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Thomas_Steibl
Feb 18, 2020Copper Contributor
Send a message to all users (like a broadcast)
I would like to inform our users about very urgent things (ie please disconnect from the system), and the best way to do that would be to send a chat message to all of them maybe via powershell or gr...
- Feb 18, 2020You could do it with this given all users install the app
https://github.com/OfficeDev/microsoft-teams-company-communicator-app
Hope that answers your question!
Best, Chris
Feb 18, 2020
Hi Thomas_Steibl
There are multiple uservoices here
https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/37556605-org-wide-broadcast-messages
No native functionality, however as said you can create an org wide team and then tag the team which would notify everyone. An alternative would be an org wide group chat however you would have issues moderating this
Hope that answers your question
Best, Chris
There are multiple uservoices here
https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/37556605-org-wide-broadcast-messages
No native functionality, however as said you can create an org wide team and then tag the team which would notify everyone. An alternative would be an org wide group chat however you would have issues moderating this
Hope that answers your question
Best, Chris
Yoav Crombie
Apr 30, 2020Iron Contributor
I wanted to take advantage of the urgent message option
support.microsoft.com/en-gb/office/mark-a-message-as-important-or-urgent-in-teams-ea99d5b6-1317-4550-8d75-86ff14cd4462?ui=en-us&rs=en-gb&ad=gb
To make sure my message is read, but could not see this option in a channel - only in group chat.
Is this by design or some configuration?
- Apr 30, 2020Urgent messages are only available in chat by design.