Disable auto-syncing of Availability status with Outlook calendar
Please also allow users to turn off auto-syncing of Availability status with their Outlook calendar and other sources.
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Brian
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How can Teams think it knows my availability status better than I do! Let me decide what my availability is.
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Michael
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for 3 years(2018), people have been asking for this feature.
This feature also causes serious performances issues on the PC, since it is constantly polling for Mouse movement, to automatically set to Away after a duration (which is ALSO NOT configurable).This is another example of a feature designed with the sole intention of collection our data and usage, under the pretense of making our lives easier!!!
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Anonymous
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Still not fixed since first suggested on 3/19/21. Students and co-workers see me as "busy" during scheduled office hours which have to be blocked as busy on the calendar to prevent others from scheduling for something other than required office hours.
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Bill Moore
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The problem with syncing Teams availability with your Outlook calendar is that it requires you making a simple calendar reminder as free each time you create a reminder. If you are one that sets a ton of reminders it can be tedious to remember to do this...
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tobe mayr
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Please use call status instead of calender entries.
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Anonymous
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I should not be forced to have the status that the system deems convenient, but the status that I have by assigning it myself. Please disable this auto status problem
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Tomaz
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If it was an user option on MICROSOFT Skype for Business, why it is not also an option on MICROSOFT TEAMS ?
Can MICROSOFT once for all be coherent to work as a single company and not as several ?!?
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Anonymous
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Edit: Turns out marking the away status timeouts customization as complete was a mistake. Because so many of these comments are actually requesting the away status timeout change, I'm leaving the link in this post in hopes that it continues to get votes and activity.
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Nick
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I see a lot of comments that might be employees that just don't want to be tracked. If you don't want to turn this feature on at the user level, at least put it at the admin level. I'm the system admin at my company and want this ability for the entire company.
Just like everyone else here, we have people not reaching out to others that appear not available when they are available.
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Anonymous
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wtf.. this auto away c**p needs to be turned off immediately!!! extremely annoying!!
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Hannah
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misleading - have had colleagues who haven't contacted me because they think I'm away but I am not - this needs fixing.
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Anonymous
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disable please!
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Geneive Llera Vega
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This is micromanagement as it will change to a status of 'away' after 13 minutes of the mouse not moved and it shows how many hours the person has been away...
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Andrey Borisovich
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******** idea of ******** corpo people.
Turn off this ****, tools are for people not people for tools. -
Taylor
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BUMP. Why hasn't this been fixed yet?
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Rob
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I agree with allowing the disabling of automatic status changes, especially auto-changing to "Away." Please fix in Teams.
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Anonymous
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Please fix this!
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Sandy
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Please fix this to match setting availability like in Skype. I need to be able to control when Teams shows me as available vs away.
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Dragon
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Please fix this! Even when I'm active and using my laptop, but teams are minimized, my status is still away.
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Sommeri Bryant
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I can't leave my laptop for 2 minutes and it shows me away! I am going to the printer to print and come back and I am away. I don't want it to look like I'm not working especially working from home all the time.