Can we get an Out Of Office meeting set in Outlook Calendar to trigger an Out Of Office reply from O

We have a user who works four days/week.

In her Outlook Calendar, she can create an appointment and set it to show her as Out Of Office (OOO), which is a common functionality utilized by most users that go on vacation or travel from site to site.

If she is usually out the same day every week, she can set that appointment to be recurring - again, common stuff.

Question: why can I not find anyone that knows how to turn that Calendar OOO into an automated Email OOO response?

Of course she could routinely turn on-and-off her OOO response in Email, but why should she have to? If the appt is set to be All Day, rather than 30 mins or two hours, why can't one side of Outlook understand what another side is doing?

For those with Office Communicator and/or Lync, the whole interactive system can tell when you are In a Meeting, or On a Conference Call or Away or Offline with real-time accuracy and you don't have to do a thing. So why can't Outlook

send an Email when you explicitly tell its Calendar that you're away for the day?

Or can it, but I just can't find anyone in the community that knows how to set that up?

Thanks.

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