Add Vacation Schedule
This wizard schedules a set of temporary changes for one or more users and the reversal of each, so a period of absence is set up once and undone automatically. Four kinds of change are available and any combination can be used, but at least one has to be enabled before the wizard will continue.
Vacation Actions
Four switches, each revealing its own settings. Enable whichever apply.
Enable CA Policy Exclusion
Excludes the selected users from Conditional Access policies for the duration.
Conditional Access Policies
The policies to exclude the users from. At least one is required. The list is read from the tenant chosen in step one, so a tenant has to be selected before it populates.
Exclude from location-based audit log alerts
Suppresses the alerts that would otherwise fire on sign-ins from an unusual location.
Create temporary travel policy
Creates a named location for the travel destination and a policy that blocks sign-ins from everywhere else, then deletes both at the end date.
Travel destination countries
The countries the users are travelling to. Required when a travel policy is being created.
Excluding someone from a Conditional Access policy allows sign-ins from anywhere, which is a wider gap than the trip usually warrants. The temporary travel policy is there to close it, restricting sign-ins to the destination for the same period.
Enable Mailbox Permissions
Grants delegates temporary access to the users' mailboxes.
Delegates
The users receiving access. At least one is required.
Permission Types
Any combination of Full Access, Send As, and Send On Behalf. At least one is required.
Auto-Map Mailbox
Lets Outlook add the mailbox on its own for the delegate. Offered with Full Access.
Include Calendar Permissions
Grants access to the calendar as well as the mailbox.
Calendar Permission Level
The access level on the calendar: Owner, Publishing Editor, Editor, Publishing Author, Author, Non Editing Author, Reviewer, Contributor, Limited Details, or Available Only.
Can View Private Items
Allows the delegate to see items marked private.
Enable Mail Forwarding
Forwards the users' mail for the duration.
Forward to Internal Address / Forward to External Address
Whether mail goes to another recipient in the tenant or to an outside address.
External Email Address
The outside address to forward to.
Keep a Copy of the Forwarded Mail in the Source Mailbox
Delivers the message to the user's own mailbox as well as forwarding it.
Forwarding is turned off at the end date rather than returned to how it was. Any forwarding the mailbox had configured beforehand is not restored, so check that first if the user already had a forward set.
Enable Out of Office
Sets automatic replies for the duration.
Internal Message
The reply sent to people inside the organisation. Pre-filled with the mailbox's current message where one is set.
External Message (optional)
The reply sent to people outside the organisation.
Block my calendar for this period
Creates a calendar event covering the absence, with a subject of your choosing.
Automatically decline new invitations during this period
Declines invitations arriving during the absence.
Decline and cancel my meetings during this period
Declines and cancels meetings already booked, with an optional message to organisers.
Turning automatic replies off at the end date preserves whatever the message says at that point, so a user who edits their own reply while away does not have it overwritten.
Schedule
Scheduled Start Date
When the changes are applied.
Scheduled End Date
When they are reversed.
Post Execution Actions
Which channels are notified as the tasks run: Webhook, Email, or PSA.
Reference
Free text carried onto every task the vacation creates, which is what ties them together on the Vacation Mode page.
Feature Requests/Ideas
We value your feedback and ideas. Please raise any feature requests on GitHub.
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