How To: Set Your Status and Out-of-Office Message in Teams

Learn how to set your availability, a status message, and an out-of-office message in Microsoft Teams.

To
Do this
Change your status
Select your profile picture, then your current status, and choose Available, Busy, Do not disturb, Be right back, or Appear away.
Add a status message
Select your profile picture, then Set status message. Choose how long it shows.
Set out of office
Select your profile picture, then Set status message, then Schedule out of office. This also sets your Outlook automatic reply.

Your status updates automatically from your Outlook calendar and when you're in a call or meeting.

Get help

Submit a request through the Microsoft Teams service.