Out of Office Reply to Senders Outside of Organization adding Question Marks to beginning of message (Network Steve Forum)

Out of Office Reply to Senders Outside of Organization adding Question Marks to beginning of message

I have noticed a "strange" issue since upgrading our 2013 environment to CU7. We have multiple reports of users who have the exact same out of office reply for both internal, and external senders. The message appears normal for users within the organization. But for users outside of the organization (GMAIL, Outlook.com, Yahoo, etc) the text in the auto reply is pre-cursed by a Question mark so they message would end up looking like this for example:

?I am currently out of the office

I thought this could be a Font issue, but I am looking at their auto replies through the OWA interface and that question mark is NOT present in the text. If you add a blank line before the text, you get TWO question marks before the text. No idea why it would only affect the outside of my organization setting, but no idea what to do for the issue. Anybody seeing this bug?

If I do a get-MailboxAutoReplyConfiguration username of the person from Powershell, I don't see the question marks in the message configuration either.

Edited by LE2Strat Friday, January 30, 2015 2:17 PM

January 30th, 2015 1:52pm

Hi LE2Strat,

Did you ever find a solution to this issue? I am currently experiencing the exact same problem.

Scott

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May 8th, 2015 2:12pm

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