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
    2021-01-22T18:22:44+00:00

    Unfortunately that's not a fix. That's a way to change your status for a period of time, overriding everything else. It's not the same as saying "how long before you set my status to away" preference.

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-01-22T18:37:25+00:00

    Unfortunately that's not a fix. That's a way to change your status for a period of time, overriding everything else. It's not the same as saying "how long before you set my status to away" preference.

    Actually it's a fix for me, now I can work on other others apps without out it switching to away every 5 mins.

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-01-25T08:52:08+00:00

    Having the exact same issue.  A fix would be very nice.

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-01-26T16:44:14+00:00

    Unfortunately that's not a fix. That's a way to change your status for a period of time, overriding everything else. It's not the same as saying "how long before you set my status to away" preference.

    Actually it's a fix for me, now I can work on other others apps without out it switching to away every 5 mins.

    I've tried this feature and it still goes back to "away" within a few minutes.
    It's still not a fix to the main problem.

    Also it appears that they've deleted a few of my comments on this thread.
    MS, how about fix the issue that's been a problem for 6+ months rather than worrying about the negative statements made against your **** product? Maybe if you did that, you wouldn't have so many negative comments to worry about. :)

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  5. Anonymous
    2021-01-26T16:59:07+00:00

    Unfortunately that's not a fix. That's a way to change your status for a period of time, overriding everything else. It's not the same as saying "how long before you set my status to away" preference.

    Actually it's a fix for me, now I can work on other others apps without out it switching to away every 5 mins.

    I've tried this feature and it still goes back to "away" within a few minutes.
    It's still not a fix to the main problem.

    Also it appears that they've deleted a few of my comments on this thread.
    MS, how about fix the issue that's been a problem for 6+ months rather than worrying about the negative statements made against your **** product? Maybe if you did that, you wouldn't have so many negative comments to worry about. :)

    You're actually right, but setting the duration to 30 minutes seems to work off and on when I'm working in another app.  I can't believe Microsoft hasn't resolved this issue.

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