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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?
Issue 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?
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.Teams video quality around 1 Mbps in the EMEA region
Since Corona we have noticed very poor video quality (1Mbps). We understand you had a capacity issue and had to set this limit. The limit has been lifted in other regions but not in EMEA. We are paying for this service and use it a lot. We have large meeting rooms based on this and we are getting a lot of negative feedback from our users because if the low video quality. People are now pushing us towards Cisco Webex and we will be installing the first couple of Webex meeting rooms next month. You owe your customers a deadline and some more details about this. And no this is not an issue in our end, we have had support cases with Microsoft and have had this verified.
Pin to top in Posts tab of a Channel is not sticking
I love that MS Teams now has the functionality to pin posts. This is especially helpful as we are looking to put a "virtual bulletin board" in place at my company. I would like to "pin" the bulletin board rules and how-to posts so they don't get buried in other posts when we launch. However, when I do pin the message, it does not pin it to the top (or bottom since new posts are listed at the bottom) of the feed. All it does is add a green bar to the left of the message window and a small green thumbtack icon on the top right. How do we actually pin this message to the top (or bottom) of a feed to ensure everyone sees it? I have pinned these, but they are not pinned to the top or the bottom of the feed. I have tested this in other Teams channels as well and the pin functionality just seems to add a green bar and pushpin - but doesn't actually pin it. I have also found out that other members can pin/unpin my posts. If there's not a solution here, that's okay. I will just have to put together a small Wiki tab with the rules and how-to. It would just be nice that it worked as I think users want it to work...Teams Outlook Addin Missing
Hello Please i need your help on this issue. Teams Outlook Addin Missing. The diagnostics confirmed that the Teams add-in and Classic Teams are missing: I followed the troubleshooting instructions, and the add-in is still not enabled. Whilst the checkbox can be ticked, it cannot be enabled. I have also tried to add the add-in .dll file from the below window (following the filepath), but receive an error. This is the Teams version:Please tell me how to disable the Pin Copilot message
Morning! I wrote a message yesterday but nobody replied, so here's another one so it doesn't get lost Can somebody tell me how to disable the annoying "Pin Copilot Chat" popup? every morning I have to say "Maybe Later" when I really mean to say NEVER IN A THOUSAND YEARS
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