When you’re working from another location, you require to allow individuals understand if you’re readily available or otherwise. Microsoft Teams has a noticeable condition you can transform depending on your accessibility so your colleagues understand whether they can trouble you or not.

Your condition is displayed as a tinted circle beside your account. You can see this whatsoever times in the top-right edge of Teams.

You can additionally see a person’s standing in their profile next to a conversation.

Microsoft Teams will certainly alter your status immediately under particular scenarios, such as when you’re in a meeting or video clip telephone call, or if you’ve been non-active for a time period. Yet you can additionally alter it manually also.

To do this, click on your account in the top-right edge of the Teams application, select your existing status, and alter your status to whatever you desire.

You can additionally set how long you wish to remain in a specific condition by clicking “Duration.”

Choose the standing that you want and also how much time you wish to remain because status.

Your condition will immediately alter back to “Available” when the duration is total (or “Busy” if completion of the period goes to a time when you’re in a conference or phone call).

You can also change your status from the Search box on top of Microsoft Teams by keying in one of the complying with commands:

If you like a keyboard shortcut, Ctrl+ e will take you to the search box. So, to establish your status to “Do not disrupt” without leaving your key-board, it’s Ctrl+ e, complied with by “/ dnd.”

Nonetheless, you can not set a duration in the Search box, so if you intend to instantly transform back to “Available” at a particular time, you’ll have to use your computer mouse.

The various statuses are rather obvious, however there are a couple of helpful points to know.

Available: (The environment-friendly circle) is the default condition when you are logged in to Teams as well as are not in a conference or telephone call. If you lock your gadget or are still for a long time, Teams will instantly alter your standing to “Away.” If you’re making use of Teams on a phone or tablet, Teams will certainly additionally alter your status to “Away” when you’re making use of a different application as well as Teams remains in the background.

Busy: ( The red circle) is the status Teams will automatically alter you to when you
are on a call or in a meeting, as long as you have not establish your condition to “Do not interrupt” (in which situation you will certainly remain in “Do not disrupt”). You’ll still get notifications when you’re readied to Busy.

Do not disturb: (The red circle with the white bar throughout it) will protect against notifications from appearing. Groups will never alter your condition from “Do not disrupt,” so you’ll need to remember to alter it back to “Available” yourself.

Be right back: (The yellow circle) indicates that you’re momentarily away as well as will be back quickly. It looks similar to “Away,” but when your coworkers float over your profile, they’ll see that you’re readied to “Be right back” rather than “Away.”

Appear away: (The yellow circle) corresponds “Away” as well as “Be right back,” and provides other people the perception that Teams does not have your focus. You’ll still obtain message notifications.

Appear offline: (The white circle with an “x” in it) offers other individuals the impact that you’re not signed in to Teams. You’ll still obtain message notices. Just like “Appear away,” you require to make sure that this won’t give the perception that you’re not in fact working, so maybe discuss it with the rest of your group and also manager to ensure that you’ll all use it similarly.