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Trying to update a list of available employee's by checking if they have Autoreply enabled or not. I understand we can use Get mail tips for a mailbox v2 but this only tells if autoreply is configured or not- not enabled or not. Mostly users have configured their auto reply for a previous occasion not necessarily indicates that the user is out of office.. hence want to know if we can retrieve information related to autoreply enabled.. i.e. - Get-MailBoxAutoReplyConfiguration.

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Ellis Karim 11,683 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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Hi @u4jaanus ,

I ran the Get Mail Tips for all mailbox (V2) for all users on my tenant.

I observed that user who don't have automatic replies enabled, the message property is empty:

[ { "mailboxFull": false, "externalMemberCount": 0, "totalMemberCount": 1, "deliveryRestricted": false, "isModerated": false, "maxMessageSize": 37748736, "emailAddress": { "name": "", "address": "user@email.com" }, "automaticReplies": { "message": "" } } ]

I also observed that users who have automatic replies enabled, the message property contains text:

[ { "mailboxFull": false, "externalMemberCount": 0, "totalMemberCount": 1, "deliveryRestricted": false, "isModerated": false, "maxMessageSize": 37748736, "emailAddress": { "name": "", "address": "user1@email.com" }, "automaticReplies": { "message": "I'm out of the office ...." } } ]

And those users who have automatic replies enabled, some have set a scheduled start and end time:

[ { "mailboxFull": false, "externalMemberCount": 0, "totalMemberCount": 1, "deliveryRestricted": false, "isModerated": false, "maxMessageSize": 37748736, "emailAddress": { "name": "", "address": "user2@email.com" }, "automaticReplies": { "message": "I'm out of the office ....", "scheduledStartTime": { "dateTime": "2022-04-14T16:00:00.0000000", "timeZone": "UTC" }, "scheduledEndTime": { "dateTime": "2022-05-04T08:30:00.0000000", "timeZone": "UTC" } } } ]

I checked if the message property contained text:

The expression I used in the Condition to reference the message property:

outputs('Get_mail_tips_for_a_mailbox_(V2)')?['body/value']?[0]?['automaticReplies/message']

For more info on this, see video: Detecting Out of Office Recipients using Power Automate

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Craig Stewart ABZ 959 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

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Just popping on to say that on the condition I had to add null as an expression for this to work rather than leave it blank.

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u4jaanus on at

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Hi Ellis,
Actually you are right; when I was checking yesterday; the user I was checking was out of office hence was getting values in Message caused me confusion if I am using it correctly or not. Today i tested different users and Yes message tag is empty if Out Of Office is not set.

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For me Null didnt work. I left it empty to make it work.

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Update: Thanks Ellis for directing me towards the correct path. Wanted to update the post so others could get help.
In Auto reply there can be Four scenarios and each scenario will return a different format when "Get Mail Tips for all mailbox (V2)" is used.
1st Scenario as you mentioned above "who don't have automatic replies enabled, the message property is empty:"

[ { "mailboxFull": false, "externalMemberCount": 0, "totalMemberCount": 1, "deliveryRestricted": false, "isModerated": false, "maxMessageSize": 37748736, "emailAddress": { "name": "", "address": "user@email.com" }, "automaticReplies": { "message": "" } } ]

2nd Scenario as your mentioned above "users who have automatic replies enabled, the message property contains text:"

[ { "mailboxFull": false, "externalMemberCount": 0, "totalMemberCount": 1, "deliveryRestricted": false, "isModerated": false, "maxMessageSize": 37748736, "emailAddress": { "name": "", "address": "user1@email.com" }, "automaticReplies": { "message": "I'm out of the office ...." } } ]

3rd Scenario as you mentioned above "who have automatic replies enabled, some have set a scheduled start and end time:"

[ { "mailboxFull": false, "externalMemberCount": 0, "totalMemberCount": 1, "deliveryRestricted": false, "isModerated": false, "maxMessageSize": 37748736, "emailAddress": { "name": "", "address": "user2@email.com" }, "automaticReplies": { "message": "I'm out of the office ....", "scheduledStartTime": { "dateTime": "2022-04-14T16:00:00.0000000", "timeZone": "UTC" }, "scheduledEndTime": { "dateTime": "2022-05-04T08:30:00.0000000", "timeZone": "UTC" } } } ]

The Fourth Scenario is when User have auto reply message set but autoreply is not active. i.e. previously an auto reply was active but then was disabled. this will return an empty object i.e. "automaticReplies": {}.
I tried using condition to check if the output is 0 but was having the issues as {} is not 0 hence i was getting it wrong.
I used empty() function with target to "automaticReplies/messages" if true means user is in office and false means user is out of office.
Hope this help others.

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tuxmc 10 on at

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Good Topic...

Unfortunately, Microsoft made it harder in the new version. Now we have a new scenario (challenge).

The automatic reply can be enabled but the message is blank or null.

Thanks, Microsoft, for making our life harder!

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