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Guests should be able to send files in private chats

Guest can send files/images inside channels but not inside private chats. Without that feature the communication with external developers or testers is almost not possible or had to be done inside a channel, which would disturb other team members.

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  • ifsan arif commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Please update this and add, its so poor. This is a basic feature on most collaborations tools

  • Frank commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    As an organization that has a subscription office365, we should be able to collaborate in Teams with those who do not. Allowing guest users to upload files in a private chat should be a no brainer. Not having this ability just pushes users back to their old ways of sharing files with other services, bypassing Teams altogether. Makes adoption so much harder. Much appreciation for considering/reviewing this request.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Yep, this is a true nono. It makes it impossible to work in a gig-based economy. We work with freelancers and outsourcing, just imagine the setup of Teams for that.

  • Nathan Hawk commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    WORKAROUND: load the file in a channel (Sharepoint) and share the link via chat. Note: it is not private though.

  • PMD commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    PLEASE!!

    I understand that the reasoning behind this is the fact the chat function relies on the OneDrive for business to store the files, and that the guest does not have a OneDrive on the domain. If this is the case, then there needs to be a solution in terms of how these files are stored - such as using the storage space of the user inside the organisation to whom they are chatting. At the moment - this is making the use of this facility impossible and we will need to move over to Slack.

  • G commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This is an essential feature for the collaboration with guests.

  • Piyush commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This is an important feature that should have been thought by you guys as a competitor of slack

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Come on guys, this is really important function and really weird restriction! For example, Guest can send screenshot but cannot send other files? Why?

  • Kimi commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    We have tested Teams with the free version and liked Teams very much.
    But after migrated to the paid version we found out that it's not possible for Guest user to attach file to private chat or group chat. We had to ***** the paid version and returned back to the free Teams version just because of this.

    As I can see, this request has been for over two years without news. Can you please update with news please?

  • Billy commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    You should fix this! ...or not, we got superior alternatives to Teams anyways ;)

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