appear offline
I want to access Teams content while able to "appear offline"
This is a feature request regarding the presence capability versus other offline features that want to use Teams while disconnected.
This feature allows
People to do work at off hours without being interrupted.
People to look or retrieve content which has no concept of presence.
For those concerned about abuse of an appear offline feature and enabling presence liars, users can still lie and set any of the current presence states with the same intention.
I can be connected to the network and use Outlook, OneNote, SharePoint, etc. and do MY work without worrying about interruptions.
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Anonymous
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Totally agree. The current implementation of appearing offline for only your self to see is just wasted programming effort in my opinion. What use case does that even solve?
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Jim Hursh
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so even though this is available in the hidden menu, you are the only one who sees it in the system tray. everyone else still sees your status from what is selected......
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Jim Hursh
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Is there a way to do this on the mobile client? Where are we with this at this time?
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Keith Melton
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I do L3 support and the only way I can keep from being pummeled with questions from L1/L2 is to use appear off-line mode. My L3 team mates and mangers know when it is during my shift and I appear offline, they can still reach me over IM, but L1/L2 personnel leave me alone. Using Do Not Disturb doesn't allow this.
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Joshua Stein
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FYI - based on my testing the option in the hidden menu of Status Indicator / statusIndicatorState:offline only appears to update the status icon in the system tray and taskbar. It does not actually update the status that other users see. It is also likely to get reset after some time.
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Kananathan
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reasons enough stated previously. EnableAppearOffline is urgently needed, at least as a registry option (like it was for SfB).
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Jens
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This may also be a compliance requirement in companies that operate in countries like Germany, where the online status is being seen as supervision, and where it is required that the employee has a choice.
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Kris M
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I just found out this feature exists in the "hidden" menu. I concur it should be available in the standard menu though.
Hidden menu is 5 left clicks on Teams systray icon followed by a right click to bring up the hidden context menu options. There will Status Indicator / statusIndicatorState:offline menu item. When you choose it the systray status icon will change to a blank circle.
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Anonymous
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Add me, reasons enough stated previously. EnableAppearOffline is urgently needed, at least as a registry option (like it was for SfB).
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Anonymous
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Totally agree. What's the purpose of upgrading if you lose functionality like this.
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Ed Douglas
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This was an extremely useful feature in SfB and used it all the time - would benefit again if it was available in Teams. Please make this a configurable feature
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Anonymous
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Please add. One might be on PTO, at the doctor, in the position of being unavailable to respond. In those cases, appearing off-line is important.
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Wendy Sumner
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agreed. This feature capability is there in SfB Online so why not Teams?
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Francois
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Please add this feature. I used this all the time in Skype for Business
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Jim Hursh
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yes please!!
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Ritesh
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Yes Please, Loved this in Skype as it means OOH I can work without interruption from others around the globe and even sometimes during the day when I need to concentrate its great to use.
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Marijke
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yes please add the appear offline feature in!
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Sandip
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Appear Offline feature/status would be appreciated
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Anonymous
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I use this feature a lot in Skype for Business, it really needs adding to Teams.
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Anonymous
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Agreed. This is a big request from people at our office.