Microsoft Teams new chat and channels AMA (Ask Microsoft Anything)
NOW ON DEMAND | Microsoft Teams product makers were on hand to answer your open questions during the live Ask Microsoft Anything (AMA), live, and hear your feedback – It was an opportunity to connect with Teams product experts behind the new chat and channels experience. New questions are now closed, and you can respond to existing chat threads. Helpful resources to review before attending this webinar: Review Jeff Teper's blog, "Streamline collaboration with the new chat and channels experience in Microsoft Teams" to learn more. Noga Ronen's tech blog: "Introducing the new Microsoft Teams chat and channels experience" New adoption microsite: "The new Microsoft Teams chat and channels experience" New eBook: "Microsoft Teams: The new chat and channels experience - A Public Preview guide" And hear from Teams product leads, Russell Dicker and Arpana Barve, as they chat with Karuana Gatimu about: "Designing the new Microsoft Teams chat and channels experience"
Read Recipt in Teams Channels
Hi All, I have recently created few channels for our team in my organization. But unlike the group chat, the channels doesn't have a read receipt feature for the post we share in the channel. So I have searched for same google & found the following link by Microsoft team to upvote to get this feature. https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/7412bc3f-272e-ec11-b6e6-00224827bbc2 So if you find this feature to be available, please comment & upvote the same. Regards, ArunTeams Supports 1,000 Channels
An update coming soon increases the channel limit for regular and shared channels to 1,000. That should be enough Teams channels for anyone. Then again, a case can be argued that 25 channels should be enough to organize discussions for any team. In any case, you’re going to have the opportunity soon to create channels to your heart’s content. That is, until you reach the 1000-channel; limit. https://office365itpros.com/2023/07/26/teams-channel-1000/
Not receiving notifications from channels (banner or feed) since following/favorites was removed
We aren't receiving any notifications (banner or feed) from our channel posts - even though in the channel notification settings, I've enabled Banner and Feed for new posts (including all replies) and channel mentions. It seems this functionality might have been lost after the move away from following/favourites, and I can't find any solution to it in the forums etc that is relevant to the new functionality. The only way I can trigger a notification is to @ the channel name itself in the post to the channel, which is not ideal. Am I missing a global setting that is suppressing these notifications (I've checked all admin centre settings and can't see anything), or is this a bug?
Groups and channels
I use Microsoft Teams for teaching and the groups that I use are inherited from there. I have created a channel full of videos and assigned them to a group. Now, with a new school year I want to be able to assign the same channel of videos to a new group. I can individually set the permissions on videos to allow access to the new group, but I wonder if there is an easier way to allow a whole new group access to a channel? If there is I can't find it! Any help would be much appreciated!Microsoft Makes Another Change to Teams Channel Email Storage Location
In January 2025, Microsoft changed the SharePoint folder location to store copies of the email sent to Teams channels. Apparently, this update improved security, but it’s unclear exactly how the improvement comes about unless through obscurity. In any case, we missed this change completely and are publishing this note to remind everyone else of the importance of reading message center posts. https://office365itpros.com/2025/11/13/email-sent-to-teams-channels/Teams Channels Get Threaded Layout
Many Teams users love to use group chats as a way to get work done. Group chats are effective, but the information shared in chats ends up in personal OneDrive accounts. To help switch people back to channel conversations, Teams has a new threaded layout to make conversations behave much like chats. The new layout works well for some channels but not for others. https://practical365.com/teams-threaded-layout/Teams to Begin Automatically Hiding Inactive Channels
From mid-July 2024, Teams will begin hiding inactive channels for users. The inactive channels can be unhidden, and users can opt out of the automatic process. The new clean up routine can be invoked whenever users want and if a mistake is made, it’s easy to unhide a channel. Given the number of channels in use, it’s likely that a few in everyone’s channel list are inactive and deserve to be hidden. https://office365itpros.com/2024/07/03/teams-inactive-channels/
