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bug: no tray icon notification badge for new messages in the account not currently active.
The teams windows tray icon is supposed to show a new messages/activity badge. If you have multiple M365 accounts in Teams and there's a new message in the account that's not currently active, it does show the transient notification popup but the tray icon does not change. win11 24h2, Teams version 25094.310.3616.953Issue with Teams RSC Permission TeamMember.Read.Group
I want to use Teams RSC to allow a bot to add and remove members of (private) teams channels. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/platform/graph-api/rsc/resource-specific-consent#supported-rsc-permissions the API scope ChannelMember.ReadWrite.Group is appropriate for that. -> "Read and write the members of this team's channels." I have created a teams app and added the RSC API application scope (ChannelMember.ReadWrite.Group) to the App manifest and published the app to my org. The app has the "team" scope. Then I installed the app in a team and tested the API access. I sign-in with the Application SP using app-only auth. What is working: I can read the members of a public channel in the team using: invoke-mggraphRequest -Uri https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/teams/[team id]/channels/[channel id]/members -Method Get I can also read the members of a shared channel in the team using the same request. What is not working: I cannot access a private channel in the team: The above request yields the response: "code":"Forbidden","message":"Caller does not have the required roles for accessing 'Private' channel data. To access 'Private' data, API requires one of 'ChannelMember.Read.All, ChannelMember.ReadWrite.All, Group.Read.All, Directory.Read.All, Group.ReadWrite.All, Directory.ReadWrite.All'. Roles on the request 'Group.Selected'." I cannot remove a member from a shared channel. The request: invoke-mggraphRequest -Uri https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/teams/[team id]/channels/[channel id]/members/[member id] -Method Delete yields the error: "code":"Forbidden","message":"Caller app is not enabled for requesting the channel of 'Shared' channel type. To access channel data app has to be enabled in the requesting channel." Has someone successfully used the RSC TeamMember.Read.Group in a shared or private channel? Why does the API not work in private channels and only for read in shared channel? The documentation says "of this team's channels", it does not mention any restriction to public channels. Also a write scope only to public channels does not make sense, as members of a public channel are inherited from the team and cannot be managed seperately. What do I need to do differently to be able to read and modify members of private and shared channels in a team using RSC permissions?
Microsoft Teams – “You need a paid subscription to use Microsoft Teams”
Hi everyone, I’m currently unable to sign in to Microsoft Teams using my work account. When I launch the Teams desktop app, I receive the following message: "You need a paid subscription to use Microsoft Teams. To continue using Teams, you’ll need a license. You’re currently signed in as [my account]. Please click Request License to ask your admin for access or sign in with a different account." However, according to our admin, a Microsoft Teams Premium license (or equivalent Microsoft 365 license) has already been assigned to my account. I can also see Teams listed under My Apps in the Microsoft 365 portal. I have tried the following steps: Signed out and signed back in Tried Teams web app (teams.microsoft.com) in an InPrivate or Incognito browser Cleared Teams cache from %appdata%\Microsoft\Teams Reinstalled the Teams desktop client Unfortunately, the same message still appears. Could someone please advise: Is this a known sync or license propagation issue? Should the admin reassign the license or refresh it from the Microsoft 365 Admin Center? Are there any other steps to force Teams license validation? Any guidance would be greatly appreciated. Thank you, SavinduReporting the Use of Emojis in Teams Reactions
Reporting the Use of Emojis in Teams ReactionsThis article explains how to use PowerShell to extract audit data to analyze the use of emojis as Teams reactions to chat and channel messages. This is not an exercise that leads to any great business value, but it’s a good way to show the sometimes surprising data that can be extracted from audit records. https://office365itpros.com/2025/11/07/teams-reactions-emojis/In/Out Board on Teams
We have been requested to create a departmental automated In/Out Board listing all staff, capturing their presence from Outlook/Teams and displaying onto a SharePoint 2013 (on premise versus O365) page. To keep it simple we would like to display name and status (based upon presence). If we could capture information like "in a meeting" or "Busy" or "Away" or "On a call" that would be even better. I have already posted on the MS Tech Community and Earlier on Teams and was advised to check in here. Any advice or guidance would be most helpful...
Hide Team options missing
Just tested the preview version of Teams since a lot of key users are struggling with the new interface. I noticed for myself that the "Hide Team" option is missing and that my Teams that were hidden are not hidden anymore. We are an organisation where users are a member of a lot of Teams and a key option for our organisation is to hide Teams that are less important so that your Teams where you are working in on a daily basis are always visible. Is this coming back or do you do this differently now?
Mouse button 'Back/Forward' not working in 'New Teams'
Though there are options to 'pop out' windows from Teams, Teams is a generally a single page app. As such, one of my most used features in 'Classic Teams' is switching back 'n forth between several 'tabs' I'm currently working with. Say I've got somebody on chat, but then have to quickly check something in Teams, then go back to chat. In Classic Teams this works just fine using the mouse's back & forward buttons. In 'New' Teams, this no longer registers any action at all. I assume the feature still exists, since left of the search bar there are still the back/forward UI buttons. But moving the mouse over for every time you need to switch back and forth is a lot slower and less intuitive than just using the mouse buttons. Current behavior: Mouse 'back'/'forward' buttons do not work in 'New Teams' Expected behavior: Mouse 'back/forward' buttons register the 'back' and 'forward' navigation commands as they did in 'Classic' Teams
Display Teams chat message with date stamp rather than relative day
Is there a way to force Teams Chat messages to display the date of a message rather than "yesterday" or "today"? e.g. display "27/08/2024" instead of displaying "yesterday 2:12 pm". (I'm creating this post on 28/08.) We use screenshots of Teams messages in our processes, and having to wait for the actual date to displayed invariably means taking the screenshot is forgotten. Immersive reader always shows the actual date, but not the recipient of the message. No help there.The Files tab in channels is now "Shared"
I've found this Roadmap article about this feature: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?id=470597 The Microsoft 365 Admin Message Center Message ID MC1025217 says "Before rollout, we will update this post with new documentation." But I can't find any documentation and users in my organisation have this new feature. It's not in any of the blog posts here. Any thoughts on where to find useful end user materials?
