Any Powershell experts? mailboxautoreply for multiple users?
Any Powershell experts? mailboxautoreply for multiple users?
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mizx

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1,586 posts

216 months

Friday 12th July 2019
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edit: thanks for the replies anyway, just speculating

Edited by mizx on Friday 12th July 20:42

SlimRick

2,277 posts

196 months

Friday 12th July 2019
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CodeTwo Exchange Rules Pro - it's what I use to auto-reply to a specific distribution lists with a set message.

I know it's not what you asked, but it does the job.

citizenmtb

1,495 posts

209 months

Friday 12th July 2019
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As you've named the columns 'alias' I'm presuming there is no need to decommission the TLD?

I wouldn't use the approach you are considering. It'll cause issues for many years to come of emails being returned undelivered. Instead, i would set the new alias as the users primary address, the old remaining as a secondary for when contacts inevitably mail the old address.

Given you talk about 50-60 users, the reach is likely to be quite far out in terms on cached addresses, business cards, shared info etc. It's just impractical to dump an old address entirely for a new one. You method also relies on the contact actually emailing the user within x time frame and manually updating their records. People are pretty bad at it!