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Teams chat history export feature

It would be good that Teams chat history can automatically be saved into Outlook folder like Conversation history (Skype does). I'm not sure if this feature still available in Teams, or we can have a way to export the chat to a file or something.

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  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I am truly appalled that this is so poorly implemented. It's so difficult to copy chats from Teams -- whether from a private chat or a 'Team' chat into other documents (no Ctrl-A as others have noted or I can dig into the innards of the operating system files to find hidden folders!). Chats for a a recurring meeting continue to be shared with every attendee who will ever participate (so not acceptable for meetings whehre different confidential issues, with different invited attendees join at different times). And what about random links to documents in Teams sent in email? As far as I can tell, the only way to find these documents is to use the link. There is no way to see where the document is really stored! It could be one of the dozens of 'Teams' I belong to that generate numerous documents and chat traffic including links to new documents.

    Teams is really like a 12-year old's idea of how to organize business communication/documents, just throw everything into one bag and hope you can find it again. Ugh. Just counting the minutes for another company to develop a solution that works in OS365.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    i believe that it is a must have to have conversation history available to go back to, how was this not a feature when it was created for business use? Anyone using this in a office environment has to worry about audits so it just goes to show microsucks is more interested in making people migrate to new software so they can line their pockets.

  • Suma Menon commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Absolutely agree that it is a MUST to have a neat way of storing/retrieving chat history in MS Teams. My organization is moving to MS Teams as we rely a lot on our chat history in Skype to navigate through similar conversations and identify the resolutions faster.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Great idea -working more collaboratively and with stakeholders really need to keep the chat as much as possible...……….also helps when evaluating responses and chat is used this way but many.

  • Tashawn Payne commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I absolutely agree with everyone's frustrations. We have more than 3 weeks worth conversations in Teams during a testing phase which includes screenshots, files, links, etc... and if we have to provide any of this information to IA for a SOX audit, we have no way to get it out of Teams aside from copy and pasting, which by the way, is also restricted only allowing 10 mssgs to be copied at a time, or emailing 1 message at a time. I'm currently on page 17 of copy and pasting, and I've only captured 3 days of chats.

    Therefore, "Ctrl A" would be helpful, "/Print to .pdf" would be helpful,"Export to .pdf", and/or creating a copy of the Teams Conversations in the "Conversations" folder of Outlook would be very much appreciated for those of us who have a need to export the information for various business/technical reasons.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I'm suprised there's so few comments. If I knew a million people, I'd ask them to all add a comment to get this to the very top of Microsoft's list. As many have said, it's a MUST HAVE feature that has been overlooked.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    The proposal is a MUST HAVE. Alternatively, there should be a straight forward way to save the conversations of any Teams meeting.

  • SKR commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    For this one feature, I feel that my IT department has failed on the users by moving from IBM IM to Microsoft Teams.

    If Microsoft is going to argue about Security and Compliance, then it just demonstrates their unwillingness to listen to the users voice.

  • Crysti Perry commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I switched to Teams from Cisco Jabber with my group. I needed information that was shared in a chat LAST WEEK and I'm only now finding out that I can't retrieve this information. This will definitely influence my decision of continuing to utilize Teams or switching back to Jabber. All messages and attachments are automatically saved to my hard drive on Jabber.

    This functionality is critical to businesses. I'm shocked that there are this many posts about a functionality that just makes good business sense.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I've lost all the links/videos shared by my ex-colleague who have left the company! This is really a must have!

  • Dan commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This really needs to be setup like Skype or something similar. It's our data why can't we have it. I'm not asking to save someone else's data. Just my own.

    As an example, my manager is leaving our company and I'd like to be able to save conversations that I had with him as he is very knowledgeable and provided me many pointers. The only recourse I have is to copy conversations I had with him with screenshots which it completely unreasonable when you consider the amount that we have chatted on a daily basis.

    It would be great to be able to just export the chat history to OneNote.

    Anyway, just really high on my wishlist.

    Thanks!

  • Seth commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    we need this feature in outlook just like old skype used to.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This is such a necessary utility. I have resorted to a status message stating that I will not respond in Teams because of the lack of any way to save conversations for later reference.

  • Peter Spielvogel commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    It would be good to have the ability to copy the chat from Teams to analyze in Word or Excel. This is not possible as you can only copy a few lines at a time.
    Please enable this feature or have a way to capture the full text in conversation history.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Simple access to chat history should be a default feature like SFB. Awaiting several users from my organization.

  • Matt commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    There are users who are resistant to fully adopting Teams because of this perceived risk of losing access to information. When trying to recall "who said what", it would be more convenient to only have to search in one place (email client) for both Teams and email

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