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Outlook 2013 - Script to Create Rule to Delay All Sent Messages by X Minutes

I'm able to manually create such a rule via the wizard in Outlook, but I need to deploy this rule to 50+ workstations.  Since exporting and importing rules via script seems like a dead end, what about just re-creating the rule via script?  That should be easy enough to deploy via Group Policy.  Any experts want to way in on this?
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What you could do here is create an Outlook rule using Powershell (see link below)
http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2009/12/16/hey-scripting-guy-december-16-2009.aspx

Once you have the script configured you can then deploy this via GPO logon script.

Thats how you can deploy this to multiple users.

Will.
I would do this at Server level are you using Exchange? I know MailMarshal can also do this.

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Will - I didn't know PowerShell was an option for this!  That's awesome as it's standardized across the network and easy to deploy.  May take a bit to figure out exactly how to script it, but the example you posted looks quite similar to the VB code I already have.

Dirk - We are indeed running Exchange, but I was under the impression that delaying messages was not possible at that level (at least not with standard transport rules).  Is there something I'm missing?
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