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Disable Chat Messaging in Teams Meeting
You can disable chat for users in a Meeting policy, this will stop them from chatting in all meetings. Set MeetingChatEnabledType to Disabled using powershell.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/skype/set-csteamsmeetingpolicy?view=skype-psYou can't disable meeting chats per meeting, but there is an uservoice requesting this. You can vote for it here:
I have policy set where 'Allow chat in meetings' is set to disabled in meetings policies. I have tried changing the policy settings both through the Teams Admin Center and powershell. Students are still able to chat during meetings and also reply to the meeting chat after meetings have ended. I have found that the 'mute' option in the manage team setting prevents students from being able to do those, but it also leaves an option to attempt to resend/retry when the 'mute' option is disabled.
Are there any thoughts on why the centralised meetings policy in the Teams Admin Center isn't working for this particular setting? Is the setting bugged? Will there be a fix? I'm just trying every avenue I can.
alice1832 I might be a bit late on this for you. I tested raising hands with a muted student and they were still able to raise their hand during meetings. I hope that is helpful.
I would also like to confirm that we are seeing the same experience as LPackham. The Allow chat in meetings option in the Teams admin centre is still allowing students to chat in meetings. Please could you let us know if this gets addressed.
lat-lukepollard Hi, you can prevent meeting chat by using Teams meeting policy. And you can prevent all other chat by using a Teams messaging policy.
If you have verified that the setting is correct applied to the Meeting policy (for ex.) you also need to verify that this policy is also assigned to the individuals, as it's a per-participant policy.
It's very common that the different policies in Teams are not assigned to users, meaning they are not taking effect as it's only the policy that has the correct value, not the user.
Hi,
As far as I can see the Teams Meeting policy where the 'Allow chat in meetings' option is disabled is being applied to the student users via Group Policy Assignment. Further, I can see that the correct meeting policy is assigned by checking the user accounts in Teams and selecting 'View Policies'. Even with these settings selected and applied, students can still chat during meetings, no matter how the meeting is scheduled, i.e. students are invited either through a Teams channel or required attendees, they are forced to wait in the lobby and are made to join as attendees rather than presenters.
I've had a support ticket with Microsoft, but a fix hasn't yet been reached. This is a great, strong community so thought it was also worth sharing here!
LPackham Hi, sounds like it could be a "ranking" issue, or perhaps a delay if this was recently configured? I've experienced delays up to 48 hours when working with Teams policies.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/assign-policies#group-assignment-ranking
