I was wondering if it was possible to have managers set out of office in outlook, for those they manage. Almost every day I have to login into EMC and give myself full permission to someones mailbox and remove it when done. It's a really big pain, and I'm hoping that there is an easier way to do this, and a way that can have there managers do it.
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4[A very similar question was asked back in 2009](http://serverfault.com/questions/76376/setting-out-of-office-message-for-someone-else) -- Do any of those options work for you (particularly the powershell one)? Also note that IMHO the better solution is to ***educate your users*** so they set their own out of office messages: Server admins and managers aren't supposed to be nannies, and if you do it for them now they'll refuse to learn how later... – voretaq7 Jun 06 '12 at 17:05
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Why grant yourself full mailbox access, when you have the ability to utilize Powershell and Exchange specific Cmdlet's (assuming you are running an Exchange 2010 organization)?
The Set-MailboxAutoReplyConfiguration is the way forward, I would say:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd638217.aspx
To answer your question regarding the possibility to delegate the steps towards a specific group: if you utilize RBAC and assign the necessary people the necessary rights, you can delegate any Exchange related step with great ease. But inline with the response already given, I would also invest in education of the (end)users.
