ExternalAudience

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03/29/2023

The ExternalAudience element sets or contains a value that determines to whom external Out of Office (OOF) messages are sent.

<ExternalAudience>None or Known or All</ExternalAudience>

ExternalAudience

Attributes and elements

The following sections describe attributes, child elements, and parent elements.

Attributes

None.

Child elements

None.

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`

Text value

A text value is required for this element. The following table lists the possible values for this element.

Value	Description
None	E-mail senders outside the mailbox user's organization who send messages to the user will not receive an external OOF message response.
Known	E-mail senders outside the mailbox user's organization who send messages to the user will only receive an external OOF message response if the sender is in the user's Exchange store contact list.
All	E-mail senders outside the mailbox user's organization who send messages to the user will receive an external OOF message response.

Remarks

This element shares the same type as the AllowExternalOof element.

The schema that describes this element is located in the EWS virtual directory of the computer that is running MicrosoftExchange Server 2007 that has the Client Access server role installed.

Example

The following example of a SetUserOofSettings request sets the OoFState to Enabled, sets the external audience to All, sets the duration of OOF to 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="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
  <soap:Body>
    <SetUserOofSettingsRequest xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/services/2006/messages">
      <Mailbox xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/services/2006/types">
        <Name>David Alexander</Name>
        <Address>someone@example.com</Address>
        <RoutingType>SMTP</RoutingType>
      </Mailbox>
      <UserOofSettings xmlns="http://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

Element	Type
Namespace	http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/services/2006/types
Schema Name	Types schema
Validation File	Types.xsd
Can be Empty	False

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