Teams availability status - admin way to manage this?

Thank you for the insight, VasilMichev​. I completely agree with your point. Presence in Microsoft Teams was never designed to be a reliable indicator of productivity or whether someone is physically at their desk. Even if administrative controls existed to enforce inactivity timers, there would still be multiple ways to simulate activity on a device, such as mouse movement or keyboard input.

In most environments, presence should be treated only as a collaboration signal rather than a monitoring mechanism. If the concern is around availability or accountability, it is usually more effective to address it through internal policies and team management practices instead of trying to enforce it technically through Teams.

This is also aligned with Microsoft’s guidance that Teams presence is a user-controlled indicator intended to facilitate communication, not monitoring.