Searching for something works (mostly), however if the thing you're search for is sufficiently far back in time, then it's nigh impossible to actually get results back. Clicking the message says "go to chat to see the rest", but clicking on that does nothing but take you back to the chat at the current time, rather than the target message. If you bookmark the message and try to get at the location in chat via that, then the client just lags and eventually crashes. (while chewing up 100% CPU) Tried the desktop client (developer preview), web client Chrome, web client Edge, all won't work for really big chats. It seems like it's trying to load the entirety of the chat conversation between now and the point in time that the message happened and then also trying to render and scroll up for that. This is crazy inefficient. It should load a few screens before that chat message, a few after, and then redraw. (so that total effort is nearly 0 rather than "10,000 lines of chats")

Search functionality:
1. Limit Search To:
* All of Microsoft Teams
* All Chats
* Only chats including [select input]
* All Teams
* Only Team(s) [select]
* All channels in a team
* Only channel(s) [select]

The search function is currently very poorly received across our area because it is just a massive search string.

I would like the ability to restrict a search by Team and/or Channel and/or Individual
In order to have a more targeted search result
So that I can more quickly and efficiently find the correct result.

Additionally - searching in User Feedback Forums is sub-optimal. It would be great to be able to sort by votes to see if there are already dozens (or hundreds or thousands) of votes for an idea. Right now I see hundreds of 'search options' results. And I'm pretty sure they're almost all duplicates.

Thanks!

I'd like to be able to search on partial names. For instance, if I'm looking for "Robert Smith", when I type in "Rob" I may get 20 people proposed. I want to be able to type in "Rob S" and get Roberts with a last name starting with S. However, the search currently does an exact match. So "Robert" != "Rob" and "Robert Smith" falls out of the results.

Given names in Teams:
"Robert Adams", "Rob Dean", "Robert Nice", "Robert Smith"

As is:
"Rob" matches "Robert Adams", "Rob Dean", "Robert Nice", "Robert Smith"
"Rob S" matches no results

Would like:
"Rob" matches "Robert Adams", "Rob Dean", "Robert Nice", "Robert Smith"
"Rob S" matches "Robert Smith"

In a big organization environment, we have a lot of chats, Teams channel going on. When trying to search certain thread/conversations, filter options built in Teams work fine for the most. But when trying to search certain dates to see the whole thread, it is kind of impossible, without having an option to select date range with calendar pop up to choose the date ranges. without this feature, I am having to go scroll up and down to find the exact date, time etc. Real pain....
So far with date range filter, it is set to certain period of time: Yesterday, this week, last week, month, year etc. I strongly believe having ability to select specific date range is a lot more helpful than current settings.