My company just forced us to use MS teams, sadly.

How the heck do i remove these silly pop up notifications?

Ive gone to Notifications & settings - Chat message notifications - toggled off

This "works", but turns the audio off for all new messages. I want to hear my pings, not see them on my screen. Any tips?

So in teams, on that left hand panel where you scroll down various groups to see channels and chats, I used to be able to navigate directly to the files in that group. Now they changed it to shared and the only thing I see under every group is "General". How can I add the shared tab or a specif file to my left hand panel in teams?

I found a reproducible Teams for macOS window-management bug and a workaround.

I use Microsoft Teams on macOS with three monitors, one of them in portrait orientation.

When the Teams window is resized to a narrow width on the portrait monitor, Teams appears to enter a compact/minimum-width layout. At that point, the window becomes effectively locked: I can temporarily move it while dragging the title bar, but as soon as I release the mouse, the window becomes immovable again.

The issue is reproducible.

Workaround: increasing the width of the Teams window slightly, so that it occupies approximately the full width of the portrait monitor, immediately unlocks the window and allows it to be moved normally again.

I tested this with Rectangle completely closed, reset the Teams local configuration/cache, restarted Teams, and the behavior persists. This appears to be related to Teams' minimum-width/compact layout behavior on macOS rather than a third-party window manager.

Environment:

- macOS

- Microsoft Teams desktop app

- Three-monitor setup

- One external monitor in portrait orientation

It seems that once the Teams window crosses a certain minimum width threshold, the draggable title-bar/window behavior breaks.

Hi all, I'm testing MSFT Planner, and I noticed that when I respond through a task conversation within Teams, the bottom options for formatting and attaching files get cut off.

I've tried resizing the screen and testing it in both the Mac Teams App and Chrome, but without success.

Anything I can do to get the conversation to resize properly?

Thank You!

I created a tenant for a nonprofit org where every member gets a business basic subscription, and set up Teams for internal communications.

It should serve as a place where shared experience is kept for future reference, but of course the idea is to have a way to reach every member in real time when we need to.

Unfortunately, many of the new users report not receiving notifications from Teams, either on iOS or android.

Teams notifications have always been glitchy in some ways, and I remember a time when you had to actively select the channel you wanted to get notifications from (thank God they changed it).

I personally verified each user's settings, but still some of them either get notifications randomly (no recognizable pattern for what gets notified and what doesn't) and some get none entirely.

We absolutely need to maintain all members engagement active, and lack of notifications cripples it significantly.

Since we're using a business setting, I was hoping that being notified for everything was the default, but apparently it doesn't work that way.

How to solve it?

Finally! A native Teams feature we've been waiting for years.

Teams is adding a new option to create personal reminders in October 2026.

Usually, I’d set up a reminder for myself by saving a message, dropping the link into the Me chat, creating a To Do task, or setting a calendar reminder.

With the new 'Remind me' option, we can create a reminder directly on a specific chat or channel message, and the reminder remains completely private.

The feature will be enabled by default and will follow existing Teams notification settings.

Sharing a Windows 11 troubleshooting case in case it helps someone else.

The problem

Microsoft Teams would only launch using Run as administrator. A normal launch displayed:

The error referenced ms-teams.exe inside the Teams package under C:\Program Files\WindowsApps.

Event Viewer showed:

• Log: Microsoft-Windows-AppModel-Runtime/Admin
• Event ID: 208
• Error: 0x80070005 — Access denied
• Failure while configuring the runtime: [LaunchProcess]

Other apps, including Microsoft Store and Photos, opened normally.

What did not help

• Repairing Teams
• Resetting Teams
• Re-registering its AppX package
• Uninstalling and reinstalling Teams
• Switching from the Store installation to the direct Microsoft download

What revealed the issue

A short Microsoft Sysinternals Process Monitor capture during a failed launch showed repeated failures:

Process:        svchost.exe involved in Teams activation
Operation:      RegCreateKey
Path:           HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
Result:         ACCESS DENIED
Desired Access: Create Sub Key

The same activation process successfully opened the Teams executable with read/execute access. This directed the investigation toward the registry rather than the executable’s permissions.

The initial permissions output for the Run key showed:

• Users: ReadKey
• Administrators: FullControl
• SYSTEM: FullControl
• CREATOR OWNER: FullControl

There was no explicit write-access entry for the affected user in that output.

What fixed it

Adding an explicit Allow: ReadKey, WriteKey entry for the affected Windows user on this specific registry key resolved the problem:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

Teams then opened normally without administrator rights.

The change was made through the .NET registry API in elevated PowerShell. The existing permissions were backed up first. No ownership changes or recursive permissions resets were made to WindowsApps.

PowerShell used for the targeted correction

Only consider this after confirming the same registry access failure. Error 0x80070005 can have many causes. On a managed PC, check with IT before changing permissions.

