Forum Discussion
User's Status Setting Should be More than just a Suggestion
Thanks for the suggestion but if those exist on the Mac client I can't find them (just dug through preferences again). Seems to be a Windows only thing.
Microsoft: care to weigh in here? Also, I'm being converted from busy to available after meetings end as well, doesn't seem to be a setting even in Windows to fix that. How about a setting for "do as I have instructed via the UI and don't try to be so smart that you screw it all up"?
Hi, yes, I verified it does not exist on the Mac client and there are many people as frustrated as you are: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Skype-for-Business-Mac-Insider/SfB-Mac-Away-status-time-setting/td-p/61991 and https://www.skypefeedback.com/forums/299910--recently-released/suggestions/17066767-show-me-as-away-when-my-computer-has-been-idle-for. Do vote, Microsoft does use this as input into feature lists and they are rapidly evolving the Mac client.
I see there is a newer January release to the Mac client (Version 16.14.0.163 at https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=54108) but it doesn't address this issue. Although, interestingly enough it does address a workaround for admins to "...increase the auto-accept period on Mac client" so that after the 5 min idle time, the Mac client won't return a "We couldn't send this message" if Conversation History is turned off.
FYI, to clarify, on the Windows client, it will return to the status you had set before a meeting, after the meeting has ended. E.g. I had mine set to Busy tonight and returned to that status after meeting.