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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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  • Matthew Ash commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Yep, please sort it out Microsoft... my company needs to be able to export information on to our own servers and ideally in a format that is simple to open later on.

  • Małgosia commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Hi it would be great to have the chat possible to be export.
    I used Teams for knowledge transfer and some of that I recorded and have available on Stream, but this would be great if I can export some chat conversations to as those were used also sometimes for important topics sharing.

  • Ronald Hudson commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This is really needed for out use case. We need to save and document sessions as we use this for resolving emergency situations. Please implement a way to save as text all the information between two posts in a chat room.

  • Scott M. Mayer commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    COME ON MICROSOFT, FOR GOD'S SAKE! CTRL + A, CTRL + C! Or at least let us select the conversation without losing half or all of it every time you try to select and copy! SO SO SO SO PAINFUL! Can you really ignore your customers this overtly? WHY WHY WHY can I not export or copy a TEAMS conversation?

  • Chris commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Never should have left Skype ... TEAMS better get the ball rolling... How many dissatisfied customers can you continue to neglect for such a simple feature as export. Or simply select all and copy...

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    How can this feature STILL not exist??? Really beginning to regret moving to MS/Office/Teams because of the abundance of these types of failures!

    ...and sure, you say you have searchable archives for Admins but I am an admin and you know what, I cannot for the life of me figure this out! We are an SME and I have other priorities than spending a WEEK trying to figure out the endless maze of permissions and all other hoops you make us jump through just to do something that should be as simple as right click -> export to... -> choose destination and file format!

    Come on MS!

  • Lawrence commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This is a very important feature for my work as a supporting document at work

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    How complicated can it be to allow a "select all" + copy to export a multi page conversation ? I am convinced that somehow we get a little bit closer to the end of the world every time somebody tries to export a conversation in Teams,then looses valuable time googling for a coherent solution or workaround and ends up on this page... please save the dolphins ! Do it for our children! How dare you... somebody please call Greta for help...

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Could we have an update on this please. Nothing since August 2018. It's something we desperately need and judging by the activity on this thread so do many.

  • Moises Dobarganes commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    As a MS Teams User, my team uses this product on technical discussions and problem solving, those discussions are sometimes required to be exported for tax reasons to better demonstrate the technical research and development process. Having Export functionality available would make our work much easier.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    As a user, I find it a must that the Teams conversations be exported, printed, and/or backed-up somehow!!!

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Hello,
    I'm looking to see if there is any way or a setting to archive a chat in TEAMS prior to an employee leaving our organization. It appears that if someone leaves you no longer have the option of any visibility to any of your chat history. Please advise, thank you!

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    The fact that this is a request as far back as 2016 nearly 4 years ago is a sign that this is an important feature and actually quite critical for federal government users to have for records management. Why is this still just a feature UNDER REVIEW? I would hope it would be WORKING ON IT. Is this a technical issue? There is no good reason I have seen to not make this a default feature for the end user.

  • syn-djm commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I want to extract a detailed conversation I had with a colleague and put the conversation into another document where I can work it into a couple of paragraphs of standard English so I can then send to a customer. I find I can only copy the text from the open screen, regardless of how much I select. This export to document feature is really an oversight.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    FAIL! Being able to save conversations in Skype is a major luxury and I rely on it heavily. It helps prevent Senior Moments. It needs to be in TEAMS ASAP.

    Thanks

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