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The ExternalReply element contains the out of office (OOF) response that is sent to addresses outside the recipient's domain or trusted domains.

<ExternalReply>
   <Message/>
</ExternalReply>

ReplyBody

Attributes and elements

The following sections describe attributes, child elements, and parent elements.

Attributes

Attribute Description
xml:lang
Specifies the language used in the ExternalReply message. The possible values for this attribute are defined by IETF RFC 3066.

Child elements

Element Description
Message (Availability)
Contains the OOF response.

Parent elements

Element Description
UserOofSettings
Specifies the OOF settings.
The following is the XPath expression to this element:
/SetUserOofSettingsRequest/UserOofSettings
OofSettings
Contains the OOF settings.
The following is the XPath expression to this element:
/GetUserOofSettingsResponse/OofSettings

Remarks

The schema that describes this element is located in the IIS virtual directory that hosts Exchange Web Services.

Example

The following example of a SetUserOofSettings request sets the OofState to Enabled, sets the duration of OOF to 10 days, and sets the internal and external OOF messages.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<soap:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
  <soap:Body>
    <SetUserOofSettingsRequest xmlns="https://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/services/2006/messages">
      <Mailbox xmlns="https://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/services/2006/types">
        <Name>David Alexander</Name>
        <Address>someone@example.com</Address>
        <RoutingType>SMTP</RoutingType>
      </Mailbox>
      <UserOofSettings xmlns="https://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/services/2006/types">
        <OofState>Enabled</OofState>
        <ExternalAudience>All</ExternalAudience>
        <Duration>
          <StartTime>2005-10-05T00:00:00</StartTime>
          <EndTime>2005-10-25T00:00:00</EndTime>
        </Duration>
        <InternalReply>
          <Message>I am out of office.  This is my internal reply.</Message>
        </InternalReply>
        <ExternalReply>
          <Message>I am out of office. This is my external reply.</Message>
        </ExternalReply>
      </UserOofSettings>
    </SetUserOofSettingsRequest>
  </soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>

Element information

Name Value
Namespace
https://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/services/2006/types
Schema Name
Types schema
Validation File
Types.xsd
Can be Empty
False

See also

SetUserOofSettings operation