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
    2019-08-28T14:41:58+00:00

    It won't let me paste a screen shot. 

    But when I click the profile pick the status says: Available, Out of Office 

    I have tried to change it to Available. 

    I can change it on my phone to available but my computer won't update. 

    I tried to Reset Status but that also doesn't work. 

    I don't have any appointments on my calendar. 

    I have restarted and checked for updates. 

    If i change it to busy, it turns purple and just says Out of Office.

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  2. Anonymous
    2019-08-12T12:12:02+00:00

    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

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  3. Anonymous
    2019-08-05T18:33:16+00:00

    I have the same issue as well. I came back from vacation and now I am not able to get rid of that OOO, I trued to get rig of remote events, setting status back and forth. 

    People. PLEASE, do something with that!!!!

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  4. Anonymous
    2019-07-22T15:53:20+00:00

    And to be very honest, people should not be sending "OOO" status invitations to people - that should be limited to one's personal calendar. Yes, this requires PTO to be listed twice (once for the OOO & once to mail to your team members). It's an extra step but uses better manners.

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  5. Anonymous
    2019-07-20T12:29:14+00:00

    you can manually edit the "OOO" status from others' meetings on your own calendar. But I definitely agree with everything you said! The various bugs I have encountered are infuriating. 

    Thanks for this. Not a solution to the problem but a functional temporary workaround.

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