Managing automatic replies and out-of-office settings for a user

Since Exchange 2010, we've got a valuable set of cmdlets that can be used to manage and automate the configuration of a user's Out of Office settings. In this recipe, we'll take a look at how to use these cmdlets from the Exchange Management Shell for Exchange 2016.

How to do it...

1. To view the Out of Office settings for a mailbox, use the following syntax:

Get-MailboxAutoReplyConfiguration dave

2. You can change the Out of Office settings for a mailbox using the following syntax as shown:

Set-MailboxAutoReplyConfiguration dave `
 -AutoReplyState Disabled

How it works...

Retrieving the settings for a mailbox simply requires that you run the Get-MailboxAutoReplyConfiguration cmdlet and specify the identity of the mailbox, as shown in the previous example. The Set-MailboxAutoReplyConfiguration cmdlet supports multiple parameters that can be used to customize the settings for the mailbox autoreply configuration:

Set-MailboxAutoReplyConfiguration...