Is there a way in Exchange on how to set an "out of office" auto-reply for a user (without resetting password) as an administrator? The user is currently out of office and would like to set an auto-reply message without having to reset user's password to login to Outlook! Thanks, Milton

What you can do is grant the administrator (or yourself if you have rights to Exchange) full permission to the mailbox. Create a new outlook profile manually and specify the user in question Once the Outlook profile is created go and enable OOF for that user and test it out. This should work.

Thank you Michael...that worked! Best, Milton

By the way, if you are running Exchange 2010, administrator can run the cmdlet Set-MailboxAutoReplyConfiguration to set OOF for users. Set-MailboxAutoReplyConfiguration http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd638217.aspx Frank Wang TechNet Subscriber Support in forum If you have any feedback on our support, please contact tngfb@microsoft.com Please remember to click “Mark as Answer” on the post that helps you, and to click “Unmark as Answer” if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.

Thanks Frank! Milton