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InternalReply

Last modified: May 18, 2010

Applies to: Exchange Server 2007 | Exchange Server 2010

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 of the Client Access server.

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="https://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

Namespace

https://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/services/2006/types

Schema Name

Types schema

Validation File

Types.xsd

Can be Empty

False