Add auto reply capabilities to a group
Seems basic to me. We run a service company. An email comes into service@company.com
We want to forward the email to members in our group but also auto reply to the sender letting them know the email was received.
I could set up a 'paid for' user that does nothing but auto-reply and then forward to a distribution list .. but what a pain .. and cost.


Auto-response can be configured via PowerShell by a user with Exchange Admin privileges. Please execute a command similar to the following: Set-MailboxAutoReplyConfiguration -Identity EmailAliasOfYourGroup -AutoReplyState Enabled -InternalMessage “Your message”
37 comments
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Anonymous commented
Hello
set-mailboxautoreplyconfiguration does not work with distribution lists! -
Victor Ivanidze commented
Instead of executing PowerShell commands you can use a tool named "GroupOOF for Office 365".
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Victor Ivanidze commented
If you do not want to use PowerShell for that google for GroupOOF Windows application that allows an Office 365 admin to toggle the status (disabled/enabled/scheduled) and modify parameters of Out Of Office auto-replies for Office 365 groups.
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Anonymous commented
I'm sorry but how can you define this as done? As a small organisation we don't have anyone who can use PowerShell. This is just lazy development. Unless there is access to this from the admin portals it doesn't exist. Please open this up again until you have actually made this feature available to all users.
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Carlos S commented
You can do this with PowerShell
Set-MailboxAutoReplyConfiguration -Identity 'DG Address" -AutoReplyState Scheduled -StartTime "12/16/2019 13:00:00" -EndTime "12/17/2019 13:00:00" -InternalMessage "Internal auto-reply message"
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MG commented
Hi, is there any document available for this fix? looks like it was worked on since 2017.. I would love to see the information. thx.
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Pedro dal toe commented
The group need to be created in Office 365, and the type need to be Office 365 group.
Than run the command Set-MailboxAutoReplyConfiguration..Dont works to DL.
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Anonymous commented
Link the doc already?
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Anonymous commented
Has this been done yet?
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victor obibi commented
it is really sad that we have been left abandoned. no solution till now
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Tom commented
How about a document that says how to do this? I don't care about group owners being able to do it themselves.
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Anonymous commented
Cmdlet works (thanks) but means central it has to make the changes for group owners. Please make it possible for them to make this change through owa themselves.
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Kj commented
Where is the documentation for this?
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Anonymous commented
Set-MailboxAutoReplyConfiguration works against O365 groups. I assume that is what many of you are asking for...
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GL commented
Yes, where's the update?
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Anonymous commented
Any updates regrading documentation ?
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Cindy commented
Working on it was the answer in 2017. It is now 2019, when will this document be ready and where is it located?
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TruffleShuffle commented
Please provide an update on this. This feature is desperately needed.
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Anonymous commented
I'm not a native english speaker - what does "shortly" exactly mean?
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Anonymoos commented
Sooooooooooooo, how's this coming along?