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You can't send messages because you are not a member of the chat. - How do I rejoin?
Howdy,
I was in a recurring meeting a couple weeks ago and afterward people were chatting so I guess I clicked to leave the chat in order to not keep getting notified. This week I rejoined the meeting and can see the screenshare but I can't chat.
The chat window shows what people were saying in the meeting from a couple weeks ago and the last like says <me> has left the meeting.
Below that where I would normally type it says You can't send messages because you are not a member of the chat.
So since I'm in the meeting, how the heck do I rejoin the chat? I checked all the buttons and don't see anything to Join Chat since I already have the chat window open, I just can't use it.
Thanks.
Hey Kelemvor333,
I have this same message and found it related to the Teams preview feature allowing separate windows for chat and meetings.
I was able to solve this issue by double clicking on the calendar icon in the meeting header which opens a new window and allows for chat.A non-intuitive experience for sure.
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There is a User Voice issue for this problem here.
https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/908686-bug-reports/suggestions/38262412-unable-to-rejoin-meeting-chat
Kelemvor333 - I have the exact same issue. Left a monthly meeting last month due to the chat continuing after the meeting and distracting me. This month I cannot do anything with the chat because of this issue.
There needs to be a way to rejoin the meeting chat after leaving. If I had know this was going to happen, I wouldn't have left the meeting chat last month.
- Does going to the invite in the calendar and clicking the Join link not let you rejoin?
ChrisWebbTech I can rejoin the MEETING just fine. It's the chat that no longer accepts input nor does it update. The last post is from the month prior and in the field where I would type my message is, "You can't send messages because you are not a member of the chat."
Yeah, I've had the same experience, and couldn't find any way to solve it (chat button doesn't help). Open a support case and report this, seems like a bug to me. I can report it directly, but since I'll be off for 10 days or so, I probably wont be able to follow up on it. Or we can just volunteer Chris 🙂
Is there a way I can upvote this? I am currently experiencing it.
I joined a meeting on my phone, then as I was moving to my laptop, I closed my phone session.
There was an option to exit the chat but that didn't exit the meeting. I found a way to exit the meeting afterward.
When I joined on my laptop I can't send chats.
This happened to my colleague in a teams meeting yesterday. And they were "hosting" so even more disruptive, we tried:
- rejoining meeting, no effect
- quit teams and restart (not just close ...quit), no effect
- finally he had a second connection to the meeting via browser/web and was able to chat via the browser session. Not a fix, but a quick work-around.
- I'm not reporting something I can't reproduce, just sayin :).
- Only thing that might work is going into the chat icon on the meeting bar while joined to the call and trying to type a message there.
I get this problem but I'm a member of the same organization as everyone else in the meeting. It happens on my laptop but not my pc. It just seems like a bug to me because I'm not a guest or anything like that. We've also tried deleting and recreating the meeting but the situation is the same. I have accepted and sent the response in the calendar.
