Edit

Duration (UserOofSettings)

  • Article

The Duration element specifies the duration that the out of office (OOF) status is enabled if the OofState element is set to Scheduled.

<Duration>
   <StartTime/>
   <EndTime/> 
</Duration>

Duration

Attributes and elements

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

Attributes

None.

Child elements

Element Description
StartTime
Represents the start of the time span set with an OOF status. This element is required.
EndTime
Represents the end of the time span set with an OOF status. This element is required.

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
OutOfOffice
Defines the Out of Office (OOF) response message and a duration time for sending the response message for a mailbox.

Remarks

The Duration type is also the type for the DetailedSuggestionsWindow, TimeWindow, and OutOfOffice elements.

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 operation request sets the OofState to Enabled, the internal and external OOF messages, and sets the duration of OOF for 10 days.

<?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>
        <SetByLegacyClient>false</SetByLegacyClient>
      </UserOofSettings>
    </SetUserOofSettingsRequest>
  </soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>

Element information

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

See also