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Formal Complaint: The UX Failure of Microsoft Authenticator and Teams Guest Access
To the Microsoft Product & Engineering Teams, I am writing this not just as a frustrated user, but as a systems engineer and developer who has just spent several hours navigating the Kafkaesque labyrinth that is your current authentication ecosystem. The transition to a new mobile device while maintaining "Guest" access to an external organization (Rihter d.o.o.) has been an exercise in systemic failure. Specifically, I would like to highlight the following critical UX flaws: The Identity Paradox: Your system’s inability to gracefully handle a personal Outlook account acting as a Guest in an Entra ID tenant is baffling. Receiving the error "You can't sign in here with a personal account" while trying to access a tenant I am already a member of is a fundamental logic failure. Visual Inconsistency (The "Briefcase" vs. "Initials"): The fact that an account can appear in Authenticator as a "One-time password" nalog with initials, yet be completely non-functional for Teams until it is manually re-added as a "Work/School" nalog with a briefcase icon, is a UI disaster. The "Action Required" Loop: I was trapped in a cycle where the app demanded action but provided no path to resolution within the mobile environment. I had to resort to using a desktop browser in Incognito mode just to force the system to generate a valid QR code for the new hardware. Mandatory Hardware Security (Passwordless): Forcing users to implement device-wide PINs or biometrics on their private hardware just to use the "Approve" notification feature is overreach. There should be a clear, frictionless fallback to TOTP codes within Teams without degrading the entire app's functionality. App vs. Web Desynchronization: It is unacceptable that a web browser (in Desktop mode) can successfully authenticate a session while the native Teams app on the same device remains stuck with stale tokens and cached AADSTS90023 errors. As someone who designs low-level architectural specifications (DREL), I find the lack of interoperability and the "black box" nature of these errors (like AADSTS90023) to be a significant step backward for professional productivity. I hope this feedback reaches someone who prioritizes user flow over bureaucratic security layers. Best regards, Milan Lakatoš Petrović Systems Engineer & Freelance Programmer
Document Library Settings
Many times when someone opens a document from a teams document library, it shows the document as modified even though no actual changes were made to the document. The default at my company is that documents open in edit mode and they auto save so one solution would be to set it to open in view only mode, but my company doesn't want to change that at the company wide level. Is there any way to do this at the SharePoint library level? I also don't want to make document checkout mandatory.
Tracking Competencies & Development in MS Teams?
Does anyone have any experience building an employee development program inside Microsoft Teams? Our team had the idea to map out competencies and integrate employee development programs into our overall performance management cycle. We would love to keep all of this inside Teams. Is Power Apps the way to go?
All Teams Bots Not Working At All
This morning all of a sudden all our Teams bots stopped working. These are bots built using bot framework running on Azure Bot Teams Channel. Is this related to the current Teams API issue we talking about? All of a sudden all our client and test bots stopped working. But the Web Channel is working as expected. Only the teams channel. We even checked with ngrok and its not even hitting the service. We checked the app registrations and their credentials as well to ensure not issues there too. Completely lost whats happening. Help?Add Teams Chat Member API call inexplicably Failing
I have tried every possible permutation of this API call that I can imagine. Nothing works. I already started a thread on this, but now it appears to be glitched and I can no longer reply to message sin that thread for some reason. What can I do to contact Microsoft Support and speak directly to their API team? The responses I have gotten all appear to be AI generated and NONE ARE CORRECT. I really need help, from a human, that actually might understand what's going on here. Please help. "#microsoft.graph.aadUserConversationMember' for 'odata.type' is not valid for this operation." <- I am receiving this error despite the fact that we already have several users in this channel with that same type. This API call is intended to invite a user to an existing group chat. This should really be a very simple thing. 1. ALL users in the group chat already have type = '#microsoft.graph.aadUserConversationMember' so the error message doesn't even make sense. 2. This IS a Group chat. NOT a channel. NOT a one on one chat. 3. The Inviter has permission to invite users to this groupchat through the frontend. (and in fact can do so using the frontend.) Why is this API call failing? I have tried scrubbing the API call of special characters, I have tried using the beta endpoint, I have tried several different formats for the input. ERROR: {"error":{"code":"BadRequest","message":"The provided '#microsoft.graph.aadUserConversationMember' for 'odata.type' is not valid for this operation.","innerError":{"date":"2026-02-10T19:11:28","request-id":"XXXXX","client-request-id":"XXXXXX"}}} POST URL: https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/chats/IDHERE/members BODY: { "chatType": "group", "\u0040odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.aadUserConversationMember", "user\u0040odata.bind": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/IDHERE", "roles": [] }Group email addresses for Teams sometimes contain “+” or “/” characters
We are using Microsoft Teams in our organization. When creating multiple Teams with exactly the same team name, using ASCII alphanumeric characters only, we occasionally see that the automatically generated group email address contains unexpected characters such as “+” or “/”. I would like to know whether this behavior is expected or if it is specific to our environment. This issue seems to have been occurring since around August 2025. We manually create Teams using the Windows Teams client. For example, if we create several Teams with a simple name such as “example2026”, the corresponding group email addresses are generated in the following format: email address removed for privacy reasons However, in some cases, the XXXXXX portion includes characters like “+” or “/”. When creating around 50 Teams, this issue appears in a few of them. This causes two problems for us: A “+” character interferes with plus-addressing behavior. When a “/” is included, we cannot create events inside the Team. Has anyone else encountered this issue or knows why this happens? Any insights would be appreciated.
