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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This item is still under review. No new updates at this time.
-Warren
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Joe Hart
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As of today, there are 3280 votes for this basic feature and there have been no Admin comments since August of 2018. Any updates on the "Under Review" status? Functionality on the roadmap? ETA?
In my case, there is corporate policy to keep only the last 3 months of Chat conversations. As a user, I need the ability to save these important conversations locally so they aren't lost. Brute force message-by-message copy/paste or page-by-page screenshots can't be the suggested solution.
I really enjoy using Teams but this is a gaping hole that should've been addressed long ago.
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David Felix
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please do this, it's important to safe keep some brain storming activities and for "future memory".
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Rob Retter
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"we have archiving, search, eDiscovery, etc. as part of the compliance features for IT admins"
Oh, thank you ever so much! It's just so lucky that ^$#!ing IT admins can do those things!
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Anonymous
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any updates in 2020?
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Jim
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Pretty standard functionality required for longer term records management of our project artefacts when teams are decommissioned. An update would be great too.
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Anonymous
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We are also waiting for this feature. In the meantime we "save" channel-chats als large screenshot by grabilla.
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Bilgehan TOMRUK
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This back-up is quite crucial for us to generate training material from the data mentioned in these conversations.
If no solution is discovered we have to give up this functional platform of MS Teams. -
Dana
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Please allow us to export chats! Out of desperation I have tried copying and pasting into a Word file, which is tedious and doesn't even work properly. Segments of the chat are always omitted upon pasting.
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Anonymous
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How is it that the functionality on Teams does not allow you to export the chat feature to a document? That seems so very basic and efficient. Example, I led a call on Teams yesterday with approximately 60 people and there were well over 100 comments in the chat feature. The information gathered is very helpful for others to help them inform their decisions. The current platform would have me do individual copy/paste of each comment and/or doing individual screen captures as I scroll down for all comments. Both seem very mundane and obsolete. Why is this not an option on this much newer platform than other web-meeting platforms?
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Liz Wells
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I found a work around. it just let me copy and paste small sections of a meeting chat into a Word document, so I captured all the chat in a few Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V moves
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Meg
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Any update on this "under review" item?
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Rebecca
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We really need this to help our projects move forward and share important core group information with the larger group. Please add this feature
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Kristie
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Yes please
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Anonymous
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Yes please
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Anonymous
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This is a very important future especially for support team where valuable communication happing via teams needs to be recorded
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Sarka Houfkova
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This is a critical feature for backup documentation outside of Teams. My current skype chats are utilized often and as we transition to Team Chats - we are needing this feature to continue for internal support and backup.
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Tammy Campana
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Yes we need this desperately to log communications into our tickets for backup.
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John Durbin
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I provide support for software, systems, and various processes at the company at which I work. We use an application to keep track of our troubleshooting efforts. It routinely attach Skype chats to these support tickets and need the same feature for Teams.
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Chris Hutchinson
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I am absolutely shocked that nearly two years after the this topic was brought up, we still cannot save and print conversations and chats. I tend to love Microsoft tools unlike many in my office, but this seems like such an obvious thing that would be needed by many organizations. I've been working really hard to get Teams and the other tools standardized across the company. The lack of this one feature may very well be the deciding factor in me not getting complete buy in from my boss.
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Kim Schmidt
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I agree - this feature will help with meetings where employees ask questions and to archive questions and data. Please consider adding this feature.