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Microsoft Teams Notification Sounds - Can't turn off???
I work at a rather large organization and we just switched to using Microsoft Teams. So far it has been great but what is driving me nuts is the Notification for new messages. I can't find it anywhere to turn this annoying sound off. When you have several coworkers all messaging you, I can't even wear headphones anymore it's gotten so bad. And you can't even turn it off? My options are, "Call, Mention, and Chat" , "All", "Off" How is these not separated? I would like it to be able to ring for calls but I don't need a BEEP every time someone messages me since I already get a banner and a flashing name. Please let me know if I am missing a setting somewhere.
Teams (Desktop app) - need more noticeable notifications on Teams Desktop App
At work, I have had skype as our primary messaging app for considerable years. But now, my team is moving towards using Teams group. I have Teams desktop application installed alongside Skype. In using the Teams app, I am facing a major problem of NOT noticing chat/team/group messages. The taskbar icon just has a static message counter on it. If someone messages me while I have stepped out, I won't notice the static taskbar icon and will miss it until a new message arrives or as late as the next day. It is not all noticeable. Quick replies are expected of an instant messaging app (I know it is much more than an IM app) I have never faced such an issue with Skype as the highlight on the skype taskbar icon keeps blinking until I read all the messages. There is a feature to use windows based notifications but windows notifications are not that great. Is anyone else facing such issues? Any solution is really appreciated.
Want to enable and use Interpreter agent
According to this article: Discover new agents in Microsoft 365 innovation | Microsoft Community Hub Interpreter is now available in public preview. It links to the the following guide: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/interpreter-in-microsoft-teams-meetings-c7efe2bb-535d-42ab-a5c4-d2d91619b46d I am in public preview on my Mac desktop Teams client. Version is 25107.xxxx which looks like it's a Citrix/VDI version. I pulled the download from the official MS page for a fresh install and the version is the same. Not sure if that makes any difference but that's the version. How do I enable Interpreter agent for my scheduled meeting?
Common area phone account presence
Hello Everyone, I have a few CAP accounts setup and only have them logged into Yealink MP54s. Most of them I notice the account status on the phone is Available (Green). However, I have a few that keep going to Yellow (Away). Is there a way to control the presence to keep them as Available? Or figure out why they keep going Away? I have them licensed with the Teams Shared Device license. I have the phones set to NOT go to sleep. When the phones go to Away, I can go into the settings and tap a few options, then they go back to Available. But I can't do that every day. These are part of a call queue that has to have Presence Based Routing enabled as it has a mixture of users and common area phones. Thanks for any info!Default Graph APIs or Teams Export APIs to access Teams User Private Chat for backup
Hi , Shall I use Default Graph APIs or Teams Export APIs to access Teams User Private Chat for backup ? What are your recommendations ? I am planning to use Teams Export APIs to access Teams User Private Chat for backup. These APIs are charged though, based on count of messages accessed. There are free Default Graph APIs to achieve the same goal. Functionality wise they are almost same but the free Default Graph APIs are not recommended for large scale backup. These APIs have high throttling rate.
Creating MS Teams without a meeting
Hi, I am setting up a schedule for a number of online sessions for July. These sessions will be online support sessions for students, they can just log in if they need any support. I have the schedule now nearly complete and just want to create links what we can send out to students, but I don't really want these all appearing in my calendar, and I won't be attending them myself. Is it possible for me to set up these links, and send it out to the academic(s) and the students? If I click on the +New Meeting, it will set up the meeting in my outlook calendar as well, and if I click on the Meet Now, I can't set up the dates×. Thank you.
Moving from skype to teams does not migrate my chat history
Hello, I have tried to login to teams using my skype username. It prompt me to merge my skype account with my personal email. I clicked yes. it successfully logged me in into Ms Teams. I cannot see my skype chat history into teams and also not all of my contacts are there. I have enabled skype account contacts to sync from Settings => People => Sync contact => Manage but still not all contacts are synced and no chat history at all. Anyone knows how can I import the chat history as well? Thank you in advance
Connect teams and old Skype name
Hey there! Glad to see the consumer Skype to Teams interoperability is working, I really appreciate that feature! My question is how do I contact a Skype user who hasn't set up an email address? Old Skype users simply have a username, and some of them haven't connected a Microsoft account. Is there a way to contact them through Teams? Thanks for any help you can offer.
Guests cannot be invited
I have had the problem for some time now that guests cannot be invited to a team chat. Guest access is activated. If an attempt is made to add external persons to the team, the following message is displayed: "No match found" Microsoft remote connection check has also already been tested for Teams (Teams: Guest login) "Microsoft-Remoteverbindungsuntersuchung" At the moment I can't explain this behavior and I can't find a solution. Can anyone give me tips on how to solve this problem?setReaction and softDelete for channel messages broken?
