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elliott94
Asked: 2021-01-02 05:20:07 +0800 CST

Does Exchange Server store out-of-office/automatic replies in a human-readable form on the filesystem when set?

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When setting an out-of-office/automatic reply on a mailbox, there are several ways to then either edit or disable the reply. Out of interest, is the text for these automatic replies stored in a file or similar on the filesystem of the machine that Exchange is running on?

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    How did you configure OOF/Automatic reply for your mailbox? Automatic Replies settings in Account Information in Outlook?

    If so, we could run the following command to preview the OOF settings configured by Outlook:

    Get-MailboxAutoReplyConfiguration -Identity "<MailboxIdentity>" | Select-Object AutoReplyState, StartTime, EndTime, ExternalMessage, InternalMessage

    ( If the AutoReplyState showed Enabled, the OOF settings were configured without a specific period. If it showed Scheduled, the OOF settings were configured with a specific period. )

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    And you could add a cmdlet behind the above command to export the external/internal OOF message to a .html file for preview:

    Get-MailboxAutoReplyConfiguration -Identity "<MailboxIdentity>" | Select-Object ExternalMessage, InternalMessage | Export-Csv C:\Users\<UserName>\Desktop\OOFMessage.html

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