Microsoft Teams status is stuck on "Out of Office"

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?

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.

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

I too am suffering this issue. I returned today from a 3 week medical leave, turned off OOO in Outlook. Skype for Business changed to available, Outlook changed to available, Outlook 365 changed to available, but Teams remains on OOO. I have toggled OOO again in Outlook, Outlook 365, nothing makes a difference. Logged out of everything, rebooted, back in again, same behavior from Teams. I am still OOO and I have NO APPOINTMENTS in Outlook for the next 4 days.

Edit: Well after the better part of an hour, it finally changed its status...

This is basically the 737 Max MCAS of product features. Under normal logical usage, it'll do the wrong thing and make your life miserable so you have to trick it into working properly.