Vacation Mode

Vacation Mode schedules temporary changes to a user's access and mailbox for a fixed period, then reverses them automatically when the period ends. It covers Conditional Access exclusions, mailbox delegation, mail forwarding and out of office replies, so a single schedule can cover everything that needs to change while someone is away.

Each vacation produces a pair of scheduled tasks for every change: one that applies it at the start date and one that reverses it at the end date. This page lists those tasks.

Vacation Mode In Action

Action Buttons

Add Vacation Schedule

Opens the add-vacation-schedule.md wizard, where the users, the changes to apply and the dates are chosen.

Filters

Filter	Shows
Running	Tasks currently executing.
Planned	Tasks scheduled but not yet run, which includes every reversal waiting for its end date.
Failed	Tasks that did not complete.
Completed	Tasks that have run successfully.
CA Exclusion	Tasks that add or remove a Conditional Access policy exclusion.
Mailbox Permissions	Tasks that grant or revoke mailbox delegation.
Mail Forwarding	Tasks that set or clear mail forwarding.
Out of Office	Tasks that enable or disable automatic replies.

Table Details

Column	Description
Tenant	The tenant the task runs against.
Name	What the task does, including whether it applies or reverses the change and which user or policy it affects.
Reference	The reference entered when the schedule was created, which ties the tasks of one vacation together.
Task State	Whether the task is planned, running, completed or failed.
Scheduled Time	When the task is due to run.
Executed Time	When the task actually ran. Empty for a task still waiting.

Table Actions

Action	Description	Bulk Action Available
View Task Details	Opens the View Scheduled Task Details page for the selected task, showing its full parameters and results.
Cancel Vacation Mode	Removes the selected scheduled task so it never runs.
More Info	Opens the Extended Info flyout with the full details for the selected row.

Cancelling is per task, not per vacation. Cancelling the task that reverses a change leaves that change in place permanently: an excluded user stays excluded, a delegate keeps their access, forwarding keeps forwarding. To call off a vacation that has already started, cancel the reversal only if you intend the change to be permanent, and otherwise let it run or undo the change by hand.

Because a vacation is several independent tasks rather than one object, use the Reference column to find every task belonging to the same schedule before cancelling anything.

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