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
    2020-06-09T15:23:58+00:00

    I don't put out of office entries on my calendar.

    Yes, I have manually edited my status in Teams.

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-06-10T17:25:09+00:00

    Yes, that will work, but it does not always sync up. Ive had it take 2+ hours to show im back in the office. 

    if you set outlook for all day like you would for a holiday or vacation, teams will not show in office on the day you are back with out doing what you and others suggested. 

    its a product that has been marketed heavily, but has major flaws like this one and the spell checker being worthless.

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-06-16T23:41:58+00:00

    This article is two years old and I'm still hitting the problem. :D

    Anyway, I've just encountered this just now.

    Again, I checked my calendar and changed my settings. Logged in and logged out.

    I notice an explanation at the end of the thread, I'll get my ITM to check on it later but I've found a workaround.

    Hope this helps someone:

    1. Click on your picture
    2. There should be a status message. I bet yours is an out of office one
    3. Click on the pencil to edit. Type something in there and change the CLEAR STATUS MESSAGE AFTER to a time. I chose an hour
    4. Update it and boom, you're back in the office

    You can probably delete the status message but I don't know what happens when you did that.

    Hope it helps someone.

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-06-24T20:06:29+00:00

    I agree this is a terrible feature.  Our Project Management team is all over the US and we send all day invites when someone is PTO that shows who is covering them.  We send to the whole team since we all need to know.  so for everyone to look as if they are PTO vs the only person really PTO is not very functional.

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-07-01T07:25:29+00:00

    2y later I'm experiencing the same issue. I've been OOO for 5 days and when I came back even if the calendar event was set to finish, even if I set the events on free and afterwards remove them. Even if I uninstalled all teams applications from all devices it will still show me as ooo. I also tried to remove json settings files and meta from AppData/Temp/Cookies and cache. I can't override it manually what kind of UX is this :|?? Please just fix your issues this is not something small, there are lots of business communication apps now, not only lync so you may lose a significant users base due some bugs :|

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