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    Teams Status Issue

    On teams at the moment, everyone's availability shows up as correct, online, away, etc, but it also says for every single person I've checked that they are free on March 05. This is happening for everyone, even myself, obviously with no calendar event taking up over a month of space. Anyone else having this issue or know why this is happening?

    1 Comment
    2025/02/01
    03:37 UTC

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    AOSP for MS Teams devices

    Reading the documentation there is an up coming firmware update that will migrate devices to AOSP on the condition there is a group/police configured for them before the firmware update.

    Will the TAC update to notify that the next firmware version for the relevant device will migrate them to AOSP and display the new device ‘health’ attributes?

    I’m a little unclear on the impact of this patch and process for migration.

    1 Comment
    2025/02/01
    01:12 UTC

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    Script to block teams apps not in use?

    Hey All,

    First off all I hate app centric since it seems I cant bulk change apps.

    I have a list of all app IDs that are currently in use and I want to block everything else to be request able. How do I do that lol?

    3 Comments
    2025/02/01
    00:13 UTC

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    Teams messages stuck on "sending..."

    Hey everyone,

    I've been trying to resolve a reoccurring issue that I am seeing with a user where specifically after a few days when they try to reply to a post on a Team inside of teams it will get stuck just saying "sending...".

    It only seems to affect replying to a post within a team and only on the desktop. Sending a normal message works just fine when its doing this.

    If I clear the apps cache and restart Teams, then they can send messages again but after a few days the same issue returns. The user can send messages from the web/mobile just fine. It only affects the desktop app.

    Ive uninstalled/reinstalled multiple times, cleared cache multiple times but after a few days the issue returns.

    Has anyone ever ran into this before or have any other ideas of what I can try besides formatting the machine and seeing if this resolves the isssue?

    Thank you,

    0 Comments
    2025/01/31
    18:15 UTC

    2

    Calendar invites from Teams don't show up in calendar

    Hi!
    Someone I just started working with invites me for meeting through Microsoft Teams. When I accept this invitation in my Outlook client (on Macbook Air M1) it doesn't show up in my calendar.

    I just noticed that there's a little info box saying that if I want to manage meetings for this email address I need to configure settings for delegates. However this is my own email address from my business website (hosted at Siteground). I don't know how to fix this. Anyone has an idea? I didn't have any issues before but previous invites weren't sent with Teams.

    0 Comments
    2025/01/31
    17:05 UTC

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    Export Teams Chat Data and Import on new Tenant

    Wondering if anyone is able to help.

    We have split from a tenant and require the teams data from the old Tenant the users were on. The old provider wont give us admin access so we can only use the users 365 logins to export data (If this is possible)?

    We then need a way of importing it on our new tenant (which yes we obviously have global admin access to).

    Anyone got any suggestions, or even if this can be done with the limited privileges on the old tenant.

    2 Comments
    2025/01/31
    16:09 UTC

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    unusual last seen

    Lately, I've noticed a peculiar pattern with a coworker's MS Teams presence. Their status repeatedly cycles through:

    1. Online/available
    2. and then suddenly Away (last seen shows 5 minutes ago)
    3. Offline (after another 5 minutes and last seen shows 10 minutes ago) ..

    however the regular pattern that I have noticed is that when the status changes to away, the last seen is just now.

    Could this be some settings or happens with everyone.

    10 Comments
    2025/01/31
    15:35 UTC

    3

    MFA sign-in loop for Android

    Hi,
    Ever since sometime late December I've had problems signing into Teams on my mobile phone. The account is tied to my school's organization and after entering my login credentials and confirming the code in the authenticator app, I am asked for my password again, and this is basically the whole loop. If I attempt to back out from the password prompt, it sometimes flashes teams for a split second and then returns to the password prompt screen for the organization.

    I think the issue might be on the organization's side given how the loop goes but I was hoping someone could provide insight, as I've already been to the IT department there and they weren't able to find a solution to the problem.

