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longnx
Brass Contributor
Sep 06, 2019
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Microsoft Teams - search my own chat history

How could I search my own team's chat history in almost 10,000 line of chat log in these 3 months?  Thanks!  
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  • Simen Ødegård's avatar
    Simen Ødegård
    Sep 06, 2019

    longnxUse the search feature and filter appropriately?

    https://www.marksgroup.net/blog/microsoft-teams-global-search-filtering/

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jwilly
Copper Contributor
Apr 07, 2022

Stefan Hanrath Searching UI is very broken.  Took me a while to figure out a solution that would scroll the chat window up to get the context.  Figured I'd post my workaround for 1.5.00.8070 (64-bit), as I do remember being able to do this directly.

Type in top bar or ctrl-F, get a list of results. 

Click on Go to Message (which very unhelpfully gives you no context).  

Hover over message to get reaction popup, and dots menu -> choose Pin.

Click on Conversation with <person/group> at the top, which brings you to present day chats (again, not helpful).

Now you have a top banner with your pinned message, and clicking that scrolls you up.

Yay, context.

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sbaitz100
Copper Contributor
Jun 09, 2022
It is a little maddening how painful search is in Teams and that we have to go through such insane hoops to find the context of a message. Or in my case (that lead me to this thread), I asked a user a question which they answered. I knew the question, didn't know the answer. So I searched my question, pinned that message and did the scroll up to find their answer.

Remember when S4B saved convo history in Outlook and you could search both chat and email? Although search wasn't great, it gave a one-stop search spot for all comms... kind of missing that these days.
  • ChrisWebbTech's avatar
    ChrisWebbTech
    MVP
    Jun 09, 2022

    sbaitz100 MS has finally been improving in this area thou. The search bar works fairly well, and if not or single search, you can hit office.com and search there for everything in one search, it's fairly slick. Not sure if you are still on old search UI/UX or not in Teams, should be the new one at this point, but it was pretty quick in Outlook, not a bunch of back and forth. The office.com search is next closest thing IMO since it stays up etc. while you nav teams via the links.