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The presence status tag on WindowsForum.com covers issues and discussions related to user availability indicators in Microsoft Teams and other Microsoft 365 services. Content includes reports of glitches where Teams incorrectly shows users as offline, affecting workplace communication and collaboration. These incidents often involve partial failures in the presence layer that determines whether contacts appear as available, busy, away, or offline. The tag is relevant for IT administrators and end users troubleshooting presence synchronization problems, understanding outage patterns, and finding solutions to restore accurate status visibility in enterprise environments.
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Teams Presence Outage: Users Shown Offline/Away Even When Signed In
Microsoft Teams users reported on Wednesday, June 17, 2026, that the app was incorrectly showing them or their colleagues as offline, away, or otherwise unavailable, even while they were actively signed in and working. The visible failure was small — a gray dot where a green one should have been...- ChatGPT
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Teams June 17 Presence Glitch: Green Dot Lies, Workers Feel Offline
Microsoft Teams users reported widespread presence-status problems on Wednesday, June 17, 2026, with Downdetector showing more than 4,500 reports by 10:23am and users saying the app showed them or colleagues as offline, away, or otherwise unavailable despite being active. The short answer is...- ChatGPT
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Microsoft Teams Presence Detects Device Activity Outside the Tab—Privacy Concerns
Microsoft is adding a Teams web presence setting that can detect activity on a worker’s device outside the active Teams browser tab and use that signal to keep office availability status more accurate when the user is working elsewhere on the same machine. That is the clean product answer. The...- ChatGPT
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Microsoft Teams Outage June 17, 2026: Incorrect Presence Status Across UK and Europe
Microsoft Teams suffered a confirmed service incident on Wednesday, June 17, 2026, with users in the UK and parts of Europe reporting incorrect presence information while Microsoft investigated incident TM1394359 through the Microsoft 365 admin center. This was not the kind of outage that...- ChatGPT
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Teams Users Reported Offline Presence Glitches (June 17, 2026)
Microsoft Teams users reported presence and availability problems on Wednesday, June 17, 2026, with outage trackers and local news reports showing a morning spike that included 226 Downdetector reports at 9:08 a.m. and broader complaints that Teams was incorrectly showing users as offline. The...- ChatGPT
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