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Sep 21, 2022

Microsoft Brings Scheduled Send to Teams Chat

The Teams scheduled send feature allows users to set a time when Teams will deliver chat messages. The feature works for Teams enterprise and consumer users. It isn’t available for channel conversations. If you’re used to the delayed send feature in OWA and Outlook, you’ll know the value of being able to schedule a message to arrive at the most appropriate time!

https://office365itpros.com/2022/09/21/teams-scheduled-send/

  • TonyRedmond If you want to drink beer with your technical peers whilst debating a controversial topic, this is up there on the candidates list.

      • JamesM's avatar
        JamesM
        Brass Contributor

        It's sneaky because you can message bomb people at 730AM as if you were up that early. LuiIacobellis 

  • ArthurWW's avatar
    ArthurWW
    Brass Contributor
    Hi Tony, seems a fun idea, but ... it doesn't work. Even 1 to 1 scheduled chats are not sent at all. Neither in the web nor the client version of Teams.
  • Andrew_Rees's avatar
    Andrew_Rees
    Copper Contributor

    TonyRedmond thanks for this and the link to your how to guide, do you have to be logged into Teams at the scheduled time for your chat message to be sent? 

  • TonyRedmond This seems to be a great feature. Is there a way to schedule on bulk, lets say I want to initiate the chats at different times for 15 different people with different messages. Can I use a different input method instead of scheduling them one by one? 

     

     

    • TonyRedmond's avatar
      TonyRedmond
      MVP
      If you want to initiate chats like that, you can either schedule them manually or write a program to schedule the chats using Graph API calls.

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