Auto reply on shared mailbox in HTML format?

Question

_{Wednesday, January 21, 2015 9:56 AM}

Hi all,

Is there really no way to generate a nice looking HTML auto reply on a shared mailbox without having Outlook open?

Like:

"Thank you for your e-mail.

We will reply within 2 hours.

Bla. bla. bla. bla."

Regards,
Allan Kjaer (blog)
Microsoft MCP, MCDST, MCSA 2003, MCTS Configure Exchange 2010, MCITP Server Administrator 2008
Check Point CCSA, CCSE
Cisco CCENT, CCNA
IT Service Management ITIL Foundation Version 2011

All replies (2)

_{Thursday, January 22, 2015 10:54 AM ✅Answered}

I wanted a nice looking auto reply with links and images and I solved it by doing this:

1) Logged in to Windows ==> Outlook and opened up "rules"

2) Created a new rule that replied to ALL messages and chose to let the server reply with a specified message (important to not do anything else with the rule, as it then requires Outlook/the client to be running to process the rule).

Regards,
Allan Kjaer (Danish blog)
Microsoft MCP, MCDST, MCSA 2003, MCTS Configure Exchange 2010, MCITP Server Administrator 2008
Check Point CCSA, CCSE
Cisco CCENT, CCNA
IT Service Management ITIL Foundation Version 2011

_{Thursday, January 22, 2015 10:13 AM}

Should be no difference, compare with other normal mailbox. Just use the "Automatic Replies" option in Outlook.

What's the specific problem are you facing?