InternalReply

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2023-03-29

The InternalReply element contains the out of office (OOF) response sent to other users in the user's domain or trusted domains.

<InternalReply>
   <Message/> 
</InternalReply>

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 InternalReply message. The possible values of 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 for 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="http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/services/2006/messages">
      <Mailbox xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/services/2006/types">
        <Name>David Alexander</Name>
        <Address>[email protected]</Address>
        <RoutingType>SMTP</RoutingType>
      </Mailbox>
      <UserOofSettings xmlns="http://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

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

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