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Why someone cannot see/chat after leaving the meeting?
Hi folks, My company has some vendors. I setup the Teams meetings with all of them. They all called in using their company domain emails. After the call ends, one of the vendor always got kicked ...
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?
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.
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.
- The behavior described by NBS42 is what I'm seeing as well. People included in the original/initial meeting invitation (Done through Outlook as well), can not see or add to the chat for a meeting unless the meeting is in progress.
- There is nothing worse than finding out a new bug you’ve found in the software is being referred to as a new “feature” by the company that intentionally added it. All that I think we need/want is a toggle somewhere, even at the admin level, that can disable this new behaviour.
- We have the same frustrating experience, and it seems that there is no workaround other than the crazy manual waste which wasn't necessary before this feature was introduced. Does anybody know how to report this as a new bug?
- And how was the meeting chat setting being configured for this meeting?
- Hello Therese - can you share the link to the discussion on that site please? Tried searching and can't locate it. This is a huge issue - the comments here a just a tiny tip of a large iceberg. We have spent quite a lot of time trying to work out what the heck is going on with this issue.
- People that are in an exchange group, where the group as a whole is invited to the meeting also cannot access chat messages posted after they have left, while they actually were invited. That seems like an unforeseen side effect (or bug) of the change. Like for forwarded invites (non recurring), they should have full access.
- Sorry to hear that. Is this happening for all users scheduling in your org? What meeting option setting for chat is set when scheduling? (enabled, in-meeting only).
If you're an admin you should open up a support ticket with the official support. Please update the conversation when they reply.
Do note that it's still rolling out. Could be related to that. - That's not the way the "feature" is working. I have created a recurring Teams meeting (from Outlook) and added external users to it. During the call, they have access to the chat. After the call ends, they loose access. Naturally, they don't have access to the chat before the next call in the series, until the call begins. This is very disruptive. Now, I am having to send separate communications to the external users, where I previously could post meeting minutes, agendas, and other materials in the chat and have confidence everyone on the meeting invitation was able to receive the messages. Now, that's all broken.
Hello Credmontgo ChristianJBergstrom I'm going to move this conversation to the Microsoft Teams for Education discussion site for further comment or input from the EDU team.
- I will try to explain. The way I, and I think many educators were running their classes in Teams was by creating a link to a recurring Teams meeting either through the Outlook app (many education institutes still use Exchange and therefore don’t have access to the Teams calendar), or more likely through their Learning Management system integration, such as Canvas. They would then share this link on their internal course website and students would join. Since the link can be restricted to organizational participants, this effectively eliminates zoom bombing too. At least in my experience few professors are going through and adding every student to the original invite (not possible through an integration like Canvas), and students are constantly added to courses through the first few weeks as well. So this new policy presents some serious challenges.
Now of course, professors that are using the full Teams platform and creating an actual Team for their class would not have these problems, since the students would need to be either added, or join the Team directly. This would only be for instructors using the Teams meeting platform only. - I have no idea what you're talking about to be honest (no edu experience) but you should take note about the wording here, such "after it's scheduled" and "after it starts" as that is the big difference on how access will be decided.
- So this does mean that link sharing for educators through Canvas and other methods won’t work for creating classes anymore. Hopefully Canvas can find a way to add students to the participants list when creating Teams meetings inside of Canvas, and/or Microsoft allows a toggle to change this behaviour.
