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Teams status does not reflect availability
Mine seems to work find and does reflect when I am busy in the calendar, when I am out of office etc, nut 2 anomalies -
1. I can never get my status to show "In a meeting" - only Busy it in a call
2. When I am Out of Office it makes me available
Anyone else had any issues?
Try clicking your profile pic, then the status drop-down menu, then "Reset Status."
- mburkhardt Perfect! that fixed my issue
The suggestion did not work for me. The issue is with the flexibility that Outlook calendar events have to schedule an appointment on you calendar and then add a quality to that like, free, busy, etc. Teams see all appointments as unavailable and then you show with a red dot. Even for calendar events that are informative for your team or organization, like, Working Remotely. I would to see my status for this appointment on Teams as free, that is how I created the appointment in Outlook. That is the issue.
Hi there -
If you set your meeting as "free" in Outlook, your Teams calendar should show it the same way and your presence will reflect that. For instance, I am currently not in a meeting but my daughter's camp is on my calendar so I show as "free" even though there is a meeting on my calendar during this hour since in Outlook it was scheduled showing me as "free". If you tried "reset status" like the community member above shared and it's still not working for you, this should be reported to support. You can go to answers.microsoft.com and they can help to troubleshoot.
Here's a link to some more information as well - hope this helps.
mburkhardt You are awesome that fixed my issue
