help • 3 Configure Contact Desktop • Presence overwrite
3.3 Presence overwrite
You can change your presence status manually via Contact Desktop. If you manually configure your status, the system will present you to other users in your organization as defined in Status Display.
To set your presence status
1 In the line Presence override, select one of the following options:
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Explanation
Click on the yellow circle to set your status to Away (Yellow).
Click on the grey circle to set your status to Show as offline (grey). Select this function to hide their presence.
Click on the red circle to set your status to Busy (red).
Click the cross icon to stop overwriting the presence status manually via Client. Your presence is automatically updated again and falls back to the status Available (green) when you are available in Contact Desktop. Your status is changed to Busy (red) when you have a voice call or a meeting via Meeting Room.
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To see how your manually selected status in Contact synchronizes with your status in Microsoft Teams, and vice versa, see Impact of Microsoft Teams Status on Contact Status and Impact of Contact Status on Microsoft Teams Status.