    The issue is not there for any but one of my classmates, and the desktop app for Teams works just fine for both of us with the mobile issue. It might also be worth noting that the device does not pop up in the myaccount.microsoft.com devices tab, but under recent activity it shows all the attempted sign-ins as successful.

    Things that has been attempted without any success:

    • Clearing the data and cache through the settings
    • Uninstalling and reinstalling the application
    • Installing the app through a different google account
    • Installing the beta version of the app
    • Installing the authenticator app on another device and attempting to sign in with that

    Tapping the 3 dots on the password prompt screen for the organization gives the following error code number: 50085

    Teams Version 1416/1.0.0.2025014502

    Phone: Oneplus 9 Pro (LE2123) running OxygenOS 14.0

    4 Comments
    2025/01/31
    10:10 UTC

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    anyone keeps getting issue with yeahlink a20/30 bar with CTP related to pairing issues and time zone keeps reverting back to UTC?

    Hello, anyone here has yeahlink devices with CTP for their teams rooms system? we have more than 10 and we keeps experiencing issues with CTP panel not connected to the bar and the timezone keep reverting back to UTC which is the default.

    anyone has a permanent fix? aside from reseting those devices and ending up keeps happening?

    1 Comment
    2025/01/31
    09:37 UTC

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    No Menus on Android!

    Hello,

    i have no menu other then my logo on the top left corner and search icon top right, the rest is just blank! I can search an chat with ppl and even answer calls, but i cant see any icons like chat, teams and so on.

    Can anybody help?

    Tyvm

    3 Comments
    2025/01/31
    09:33 UTC

    2

    Teams LISTS JSON script for colour formatting off date column

    Looking for JSON script for Microsoft Teams LISTS. I have a column called 'In House Washing' for example that is set to Date type. I would like the script to make the below happen:

    - if there is no date make it white background with black writing

    - if the date is within the 0-14 day range make it pastel green with dark green writing

    - if the date is within 15-25 day range make the box pastel yellow with dark yellow writing

    - if the date is within 25-30+ day range make the box make it pastel red with dark red writing

    Have one that semi works but around the wrong way... Bit of a noob but slowly getting it.. maybe
    Much appreciate the help!!

    0 Comments
    2025/01/31
    09:09 UTC

    3

    Teams Voice - Call Reporting

    Is there a good call reporting software that strictly does reporting? I’m not interested in a product that has a whole bunch of features I don’t want to pay for. I just want something that can give me detailed voice call reporting for our Teams Voice environment.

    TIA everyone!

    16 Comments
    2025/01/31
    07:55 UTC

    0

    School link not working

    For a university project my team recorded a 10 min video. I uploaded this assignment as a share point link. Now when I go into the link it takes me to a 404 page. When I uploaded the assignment it was working. When I go back into teams it says I have no recordings. It’s only been about 10 days. The only thing is that even though I submitted it through our school link, one of my group mates professors randomly got it shared to them. What could be wrong here?

    0 Comments
    2025/01/31
    02:38 UTC

    0

    Husband Hiding Threads on Teams?

    My husband had an emotional affair with a co-worker a few months ago. Some of their communication was over text but some of it was also over Teams as well. Since then, he swears they aren’t communicating except about necessary work-related topics (they are on the same team at work so it’s unavoidable for them to talk occasionally). I’ve never been a “check your SO’s phone kind of person”, but since then, I’ve looked at his Teams messages every once in a while because I’m still suspicious regarding their interactions.

