How to Set Up Auto-Reply in Office 365 Primary or Shared Mailbox

The Automatic Reply is the auto-response message which is pre-design for all the incoming messages. Here I am going to explain the way how to set up auto-reply in Office 365 Primary, Shared, or Group mailbox.

Method 1: Setting Up Automatic Reply via Exchange Admin Center

For this, you have to open your Office 365 Outlook. First of all, you need to log in your office 365 account and go to the Outlook.

Step 1: In the Outlook window you need to click on the Setting option.

Step 2: Now a few options will appear on the screen and here you need to search the Automatic replies option.

Note: You can also search for it by typing in the search bar.

Step 3: After clicking on the Auto-Reply option you will get a pop-up window. Here you need to choose the Send automatic replies option and type the Message. Once it is done you need to hit on the Ok.

Note: You can also set-up an automatic reply for a particular time period.

Method 2: Automatic Replies Using Windows PowerShell

The user can also set the Auto reply in Office 365 account or Group & Share mailbox with the help of the following Windows PowerShell command line.

Step 1: Firstly you need to connect the Exchange Online mailbox to the PowerShell.

$o365Cred=Get-Credential

                                $Session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri
                                https://ps.outlook.com/powershell/ -Credential $o365Cred -Authentication Basic
                                –AllowRedirection
                            

Step 2: After login, Office 365 in PowerShell enter the command to create the PSSession.

Import-PSSession $Session

Automatic Reply for a Single User:

You can assign the Automatic reply for a single user mailbox by putting the given command.

                                Set-MailboxAutoReplyConfiguration -Identity username -AutoReplyState Scheduled
                                -StartTime "7/10/2019 08:00:00" -EndTime "8/7/2019 17:00:00" -InternalMessage "Internal
                                auto-reply message"
                            

Enable Auto-Reply for Multiple Users:

                                Get-Mailbox -ResultSize Unlimited | Get-MailboxAutoReplyConfiguration | Where-Object {
                                $_.AutoReplyState -ne "Disabled" } | Select Identity,StartTime,EndTime,AutoReplyState |
                                Export-CSV OutOfOffice.csv -NoTypeInformation
                            

Turn Off the Automatic Reply:

Set-MailboxAutoReplyConfiguration –identity alias –AutoreplyState disabled

Final Verdict: In this post, I discussed how to set up an auto-reply in Office 365 Primary, Shared or Group mailbox. I hope it will help you to enable the Automatic Reply message.