Hi, I have some issues using the setReaction and softDelete APIs for channel messages in MS Teams. It’s relatively easy to reproduce for me from the the MS Graph explorer. I have a message in a channel, that I programmatically want to set a reaction for (or delete it). The user calling the setReaction API is actually also the owner of the message. This can be seeing by the first screenshot, where updating the message succeeds without problems. But if I either try to set a reaction on the message, or delete it, I’m getting a weird ACL related error message (see second and third screenshot). The fourth screenshot is the relevant part of the decoded access token used by graph explorer, showing that I do have both the ChannelMessage.Send and ChannelMessage.ReadWrite permissions set for the token that are required for the setReaction and softDelete API calls according to the docs. I’ve also tried the same on a chat channel. There setReaction does work as it is supposed to, but softDelete also fails with an error message. Any help here would be appreciated.Teams pulls up main window after switching application windows during a meeting
I hope I can explain this properly, please let me know if it isn't clear. OS: macOS Sonoma Teams version: 24277.3502.3161.3007 When I am in a Teams call, I will often need to temporarily switch windows to Chrome or another application. When I tab back to the Teams call, the Main Teams window will pop up on top of the call, which requires me to minimize it in order to view the call window. I haven't been able to find a setting that addresses this specifically. Simplified steps: Join a Teams call from the the primary Teams window or Outlook calendar Switch applications to something else - Slack, Chrome, etc. Click the Teams icon in the dock The Teams call will take focus The Teams main window automatically pops up overlays the call, hiding it Thanks in advance for your help and please let me know if there is anything I can clarify.Owners are getting 403 when trying to delete bot posts
Hello, we have a notifications bot, and the customer noticed that he can't delete the bot's posts via mobile or desktop/web. The user is the owner and has updated policies that allow deletion of all posts in the channel. However, requests to delete bot posts return 403 status with "AclCheckFailed-Delete Message: Initiator (x:xxxx:xxxx-xxxx-x...) is not allowed to delete message" error message. MS Teams handles these requests, but I'm wondering if there is anything we can do on the bot side to help change the response and allow posts to be deleted (changing permissions, adding new functionality, etc.)? Would appreciate any suggestions!Using PowerApps "Send a Microsoft Graph HTTP request"
Hello I am trying to send a activity to Teams activity feed. The idea is to have a SharePoint list and if a new event or update event accurse on the SharePoint list to send a notification to Teams Activity. I started with he following code but it was not working when I updated the TeamID: Method: POST URI: https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/teams/{teamId}/sendActivityNotification HEADER: Content-Type: application/json BODY: { "topic": { "source": "entityUrl", "value": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/teams/{teamId}" }, "activityType": "systemDefault", "previewText": { "content": "Take a break" }, "recipient": { "@odata.type": "microsoft.graph.aadUserNotificationRecipient", "userId": "569363e2-4e49-4661-87f2-16f245c5d66a" }, "templateParameters": [ { "name": "systemDefaultText", "value": "You need to take a short break" } ] } The idea is to trigger the flow by SharePoint event Update & new. Then using the HTTP Request to Graph API and send an information with the URL of the new ITEM or FILE. In the moment some user have issues to be informed by he activity feed and it works by others. But the users who have issues get by other user informed. Its really a weird situation. The users are creating in the SitePages library ASPX files and want to inform others about the updated and new pages. Thanks in advance for the help. Kind regards MichaelParticipant (people) pop out window for Team's Events (meeting, webinar, townhall).
It would be so helpful if you can change Team events (meeting, webinar, townhall) to allow the participant list to pop out and away from the main window. There is no way to see who's entering the event & move certain people into a breakout room. Unless you use the notifications that appears as a pop up in the top middle of the window for people joining the room, but that can cause a huge problem if they are joining the room unmuted. When doing an event that allows people to join late, and they may not know or haven't learned how to mute or turn off their camera, it can be very disrupting. It would be greatly appreciated if we could move the participant list around, so we have easy access to both the breakout room tab as well as the main room participation list. This way you would be able to see if co-organizers are in the breakout room since they don't appear on the breakout room list and you would be able to allow attendees to join and make sure you have the capability to mute them. (It would also be appreciated if you could add turn off camera since you already have the ability to mute people).
Allow muting a person only for me
Sometimes I am in a meeting where one of the persons in the meeting is actually near me in the world outside the screen. In this case the sound is a bit maddening since there is a small delay between the sound from the person and the sound through the teams interface. In these cases, I would like to mute the person only for me since I am sitting near and can hear the person fine without headphones. Right now I need to takeoff headphones when the person is talking and putting it back as the person finishes talking.
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