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
    2020-10-19T12:34:46+00:00

    I had to delete my outgoing out of office message. Then it went away.

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-10-19T14:44:22+00:00

    I am having the same issue.  Teams is showing me as Available, Out of Office.  If I change the status to busy, it shows as Busy, Out of Office.  While I wish Teams had the ability to actually give me the day off, alas I'm here working with confused co-workers regarding my status.

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-10-19T15:19:36+00:00

    If you scroll through the replies you will see ways that work....here is what worked for me and many others who have done what I suggest.

    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 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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  4. Anonymous
    2020-10-22T22:08:30+00:00

    "this "feature" becomes a bug. " - exactly!

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-11-04T07:30:40+00:00

    I am facing a simar issue. Whenever I try to change the status, I get the following error.

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