Out-of-Office BUG

Source: Dev.to

Issue

There is a bug in Teams where, if you accept an Out‑of‑Office invite from a team member, your status will show “, Out of Office”. That is, if you select Available, Busy, or Do not disturb, your status becomes one of those options appended by “, Out of Office”. If Be right back, Appear away, or Appear offline are selected, the status will show only “Out of Office”.

Fix 1

1. Change the invite from Accepted to Tentative.
2. You can do this in Teams → Calendar or Outlook → Calendar.
3. Select the invite.
4. In the pop‑up, click Change at the bottom.
5. Click the More Options button (three dots) on the bottom right.
6. Choose Tentative.

Doing this should allow you to control your status normally.

Fix 2

1. Go to Teams → Calendar.
2. Select the invite.
3. In the pop‑up, click View event (multi‑arrow icon).
4. In the Event tab, you will see Out of office.
5. Change it to Free or Tentative.

Your status should change immediately; if not, try restarting the application.

For other solutions, see the discussion: “My status is set to Out of Office and won’t change”.