How can I update Presence/Status/Availability in MS Teams via an API call?

Question

I am aware of the beta Graph Presence API. However, this currently only allows retrieving Presence data. I would like to be able to change a Teams user's status availability using an api call. The most recent information that I could find is several years old: (Does Microsoft Teams have a way to update a user's status/presence?)

If the Teams API does not contain this functionality, can it still be done via the underlying UCWA API if that is still available for Teams? Or, more generally, is there some other way to have an external application update a Teams user's status availability?

Alternatively, is there a way to update the availability/status in Office 365 via an api call?

Answer 1

For anyone still interested, there's a new API available that allows to set user presence with application permission type.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/presence-setpresence?view=graph-rest-1.0&tabs=http

I've tested it and it seems to "mostly" work. I've observed 2 issues:

1. user for whom the presence is set, does not see an update in their teams client (both desktop/web/mobile). Other people see the status is changed though.
2. Setting Away/Away does not work - status is changed to Available/Available.

So although it's in 1.0 version, for me it's still more beta.

Answer 2

Lukasz was correct, only thing is you need to provide bearer token as well in the header for authorization

curl --location --request PUT 'https://presence.teams.microsoft.com/v1/me/forceavailability/' \--header 'Authorization: Bearer your_token_here --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \--data-raw '{    "availability": "Busy"}'