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
    2021-02-26T19:29:27+00:00

    So I had the same issue, but for me I had changed the status manually in the Teams application on my laptop but then discovered I needed to sign out and sign back in to my Teams app on my (work) cell phone (that is supposed to automatically sync with my laptop version and usually does so, but for some reason did not when it came to this - though I closed and restarted Teams and my laptop after changing the status) - worked like a charm. Hope this helps some folks!

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-03-11T13:25:18+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?

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-03-11T13:40:40+00:00

    Create a new out of office (even though you’re in the office) and set it to turn off at a time at the next 15 minute increment available. Problem solved.

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  4. 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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  5. 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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