How can an Office 365 administrator remove the Teams status message of a former employee.

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How can an Office 365 administrator remove the Teams status message of a former employee.

ilustris 116

How to remove a Teams status message set by a former user whose whose account is disabled and is no longer an employee.

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ilustris 116

I have no more questions. In a MFA environment is very time consuming to authenticate as the user. If the user leaves a non-professional message on Teams, the administrator should be given the option to change the message.

Sharon Zhao-MSFT 25,761 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2021-02-22T08:28:09.69+00:00

@ilustris

You're right.

I have created a feedback about this feature in Teams User Voice. You could vote for it. Here is the link: https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/42750299-administrator-want-to-remove-teams-status-message.

Microsoft will always focus on customer’s feedback and experience. Some new features would be added to the services based on customers' feedback in the future, and your good ideas will be very helpful for them to improve the service.

Your time, understanding and cooperation will be highly appreciated.

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Sharon Zhao-MSFT 25,761 Microsoft External Staff

@ilustris ,

This is not controlled by administrator.

After deleting the account, it will have a 30-day limit to allow admin to recover it. After that, the status message will not be showed.

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ilustris 116 Reputation points

2021-02-11T12:06:15.097+00:00

I understand the answer, but that setting should be controlled by an administrator. There are some accounts that are not deleted for several reasons and we have no way to remove the status message left by the user. This is specially painful in a multifactor authentication environment.
Sharon Zhao-MSFT 25,761 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2021-02-16T07:52:16.023+00:00

@ilustris ,
There is a workaround. The IT admin could sign in the account and delete the status message. Even the account was deleted, admin could recover it within a 30-day limit.
Sharon Zhao-MSFT 25,761 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2021-02-19T08:22:21.187+00:00

@ilustris ,
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