[ms office - o365] Activate Automatic replies for everybody during out of hours

[Steve101]

Does anybody have this set up? I've had a request for automatic replies to be activated during out of office times for everybody.

 

 

Thanks

[Boredguy]

Do you mean you want Out of Office replies enabled which your users can setup themselves or something else?

[Steve101]

Configure automatic replies to reoccur during out of office hours without the users involvement.

[djm968]

Have a look at this

 

https://www.powershell.no/outlook,exchange,powershell/2017/11/05/automate-out-of-office-schedule.html

[Boredguy]

Well in 365 as it's a user configuration setting, it needs to be done for each account either as the user, via the Admin console (selecting each user and setting up the OoO details) or via Set-MailboxAutoReplyConfiguration powershell command for each account.

 

However you might need to have a script to set this each day since users can easily disable it themselves if they are signed in and actively using their account when you've chosen for the Out of Office to be enabled.

[Steve101]

Have a look at this

 

https://www.powershell.no/outlook,exchange,powershell/2017/11/05/automate-out-of-office-schedule.html

 

Thanks

[HPlum78]

You should make sure that you are using the v2 exchange module as the performance increase is massive. I would also have a group setup for this for so when someone essentially wants to opt out you can remove them from the group!