This isn’t an idea - it’s a complaint. I simply chose “Notifications” because it’s one of many, many issues I’ve run into with this app. I do not get notifications half the time for any channels, messages, etc. even though they are on in every possible way.

I’m constantly kicked out of the app and made to resign in. On top of that, it means that of the few notifications I do get, I was getting even LESS because I was kicked out of the app WITHOUT KNOWING. Every single member of my unit that I’ve spoken to about Teams agrees that it’s currently a nightmare to navigate overall, and that they get kicked constantly, too.

Whenever I attempt to send a message to an individual, more than half the time their name does not come up as an option. I have to scroll back in one of our threads just to find something they’ve posted, and message them that way. There’s also no specificity when it comes to messaging; when I type in a name, the entirety of the US Army’s search results for that name come up, not just my units. If there was a way to fix this issue as well, that would be ideal.

I give this app about 2/5 stars at this point. It’s absolutely maddening to be made to resign in constantly and check the app every half hour just to make sure I’m not missing things I should be notified about. This is not an issue of lack of familiarity with messaging apps/technology, either; I’m in my early twenties, and grew up with apps and social media. This should be a breeze to navigate, and it’s the opposite.

DoD member.
Request: Could you add an option in the Chat>Contacts>Contact Group menu to "Message this group" (in addition to the available options: Add a contact to this group, Rename this group, and Delete this group).

Background: Not sure what the purpose is of creating contact groups; thought I'd be able to go to my contacts in the chat tab and select an option to send a chat to a group I'd created, but that doesn't seem to be the case. I work for a headquarters and creating a team/channel for each group I communicate with is a little annoying after I've already created all these contact groups. If this is already a capability, please let me know.

1. The layout of the desktop app is terrible. There is tons of unused empty space. On top of that, things are needlessly busy and contain too much oddly formatted information. This may be in part due to the naming scheme the gov't uses, but an option should exist to create and view nicknames.

Because of this, there really isn't an option to minimize teams to a small area on your monitor. You need it maximized to be usable, but it clearly doesn't actually require that much space to be functional.

There should also be a way to minimize it to a very small space and lock it to be in front of all other apps, so you dont have to constantly be clicking between apps.

1. This feedback forum is terrible. I almost didn't even bother leaving a comment. I'm already taking time out of my day to suggest improvements to your product for free. You really expect people to wade through all the BS of this process and post something? Just make it easy to submit a comment, and hire a couple people to sort through them, organize them by category and set priorities. You are microsoft, you clearly have the budget to support that, but instead we are expected to give you free labor on top of our potentially money making/saving suggestions.

Enable Power Automate to include the checklist when creating a planner task. I know there is a fairly involved work around in place but those of us in the government sector don't often have access to admin or other higher level functions. Seems silly to be able to automate creation of a task for a specific planner and not have the ability to include the common checklist associated with that same planner. Seems there are a ton of people on the internet asking how to do this and they are taking matters into their own hands making custom connectors. Seems safer to have Microsoft involved so that its done right.

I often have meetings that begin with some attendees still being in another previous meeting, especially during COVID when folks have so many back-to-back meetings.

It is possible to ping someone "Ask to Join," but this can actually be annoying for someone on the receiving end.

It'd be great as a meeting host to see or be notified if an invited meeting participant is still in another meeting, or if they are double-booked, etc. Their hover-over status may show "In a Meeting," but this could mean either a previous meeting or my meeting -- no way to tell.

Perhaps if their status showed "In a previous meeting" that would be helpful? Or if there was a way to quickly see the last couple hours of their calendar schedule when hovering over them in the Participants list?