Providing Early Feedback - Simplified Teams app bar 557169
How do we provide early feedback to prevent this from happening or requesting the option to disable this feature? If anything, I want Teams to de-simplify. Microsoft keeps going out of their way to hide things that are crititical to productivity. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=557169 I mean - generally - how do we get Microsoft to stop making things worse? It seems like the recommendation is to use the feedback button in the app; but by that time it's too late. Telling the 100+ people who ask me what Microsoft broke this week to use the feedback button is not helping avoid their distaste and distrust of this platform. This is why people are avoiding Teams and prefer text messaging and WhatsApp. We desperately need to increase adoption but Microsoft keeps obscuring features that lead to increased confusion. Where do we make requests to decrease simplicity and increase productivity?
Teams crops previewed image
On Teams app for Mac, the previewed image in chat is being cropped. The image preview itself displays full image as shown below (see all numbers 1-7 visible): However, after clicking on the image itself to view it, the image is cropped (notice the number 7 no longer being displayed): You have to manually click a zoom out button and then the image becomes uncropped.Issue with Teams 'Add a User to Group Chat' API call?
I am getting a very strange error when trying to add a new user to an existing group chat using a GraphQL call. I have looked through the documentation, asked AI, and even contacted Microsoft support and no one can seem to explain why this API call is failing. Below is the API call that I am making. I can find no reason that I should be receiving the error message '#microsoft.graph.aadUserConversationMember' To get the basic questions out of the way.... Yes, the account making the API call DOES have permission to add users to the channel (and can do so using the frontend as normal.) Yes, the thread in question is a group chat, so adding members to that chat should be a valid command. Yes, ALL members in the group chat currently have the type '#microsoft.graph.aadUserConversationMember', so it is definitely a valid type for users in this channel. Yes, I have tried both the beta and stable channel; each gives the same error message. Yes, the invited user is internal to our organization, and is a valid target for the invite (invites work through frontend as well.) No, I cannot use the 'add member to channel' endpoint, because the chat is a group chat, not a channel. I can only assume, at this point, that the error message is a red herring and there's something else wrong with my API call?Why am I receiving this error message when trying to add a member to a pre-existing group chat? Thanks in advance for any assistance. POST to URL: https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/chats/[[THREAD_ID]]@thread.v2/members BODY: { "@odXXX.type": "#microsoft.graph.aadUserConversationMember", "roles": [], "email address removed for privacy reasons": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/[[USER_ID]]" } ERROR MESSAGE: {"error":{"code":"BadRequest","message":"The provided '#microsoft.graph.aadUserConversationMember' for 'odXXX.type' is not valid for this operation.","innerError":{"date":"2026-01-29T18:10:32","request-id":"<PII:moderator removed>","client-request-id":"<PII:moderator removed>"}}}Teams window stuck on top of all others
I'm using the new Teams, having switched just a few days ago. Right now my Teams window is "stuck" on top of my other windows. Any window I try to move into the same space as Teams on my desktop results in Teams being over that window. This happens randomly. I've seen this behavior occasionally with Chrome as well, but not with any other app. Does anyone know why/how my Teams window got stuck on top? Is there a way to correct this without having to shut down Teams and restart it?
