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Maybe someone here also uses Teams - specifically the chat tool? With remote access being what it is these days, it's a useful tool, and I collect much information in it. I am now faced with trying to find some older messages with my boss. For the life of me, I cannot figure out a way to export the complete content of the chat *client* session. It's such a needed feature, I am mystified as to why it cannot be done easily.
I have found one blog that has me out doing powershell queries. Really?
wtf MS? Did I miss something obvious. Interestingly, had I used the chat via the browser, the discussion is sort of saved.
Anyone else solve this problem?
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Yup. Searching a Team chat is abysmal. Exporting a Team chat? Forget it. So stupid. I wish the company I worked for hadn't moved to Teams. We were using Slack. Loved Slack.
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I work for a fortune 500 company that is an all MS shop. I'm sure the corporate data servers have every Teams conversation stored away for nefarious purposes. However, I get a notification in Teams that old messages are removed on a regular basis.
As for an export feature, that probably just wasn't MVP. Wait a few releases.
Bond
Keep all things as simple as possible, but no simpler. -said someone, somewhere
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Teams itself doesn't remove old messages. Those messages are being removed by your IT department to manage the size of the Exchange server (used to store Teams chats).
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What happens in chat, stays in chat.
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Why?
I support some very old products where context can be important. I cannot even easily "select all". It's ridiculous.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Same here. Our email auto-deletes after 6 months, even though the company policy on record-keeping allows retention for up to 24. I've lost countless bits of interaction that were important to establish context.
And before someone asks, yes I do manually save emails and attachments separately when I can and I know in advance that I will need the information down the road.
The real pisser in all of this is that Outlook provides for maintaining separate (off-server) archives of email data. Of course, the pinheads in charge have disabled this administratively.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Unfortunately no.
I happen to have to use Teams in a corporate environment, so I have no access to the exchange server. I took a look at that article earlier this morning.
All I want to be able to do is right mouse click on a contact and select "Save chat session..." - it mystifies me how Microsoft manages to miss the most obvious stuff, and declares success with rounded icons.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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You may want to upvote/add a request to UserVoice. I was happy when MS responded to my (and others') request to be able to pop out a chat so we could have multiple conversations running at the same time.
/ravi
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 I will certainly do so. Thank you for the suggestion.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Well, I located the User Voice area, did a quick search. People have been asking for this for years.
-1 Microsoft
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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I rarely bitch and moan about a software, but Teams is a steaming pile of defecation.
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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My perspective in not being able to save conversations:
http://fe2o3al.com/iko/images/CanOpener.jpg[^]
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Lol, I see what you did there.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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The old fashioned (and smallest) man pees backwards like a lion, perhaps. (12)
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I didn't know there was a word for that. Not in a position to set tomorrow...
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There is a word for everything ! 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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OriginalGriff wrote: There is a word for everything !
Yes, it's "everything"
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That's only ten letters! 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Retromingent
old fashioned = Retro
smallest = min
man = gent
never heard of the word but it all seems to fit
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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You are up tomorrow!
(Blame Susie Dent ... it's one of her favorite words!*)
* I was watching a clip from "9 out of 10 cats do countdown" on YT and it came up.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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My cat tends to do it a lot. Stands up and wees backwards. It can be a sign of crystals in the bladder, but not in his case. (I suspect he thinks he's human and has seen me wee standing up). (too much information?  ) Anyway we now have to surround his litter tray with others stood on end to stop him weeing up the wall. On the plus side, as it just gets caught in the tray, we save on litter. On the down side, it doesn't smell great. 
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Maybe you cat really is human. Didn't consider that, huh?
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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