I havea user whoforgot to turn on his out of office and now wants me to turn it on from him. I have admin rights and can change his password but don't want to do it. Is there a way to do this without changing his password from the Exchange 2003 server manager?

Hi, It is not possible from Exchange System Manager. It can be done either from outlook or from OWA. If you have full mailbox permission then you can open mailbox in either of it.

Hi, I understand that you would like to set the Out of office of from another user account without changing the user password. Regarding this issue, please take the following steps to resolve it. Please first go into ADUC (Active Directory Users and Computers), expand the domain, locate the Users, in the right panel, find the user that you need to set the Out Of Office. Right click it, in the Exchange Advanced tab, click Mailbox Rights, confirm your account has the rights for read permissions and full mailbox access. Then click OK. After that, please open Control Panel, locate Mail icon, double click it, click Show Profiles button, click Add button, then follow the wizard to create the user profile. When you are prompted to input the user account and password, please input your account and password instead of the user profile itself. Thanks Allen

Perfect Allen..

go to AD user and computer search for that user right click on that user and go to properties in the user property window go to the exchange advance and then mailbox rights add your user and get full mailbox rights wait for raplication and create a MAPI profile in your own outllok for MAPI go to control pannel, Mail and then add user account please set that user account on Cache mode then open your outlook and set Out Of Office for that user if you have any question please contact me at ahmedbilalmir@hotmail.com or 0065 8118 6747 regard's Ahmed Mir

This is updated information that can be useful in this situation if you are running Exchange 2010: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd638217.aspx Basically powershell can be used by system administrators with the Set-MailboxAutoReplyConfiguration command to set Out of Office for users. For example: set-mailboxautoreplyconfiguration <user logon name> -autoreplystate enabled -externalmessage "Input external out of office message" -internalmessage "Input internal out of office message"