Hi everyone, thanks for your comments in this thread, tweets, emails and calls. Please don’t hesitate to reach out to me with any questions at all; I’m here for YOU! I’ll continue to update this ticket as we make progress towards MSA.

Just in case you missed it, there is a FAQs in the Guest Access Help Article. Just click the “FAQs” tab here: https://aka.ms/GuestAccessHelp We’re updating them this week with new questions we’ve been getting, like “Is Guest Access available for Business Essentials licenses?” (The answer is yes.)

Lastly, the team is starting work on Federation so I’ve broken out Federation into its own UserVoice ticket. Please vote and subscribe to updates on its progress here: https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103/suggestions/20566714

Warmly,
Suphatra

Hi everyone, quick update for you on this feature.

We’ve got lots of resources on this and we’re actively working on it. This is a top priority feature.

I haven’t gotten a firm ETA from the team but I can say this won’t hit in the next month or so. Its a complicated feature, so it will take longer than that. I’ll let you know once I get a general date from them.

Thanks for your feedback, patience, and as always, thank you for your support of Teams.

Sincerely,
Suphatra

Questions? Tweet me at @skprufo.

Start off your weekend with good news: we’re working on this!

Thanks to everyone who brought this feature to the forefront and shared feedback on their use case scenario. Very helpful!

I wrote some more product updates on today’s Teams blog in my weekly column, “Weekend Reading” —
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-Teams-Blog/Weekend-Reading-3/ba-p/65897

Cheers,
Suphatra

I’m sure you’ve heard the news by now: Teams and Skype for Business will converge into one. Here’s the official blog post: https://blogs.office.com/en-us/2017/09/25/a-new-vision-for-intelligent-communications-in-office-365/

And other articles for reference:
https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/25/16360072/microsoft-teams-replacing-skype-for-business
https://mspoweruser.com/its-official-microsoft-is-replacing-skype-for-business-with-microsoft-teams/
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-microsoft-teams/microsoft-makes-teams-primary-teamwork-hub-replacing-skype-for-business-idUSKCN1C01RH

Cheers,
Suphatra

Thanks everyone, I’ve sent your feedback over to the Framework team. They are working on a solution. Will let you know as this progresses.

Suphatra

Hi again — we’re still working through some bugs but we’re very close to done on this one. Will update again once we’re about to ship.

-Suphatra

Hi everyone, sorry for the long gap between updates. We’ve been diligently working on this feature, but its taken some time due to performance issues. We want to create this feature in a way that the additional libraries required to do the syntax highlighting don’t impact things like the channel switching and page load times.

Here are some things you’ll be able to do with this feature:
1. While authoring there you’ll have a dedicated code editor window which provides syntax highlighting, line numbering, etc.
2. You can also choose to add a heading to the snippet before inserting.
3. You can add snippets as cards into the message and can be expanded inline by the reader. The reader will see all the appropriate syntax highlighting as part of the card.

We’re excited to roll this out for you — thank you for your continued patience!

Sincerely,
Suphatra

Hi everyone, I wanted to let you know that we finished the planning and have started the coding for “restoring deleted channels”. We had to put this work on hold temporarily in order to prioritize some other things (such as Guest Access) so that’s why its been a while since my last update.

For the other feature requested on this ticket — “archiving channels and chats” — this requires a much larger cross-Microsoft collaboration that is also dependent on the Groups team. We’re working with them to figure out how we can make this feature happen across the two products for you.

Thanks for your patience, and for your feedback. We really appreciate you!

Sincerely,
Suphatra

Hi everyone, I know we are overdue for the next update. I’m hounding our Meetings team trying to get a new ETA for you. I’ll ping you immediately once I get it!

Thanks for your patience, and your support. Tweet me if you have any questions: @skprufo.

Sincerely,
Suphatra

We got a flood of feedback in research not to eliminate this button completely, but to minimize it. So you’ll see a design change soon that makes the Reply button a little bit less conspicuous.

Let me know if you have any questions!

Suphatra

Hi everyone — just a heads up that I edited the description to include some of the most poignant comments from this thread. If you have any other info you can share about performance and speed, please keep adding them to the thread here. I’ll routing each to the Perf team, since that really helps for emphasizing urgency, demand, and user pain.

THANK YOU for helping us make Teams better!

Sincerely,
Suphatra

Its been a while since the last update, so I wanted to send a quick message to reassure you this is still in progress. Its a complicated feature to ship, as you can imagine how many commands we have to create, so thus it takes some time.

We’re hoping to have it this fall (and that timeline is looking good).

Thanks and I’ll let you know as we get closer to ship!

Sincerely,
Suphatra

Hey everyone, just wanted to check in and let you know that this (the feature to delete a chat thread) is almost out of Design. I’ll let you know once it goes into Engineering. Not too much longer now!

Thanks for your support, and hope everyone is having a nice week.

Sincerely,
Suphatra

If you were at Microsoft Ignite last week, you may have been lucky enough to see this feature demoed.

If you weren’t there — don’t worry! You can still see images from the demo and read all about our meeting magic on this blog: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-Teams-Ignite-Blog/MVP-Live-Blog-Understanding-meetings-in-Microsoft-Teams/ba-p/111703

-Suphatra

I just saw the design review deck for this feature and it looks great! Will let you know as it progresses to development.

-Suphatra

Hi everyone, wanted to give you an update since it’s been a while.

We did resolve this issue, and have this live in our internal rings — we are now starting to move it along our outer rings for more validation testing. It was having some validation issues before, which is why the fix didn’t come out sooner, but it should move much more smoothly now.

I’m anticipating this will be done by the end of the month. I’ll make sure to update you once its complete. Thanks so much for your patience, and for helping us make Teams great!

Sincerely,
Suphatra

My votes in for this one too — I’ll let you know once it goes live.

Suphatra
Microsoft Teams

Hi everyone, thanks so much for your patience on this. We had to switch our resources on this to handle some high priority work around quality and performance, so we lost some time mid-stream on this item.

However, we’re back in action and we anticipate dogfooding this item internally next week and getting it out shortly after. So, I’m crossing my fingers for end of summer. I’ll update you as soon as I know more!

Thanks,
Suphatra