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
    2020-12-01T14:27:45+00:00

    It's not December 2020 and this is STILL an issue, even on the Mac version. I can be in Teams and can watch it switch to away. I've disabled sleep, screen savers, etc.

    Any chance you'll fix this???????

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-11-17T16:48:09+00:00

    This has been created since July—What is the update to this question?

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-11-03T13:50:25+00:00

    Done thank you

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-11-03T02:46:48+00:00

    I have the same issue as Dawn15PM has. And The Nacho Cheese, my boss is as same as yours.  It is very frustrating that after all these months, the issue still exists.

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-10-29T20:14:47+00:00

    Edit 2: Running Skype for Business in the system icon area as a background app seems to keep Teams alive. I know not everyone has that ability but it seems to be working if you do.

    I've been running both applications side-by-side for over a year and this has not been the case.

    I'm experiencing the same issues as everyone else.

    Sometimes a youtube video running in the background on mute might help, but even that is hit or miss some days.

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