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
    2021-04-15T15:05:51+00:00

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    I had the same issue and found out it is an issue with your status under your outlook calendar.   I have included a screenshot.  You need to make sure the status on the event is set to "Free", instead of "Away", otherwise your global status in Teams will be set to "Out of Office" and cannot be changed.

    Hope this helps.

    Reposting this because this has worked for me and still works.

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-04-15T13:05:04+00:00

    My process will solve your problem.

    Set up a temporary out of office notice with a start and end time close to the time you create it.  It will only display for a few minutes.  Outlook gives you the option to display the out of office only at certain times.  Set it to start at 8:45 am or whatever time is closest to when you are setting it up and then set the time for it to stop displaying at the next available time.  The longest it might be up is 15 minutes but it solves the problem by turning the OOO off at the time it is scheduled to turn off.

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-04-15T12:08:16+00:00

    Three years later and this is still a problem. I had the day marked out of office, removed that from outlook, but Teams still insists on saying I'm out of office. Can't override. Restarting the app doesn't help.

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-04-07T21:00:41+00:00

    I removed invites that mentioned Out of Office. This worked and I can set my availability again.

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  5. Anonymous
    2021-03-11T17:39:18+00:00

    I'm having this exact same issue and have tried every suggestion people have mentioned. It's been 24 hours since I turned off my OOO reply and it still shows I'm out of office. This is getting beyond annoying. Anyone have any new ideas of how to fix this glitch?

    are you sure you don't have a meeting on your calendar from someone else? People try to do that to me, it's annoying. (for example: they send you an invitation for their upcoming PTO - instead of showing as "free" they set it as OOO. This blocks your calendar as well as theirs)

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