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An Out of office message is required in order to set your out of office hours
The Microsoft Teams Out of Office feature allows users to indicate their availability status. It notifies other users of absences in chat windows and the Teams calendar.
Follow the instructions below to set out of office preferences in Microsoft Teams:
- To set your Out of Office hours in Microsoft Teams, login and navigate to your profile in the top right-hand corner.

- Select, Set Status Message.

- You can now create a custom message that will populate during your set out of office hours.

- Once you are satisfied with your message, select Schedule out of office at the bottom of the drop down.

- Make sure to turn on automatic replies.

- Check the box Send replies only during a time period to set your out of office hours.

- When your preferred hours are set, select save.