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Set up out of office message in Exchange 2003 on a disabled account

Hi,
Hoping this is easy. I want to set the out of office message on a staff member who is left and account has been disabled. We have already setup email forwarding so any emails to the left member of staff are diverted to another, however we also want the Out of office message to say

This member of staff has left etc.

Is the best way just to quickly reenable the account, then put out of office and then disable it again?
Really hoping it's easy whatever method.

Environment is: Windows Server 2003, XP and Exchange 2003.

Thanks

Mkris9

out of office doesn't work with disabled accounts. but you can check this out

https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/21634603/How-do-I-set-up-a-disabled-account-to-autoreply-that-the-account-is-no-longer-active-without-the-posibility-of-a-loop.html

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afflik1923

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Hmmm, the link looks pretty complicated. Surely MS thought of this circumstance?

I guess the other easy alterniatve it to change the password and not have the account disabled for period of time.

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