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Teams chat history in shared meeting rooms
We have a resource (room) account for our meeting room which works great for booking the room. That account is logged into from a Windows PC in the room (attached to a touchscreen) so that users can ...
We had same concern with one of our customers and we used the below solution.
Create a new Messaging policy, with CHAT feature turned off. Assign this policy to all resource accounts used to login to the meeting room PC's which will disable the chat completely in Teams.
Suggest users to chat 1:1 in case if they need to during the meeting or can use their own accounts to chat.
Create a new Messaging policy, with CHAT feature turned off. Assign this policy to all resource accounts used to login to the meeting room PC's which will disable the chat completely in Teams.
Suggest users to chat 1:1 in case if they need to during the meeting or can use their own accounts to chat.
after applying the policy like you suggested chat is disabled for the resource account however the chat history persists in the resource account for chat between other participants.
Patrick Reid Correct, the policy is better called "Contribute to chat" as it doesn't hide or remove the chat feature. There is no way currently to remove chat entirely from the regular Teams client.
