Microsoft Teams status is stuck on "Out of Office"

This worked for me.

With Outlook open - Go to File - Automatic replies.

Click on the radio button to "Send automatic replies" and click ok.

Click on the radio button to "Do not send automatic replies" and click ok.

Teams status back to normal with no "out of office" displaying.

Thanks Charlene,

Such a simple thing, It didn't work at first for me. A second attempt yielded the result I was looking for.

with outlook open - File - Automatic replies.

Click on the radio button to "Send automatic replies" and click ok.

Click on the radio button to "Do not send automatic replies" and click ok.

Teams status back to normal with no "out of office" displaying.

Hi -  I have found that if you change your Status Message in Teams it will sync immediately when this happens then you can delete the message and all will be accurate.

Click your image, click "Set status message" and type something manually - note this will overwrite the out of office reply that is pulling from Outlook, but only in Teams it will not write back to Outlook.

When you click "Done" Teams will refresh.  You can then delete the message (again it will not overwrite what is in Outlook, just what Teams "saw" when reading back to outlook.

Sometimes Teams needs a little push to catch up.

Hope this helps!

Hi,

not sure if it was already mentioned. But we got the hint from MS to set Teams as default IM App. (We use a VoIP Client which set itself as default. Teams obviously follow the default IM - in general a nice idea...)

In MS Teams Settings -> General -> Register Teams as the chat app for office...

or distribute the reg key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\IM Providers

set reg key DefaultIMApp="Teams"

br Bernhard

Finally found a solution for this one! I did the following steps:

1. Cleaned Teams cache as instructed by Microsoft

Fully exit the Microsoft Teams desktop client. To do this, either right click Teams from the Icon Tray and select ‘Quit’, or run Task Manager and fully kill the process.  

• Go to File Explorer, and type in %appdata%\Microsoft\teams.
• Once in the directory, you’ll see a few of the following folders:  
  • From within ‘Application Cache’, go to Cache and delete any of the files in the Cache location.
  • %appdata%\Microsoft\teams\application cache\cache
  • From within ‘Blob_storage’, delete any files that are located in here if any.
  • %appdata%\Microsoft\teams\blob_storage
  • From within ‘Cache’, delete all files.
  • %appdata%\Microsoft\teams\Cache
  • From within ‘databases’, delete all files.
  • %appdata%\Microsoft\teams\databases
  • From within ‘GPUCache’, delete all files.
  • %appdata%\Microsoft\teams\GPUcache
  • From within ‘IndexedDB’, delete the .db file.
  • %appdata%\Microsoft\teams\IndexedDB
  • From within ‘Local Storage’, delete all files.
  • %appdata%\Microsoft\teams\Local Storage
  • Lastly, from within ‘tmp’, delete any file.
  • %appdata%\Microsoft\teams\tmp
• Once done, reboot and reproduce issue to check behavior after some hours (in my case it took a night)

2. Cleaned Out of Office calendar items

• In Outlook Calendar select list view (Change view >> list)
• Sort on "Show Time As"
• Remove all items set to "Out of Office"

3. Removed "Recurring" in calendar items in a certain time period

• In outlook Calendar select list view (Change view >> list)
• Sort on "Recurrence Pattern"
• Remove events in the time frame indicated in "Out of Office" message; in my case August 13, 2018

Hope this works for you?