Sync Outlook Calendar Status to Presence

This article covers the synchronization of Outlook status to phone system presence

Updated at January 1st, 2025

This is NOT Teams Presence Sync

With the backend v20 release, additional options will be available to sync your status directly with Teams which should have less pitfalls than syncing against Outlook. Until then this may be a suitable stopgap to help prevent calls during Teams meetings.

 

Pre-Requisite

Enable Sync

  1. Login to the bvoip phone system
  2. In the top right go to Integrations > Microsoft 365
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  3. Go to the Calendar Sync tab
  4. Check the Enable calendar sync box
  5. Adjust the synchronization mode to Sync only the users listed below, unless you want to sync all users.
  6. Click Add User(s) and add the users you want to synchronize.
  7. Click Save Changes
  8. When your Outlook status updates for a meeting, your phone system presence status will also change.