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My Identity provides access to each user’s profile, whereby they can set up automatic replies for their Office 365 mailboxes when they are out of the office.

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To set their Out of Office status in My Identity, users do the following:

  1. In MyIdentity, click the Page drop-down and select View Profile.

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    This directs users to their profile page, which contains several panes with information that users can edit. One of those panes is the Out Of Office Status pane.

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  2. On the Profile page, click the Edit 🖊 button in the Out Of Office Status pane.

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    This opens the Set Out of Office Status dialog, which contains several fields that can be edited.

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  3. To enable editing, click In Office and select Out of Office from the dropdown.

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  4. Edit the fields in the dialog as needed and click Save.

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    Users should see the Out Of Office Status update to reflect their current status.

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