How to add an email signature to all users in Exchange 2016

Microsoft Exchange Conference (MEC) made its return in 2012 after 10 years of hiatus. Microsoft is, however, not planning to make us wait another decade to hang out with the Squeaky Lobster as they already told us to save the date for March 31 - April 2 2014.

If you setup an Exchange account in your mobile phone or tablet, you will be able to view your own Exchange mailbox but you will not be able to sync your device with any public folders on Exchange Server. It's a common problem many smartphone users encounter every day. If you need to access your company's Exchange databases, such as calendars or contacts, and then synchronize them with your mobile device to stay on top of everything, you will not be able to do it using Exchange Server native capabilities. Unfortunately, the most popular handhelds such as iPhone, iPad, BlackBerry or Android cannot be synchronized with public folders of Exchange Server unless you resort to doing a little trick. You can use a third party solution from CodeTwo. It's called CodeTwo Exchange Sync and it lets you automatically synchronize data between your personal Exchange mailbox and public folders on Exchange Server. Once your data is finally located in your mailbox, you can easily synchronize it with your smartphone using its native software. By doing so, you will always have the same amount of the most up-to-date data in your personal mailbox and in your mobile device as well: CodeTwo Exchange Sync can be installed either directly on server or on any PC in your Exchange environment. Its simple and intuitive user's interface will let you quickly configure synchronization tasks, which will be performed by the program automatically and in real time. All your synchronization tasks are located on the left hand side in the program's pane: CodeTwo Exchange Sync has various synchronization options. You can sync your folders using the following methods: one-to-one - one way synchronization one-to-many - one way synchronization many-to-one - one way synchronization folder ring - two way synchronization One-to-one synchronization will let you e.g. automatically update all shared company contacts to your private contacts folder. However, all changes in your personal contacts folder or in your mobile device will not be propagated to the shared company contacts folder: If you select a folder ring method, you can sync two (or more folders) in a two way mode. It means that any changes in any folder are propagated to all folders included in the synchronization task. In other words, if you create a folder ring synchronization task for shared company contacts, your personal contacts folder and your friends' contact folders, any changes made on your folders and mobile devices will be propagated to every folder. All in all, each folder will be a mirror of every other folder in this synchronization task: CodeTwo Exchange Sync is not only designed to let you share data between mobile devices and Exchange Server. It's ability to synchronize Exchange Server folders with private mailboxes in any mail client connected to Exchange gives you a number of collaboration possibilities. You can e.g. create a common company's calendar containing appointments entered by any group of employees. What is more, filtering and modifying tools in the program are able to mark each synchronized item on the fly to make it unique and recognizable in the group of other items (e.g. by adding the Source Folder Name or Source Mailbox Name to the subject): CodeTwo Exchange Sync can be downloaded from our website and tested for free for 30 days. The program is easy to use and can be implemented in your organization within a few minutes. Take the CodeTwo Exchange Sync tour for genera

UPDATE: We are sorry, but CodeTwo Out of Office Manager mentioned in this article has been discontinued. If you are looking for an alternative for Exchange Server, take a look at the auto respond feature in CodeTwo Exchange Rules Pro. Imagine you write to someone who has just gone on their annual leave. Not a big deal, everyone needs a vacation once in a while. But what if they forget to set up their Out of Office reply or take a sudden leave and your email is not forwarded? Personally, I would be pretty furious if I had to wait for a week just to find out someone was absent. Another problem with Out of Office replies is that sometimes they are unique, user-created. Sometimes, those automatic responses might be even worse. Most people just want to know when you come back and who to contact when you are gone. They are not that interested in your family life, or what you like to do in your free time. Some Out of Office messages make you think what kind of company is into such oversharing policy. Unfortunately, such situations happen. Neither Exchange Server, nor Office 365 lets you centrally manage those automatic replies for other users in a user-friendly way. That is why we have thought that a free Out of Office Manager might come in handy.