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SeanS
Brass Contributor
Feb 22, 2022

Mark All Messages As Read

I noticed that some members of my teams have a lot of bold text on their screen indicating unread messages. We are all busy and sometimes we lose track of things and unread messages build up. Users t...
Mark as Read
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m_g_danish
Copper Contributor
Jan 03, 2023
I agree, this is annoying. It's not an ideal solution, but the best workaround I've found so far is to use the down arrow key to scroll down through each item in my Activity Feed and mark them as read by pressing Enter. That at least cuts down the time spent to several seconds, and the key presses can be automated via a macro or Power Automate Desktop flow. It doesn't seem to matter how long you spend on each unread item, so long as the sequence of key presses is some multiple of down+Enter.
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    RickKastenLM
    Copper Contributor
    Mar 08, 2023

    SanthoshB1 This script requires an admin account to Teams

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      SanthoshB1
      Bronze Contributor
      Mar 13, 2023

      RickKastenLM This script uses Connect-MgGraph -Scopes "Chat.ReadWrite" ,"User.Read". These scopes does not require admin consent (see screenshots below). Please check with your admin in case it is blocked in your tenant.

       

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        GunjanTyagi
        Copper Contributor
        Mar 29, 2023

        SanthoshB1 

        can you please help with the error, I am providing the actual user UPN in the userUPN parameter as instructed in the script, while executing the script given in the link you shared it says:

        Invoke-MgMarkChatReadForUser : Id of the user must be specified
        At line:33 char:13
        + Invoke-MgMarkChatReadForUser -ChatId $chat.Id -BodyParame ...
        + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
        + CategoryInfo : InvalidOperation: ({ ChatId = 19:a...onJsonSchema1 }:<>f__AnonymousType0`2) [Invoke-MgMarkChatReadForUser_Mark], RestException`1
        + FullyQualifiedErrorId : BadRequest,Microsoft.Graph.PowerShell.Cmdlets.InvokeMgMarkChatReadForUser_Mark
        Invoke-MgMarkChatReadForUser : Id of the user must be specified
        At line:33 char:13
        + Invoke-MgMarkChatReadForUser -ChatId $chat.Id -BodyParame ...
        + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
        + CategoryInfo : InvalidOperation: ({ ChatId = 19:7...onJsonSchema1 }:<>f__AnonymousType0`2) [Invoke-MgMarkChatReadForUser_Mark], RestException`1
        + FullyQualifiedErrorId : BadRequest,Microsoft.Graph.PowerShell.Cmdlets.InvokeMgMarkChatReadForUser_Mark

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    gbritton
    Copper Contributor
    Feb 24, 2023

    SanthoshB1 where did you get Microsoft.Graph.Teams?

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