When I create a meeting or appointment to show I will be out of the office, I change the "show as:" field to Out of office (default is Busy) and my lync status shows as available. If I change the meeting to "show as:" back to Busy, my status will change to Busy. As soon as I change it back to Out of Office, my status goes to Available. Just FYI, if I set my Out Of Office in Outlook, it will show my out of office, so that is not a problem. The only problem is when I change the meeting to show Out of Office and not busy. Is this a bug?

Hi,there,

Per my understanding,the meeting "show as " Out Of Office status and Out Of Office setting in outlook is stored as different form on Exchange server,one is meeting item and the other is rule.Out of Office will only be shown in Lync when the actual Out of Office setting is set in Outlook.If you create a calendar appointment and set it to Out of Office, this won't be reflected in Lync.

An old thread for your reference.

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/lync/en-US/c55800d9-3b7e-4fa4-969c-d6198ad15627/out-of-office-not-showing-up-in-lync-client

Regards,

Sharon

Has anyone seen a fix to this?  It should show as "busy" at least.