Hi,
The Out of Office Assistant feature in Microsoft Outlook is a Microsoft Exchange Server service. It is available only when the Exchange Server transport service is included in an Outlook
user's profile. However, you can emulate this feature by creating an e-mail template and defining a rule in the Rules Wizard to automatically reply with the template. Please note that
Outlook must be running for the Rules Wizard to automatically reply.
For more information, please refer to the following Knowledge Base article.
311107 How to emulate the Out of Office Assistant in Microsoft Outlook
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;311107
Regards,
Scott Atkins MCSE, MCSA
Partner Technical Lead - Outlook
Microsoft Technical Support
for Platforms and Business Applications
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