Teams away setting automatically switching on when not away

Anonymous
2020-07-01T17:06:37+00:00

Hi there, 

My teams status is constantly switching to "away" while I am working on my computer. This is very frustrating as my co-workers need to know when I am actually away or available.

Is there a manual override for this? It would be excellent to be able to set it as available so that my team knows they can reach my even if I am working on paper, or in this case if it has switched itself to "away".

Thanks!

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-12-09T16:08:01+00:00

    I have discovered 2 tricks to keep the Teams from show idle - 

    1. in a chat with yourself or someone no longer with the company, put a weight on your space bar so it keeps typing
    2. start a video meeting with yourself (on mute and no camera) then share your screen. it will appear you are presenting and not go idle.

    You're welcome! :)

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-12-09T16:24:30+00:00

    I have discovered 2 tricks to keep the Teams from show idle - 

    1. in a chat with yourself or someone no longer with the company, put a weight on your space bar so it keeps typing
    2. start a video meeting with yourself (on mute and no camera) then share your screen. it will appear you are presenting and not go idle.

    You're welcome! :) 

    thanks but #1 won't work if I am working on other items like in excel. and #2 that will show as busy all the time and if someone tries to call they can't because on a bogus call, but interesting may try it.

    strange thing is yesterday it was changing my status every 10 minutes to away while I was working on computer and today so far it hasn't changed.  it is different issues day by day - so strange

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-12-09T18:18:11+00:00

    Having this same exact issue. Please fix. Teams only shows me as Available when I am actively using Teams (which is infrequent). I am shown as Away when using other programs, including other Microsoft programs.

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-12-10T21:30:18+00:00

    Just wondering why it has to be so difficult for them and taking so long to fix this obvious problem. If they can't think of a solution why don't they just copy the code from MS Skype for their 'Status settings' and patch it in MS Teams, as Skype status works perfectly fine. Both apps are owned by them and still we see such a major issue in one that they want us to prefer.

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-12-15T16:38:01+00:00

    I want to turn off this feature where it automatically sets my status to AWAY while I'm working in other programs or with Teams in the background. It looks like I'm  not working during work hours, and I am. I have to re-change my status to Available/green 10- 15 times a day and its frustrating.

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