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    My sisters work is missing

    So my sister has an exam tomorrow, and according to her, she left her device for an hour. She came back to all of her work which was 3 essays worth gone. She called me because I had some experience with this stuff, but I never had this type of issue. All I know is that she saved the file to her teams and that teams autosaves. Is there a way to rollback iterations of a file?

    15 Comments
    2024/12/01
    21:14 UTC

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    Help please. Need to save, and print, a specific MS Teams chat log to defend myself against accusations.

    The chat group is for a school-related team project. Unfortunately things got spicy, and one team member became very stubborn and impossible to get along with.

    Note - we have a group charter, in which we all agreed about everything, that governs how we will resolve conflicts and disagreements.

    One of my jobs is editing the final project. Within my responsibilities is ensuring we adhere to the word count limit.

    This assignment has a limit of 6000 words, and there are four of us who must contribute 1500 words each.

    The stubborn team member submitted 3000 words for their section and refuses to allow us to reduce their word count. So, we are significantly exceeding the word count limitation unless reductions are made.

    Again, our group charter clearly outlines how to handle this issue.

    HOWEVER, the team member has now formally accused me of racial discrimination and I have been invited to attend a mediation session hosted by the appropriate person within my school’s faculty. No problem, I can handle this and I will fully cooperate.

    I want to bring a copy of all communication between myself and this person, which includes the chat log from our MS Teams group.

    All the advice online shows how to “export chat,” but I’m not sure if that is achieving what I need.

    Note 2 - in the meantime, I have C&P the whole chat into a word doc. It’s not pretty and it’s not perfect, but at least it’s something.

    Hoping for a solution other than taking screen shots of four months worth of chats!

    15 Comments
    2024/12/01
    20:30 UTC

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    Sip devices cannot register

    All our sip devices having issues at the moment. not able to logon The url's below are not reachable. EMEA: http://emea.ipp.sdg.teams.microsoft.com Americas: http://noam.ipp.sdg.teams.microsoft.com APAC: http://apac.ipp.sdg.teams.microsoft.com

    Anyone else facing this issue?

    2 Comments
    2024/12/01
    18:36 UTC

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    different after hours messages - one for weekdays and one for the weekend, how to?

    Hi all

    i think the title should be already understood, but will try to explain more for better understanding..

    I need to have 2 different messages for the after call flow in my Organisation, "message 1" for the weekdays and "message 2" for the weekend, i got onlyn the option to have 1 message:

    https://preview.redd.it/ymkjzhzu1a4e1.png?width=1225&format=png&auto=webp&s=81211c7fbe8abbae69729f7d8833a54131a44800

    how you guys handle this requests?

    kr and thanks in advance :)

    3 Comments
    2024/12/01
    18:09 UTC

    1

    Microsoft Teams Planner access

    I have created a planner in Microsoft Teams and wanted to share it with one individual. It said my organization has blocked to share it with individuals, so i need to choose a Team. So as a test i chose one existing Team and connected it with it. However it is not letting me delete or unlink that team.

    What can I do to make sure it gets unlinked? I tried everything through teams and through web browser.

    0 Comments
    2024/12/01
    10:28 UTC

    3

    **ASK HERE FOR HELP** Monthly Teams Questions and Answers Help Thread

    Ask troubleshooting questions here. In the future, individual help posts may be automatically removed and referred to post a comment here.

    Please do your best at providing the following before asking a question:

    • Specify your OS, Teams Version, What type of Teams environment you're using (Work, School, Consumer, or Just Joining a Meeting)

    • Tell us what you've found searching online for your issue/inquiry, and what you've tried already.

    • Check the MS Teams Tech Community Forums for similar or related issues and consider posting there if you want visibility from Microsoft employees.

    • Be ready to answer more questions as members try to help you.

    Members who can answer questions: Please feel free to subscribe to the monthly thread, and to sort by new comments to review new questions. We appreciate all members who use their experience to help this community.

    Thanks!

    The /r/MicrosoftTeams MODs

    1 Comment
    2024/12/01
    13:01 UTC

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    Is it possible to make a bot app and add it in a 1-on-1 conversation?

    I’m trying to develop an app that will act as an assistant in conversations ranging between 2 to any number of people. I want the experience to be similar to how bots work in Slack. From customer perspective, I haven’t found anything similar yet

    5 Comments
    2024/12/01
    11:34 UTC

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    IS Teams what I need ?

    I have created a solution that allows clients to request assistance via a screen installed in their premises.

    Scenario: I have at least two employees working with nine different clients.

    I would like to know if Zoom can handle the following setup:

    • Everyone is in the same conversation, with both employees acting as admins.
    • When a client arrives, one of the admins selects the client. The client will then see and hear only the admin who selected them.
    • For other clients, the admin can display a message or an image saying, "We'll be available in 5 minutes."
    • The second admin should be able to do the same.

    Currently, I am using Discord, but it’s quite complicated to manage. For example, turning cameras on and off is challenging, and if three clients arrive at the same time, one of them might not be attended to. This client can see my employees talking but hears no sound because they are muted.

