Outlook Automatic Replies Forwarding Rule - Where does it live and how do I find it with PowerShell? RRS feed

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Outlook Automatic Replies Forwarding Rule - Where does it live and how do I find it with PowerShell? RRS feed

Mis Webmail Xyz 21

When these steps are taken in Outlook for Windows 2016:

File > Automatic Replies > Rules... >Add Rule... > Forward > Check the box and populate the "To;" field

Already tried: Get-MailboxAutoReplyConfiguration and Get-InboxRule but no luck. It doesn't show as a "rule" in the usual places. Any idea as to where it lives and how to find it with PowerShell?

Thanks!

Mis Webmail

Yuki Sun-MSFT 41,376 Reputation points Moderator

2021-10-13T07:01:55.333+00:00

Hi @Mis Webmail Xyz ,

Rules set up in Outlook via File > Automatic Reply > Rules are different from the oof rules or Inbox rules. And based on my research, agree with pvanberlo that currently it's not feasible to manage it with PowerShell cmdlets so you may have to manually check it from the Outlook client. Below is a thread which discussed a similar topic for your reference:
Control Out Of Office via the Exchange Shell

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Yuki Sun-MSFT 41,376 Reputation points Moderator

2021-10-13T07:01:55.333+00:00

Hi @Mis Webmail Xyz ,

Rules set up in Outlook via File > Automatic Reply > Rules are different from the oof rules or Inbox rules. And based on my research, agree with pvanberlo that currently it's not feasible to manage it with PowerShell cmdlets so you may have to manually check it from the Outlook client. Below is a thread which discussed a similar topic for your reference:
Control Out Of Office via the Exchange Shell

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Paul van Berlo 826

Hi @Mis Webmail Xyz and welcome to Q&A.

It seems this question pops up every once in a while, but I have not seen a proper solution for it yet. It seems it is simply impossible to retrieve the 'Automatic Reply Rules' using PowerShell.

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