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Update Rule “do-you-avoid-using-out-of-office/rule” (#9718)
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seoDescription: Do you minimize the use of Out of Office? Minimize unnecessary use of out-of-office notifications and automate responses only for extended periods off the grid to maintain productivity.
type: rule
title: Do you minimize the use of Out of Office?
seoDescription: Do you minimize the use of Out of Office? Minimize unnecessary
use of out-of-office notifications and automate responses only for extended
periods off the grid to maintain productivity.
uri: do-you-avoid-using-out-of-office
authors:
- title: Adam Cogan
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![Figure: Good example – Step 2 – Enter your reason and an end date. This message will be seen by your colleagues when they email or message you in Teams](step2-good.png)
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Tip: If you only want out of office replies to go to external contacts, but you don't want to spam internal contacts, you can leave the "Inside my organisation" template blank.

### Use Teams to let people know you are not around

If you are on leave or unavailable for a period and want your team to know, you should set your status to Out of Office. A recurring problem when doing this in Outlook is that if a user selects their meeting to show them ‘Out of office’, whoever accepts the appointment will also have their status changed to ‘Out of office’.
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