In a locally hosted Exchange 2013 environment I would like to allow some users to be able to go through /owa and enable forward all mail to 'contact@otherdomains.com' I have it set up but nothing is happening. Is there a rule that needs to be enabled to allow mail forwarding, I don't want to have to create external contacts for each external address they send to.

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Thanks!

Hi
Auto Forwarding is by default not enabled in an Exchange environment.
It is a organizational setting that can be enabled on a "remote domain basis" only  and not for an individual user.

Set-RemoteDomain
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa997857(v=exchg.150).aspx

If you don't want to do that (=understandable) then your only option is to create MailContacts that your users can use in the rules they create.

Thanks, that's just what I needed.

Thanks, that's just what I needed.