Nova Current - User Guide

Set an out of office message

Nova gives the ability to set a user's out of office message, with the possibility to set different messages to internal and external users. To do this:

1.Go to the Manage tab, then click Mailboxes.

2.Locate the user you would like to set an out of office message to.

3.Click Automatic Replies.

4.Click Set Out of Office.

5.Click the drop down list, and select Scheduled.

6.Select the scheduled start and end date and time for the message.

7.Enter the internal and external messages you would like to send to recipients.

8.Click Save. This will then appear as a running job in the Jobs tab.

How To...

Quest Nova provides granular delegation and policy control for Microsoft 365, enabling you to assign pre-defined roles and responsibilities to specific users, such as help desk operators, country-level administrators, or even end-users – setting boundaries far more precise than native delegation. Nova also includes policy-based automation for authorization, service configuration and license assignment.

Configure Nova DPC to use OAuth

Some organizations might want to use OAuth for authorization of actions performed by Nova Delegation and Policy Control, rather than service accounts. To do this, follow these steps:

1.Go to Microsoft Entra ID

2.Go to Roles and Administration

3.Locate the DPC application, as shown below:

4.Grant Exchange Administrator and User Administrator roles for the application.

After this, Nova DPC will use OAuth for authentication.

Invite guest users to a tenant

A delegated administrator can be given the ability to invite guest users into a tenant. Here is how that's done:

1.On the create users screen, there is a new button called Invite user

2.When that button is clicked, a pop-up appears asking you to specify the target OU, and the email address of the person to be invited.

3.To enable a delegated administrator to easily see the type of user in a list of users, a new field was added: