It is still an Exchange issue. Outlook standalone does not have the Out of Office assistant. Add Exchange to the equation and voila, it is there. It is a server side operation.

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After furious head scratching, TDBROWNING asked:

| I find that this only fails on the Outlook 2007 version. All users
| using the Outlook 2003 version work properly.
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
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|| Re-post to microsoft.public.exchange.admin for this issue - it is
|| not related to Outlook as the Out of Office is a server operation.
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|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
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|| After furious head scratching, TDBROWNING asked:
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||| I installed a new Exchange 2007 server. I have noticed that some
||| users try to setup an Out Of Office Assistant message but the error
||| "Server Is Unavailable" keeps popping up.