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Using IM option to reply to email - no Subject line passed to Teams conversation
ChrisWebbTech "Do what we all do"?? Seriously? You need to get out more is you think ordinary users are going to bother cut and pasting an email thread into a chat. Or are you just having a joke with me as you seem to have mis-understood my post?
I did not request passing through the entire email thread content, just the Subject line will do nicely because it is easy to do a search in Outlook to find all 'related messages'. Not sure what "going all out with the subject field" is referring to as a Subject line is available in Teams chat.
The real issue is the change from SfB 'ordinary' chat to Teams 'persistent' chat. I doubt if any Millennial programmers have any idea what the difference is, may I suggest reading this article on why https://www.serverwatch.com/news/article.php/3697516/Microsoft-Gets-More-Than-Chatty-With-Parlano.htm, I guess I am one of the few who actually did live implementations of this product as an add-on to an OCS install!
To summarise: Teams is not and never will have feature parity with SfB, my advice to Microsoft Marketing is to drop that tag line to stop people who have implemented both environments over the last 10 years wasting time with posts like this ;-)
And no I wasn’t joking that’s what those of us that actually have used Teams do. You know we adapt, we find ways of doing things until they do release the features we need.
They still haven’t forced Skype on those that use it yet. Until then. I don’t see the problem.
ChrisWebbTech we, as an organisation, have had SfB disabled last month, compleling all to use Teams. Yes it's good, but the reply with IM was a useful feature. It now isn't, precisely as Nigel Horncastle described. Maybe I too have reached that stage in life. Reply with the subject line would work well to digitally de-clutter and give a quick reply when you can see the other person is active (green tick). Cut / paste.. not going to happen.
