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Copper Contributor

May 08, 2019

xxxx is out of the office and may not respond.

This shows up constantly in chats at the bottom. Can we turn this off? Its annoying that it shows up ALL DAY.

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Copper Contributor

Sep 24, 2019

Greg707 Agreed, it's ridiculous that this is the expected behavior. We use a group chat all day and I don't need to be informed 98 times that my teammate is out of the office. I was well aware of that after the 97th time...

Copper Contributor

Jun 19, 2020

<I'm going on vacation next week>

I came in here looking for a fix to the same issue.

<I'm going on vacation next week>

At least the Outlook status only reminds you once a day that you are out of the office.

<I'm going on vacation next week>

Since I've set my OOO my co-workers will be reminded that I'm out off office all day long in our

<I'm going on vacation next week>

group chat until someone gets annoyed enough to kick me out of the chat until I return.

<I'm going on vacation next week>

So nobody at Microsoft thinks that's annoying?

<I'm going on vacation next week>