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Why someone cannot see/chat after leaving the meeting?
Credmontgo Hello again, finally I have access to all work related stuff and here's the official info about the roadmap id Microsoft 365 Roadmap | Microsoft 365
A participants access to meeting chat will be dependent on how they were invited to the meeting:
- Who can see the chat for a single meeting?
- People who are invited to the meeting or forwarded the meeting invitation after it is scheduled have access to the chat before, during, and after the meeting (up to the 1000-person limit).
- People who are added to a meeting after it starts using the Invite someone field on the Participants pane (or are provided the meeting join coordinates in another way) will have access to the chat from the time they join to the time the meeting ends. They will not be able to see chat that takes place after the meeting ends.
- Who can see the meeting chat for a recurring meeting series?
- People who are invited to the full series have access to the chat before, during, and after the meeting (up to the 1000-person limit).
- People who are forwarded the invite of a single occurrence of the series or added to a meeting after it starts using the Invite someone field on the Participants pane (or are provided the meeting coordinates in another way) have access to the chat from the time they join to the time that meeting instance ends. They will not be able to see chat that takes place after the meeting ends.
Note: These changes do not impact channel meetings.
- Who can see the chat for a single meeting?
I posted here because I've been experiencing symptoms very similar to those of the original poster. I just know this hasn't always been a problem and now it is. I checked the meeting chat history for one of my recurring meetings, and it appears the problem began on 3/30/21. Does that coincide with an early deployment of 68853? I don't know.
I would like to see more information about this new functionality than what Microsoft posted in the link you shared, including how to disable this "feature".
- As an educator I rely on publishing the link for my classes, rather than manually adding over a hundred students, multiple times. Wasn't the "In meeting only" for chat added for exactly this reason, why disable access for all link access participants by default? Is there a way for our school's sys admins to over-ride this "feature"?
credmontgo390 Hello, sorry I have totally missed your reply due to new account. Sometimes the information in the roadmap id's aren't sufficient so one needs to try out the behavior described. You should be able to share a link anyway. It might only be this change when adding additional participants via link after the meeting has started. I haven't been able to try this out being on parental leave. But the feature is rolling out right now so give it a try when the roll-out is completed!
- Yeah, “feature” is rolled out and is a major problem for for teachers’ workflow. I see that even Canvas has taken note. They have an integration to the Canvas Learning Management System that allows teachers to create a Teams meeting from within Canvas. However this new “feature” means that students will loose access to classroom chat and recordings after the class ends. Our temporary work around is to create meetings in outlook and invite every (100+) student in the class. Hopefully this is reverted, or Canvas develops a way to circumvent it.
- I'm with you on this. It's a badly designed "feature" that has no off switch.
- I think it’s a feature request from “zoomers” that want Teams to be for meetings, and not collaboration. I think Microsoft just forgot about their education market a little, and listened to a loud complaint without checking with all the people that liked it the way it was.
