Hello, I had a couple of questions regarding the AutoReplyEnabled and AutoForwardenabled settings which can be viewed by running the Get-RemoteDomain command. This is an on premise single Exchange 2016 server.
First, I notice in our environment that AutoForwardEnabled is equal to True which doesn't appear to be the default setting. Management is concerned that end users may be using Outlook Rules or the "Text messaging" feature to automatically forward all of their inbound email to an external email address.
Before I flip this over to False, I wanted to better understand the impact. Am I correct in assuming that a False setting for AutoForwardEnabled would disable any Outlook rule or this text message feature from automatically forwarding mail to an external address? Any other impacts? For example, if we have a Transport rule configured by an admin, this would continue to function? I assume out of office replies would continue to work if AutoReplyEnabled is left at True?
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/exchange/set-remotedomain?view=exchange-ps
Example of Text messaging dialogue from OWA.


