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Adding External but Federated users in a group chat
I would like to know how to Add external teams users (NOTE: not guests, and users i.e. more than one) to group chats Context We currently have a multi domain setup - domain A, domain B, etc. ...
Nope, not missing anything, you cannot do group chats via federation(external) chat yet.
However, a work around is to create a meeting with everyone, may have to have them join the meeting then click chat, but then you can have an external chat that will be available across everyone's clients. Not ideal, but it works for now until we can get External group chats in. Once you chat, you also don't have to stay connected to the A/V of the meeting and still use the chat going forward.
No word on ETA etc. that I can share unfortunately.
I'd also like to chime here and vent. We starting our SfB-OnPrem journey to Teams Only and this has come up a few times. Why can't a group chat be spun up dynamically vs creating an ad-hoc meet-now. MSFT, in the great words of Mike Dikta, "C'MON MAN!"
This is a feature that pretty much everyone wants but it's still not there and I really don't understand why M$ is not addressing the issue. The problem has been around for quite some time (I had to use Slack for cross-company chats) and it's just very disappointing...
C'mon Microsoft, you have plenty of developers, you can do it...
C'mon Microsoft, you have plenty of developers, you can do it...
