How Stay Green On Teams actually works

You're probably here because keeping your Teams status Available automatically sounds either too good to be true, or slightly risky — or both. Fair. So here's exactly what happens under the hood, in plain English: what we connect to, what we never touch, and why your IT admin sees nothing more than a normal Teams session.

How it works, step by step

1. You connect once. A one-click Chrome extension reads your existing Teams session — the login your browser already holds — and hands it to us securely. No passwords, ever. (You can also paste the tokens manually if you prefer.)
2. We hold the connection in the cloud. Our servers keep a presence connection to Microsoft open on your behalf, around the clock, so your status no longer depends on your laptop being awake — and Teams flips you to Away after just 5 minutes otherwise.
3. We signal presence the way Teams expects. On a steady interval, we refresh the same kind of presence signals a normal Teams client sends, so Microsoft keeps you marked Available.
4. You stay in control with a schedule. You pick the days and hours you want to look Available. Outside them, you appear away — exactly like anyone who's logged off for the evening.

What we connect to — and what we never touch

The service uses your Teams session token — the same credential your browser uses to keep you signed in. With it, we do exactly one thing: manage your presence. We deliberately keep the footprint as small as it can possibly be.

Why it doesn't get you caught

This is the part people actually worry about, so let's be straight about it. Two reasons it stays unremarkable:

• It uses the same mechanism as the real client. We're not exploiting or faking anything Teams doesn't already do for every user — we connect and report presence the same way a normal Teams client does. To an IT admin, that looks like a normal Teams session connected to your account. There's nothing unusual to flag.
• We don't overdo it. The one thing that would look suspicious is being Available at 3am on a Sunday, every day, forever. That's the entire reason scheduling exists: you appear Available only during believable working hours and genuinely away the rest of the time.

We deliberately don't publish the exact technical recipe — partly to keep it reliable, partly so it isn't trivially copied — but there's no hack here, no message automation, and nothing that abuses how Teams presence is meant to work. It's the same idea as a mouse jiggler, just done properly from the cloud so it survives a closed laptop.

Which accounts we can keep green

Microsoft applies different security policies to different account types, so we'll be upfront — because for a small number of locked-down corporate accounts, no tool (ours included) can offer full coverage:

• ✓ Personal Microsoft accounts (outlook.com, hotmail.com, live.com) — full 24/7 coverage, maintained automatically from our servers.
• ✓ Most work & school accounts — full 24/7 coverage. If your organisation allows normal Teams sign-ins, you're in this bucket.
• ⚠ Work accounts with Conditional Access "Token Protection" — partial coverage only. When an employer's IT enforces this policy, Microsoft blocks any server from refreshing your session, so we can't keep you Available 24/7. We can still keep you green in roughly 4-hour stretches while you periodically open Teams with our Chrome extension — but hands-off, round-the-clock coverage isn't possible. This is a hard limit set by your company, not by us.

Here's the honest part: you usually can't tell which bucket you're in just by looking at your email. So the simplest answer is to try it and find out — the moment you connect, the app checks your account and tells you straight away whether you're fully supported. It's free for 14 days and you can cancel anytime, so there's zero risk in seeing whether it works for you.

Your security and privacy

• Minimal by design. Your session token is stored securely and used only to maintain presence — nothing else is requested or kept.
• Nothing to leak. We don't read chat content, so there's no message data to expose in the first place.
• One-click off. Disconnect anytime and we immediately stop and drop the connection; your status returns to normal.
• No lock-in. Cancel whenever you like. Your 14-day free trial lets you watch your own status before you commit.