Microsoft Teams status is stuck on "Out of Office"

Anonymous
2018-05-11T00:54:51+00:00

I recently went on vacation and accessed Teams from my tablet for the first time by installing the Teams app. Now I am back at work and using my work laptop. Even though I have signed out of the Teams app on my tablet and removed my work account from all Microsoft apps on my tablet, my Teams status is still stuck as "Out of Office." How can I change it to "Available?"

Things I have tried:

  1. (tablet) Changing status to "Available" on the tablet app
  2. (tablet) Signing out of the tablet app
  3. (tablet) Removing my work accounts from my tablet completely
  4. (laptop) Signing in and out of the Teams app
  5. (laptop) clicking on my profile pic and changing the status to "Available" or any other status. (There is no change at all)
  6. (laptop) typing in the command to change my status to available (no change at all)
  7. (browser) Accessing Teams through Chrome on my laptop and doing 5 and 6 (no effect)

Note that my Skype and Outlook status is correctly set to "Available." I'm at a complete loss and would really like help with this.

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-05-11T13:53:23+00:00

    I have posted this same problem before.  There is nothing anyone can do to fix it except for MS. 

    Everyone here is simply showing the gap between turning off your out of office in Outlook (any version) and the lag that exist between Outlook and Teams.  MS would have to set up a sync exchange server with a better limit to comb changes and release them to Teams. 

    We can all bang our head against the wall, this is MS not you.  It will update when it updates, 1 hour to a few days later.

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-05-19T19:50:53+00:00

    This was posted 2 YEARS AGO and Microsoft still has not fixed it. This is why I tell anyone/everyone who see's their new commercials on TV for Teams to AVOID IT LIKE THE PLAGUE.

    This issue still happens daily to me... Fully updated Windows 10... Infuriating and NONE of the fixes work.

    This is just one of MANY GLITCHES that have gone UNRESOLVED FOR YEARS IN TEAMS!

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-11-20T14:48:41+00:00

    I had the issue and managed to solve.

    The cause was an employee who had send me an invite for a period that he was on vacation.  He marked HIS event to show as out of the office. However, when i accepted it it change my status to be OOO.

    See if you have events of other users accepted by you in which you see that they marked the event to display as OOO.

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  4. Anonymous
    2018-09-24T19:30:14+00:00

    Yup, this worked! It takes about 20 mins to ripple through the system.

    I have a larger team and need to know who are on Paid Time Off (Vacation). They have to send me the invite with "Show-as-Free" marked. If they choose "Out-of-Office", then it clobbers TEAMS which thinks YOU are out of the office. 

    Thanks! This was very helpful. 

    Acted like it accepted the command.  Said it accepted the command.

    Still stuck in  out of office status.

    I had an end-user reporting this same issue.  I found that he had three ALL DAY meetings on his calendar for today.  These were actually meetings that others sent to his calendar to let him know of their PTO/being off that day.  Check the end-users Outlook for all-day events, (usually listed at the top of the calendar above the rest of the meetings/appointments that have dedicated times), and if you can remove them with user's permission...hopefully that does it.  It took about 20 minutes for Teams to show as "Available" and I processed a reboot of his machine as well during that 20 minutes for something else we were doing on his workstation.

    Good luck!

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  5. Anonymous
    2018-05-14T04:23:00+00:00

    Carlos,

    Thanks for your reply! 

    I'm not sure why, but Teams corrected my status to "Available" a couple hours after I posted this message, even though I didn't do anything different. 

    Thanks,

    Daily

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