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Mark Smith
Copper Contributor
Jul 30, 2020

Reporting

What is the difference between post and channel messages? Post I am guessing is when you use the Post tab to start a new conversation.    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/admin/activi...
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adam deltinger's avatar
adam deltinger
MVP
Jul 30, 2020
They are the same! Just different names for it!

Adam
Mark Smith's avatar
Mark Smith
Copper Contributor
Jul 30, 2020

adam deltinger When I run the Teams report they are different numbers for each person.

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    Mark Smith
    Copper Contributor
    Jul 30, 2020

    What I mean is both Post and channel messages are showing different numbers from each other. So I don't understand how they could be the same. This info is coming from the Analytics & reports/Usage reports/Teams user activity.

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      ThereseSolimeno
      Former Employee
      Jul 30, 2020

      HiMark Smith  I think the number of messages are the unique number of original messages and the number of posts reflect the original message plus subsequent replies.  I've not done the analytics in Teams but I do with other programs and that's how it's set up there.  Would that make sense based on the numbers you're seeing?