    The other day I realized the Teams app that is on his locked government laptop has additional messages that aren’t on the Teams app on his phone. The last messages he has from her on the Teams app on his phone are from 12/24/24 but on his laptop it seems like maybe when she messages, the whole thread since then reappears. I can’t access his laptop except on the rare chance he leaves it unlocked while running to the bathroom etc. Is there an automatic setting that can hide all messages after a certain point until the other person messages you again? Is there a way for me to access this feature? Is it available on mobile?? Thank you in advance for your assistive detective work 🫡

    I know it isn’t right to look at his phone/messages but it’s kind of past that point?? If he’s hiding the messages, I just need to know so I can move on/figure out how to proceed

    14 Comments
    2025/01/30
    23:06 UTC

    6

    Did I accidentally give my boss access to the entire chat thread between me and a coworker?

    So here's what happened. Coworker sent me a link. I tried to copy the link to send to my boss. But i guess i sent a link to the actual chat message. If my boss opened the link, would they have been able to see all of the thread or just that one message?

    7 Comments
    2025/01/30
    22:39 UTC

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    external inbound calls using routing rules to avoid calling plan cost

    We have some users who want to receive external inbound calls on a DID and are fine using a shared calling policy for outbound calls. Normally I would pay for a calling plan on top of teams phone license so they get their own DID, but wondering if I could just create a routing rule that directs that DID to the teams voice user?

    It definitely will require more management administering those routing rules, but it would save on a calling plan cost for everyone who wanted external inbound calling.

    3 Comments
    2025/01/30
    20:52 UTC

    3

    Notifications on iOS

    What would be the best way to set up teams notifications on the iPhone so they turn on and start notifying me at 8am and turn off and stop notifying me at 5pm and stay off on the weekends?

    3 Comments
    2025/01/30
    19:44 UTC

    1

    Mac app vs Edge PWA? Any huge improvements?

    I'm currently keeping everything work-related in Edge since I don't use it for anything else. Any compelling reason to (or not to) install the actual Mac app?

    2 Comments
    2025/01/30
    19:31 UTC

    4

    Can a Distribution Group be added to a team, and will it be dynamic?

    We have a team already built with members added. The owner of the team would like the team member list to automatically be updated based on a distribution group. The distribution group was created and is maintained on-prem, but syncs to Entra ID (Azure). Basically when a person is added or removed from that on-prem AD group, and the group syncs to Entra ID, he wants the new member added to the team or the deleted member removed from the team. Is this possible? I looked at making the 365 group for the team dynamic, but the rules only look at user Attributes in AD, not which groups they are a member of.

    11 Comments
    2025/01/30
    17:07 UTC

    2

    Ability to reject / silence ringing calls from call queues?

    We recently switched from an on-premise phone system to MS Teams phone system.

    All of our users are running Teams for Work (via Office 365 E3 + Teams Phone System w/ Calling Plan license) on Windows 11 PCs

    We have several call queues set up using attendant routing that ring multiple people.  When someone calls the a call queue, Teams rings for everyone in the queue as expected.  The challenge we are facing is that although users have the option to reject an incoming call, when they do so the call will stop ringing for approx 1 second and will then start ringing again.

    This is problematic, because if someone is actively on a call, they have no way to stop teams from ringing, which is hugely distracting.

    I know presence based routing is an option, but there are multiple problems with PBR.  For one, it will only allow calls to ring when a user's status is available.  If someone is idle/afk, their status will go to 'away' and Teams will not ring.  We still want Teams calls to ring idle users because they may simply be doing something other than working on their computer.

    Another issue is that if a user has a meeting on their calendar that finishes early (a frequent occurrence), the Teams status will still show busy for the remainder of the scheduled time and will not allow calls to ring, even though the scheduled meeting has ended and the user is not busy.

    I know users can manually set their status to DND when on a call to prevent other calls from ringing, but the problem with this is users will either forget to turn DND on, or worse, they'll forget to turn DND off.

    Every other phone system I've used has the option to silence a ringing call, but I cannot seem to find a way to do this in Teams.

    Suggestions?

    11 Comments
    2025/01/30
    15:41 UTC

    2

    Did MS Teams Townhall option disappear for everyone?

    What in the world is happening?

