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
    2021-12-29T09:00:32+00:00

    I came across this issue this week, and found out that in my instance this occured as I had accepted a calendar invite from someone else being out of the office. Once i deleted their invite from own calendar, my teams is now showing as available.

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-07-22T12:51:15+00:00

    I deleted all the files in the Teams cache folders and then everything worked again.

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  3. Anonymous
    2019-07-08T05:04:59+00:00

    Yeah. This seems like some sort of bug. Mine gets stuck on out of office, even after the Calendar time for being out of office is over.

    I.e.: 9-10: Outlook calendar is out of office

    10:30: Teams still shows as out of office

    Try this:

    A. In Outlook go to Automatic Replies where you set the Out Of Office reply and 1) turn it on, 2) click ok to set it, then 3) turn it off, 4) click ok to set it.

    B. If there are any all day calendar events (out of office events or anything else), 1) set the "Show As" to "Free", 2) set Reminders to None.

    Then wait -- I do not know if it takes 20 minutes as someone else wrote -- should take effect in 1 to 2 hours worst case.

    This worked for me.

    Good luck.

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  4. Anonymous
    2019-06-05T21:01:47+00:00

    I don't like it, but I had to turn Out Of Office on in Outlook and then back off again... then my status changed.. not a great fix but a work around.

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  5. Anonymous
    2019-05-21T16:11:42+00:00

    none of this works

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