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They have been heavily used in other Microsoft tools such as Skype for Business and Microsoft Outlook , so you may already be familiar with the concept. Let us take a look at how to set a status and some common Microsoft Teams status message examples along with it.

Changing your Microsoft Teams status message is easy to do and is the same across the mobile and desktop app. Your Microsoft Teams status message can contain up to characters and, as a bonus feature, you can also mention someone to contact in your absence. For example, if you want to let people know to contact someone else whilst you are away, a good status message for Microsoft Teams would be:. If someone mentions you in their status message, you will receive a notification as shown in the image below:.

For example, if you try to do a one-to-one chat with a co-worker, as soon as you start typing in the message box you will get a prompt showing their current Microsoft Teams status message:.

You can decide when you want your Microsoft Teams status message to end with the clear Microsoft Teams status message function. Choose between the options provided, or select your own custom time frame — whatever suits you best. Finally, once you have set your status you will receive a notification of your set status and top notification bar in the Microsoft Teams application. This is easy enough to dismiss but is a nice cue that will help you to understand how and where your status messages for Microsoft Teams will be used.

Once you set a Microsoft Teams status message it will be visible in multiple places across Microsoft Teams:. In one-to-one or one-to-many Microsoft Teams Chats — When you start a one-to-one chat the status message will be visible above the conversation box.

You can always dismiss the notification if necessary. Mentions in Microsoft Teams Channels — You will also see the status message if you are mentioning a person as part of a Microsoft Teams Channel.

This happens both in new conversations and replies and is incredibly useful. If you hover over the image of a person in Microsoft Teams you will see their contact card. As you can see in the image below, the status message is displayed along with when the message was entered.

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Changing your Microsoft Teams status message is easy to do and is the same across the mobile and desktop app. To request that we correct any errors, outdated information, or omissions in user information that you have supplied to us.