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Apps notification settings missing in Teams settings
Hello Teams Community, I'm facing a strange issue with App notifications in Microsoft Teams. I've already researched this and found nothing. I've opened a Microsoft case and I'm waiting for an answer but it's taking longer than expected. So, I'm turning to you for expedited help! Scenario: You're an administrator in Teams. You've applied a setup policy for a pinned app like Viva Engage. After the policy is applied and the tool is launched, users complain that notifications are either too frequent or not frequent enough. You direct them to the Teams Notification and activity settings to control app notifications. The users go to Teams notification settings but report back to you that the App section of Teams settings doesn't exist. Problem Statement: Microsoft explicitly states in their documentation that in order for the App notifications section to appear, you must first add an app yourself within Teams and get at least one notification. But relying on users to add an app, somehow create a notification, and then remove it, just to access App notifications is impractical and would never work. Desired Outcome: I'm looking for a way to bypass this prerequisite and force the Apps section to appear in the Notifications and activity section without any user action whenever an app is pinned in the Teams admin center with a setup policy. I'm hoping this can work with any app, not just Viva Engage. Any help is appreciated. Thanks, Teams experts! -Rob
How to create an audio calling bot for the Marketplace?
What is the correct set of framework(s)/tools that allow a bot to make audio calls to teams users that can be installed to multiple customer's Teams instances, and added to the Teams Marketplace, as of January 2026? It seems that there is a lot of transition going on in the various bot frameworks that are supported by Microsoft. The new Microsoft 365 Agents https://github.com/microsoft/Agents/issues/377 , and won't do until at least March 2026. The Teams Microsoft Graph Comms libraries still work and appear to be current, however that is only half the puzzle. I need to also package up the bot that has been built, including build an app manifest, etc. The AzureBot still works, but upon packaging up, it seems that Multi-tenant support was https://github.com/microsoft/botframework-sdk/issues/6698. The permissions for the various Microsoft graph https://github.com/microsoftgraph/microsoft-graph-comms-samples do not match up with the permissions for the packaging of the new agent (e.g. Calls.AccessMedia.All, Calls.Initiate.All are required, but not present). It also isn't clear to me Microsoft Graph App Manifest can help in this matter. Any clarity on the matter would be much appreciated. This is kinda urgent, so can't wait until Agent SDK
Status during a Teams call : "in a call" only once others have joined!
Hi, I work remotely so most of my job is through Teams calls with laypeople (i.e. not necessarily Teams savvy). I like to start the calls a few minutes before to prepare my shared whiteboard, etc., make sure sound is OK... However, the status, even when I'm alone, is automatically "in a call" and so I don't have notifications anymore, which is generally OK, except that if my client tries to call me on the phone (which is on Teams), they go directly to voicemail. It is annoying to manually switch it. I think that when we are ALONE in the call, waiting for others to join, we should appear as AVAILABLE so that all notifications, etc. are still enabled until we are not alone in the meeting... and then, yes, all the do not disturb aspects must kick in! Thanks!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 ANDY
Mouse button 'Back/Forward' not working in 'New Teams'
Though there are options to 'pop out' windows from Teams, Teams is a generally a single page app. As such, one of my most used features in 'Classic Teams' is switching back 'n forth between several 'tabs' I'm currently working with. Say I've got somebody on chat, but then have to quickly check something in Teams, then go back to chat. In Classic Teams this works just fine using the mouse's back & forward buttons. In 'New' Teams, this no longer registers any action at all. I assume the feature still exists, since left of the search bar there are still the back/forward UI buttons. But moving the mouse over for every time you need to switch back and forth is a lot slower and less intuitive than just using the mouse buttons. Current behavior: Mouse 'back'/'forward' buttons do not work in 'New Teams' Expected behavior: Mouse 'back/forward' buttons register the 'back' and 'forward' navigation commands as they did in 'Classic' TeamsTeams Revamps Premium Licensing
Microsoft announced a set of Teams licensing changes to take effect in April 2026. The changes affect devices, Microsoft Places, and Teams events. Webinars and Teams town halls will be easier to manage without Teams Premium licenses, and organizations will be able to buy capacity packs to host events for up to 100,000 participants. The changes will leave some Microsoft 365 tenants cold while others will be delighted. https://office365itpros.com/2026/01/26/teams-licensing-changes-0426/
How to assign manage teams as admin
We have desided that only admins can make teams and so making office 365 groups. Problem now is how can i make a team based on a o365 sexurity group or not make groups for other departments without being a member of the group itself? Also when we give certain users rights to make groups / teams for there department is how to do that without beiing the owner member of the group or team site? When i go to the admin team centre i can create teams but the 0365 groups are not available for selection to base the team group on. I have read that you must be the owner to create a team based on 0365 groups but then the admin is always a member of all groups?