    If this is possible with Teams , which plan would I need?

    The metting need to be h24, we provide h24 services.

    3 Comments
    2024/12/01
    09:37 UTC

    4

    How to create a flow to checks message center updates and post to teams channel?

    Hi,

    As the title says I want a power automate flow that checks the latest message center updates (filtered for teams,SharePoint,extra, OneDrive) and post the update message in a channel named “message center”.

    I have tried both ChatGPT and Copilot before posting this to Reddit, but failed to find a message center connector in power automate. Both gave me explanations but I could not reproduce because both referred me to non existent connectors for message center so I still don’t know how to get this working to automatically update me about message center updates (fe using power automate and post to teams channel)

    Any other solution that works alike is fine with me

    Can anyone help me with a tested and working solution please?

    11 Comments
    2024/12/01
    08:58 UTC

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    New Teams slimcore optimization

    0 Comments
    2024/12/01
    06:23 UTC

    8

    Black Friday Deals - which Earbuds to get?

    Long story short- I have AirPod Pros 2 which are working terribly with Windows 11 / MS Teams. A lot of the certified MS earbuds are on sale for Black Friday but not sure which to get. I’m primarily focused on reducing microphone background noise and not as much on music. The ones I found are:

    1. Jabra Evolve 2 - $173 (via Amazon)
    2. Poly Voyager Free 60+ (had the touchscreen case) - $99 (via HP site)
    3. Logitech Zone True Wireless - $99 (via Logitech)

    Any thoughts from the Reddit universe?

    16 Comments
    2024/12/01
    05:30 UTC

    1

    What event is logged under purview if someone accesses a profile card on Teams?

    New to this and trying to figure out

    1 Comment
    2024/12/01
    04:49 UTC

    3

    Forms not automatically adding to assignment

    Apologies if already asked but nothing came up in search.

    I've been getting my head around teams and slowly getting there with using forms quizzes embed as assignments.

    I've been creating the form quizzes, then using a master class to create the modules with draft assignment, attaching the form as a 'new quiz'.

    This has all worked well until recently.When I try to create a 'new quiz' assignment, the form doesn't get synced and just a blank assignment appears with no explanation. Can't find anything useful online to show what is going on.

    I know I can add a link etc but was working so much better previously and I've not changed anything. Thanks everyone

    0 Comments
    2024/11/30
    17:28 UTC

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    Voicemail on Deskphone and Group

    I am trying to configure a line where a voicemail comes in, the message light on a physical phone goes on, but also have the voicemail sent to multiple users email.

    If I set up a shared phone service account, the voicemail will only appear on the physical phone. If I set up a 365 group, they will only get the emails, no light on the phone.

    Am I missing anything, is there a way for both things to happen?

    2 Comments
    2024/11/30
    14:56 UTC

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    Microsoft planner in teams

    Hi, I’m doing a project for a class, and am using the planner option in teams to set up a 3 month schedule. I am working with oct-dec this year, but now that I set a due date on some project is the date comes red as in it’s overdue. If I change the date so it is next year the due date shows up as mm/dd/yyyy which is not helping either as I need it to be this year.

    Is there anyway to make the program think it’s is not due yet? Or for the due date not to show the year?

    2 Comments
    2024/11/30
    13:16 UTC

    0

    Why is Teams more fun on Apple devices?

    Things like virtual thumbs, lasers and balloons pop up on hand gestures in iPhone and Mac but not on Windows?!

    5 Comments
    2024/11/30
    03:39 UTC

    5

    Moving to Teams - question about proper setup

    Right now we use Dropbox and Zoom in additional to Microsoft Office subscriptions for email and office apps. We have about 20 clients each with a large number of documents that we manage for them (by "large" I mean maybe 300-1,000 documents). Right now, each client's files are in a separate folder within Dropbox, all within a "clients" folder, to which all staff have access.

    I'm considering moving our business to Teams (and away from Dropbox and Zoom) because we already pay for Microsoft and for a few other reasons.

    My understanding is that it's best practice to have a separate Team per client. So for us, we might have 21 Teams; 1 per client, then 1 for the business. This would keep the documents cleanly and securely separated and, if needed, we could share to external users (the client) only those files within their document library without worrying about accidentally sharing the wrong client files.

    Is that the best setup?

    Follow up question (assuming the above is correct) if we have one main chat channel (say, in the "Business" Team) would that prevent us from posting files in the chat from other clients (other "Teams") for discussion?

    For example, if we're chatting in the main business channel, then start chatting about a client matter and wanted to discuss a specific client document, would we have to change Team channels to the client's channel in order to collaborate/discuss that document?

    EDIT: OR ... would it be better to have a single "Team" (the business) and multiple channels, one for each client?

    7 Comments
    2024/11/30
    00:37 UTC

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    Can’t see the shared screen on MacBooks.

    Hey everyone,

    Been facing a very peculiar issue hope to get some clarity from this sub.

