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MicrosoftPreview exited, now GA: Out of Office Scheduling
MicrosoftIn the meantime you might try this advanced scenario from Outlook. You could set up a reoccurring appointment and set your status as Out of Office. Teams will show you as OOF during those days and time. You could then pair it with the Set status message feature in Teams to alert others with more information.
Jason_SchumacherThanks for the suggestion, I already set my status as out of office for the non-standard working pattern. However, I also want the out of office message to be sent during that time, for the many colleagues who still use Outlook and not Teams (I use both). Here are some example working patterns of co-workers:
07:45 - 16:00 Monday - Thursday, 07:45 - 11:45 Friday
07:30 - 17:00 Monday - Thursday, out of office Friday
09:00 - 17:00 Tuesday - Thursday
07:30 - 13:00 Monday - Friday
The council area that I am in has all schools finish at lunch time on a Friday (I know!) so many people work a condensed working pattern that has them off on Friday afternoons.
Instead of setting my out of office message every day, I want to put in my pattern and automatically have the message sent during my non-working hours, not just the status (already done). Thanks for considering this, which will be of benefit to carers everywhere.
- Have a look at ScheduledOOF (https://www.ivasoft.com/scheduledoofflow.shtml)