Introducing a new feature on Microsoft Teams: "Save this message"
Exciting news - alongside pinning your posts/messages, you can now save them too. All your saved messages will be neatly organized under the "Saved" menu within Teams, right below the "Followed Thread" section. Look out for a special icon marking your saved messages for easy reference. And the best part? You have the flexibility to unsave messages whenever you wish. Stay organized and never lose track of important information with this handy
Autofilter Channel Posts
We manage a variety of digital products for a large user base across many different countries and want to curate our comms to limit irrelevant posts reaching users unnecessarily. For example a post about "Product A affecting Country X" should not reach "Country Y". What is the best practice here? Currently we've opted for a central channel with tags to assist users in managing their notifications, but they will still see all posts when visiting the channel and will need to self-filter. Is there a way for us to configure the channel so they only see posts they are tagged in? I know we could set up individual channels for each Product+Country combination but then any common posts we make would need to be duplicated into each channel separately. Thinking out loud, I suppose if we automate our posts with a workflow/AI then discrete channels is a good solution to keep things organised. Any ideas or feedback please?Teams Voicemail appended recording missing in audio attachment (Exchange 2019 on-prem)
Hello, We are experiencing a very specific issue with **Microsoft Teams Phone System voicemail** in a hybrid environment and I’m trying to determine if this is a limitation or a configuration problem. ### Environment * Microsoft Teams Phone System (Cloud Voicemail) * Resource Accounts, Auto Attendants and Call Queues * SBC (Direct Routing) – working normally * Hybrid identity (AAD Connect) * **Exchange Server 2019 on-premises mailboxes (NO Exchange Online mailbox)** Voicemail messages are delivered successfully to users in Outlook via email and transcription works. --- ### The problem When a caller leaves a voicemail and simply records a message → everything is normal. However, if the caller uses the **voicemail review menu** after recording: > presses **#** and then selects **“4 – continue recording”** the caller records a second part of the message (appended recording segment). Result we observe: | Component | Behavior | | ---------------------------------- | ---------------------------------- | | Voicemail transcription | Contains BOTH parts of the message | | Audio attachment in Outlook (.wav) | Contains ONLY the first recording | | Delivery | Successful (no NDR) | So the voicemail transcription is complete, but the audio attachment is truncated to the first segment. This only occurs when the caller chooses **continue recording** and creates a multi-segment voicemail. Has anyone else seen appended or multi-segment voicemail recordings being truncated when delivered to **Exchange on-premises mailboxes**? Is this a known limitation of Cloud Voicemail delivery to legacy/non-Exchange Online mailboxes, or is there a configuration required to properly render appended voicemail recordings? Any confirmation from others running Teams Phone with Exchange on-prem would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.Microsoft Teams PowerShell Module 7.6.0 is broken
Dear Community I have a few Script with Microsoft Teams PowerShell, witch authenticate via Access Token. Everything works fine until latest Microsoft Teams PowerShell Module Update 7.6.0. I got following Error with the Script. Connect-MicrosoftTeams : Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.IdentityModel.JsonWebTokens, Version=8.3.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified. If I downgrade my environment from Version 7.6.0 to Version 7.5.0 and rerun my script, the authentication is working as expected. What is wrong here with latest PowerShell Module 7.6.0 and how can I resolve the issue Many thanks for sharing any hint or tip ANDYHow do you handle employee recognition in Microsoft Teams without it feeling forced?
Hey community, Our HR team is trying to implement a point-based recognitions / incentive program (or rewards whatever you are all calling it in your companies). We are having a bit of trouble finding the right features inside MS Teams to do this. We really don't want this to live outside of Teams because you know how initiatives work in modern work: If people don't see it, they are going to forget about it in a month or two tops. Any recommendations?Is it possible to open up Teams for a dynamic group?
When I set up an intranet for our companies in SharePoint alone, I always create them as a Team site (we have over 200 companies in one tenant). In SharePoint I use dynamic groups "All-Users-Company" so users in each company have access by default. BUT... when they open Teams, they can't see their company's team unless they're added as a member of the site. I would love if Teams would "see/add" users from a dynamic group in SharePoint so they automatically have access to their own Teams site as well - is this possible? 💫🤗💫💫💫Create a calendar for a private channel
Good evening everyone, I need to create a calendar for a private channel. I was hoping someone could provide me with some advice on the best way to accomplish this with OOB Microsoft technology. I was thinking of creating a group calendar and having a PowerApp / Flow add items to it from the team's channel. Would love to hear some other thoughts on this. Any information is appreciated, Hyde
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