Backup, export, printing, archive options
Can Teams chat and activities data be exported, printed, archived, and backed up/restored? Within Sharepoint or elsewhere? This could be necessary for a few reasons both during projects and for historical records.
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Charles Walker
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I m honestly so surprise it do not exists. how can any company use MS team for production operation ?
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S Winnett
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Need the conversation for documentation purposes. Need the whole conversation in the clipboard. Cut and paste each piece is tedious and error prone. Poor design.
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DarioB
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Please add the option to save/export MS Teams chat conversations. Thank you.
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Michelle Hall
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You REALLY neet to be able to download the chat. It is a nightmare. Chat is for sharing resources & networking especially in this digital world. Really not impressed that Teams does not have this feature. YOu can't event copy & paste on to a word document.
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Saul
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+1 to this, having messages export to a simple txt would help a lot with search as it is lackluster (plus archiving those for future is also sometimes needed).
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Timo Järvensivu
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Please get this done, basic functionality for all meetings.
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Anonymous
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It's very important include functionality export chat easily
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Phil Jones
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We have started using Teams to hold user groups with our customers. Group numbers hover around 50-100 so it's not possible to have everyone ask questions live without disrupting the event. However we do encourage customers to add their questions to the chat and those not presenting try to respond to as many as possible, but we always end up missing a few live. We publish a Q&A document later but not being able to export the chat really slows this process down.
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Gadgetboyatl
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Really silly that a product pushed so hard to businesses does not have a simple backup or export feature for business discussions over the main chat feature. Who is responsible for this product?
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Anonymous
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Would be nice if chat logs automatically backed up to Outlook just like it is done now for Skype for Business chats.
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Anonymous
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As a user I would like to export a Discussion or a complete Channel to be able to archive it or use it for further processing in another tool.
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Anonymous
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WOW! Just went through the current process of exporting and needs to be cleaned up and simplified, please. Thank you.
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Tj
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I would like to export some of my chats from Teams but understand I can not. But when I try to use copy and paste it does not work well either. very limited to how much you can copy.
Not happy with this at all. kind of sucks that trying to copy and paste from one Microsoft product to another.
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Loren
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Here is a solution for this: it can export for backup and other needs as well as archive.
https://agatsoftware.com/microsoft-teams-channel-management/
In addition, it supports move, copy as well as convert public to private and vice versa
Also available in Microsoft Appsource
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Cesar Duenas
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Often chat content becomes the subject of a future meeting. Being able to easily export/copy entire chat content into a meeting notice would be a time saver. I could then delete any non- relevant chat content.
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Bob
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Would love to see an update on this one. This was basic including functionality in Skype, why remove it from Teams? Especially considering that persistent chat or not....chats will eventually drop out of Teams and are no longer searchable. At the very least, when chats are to drop off from Teams, the history has to be available to sav/archive somewhere.
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Justin Mayfield
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I would like to integrate outlook search and teams message search. When I search for a previous email in outlook sometimes it was actually a Teams message I am thinking of. Lotus Notes use to archive messages in a folder in my email so I would also see them when searching in outlook.
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Double RR
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It´s very important to account managers. Customers normally forget some details they said at this moment.
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Alberto Disla
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Such a Feature would be extremely helpful. I'm surprised this was not thought of.
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Anonymous
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If i had the attitude in my job to ignore important requests from my customers for more than 4 years, i would be fired. And guess what, i wouldn't even complain about this, because it would be more than appropriate in this case because not doing the job you're payed for should have consequences.
Unbelievable for how long basic long term data management features are not implemented in MS Teams.