Deny users to insert/schedule out of office message

Dear all,

I think this is a simple question, is there a way to deny to users to schedule/insert  out of office messages?

By default they can insert it on outlook, mobile device or via web. Could I deny it?

please let me know,

thank you,

BR

PS: I know, it's a strange question... management decision...you know...
  • Edited by Sancho111 13 hours 41 minutes ago
July 28th, 2015 1:49pm

Hello

tip: Set-CASMailbox -ECPEnabled $false but this command disable all options settings when try from outlook :(

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July 28th, 2015 2:03pm

Hi,

There is no direct way to disable the out of office feature.

To work around this problem. Its easy to disable the Auto reply by the following script for all mailboxes in your organization. But users can also schedule/insert  out of office messages.

$Mailboxes = Get-Mailbox ResultSize unlimited | Get-MailboxAutoReplyConfiguration | where {($_.AutoReplyState -ne "Disabled")}

Foreach ($Mailbox in $Mailboxes) {

Set-MailboxAutoReplyConfiguration $Mailbox.Identity -AutoReplyState "Disabled"}

The problem is we need to run this script as a scheduled task every hour (or other scheduled time).

Hope others have better answers.

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July 29th, 2015 12:42am

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