Two different Delete-Only Retention Policies for Microsoft Teams chat
I have created two different delete-only retention policies for Microsoft Teams chat. Four of us use a 90-day deletion policy and the rest of our staff use a 30-day deletion policy. My question is: If I am using the 90-day policy and I chat with someone who uses the 30-day policy, will my chats remain visible for 90 days and theirs for 30? Or will the most restrictive policy take over and delete the chats from both sides after 30 days?
How to turn off pop up chat notifications in teams? We've tried everything
We've tried every setting we can find in teams, but we cannot get the pop up windows that cover the chat box during teams meetings. It's very annoying, and apparently impossible to shut off? please help. Silly thing, but so frustrating. There are options that seem like they should turn these off, but they do not work!!!Teams stuck in a launch+crash loop
For about a week now, my desktop Teams client is stuck in a loop where it will follow these steps: Teams will start Within ten seconds, it will render the message "There was a glitch and we're recovering" It will restart (repeat ~3x) It will finally show a window that says "There is a glitch. Sorry for the inconvenience. Please sign in again" Since this bug has occurred, I have been completely unable to use the desktop client. I have attempted to uninstall and reinstall Teams twice at this point.
Teams ports
Hi! We are using Checkpoint firewall. UDP ports 3478-3481 are open and using updateable objects to allow STUN traffic. The question is about UDP ports like 10400, 10500, 10600, 10700 etc. We can't open these ports and still there is traffic from Microsoft that go through these and being dropped because this traffic is trying to talk directly with the firewall, i mean it is the Stealth rule . Check https://www.pearsonitcertification.com/articles/article.aspx?p=387728&seqNum=3#:~:text=A%20Skeleton%20Rule%20Base&text=The%20purpose%20of%20the%20stealth,require%20access%20to%20the%20firewall. This traffic source is from IP addresses ranges like 52.114. or 52.112 and being droped. Can this traffic affect the quality of Teams video or audio meetings because we had some people that had problems with that? I can't find any documentation from Microsoft that talk about these UDP ports!Getting a 401 when trying to create a conversation
Hello ! Using the node botbuilder SDK, I am trying to setup my bot to proactively create a conversation in a public channel on Teams. However, I keep getting 401 responses from the API, with no further details. You can find my code attached bellow: const adapter = new CloudAdapter( new ConfigurationBotFrameworkAuthentication( { MicrosoftAppId: process.env.MS_BOT_APP_ID, MicrosoftAppTenantId: process.env.MS_CLIENT_ID, }, new ConfigurationServiceClientCredentialFactory({ MicrosoftAppId: process.env.MS_BOT_APP_ID, MicrosoftAppPassword: process.env.MS_BOT_CLIENT_SECRET, MicrosoftAppTenantId: process.env.MS_CLIENT_ID, }), ), ); await adapter.createConversationAsync( process.env.MS_BOT_APP_ID!, Channels.Msteams, "https://smba.trafficmanager.net/teams/", null, { activity: { type: "message", text: "This is a test message", textFormat: "markdown", }, bot: { id: `28:${process.env.MS_BOT_APP_ID}`, name: "Zygon" }, isGroup: true, tenantId: process.env.MS_TENANT_ID, channelData: { channel: { id: channelId } }, }, console.log, );Show Meeting Attendees in Order They Joined the Meeting
Bottom line up front: Is there a way to show meeting attendees on the "People" tab in the order they joined the meeting vs alphabetically? Facilitating Teams meetings is a big part of my job and it's important to know when certain, usually high level, people join the call. Usually the call can't start until a key person joins. Let's say the important person's last name is "Wright"; currently, I have to continuously scroll down to the bottom of the list of People to see if Ms. Wright has joined the call, since her name will be at or near the bottom of the list. To add to the complications, many times the call is large, so I have to hit "See More" to be able to see the bottom of the list (and in the process not be able to allow any external attendees in the meeting). Is there a way to sort the People list in the order they arrive to the meeting? E.g., most recent attendees get added to the top of the list vs slotted in alphabetically.
Teams recordings and transcript
Hey everyone, I’m trying to set up Teams recordings and transcripts for certain Client Advisor meetings so that -Only advisors can access them -Deleted automatically after 24 hours -Other meetings by the same advisors remain unaffected Teams meeting policies aren’t ideal because they apply to all meetings for a user. Retention labels in Purview are tricky to apply per meeting. Has anyone: -Done per-meeting 24h retention for Teams recordings? -Found ways to automatically detect specific meetings? -Automated retention + access restriction using Power Automate or other tools? Looking for practical advice or examples ideally something fully automated, without relying on manual deletion.
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