    Scenario: whenever there is a meet hosted by external vendor, attendees from my org who are using MacBooks are not able to see the content shared on screen it’s just the while or black space.

    The issue is only with macbooks not there on windows.

    Issue happens only when vendor shares the screen first if my organisation’s attendee shares the screen first and then the external vendor shares the screen issue does not persists.

    We do not see this issue on LAN, only appears on Wi-Fi.

    We do not see the issue on iPhone.

    We do not observe any issues on teams web.

    We are using new teams tried uninstalling and reinstalling the app did not work. Cleared the cache but it didn’t help. Happens with every MacBook new old etc most of them are on mac-os sequoia.

    Any insights what can be checked or done to isolate would be highly appreciated.

    0 Comments
    2024/11/29
    20:29 UTC

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    White frame - Profile Picture

    Is there a way to avoid the white frame in Profile Picture?

    I tried different picture sizes, uploading using Exchange and using desktop teams.

    My photo has a black background and the white frame is not good.

    2 Comments
    2024/11/29
    16:28 UTC

    1

    Deploy company background

    Hi all,

    I am trying to automatically deploy our company background to our users. We are a small company, so we don't have intune or Teams premium.
    So I've read everywhere that the easiest way to deploy the company background is this method :
    https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1egl07m/deploying_custom_backgrounds_in_new_teams_via_gpo/

    So I did all this. I've started from my own background files (2 files) and used these as 'master' to be deplyed. The files are correctly copied via the GPO to the target folders on every users laptop.
    However (after restarting) the background is not active in meetings, nor is it selectable from within Teams.
    Their currently chosen background remains active, instead of this new background.

    Any pointers?

    8 Comments
    2024/11/29
    15:45 UTC

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    Does the planner not work properly on an Ipad ?

    I ended up creating a plan using the project management template but it doesn’t work on the ipad it doesn’t even show up.

    1 Comment
    2024/11/29
    12:42 UTC

    15

    Am I the only one?

    At least 3 times during my workday, while I am using Teams, it will just go back to a previous chat without me pressing anything. Am I the only one experiencing this?

    12 Comments
    2024/11/29
    09:36 UTC

    1

    Teams Townhall meeting in Mobile app - issue

    Can't be able to attend the MS Teams Townhall via Mobile app. But other colleagues can attend through mobile app.

    Is there anything can be done to resolve this. I attended meetings before with the mobile app. But I can't now.

    0 Comments
    2024/11/29
    07:57 UTC

    1

    Full length profile photo

    Does anyone know how to incorporate a full-length photo in their Microsoft Teams profile photo? I tried changing the pixels to less than 600 and then changing it into a square, but it's still cropped to where it cuts me out. thank you

    1 Comment
    2024/11/29
    04:15 UTC

    6

    Echo

    Very interesting issue on of my client is experiencing. While on the teams call (no phone, just teams to teams) in the same organization, the speaker hears echo for first 1~2 seconds - thereafter audio quality is normal.

    Call quality dashboard all parameters much below the range to have such an experience. Organization has followed M365 article to use split tunneling with M365 teams optimized IPs, which has no impact.

    Any ideas or tools we can deploy get more pointers will be appreciated.

    3 Comments
    2024/11/28
    23:12 UTC

    1

    Get-CsPhoneNumberAssignment

    What is the field LocationUpdateSupported used for and should it be set to True or False?

    0 Comments
    2024/11/28
    15:13 UTC

    0

    Can admins see search query in Teams search box in audit logs?

    I see SearchQueryInitiatedExchange and SearchQueryInitiatedSharePoint but there’s no equivalent for teams.

    2 Comments
    2024/11/28
    15:15 UTC

    1

    Pushing a specific setting to all our users

    Hi everyone

    Within our company we are trying to get a specific MS Teams client setting standardized across the entire organization. Namely the 'secondary ringer' option, which is disabled by default. Ideally, we'd like all of our users to have this setting enabled and have their device's speakers selected.

    So far, any searches around this topic have been in vain. There are no options for it in the Teams Admin, there are no catalogue settings in Intune I can deploy. There's not even a registry entry for this setting, so I can't write a script for it either. Any help in the right direction would be very appreciated.

    7 Comments
    2024/11/28
    15:11 UTC

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    Teams account still associated with old email address

    I recently changed my email address on Microsoft and deleted the old one. Nowhere in my account is the old email address displayed anymore.

    However, when I try to search for myself on Teams from a different device using my new email address, it displays "We couldn't find any results for...", and my account only shows up when I use my old email address. How is this possible, why does this affiliation still remain?

    Can someone help me with this issue? Thank you.

    1 Comment
    2024/11/28
    12:16 UTC

    2

    Last seen and read receipts not adding up?

    Someone in my team was “last seen” on Teams last Friday. However when I look to see if they have read my messages from this Monday, they have.

    So have they been active on teams? Or is the messages showing as read because they have read the messages on their phone screen?

    I’m not using teams to monitor employees, this person is not my report I’m just curious

    4 Comments
    2024/11/28
    11:50 UTC

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