Allow users to customize away presence timeout
Allow users to customize away presence timeout like the options in the Skype client. Add: Show me inactive when my computer has been idle for this many minutes. Also Add: Change my status from inactive to Away after this many minutes.
Jon Orton
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MS User
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This is ridiculous... You provide the requested feature in your other chat programs (Skype). It makes no sense at all to omit it in MSTeams. I'm working on a virtual machine and for MSTeams I am apparently "Away" -.-
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Anonymous
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Status changes to 'away' whiile I'm presenting a PDF on full screen mode - please fix this up
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Anonymous
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Why is it that there are over 100 comments on this post alone and countless other posts on this vary same topic/issue with a similar number of users expressing concern, yet Microsoft is completely silent. It is obviously an issue if you're watching a training or conducting a meeting to see your status change to "away" and either redirect your attention to the Teams window so you can move your mouse in order for Teams to show the correct status. In general it's a distraction and a nuisance but more importantly, it's clearly a design flaw.
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ho
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The status changes to 'Away' while watching the video.
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Anonymous
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common MS this is BS!
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Anonymous
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This has been the issue since start of pandemic. If Microsoft Teams was intending to deal with it then would have been done. Why is the question, they are not doing.
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Anonymous
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Yes Microsoft please fix this!
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FIXIT
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Microsoft NEEDS to fix this.... they simply ignore these subject, votes and comments and refuse to acknowledge the problem. They deliberately set this so they can track your every move and provide reports. However, it’s counter intuitive to sit there and jiggle your mouse while on a call, researching, or reading documents, or running a query. I HATE TEAMS.
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Anonymous
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This is a major downside of Teams. Users should be able to control how much time lapses before status changes to Away. Some managers and colleagues tend to view "Away" or "Inactive" as "not working", which is absolutely not the case. One of the things I liked about Skype was you could control the lapsed time. Please fix this !
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Anonymous
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AUTO CHANGE TO AWAY IS TERRIBLE! Yes, I am yelling because this is a VERY frustrating uncontrollable behavior. GIVE US AN OPTION TO DISABLE or set the timeout.
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ian
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That would be great, but automatically changing the status to inactive after a few minutes without keyboard/mouse action from the user is seen as a feature - therefore adding a setting that the user can customize would ruin one of team's selling point.
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Anonymous
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You allow companies to control this. - extend control to the users!
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Ig
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Not being able to change the timeout is ********. Just because I'm not moving the mouse around doesn't mean I'm not paying attention to my screen and it doesn't mean I'm unavailable in case a message comes in. Absolute ********. The only reason they would bar this is so the employer can see who's moving his mouse around and who isn't. Plenty of people spend their time in online meetings, reading documentation, doing work by hand, working on a second computer, etc.
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Ig
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Not being able to change the timeout is ********. Just because I'm not moving the mouse around doesn't mean I'm not paying attention to my screen and it doesn't mean I'm unavailable in case a message comes in. Absolute ********. The only reason they would bar this is so the employer can see who's moving his mouse around and who isn't. Plenty of people spend their time in online meetings, reading documentation, doing work by hand, working on a second computer, etc.
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Anonymous
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Terrible, many of the people are requesting a different program.
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Anon
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+1 we have a 5 minute timeout at our company. Absolutely ridiculous!
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Anonymous
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MUST HAVE FEATURE~!
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Anonymous
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As we all are working remotely during the pandemic, I find it utmost irritating that the Teams status changes automatically to "left" in ten minutes after I haven't touched my computer - I AM ON THE PHONE, NOT LEFT THE OFFICE. My colleagues might therefore think I am not working. Really, really annoying.
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Anonymous
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agreed this is needed asap for compliance with using teams
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Howard
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@melissa, I don't use syncing and don't understand what that has to do with the Team status messages. Nonetheless, I voted for that other topic as well as this one.