# Connect Discourse status to Outlook out of office
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/connect-discourse-status-to-outlook-out-of-office/309016
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** user-status
**Created:** [May 22, 2024, 1:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/connect-discourse-status-to-outlook-out-of-office/309016 "2024-05-22T13:39:21Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@jordan-violet](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jordan-violet)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2024, 1:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/connect-discourse-status-to-outlook-out-of-office/309016/1 "2024-05-22T13:39:21Z")
Setting status manually can be tough to remember across multiple applications. It would be great if Discourse could connect to Outlook so that status could be set automatically when a user has out of office calendar events.
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### Author:  [@Tris20](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Tris20)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2024, 1:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/connect-discourse-status-to-outlook-out-of-office/309016/2 "2024-05-22T13:49:24Z")
Would also love this. Because the calendars are linked, I would consider getting the info from MSTeams as well.
@jordan-violet did you have an idea in mind regarding implementation? Personally I would prefer to avoid going through central IT, so was thinking of pulling calendar information from outlook via cli or a powershell script
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### Author:  [@jordan-violet](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jordan-violet)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2024, 2:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/connect-discourse-status-to-outlook-out-of-office/309016/3 "2024-05-22T14:20:36Z")
For us, weโd need an Oauth/enterprise implementation so we can have it connected through IT. Basically the inverse of your request ๐
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### Author:  [@Tris20](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Tris20)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2024, 2:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/connect-discourse-status-to-outlook-out-of-office/309016/4 "2024-05-22T14:37:10Z")
I think realistically we would go a similar way too, I just dread the journey of going through our multiple IT teams to get these kind of things done. For me a hacky, โcan I get 90% of the functionality without going through ITโ solution would also be good, but I fully support the intention here of a more comprehensive and long term approach.
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### Author:  [@jordan-violet](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jordan-violet)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2024, 3:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/connect-discourse-status-to-outlook-out-of-office/309016/5 "2024-05-22T15:06:42Z")
I need that adoption and buy-in across the business though ๐