    9 Comments
    2025/01/30
    15:14 UTC

    1

    Hearing the tail end of previous conversations when you pick up your Teams telephone handset

    I am getting several reports from users who report hearing the tail end of previous conversations when they pick up your Teams phone (yealink handset). On some occasions, previous discussions could have been held several hours earlier. Has anyone had this before, or does anyone know why this is happening?

    0 Comments
    2025/01/30
    14:13 UTC

    3

    Share files but not folders.

    Hi all,

    I want to create a team template where members can only share individual files and not complete folders. Is there a way to set this up?

    6 Comments
    2025/01/30
    13:32 UTC

    3

    Microsoft Teams Phone Mobile, opinions?

    I run a small recruitment agency and currently use both a VoIP and mobile phone, which is a pain going between the two.

    MTPM looks a great option however there’s not many review out there. Is anyone using currently, what’s your thoughts on it?

    0 Comments
    2025/01/30
    12:59 UTC

    3

    Allow Team member to invite guests

    Hi,

    Members of a team can invite guests that already have an external user in the tenant, but are not able to invite new guests. I've tried searching the web and looking through site permissions, Teams admin, sharepoint admin and can't find any setting that lets me choose the specific permissions of members in teams. I also tried assigning users/groups the role "guest inviter", but this does not solve the issue.

    Any suggestions on how I can solve this?

    5 Comments
    2025/01/30
    12:57 UTC

    3

    Seeing files from the wrong channel

    We have had a report (and verified it with IT eyes-on) from a user that when they click into a channel (lets call it channel1) from another channel (channel2).... channel2 files are still on display. This has caused a major issue for us where some sensitive info was dropped into the wrong channel's files.

    I found previous reports of this with no solution from a couple of years ago, the topic is closed or I would have replied to it. here it is...

    https://www.reddit.com/r/MicrosoftTeams/comments/y0x83u/teams_file_path_issue_displaying_the_foldersfiles/

    Microsoft are looking at logs for us but not getting very far in over a month since this first happened. Anyone else had this?

    3 Comments
    2025/01/30
    11:45 UTC

    2

    No Dedicated Agenda Option in Teams Meetings

    We can add a Loop component in the meeting details, but some people seem to have a dedicated "Agenda" tab, which I can't find.

    I've looked everywhere, in Teams admin, the desktop app and web but the option is not there. Was it removed or am I missing something?

    Licens: A3
    OS: Windows 11 Pro (26100.2894)
    Teams desktop app:  **24335.208.3315.1951 ("**You've got the latest version. It was last checked on 2025-01-30.
    ")

    Heres how the schedule meeting tab looks like

    bar when joining meeting no "notes" tab or anyhing.

    0 Comments
    2025/01/30
    10:43 UTC

    1

    Windows 11, Microsoft Teams muting every other sound while in a call

    Every time I have to join a meeting, Teams mutes every other application - Youtube, Spotify, etc. I have unticked "Allow applications to take exclusive control on this device" in my headset properties. In communications I have also set it to "Do nothing" instead of lowering the audio or muting it. I have a Logitech G435 if that is of any help, I just do not know what to do about the audio anymore.

    2 Comments
    2025/01/30
    09:27 UTC

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    2025 and Teams for Mac still encode video using ridiculously ineffective software renderer!

    The appalling negligence of Microsoft letting our super modern devices with Apple Sillicon chips fry in high temperatures and drain our batteries. Every single video call I make heats up my Mac Mini M4 Pro completely ridiculously. Same thing on my Mac Book Pro M1 Max laptop. This piece of software is like something out of prehistoric times :( It looks to me like some kind of a setup.

    1 Comment
    2025/01/30
    08:31 UTC

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    Notifying others when my work hours are if they message me?

    I’d like to have my teams account notify people who message me after working hours that I am out of the office for the evening and won’t see their message until the morning. Is there a way to do this? TIA!

    5 Comments
    2025/01/30
    06:12 UTC

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