Preview exited, now GA: Out of Office Scheduling

Description

Set up a message to let others know you're on vacation or not available to reply. Your out of office status will also sync with your Outlook calendar, your presence and contact card information.

 

Flighting status

Rolling out this week on Desktop and Web.

 

How to enable

Two ways to access the Out of Office feature

 

1) Through "Profile"

 

Click profile then Set status message

 

Click Schedule out of office

 

2) Through "Settings"

 

Click Settings

 

General -> Out of Office -> Schedule

 

Now, from within the Scheduler

 

 

Include an Out of Office message

 

Note – Text is required to be compatible with Outlook scheduling.

 

Click Save

 

 

Options

Send replies outside my organization

 

Include text to auto reply

 

 

Send replies only during a time period

Pick dates and times to begin and end the Out of office status message and presence state.

 

 

Outlook

You will be able to see your changes in Outlook as well as update them there.

 

 

How to Disable

• Change the Turn on automatic reply setting in Teams radio button to off and save
• Change the Send automatic replies setting in Outlook to off and save

Note: If you need information about enabling the public preview itself, see “Enable the public preview for Teams” below.

 

Microsoft 365 workloads and dependencies

Product, workload, or area	Dependency (Yes/No)	If yes, version requirements and other dependencies
Exchange	No
Sharepoint, files	No
Skype for Business	No
Outlook add-in	No
Azure AD	No
OneDrive	No
Office	No

 

Supported clients and platforms

Windows 10	macOS	iOS	Android	Linux	Chrome	Firefox	Safari	Edge	Internet Explorer
Yes	Yes	-	-	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	-

 

Known issues

None

 

Known limitations

As mentioned in the guide an Out of Office Message needs to be included for Teams to save the configuration and set your presence to Out of Office.

 

Enable your Teams client for the public preview 

 

1. First, IT admins need to set an update policy that turns on Show preview features. Learn how at Public preview in Microsoft Teams - Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Docs.  
2. Users then choose to join the public preview individually. See Get early access to new Teams features - Office Support (microsoft.com) for instructions. 

 

Summary of public preview features

For a history of features in the Office and Teams public previews, see Release Notes Current Channel (Preview) - Office release notes | Microsoft Docs.

 

 

Send us your feedback 

Got feedback on features in the public preview or other areas of Teams? Let us know straight from Teams via Help > Give feedback.  

 

Thank you,

Preview Team Jason Schumaker

Quality & Customer Obsession, Microsoft Teams