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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:
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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You can fix this! Please see my VERY simple solution in this thread. It’s not near as complicated to fix as everyone is suggesting in this thread. I am SHOCKED though that even Microsoft couldnt come up with or suggest my very simple solution for this issue that is still happening two years after the original post was submitted.
This is what finally worked for me to solve this issue this morning. Nothing near as complicated as other posts/processes. I went into my out of office auto reply in Outlook and set it to only display during a certain time frame today (even though I am in the office today) instead of all the time. I did this at 8:20 am. I set the auto reply/out of office message to expire/stop sending at 8:30 am today. Problem solved. Status immediately changed to only AVAILABLE at 8:30 am today.
With that said, I think it's ridiculous that Microsoft automatically uses the verbiage from your out of office message in Outlook to use in Teams. I want a different message for my contacts in Teams. Hopefully this will change soon.
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It does not have to be anywhere near as complicated as this. Please see my VERY simple solution below:
This is what finally worked for me to solve this issue this morning. Nothing near as complicated as other posts/processes. I went into my out of office auto reply in Outlook and set it to only display during a certain time frame today (even though I am in the office today) instead of all the time. I did this at 8:20 am. I set the auto reply/out of office message to expire/stop sending at 8:30 am today. Problem solved. Status immediately changed to only AVAILABLE at 8:30 am today.
With that said, I think it's ridiculous that Microsoft automatically uses the verbiage from your out of office message in Outlook to use in Teams. I want a different message for my contacts in Teams. Hopefully this will change soon.
it's a great solution for when the auto response triggers it but does not fix the issue for OOO entries on the calendar. Have you tried manually editing your status message in Teams?