Teams admin centre - add the ability to setup a team completely (shared channels and/or groups)
I think the current teams setup workflow in admin centre is a bit flawed. We're trying out to create a team for every project that we do, but since these projects are done by many different departments it makes sense to use Shared Channels within each project and divide the data in such a way that it is stored in the site library of the channel that is the most fitting. For example creative documents in the channel for the creative department, and business documents in the business channel. To make things clearer to the end user we would like to structure each project the same. So it would be logical if an admin could create these shared channels while creating the project and not have to trust that a project manager is able to set things up correctly after they get assigned. (so being able to create a template would be nice...) So IMHO what is missing from admin centre: -ability to add shared channels. -ability to add teams (in this case department teams) to these shared channels. -ability to create a template with shared channels configured (is a little bit complex, because channel names need to be unique, so some sort of variables need to be taken into account... maybe these can be distilled from the main project team name...which is basically what we also intend) (maybe this could be done with Power automate if the ability to create shared channels is being added to an admin's abilities...) Another option, which would actually be much sweeter would be to skip Shared Channels altogether and add the ability to add Office 365 groups to the main Team, now we can only add members... I would like to work with Team groups, as it's much easier to manage and remove a user from a group than to have this user have to be removed from each project individually. But actually I think both options are a necessity...
How to add a Teams Media Bot in an online meeting.
I am currently developing a Teams Media Bot designed to join Microsoft Teams meetings, record sessions, and perform subsequent analysis. The bot is intended to participate as a visible attendee in meetings. Below is an overview of the development environment and the key issues encountered: Current Implementation: Graph API with Application Permissions: The bot joins meetings as an application. Azure Bot Service: Facilitates communication between the bot and Microsoft Teams. Deployment: Hosted on an Azure VM. Note: No resource account is currently associated with the bot. Issue #1: Delayed Join Scenario The bot successfully joins and appears as a participant when it initiates the meeting and other participants join afterward. However, if participants are already present and the bot attempts to join later, the logs indicate successful entry, but the bot does not appear in the participant roster, nor does it begin recording. Interestingly, the bot becomes visible only after all other participants leave the meeting. The root cause of this behavior remains unclear. Issue #2: External User Access Constraints When the bot is active in a meeting and the lobby bypass setting is not configured to "Everyone," external users encounter difficulties joining. Although they receive meeting invitations and can initiate a join attempt, they are redirected to a new meeting instance instead of entering the ongoing session. This issue resolves once all participants leave the meeting, allowing external users to join successfully. Attempted Resolution: I explored creating a resource account and assigning the bot’s application ID to that account. However, I encountered authentication challenges when attempting to authorize the bot on behalf of the user account. Request for Guidance: I would appreciate any insights or recommendations to address these issues, particularly regarding the bot’s delayed visibility and the constraints affecting external user access.Teams Integrates Viva Engage Communities
A new integration with Viva Engage is available for Teams. The integration adds communities to the Teams navigation bar. It’s kind of odd when a separate highly functional Communities app exists. It’s unclear who is demanding another point of integration between Viva Engage and Teams. The suspicion is that this work is due to internal politics rather than to facilitate better collaboration. https://office365itpros.com/2026/01/23/viva-engage-teams-integration/
Teams Meeting Share Button
I can't say how many times users that are on a Teams meeting have accidentally clicked on the "Leave" button when they meant to click the "Share" button simply because of the close proximity to each other. Can anything be done to put some space between the two buttons to help prevent this from happening?Randomly getting opt-out / opt-in in a CallQueue
Dear All, Once again one of my customers is experiencing something no other words can describe but: magical. Set-up: CallQueue "CQ1" Call answering: "Team1" (with 8 people in it) Conference mode: on Routing: attendant and not precence-based Users can opt out of taking calls 2 out of the 8 persons in Team1 is experiencing that they are randomly getting opt-out or opt-in during the day. Already deleted the cache, re-installed teams (newest versions) but this unwanted magical thingy is still occurring multiple times a day. Anyone else having or had this symptoms? Can't figure out what to do next. Thanks for you thoughts and time! BenjaminCreating channel meetings triggers emails to all Teams members
I'm struggling with a delicate and strange problem. We mainly use Channel Meetings in Microsoft Teams. The problem is that absolutely all team members receive an email about the meeting, regardless of whether they are invited to the meeting or not. As I understand it, only those who are invited to the Channel Meeting should receive an invitation. However, I should be able to choose to notify all Team members if I wish, but that is not the case. When I check the M365 groups, the setting "Send copies of team emails and events to team members inboxes" is disabled and I think this should be enough, but it clearly is not. Does anyone here have a solution to this?Approval card not working when posted in a Power Virtual Agent Bot
In My flow I am posting the approval card to a Power Virtual agent Bot, I see the approval being posted properly but, response (Approve/reject) button click is not reaching 'Waiting for an approval'. Please suggest. Same works fine when approval is posted to 'Flow bot'.Channel Meeting Chat can only be viewed from the channel
Why can't chats from a meeting channel appear in the chat section of Teams? Our project team have decided against holding meetings in channels due to this reason because it's a hassle to navigate back to the Team. I have the view set up correctly an you cannot see the chat where we would do all other regular meeting chats. Apparently this is by design? Why...?
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