it.
Rauno Mägi October 3, 2012 at 10:30 am
The correct command would be
Get-Mailbox | Get-MailboxAutoReplyConfiguration | Where-Object { $_.AutoReplyState -ne “disabled” }
because state can be enabled or scheduled.
Rajith Enchiparambil October 3, 2012 at 2:03 pm
Thanks Rauno. I think “enabled” and “scheduled” will be the same anyway. Yes, you can use -ne disabled to be on the same side
Prasanna Shroti May 9, 2013 at 1:13 am
Hi, thanks a lot for the useful information. Is there a way to find out this information programatically, through a Webservices or an RMI call etc. We need this information for one implementation.