This is working as intended. Unity Connection posts the message to the Inbox folder of the mailbox. Because of this none of the Exchange-side processing rules including out of office messages apply. It's essentially equivleent to the user drag-and-droping an email message into that folder. The user can activate the Alternate Greeting on their mailbox if they wish the caller to hear that they are out of the office.
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