Automatically set Teams status to "Do not disturb" at specific time/during specific calendar event

Question

Recently at work people keep calling me over Microsoft Teams during Noon-1pm, when I do online training sessions over my lunch break. I would rather have my status as "Do Not Disturb" during this time. I have an Outlook Calendar appointment showing me as "out of office" at these times but this does not help. I have also tried activating "Focus Assist" for these times but Teams does not seem to recognise this.

I can manually change my status to "Do not Disturb" each day but this does not really feel like a solution and relies on me consistently remembering to do this. Is there no way to set my status to "Do not Disturb" during a specific calendar event or at a specific time of day?

Answer 1

This is not a question of setting in outlook but settings in TEAMs. Directly in settings->notifications->calls and meeting->Mute notifications during appointments and calls.

Hope this will help :)

Answer 2

Old question, but since it's still not available in Teams/Outlook, I'll add a workaround I found.

Create an online meeting in your Teams calendar without inviting anyone else. At the start time, join the meeting and share your screen. This will trigger the Do Not Disturb status in Teams, muting incoming calls and messages

Answer 3

Make sure you have upgraded your Outlook and Teams to the latest version. And set "Show As" as Busy when createing appointments in Outlook calendar, then teams will automatically show busy status when appointments begins.