The Out of Office Assistant detected that there are too many contacts for an external Out of Office response
Topic Last Modified: 2006-09-22
The Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Management Pack for Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) monitors the Windows Application log on computers that are running Exchange Server 2007 and generates this alert when the event or events specified in the following Details table are logged.
To learn more about this event, do one or more of the following:
Review the description of the event that includes the variables specific to your environment. From the MOM Operator Console, select this alert, and then click the Properties tab.
Review all events that have been logged that meet the criteria of this MOM alert. From the MOM Operator Console, click the Events tab, and then double-click the event in the list for which you want to review the event description.
Details
Product Name |
Exchange |
Product Version |
8.0 (Exchange Server 2007) |
Event ID |
3003 |
Event Source |
MSExchangeMailboxAssistants |
Alert Type |
Error |
MOM Rule Path |
Exchange12/Exchange 2007/Mailbox/InformationWorker |
MOM Rule Name |
The Out of Office Assistant detected that there are too many contacts for an external Out of Office response. |
Explanation
This Error event indicates that one or more users have more than the maximum allowed number of external contacts in their Contacts list. By default, the maximum allowed number of external contacts for configuring external Out Of Office (OOF) reply is 2,000.
User Action
To resolve this error, make sure that users who want to configure external OOF reply do not exceed the maximum allowed number of external contacts in their Contacts list. The Microsoft® Exchange OOF Assistant automatically sorts the Contacts list and truncates it to the maximum number of contacts allowed.
For More Information
To search the Microsoft Knowledge Base articles based on criteria that generated this alert, visit the Search the Support Knowledge Base (KB) Web site.
To review Exchange 2007 event message articles that may not be represented by Exchange 2007 MOM alerts, see the Events and Errors Message Center.
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