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Your Out of Office Settings cannot be displayed

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KB ID 0000197 Dtd 04/03/10

Problem

Seen on Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2010 talking to Exchange 2007 (Note this fixes Outlook 2007 but NOT 2010.) When opening the “Out Of Office Assistant.”

Your Out of Office Settings cannot be displayed, because the Server is currently unavailable. Try Again Later

Other Symtoms

1. You see hash marks in the Scheduling Assistant.

2. You see “Object reference not set to an instance of an object.” error when running the Poweshell cmdlet Test-OutlookWebServices.

3. The OOF Log shows “Response error code: 00000000” and “HTTP status code: 0”.

Solution

This is caused by a .NET error.

To Fix it install this HOTFIX (Afterwards neither Exchange or Outlook needs restarting.)

To Workaround.

Option 1

Use the out of office assistant with Outlook Web Access.

Option 2 (On a client by Client basis)

Note: This will only work if you have Schedule+ Free/Busy Public folders, you will only have this if you ticked “Yes” at the “Do you have computers running Outlook 2003..” option when Exchange was installed.

1. On the affected Outlook machine, Click Start >  Run >  regedit > {enter}

2 Navigate to, HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftOffice12.0OutlookOptionsCalendar

3. Right click in the right hand window > New DWORD

4. Call it UseLegacyFB set its value to 1

5.Exit Regedit.

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Exchange – Enable ‘Out Of Office’ For Another User

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KB ID 0000843

Problem

Got in the office to find a colleague was going to be on long term sick this morning, the boss asked, “Can we turn on his out of office?”. I could have simply changed the users password and logged into OWA and done it, but executing some PowerShell would be more elegant.

Note: You must be in one of the following groups to carry out this procedure, Organizational Management, Recipient Management, or Help Desk.

Solution

Powershell Syntax

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Set-MailboxAutoReplyConfiguration -Identity username -AutoReplyState Enabled/Disabled/Scheduled [-EndTime DateTime] [-ExternalAudience None/Known/All] [-ExternalMessage message] -InternalMessage message [-StartTime DateTime]

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Note: Remember the dates need to be in ‘American date format’ or the command will fail.

Example

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Set-MailboxAutoReplyConfiguration -Identity 'PeteL' -StartTime '08/12/2013 08:00' -AutoReplyState Enabled -EndTime '12/31/2013 23:59' -InternalMessage 'Pete is currently out of the office' -ExternalMessage 'Pete is currently out of the office, please contact the helpdesk for technical assistance' -ExternalAudience 'All'

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