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Can no longer add People to a chat and include chat history in Microsoft Teams?
This is intermittent and mainly for chats with one person. In group chats I am able to add with history still.
I'm not sure if this is expected functionality, but it makes sense. Otherwise your entire 1:1 chat history could be mistakenly shared when you are working on your current project. One mistake and you could be talking about someone's odd Uncle... if you know what I mean... instead of talking about the project you are trying to share.
I am making this up as a MS User, but decisions like this are made at some level in MS (good ethical decisions) and not communicated well. It's a pretty daunting task.
So, is there any fix available now?
Parth1010 I believe MS intentionally blocks the odd uncle issue with 1:1 chats due to ethical concerns. I would defer to a MS Champion to confirm.
Adding users to group chats is not a problem on our current update, but your mileage may vary.
Personally I am happy not being able to add people with chat history to a 1:1 chat, and having a group chat start with no history when the first user is added. That is the behavior now and not a problem.
Others may disagree and escalate. Please respond if anyone knows better.
Tim_Smith In my opinion, this functionality should not be removed. Instead, it should set the "don't share history" as the default option.
- I agree with JimmyYang on this one. I use Teams Chat heavily to collaborate with co-workers. I appreciate being asked if I want to share Chat history - that's an important check - but I _do_ need to be able to share history to bring new people into a conversation without copying or re-hashing everything that went before. Seems very strange to me that they would remove this capability from a tool that's supposed to be promoting collaboration.