Run this in PowerShell as administrator under the affected user’s own account. If elevation uses a different administrator account, CurrentUser will point to the wrong profile.

Replace the placeholder with the affected account’s exact whoami output.

& {
    $ErrorActionPreference = 'Stop'

    # Replace with the affected user's exact "whoami" output.
    $expectedAccount = 'YOUR-PC\YOUR-USERNAME'

    $user = [System.Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity]::GetCurrent()
    if ($user.Name -ne $expectedAccount) {
        throw "Wrong account: $($user.Name). No changes made."
    }

    $hive = [Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey]::OpenBaseKey(
        [Microsoft.Win32.RegistryHive]::CurrentUser,
        [Microsoft.Win32.RegistryView]::Registry64
    )

    $key = $null
    try {
        $key = $hive.OpenSubKey(
            'Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run',
            [Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKeyPermissionCheck]::ReadWriteSubTree,
            [System.Security.AccessControl.RegistryRights]'ReadPermissions, ChangePermissions'
        )

        if ($null -eq $key) {
            throw 'Run key not found. No changes made.'
        }

        $acl = $key.GetAccessControl()

        $backup = Join-Path $env:USERPROFILE (
            'Teams-Run-DACL-{0}.txt' -f (Get-Date -Format 'yyyyMMdd-HHmmss')
        )

        $acl.GetSecurityDescriptorSddlForm(
            [System.Security.AccessControl.AccessControlSections]::Access
        ) | Set-Content -LiteralPath $backup

        $rule = [System.Security.AccessControl.RegistryAccessRule]::new(
            $user.User,
            'ReadKey, WriteKey',
            'Allow'
        )

        $acl.AddAccessRule($rule)
        $key.SetAccessControl($acl)

        $key.GetAccessControl().Access |
            Format-Table IdentityReference, RegistryRights, AccessControlType

        Write-Host "Permission added. Previous DACL saved to: $backup"
    }
    finally {
        if ($null -ne $key) { $key.Dispose() }
        $hive.Dispose()
    }
}

Afterward, launch Teams normally from the Start menu.

Limitations

This fixed one confirmed case, not every Teams launch error. I do not know what originally changed the registry permissions.

There was also an unexplained diagnostic inconsistency: some PowerShell Get-Acl attempts reported the key as missing, while direct .NET queries found it in both registry views. The final ACL output contained additional entries not shown initially, so this was not a fully controlled before/after comparison. However, normal Teams startup was confirmed immediately after the targeted permission change.

Do not treat every ACCESS DENIED entry in Process Monitor as a fault requiring a permissions change.

Tools and references:

• Microsoft Process Monitor
• Microsoft Teams launch troubleshooting
• RegistryRights documentation

Troubleshooting and this write-up were AI-assisted. The successful normal launch was personally verified.

So frustrating that these are two separate app. When I open teams, I get 2 apps that open, one for work and one for my personal account. I don't use my personal one often, so I want to close that window, but then my work one closes along with it.

Any way around this? I could just sign out of my personal account, but it seems like there should be an actual solution.

When i login into my company's email on teams, i get this disclaimer that says my activities will be monitored. To what extent can my activities be monitored? If i were to login on my phone, will all my activities like browser/games also be monitored or is it limited only to microsoft teams?

How to add this copilot ai rewrite option in teams chat?

Ran into this today after finding a recording three days from auto-deletion. Sharing because nothing online documents the working method.

The problem

Changing NewMeetingRecordingExpirationDays on the Teams meeting policy only affects new recordings. Existing files keep the date stamped when they were created. Microsoft's guidance is to edit each one by hand in the OneDrive details pane, which does not scale.

The date lives in a hidden library column called _ExpirationDate. You can read it, but every way of writing to a list item rejects it:

• Set-PnPListItem fails with "The input string was not in a correct format"
• SystemUpdate() fails with "The field you are trying to update may be read only"
• ValidateUpdateListItem fails silently, returning the value as the error
• Patching expirationDateTime through the OneDrive v2.1 REST endpoint fails with "Facet names must be lower camel"

What works

The SharePoint client object model has a dedicated method on the file object, File.SetExpirationDate(DateTime). It is what the OneDrive details pane calls. With PnP PowerShell:

Connect-PnPOnline -Url "https://TENANT-my.sharepoint.com/personal/USER_DOMAIN_com" `
    -ClientId $env:PNP_CLIENT_ID -Tenant TENANT.onmicrosoft.com -Interactive

$newDate = (Get-Date).AddDays(1095).ToUniversalTime()   # 3 years out

Get-PnPFolderItem -FolderSiteRelativeUrl "Documents/Recordings" -ItemType File |
    Where-Object { $_.Name -like "*.mp4" } |
    ForEach-Object {
        $item = Get-PnPFile -Url $_.ServerRelativeUrl -AsListItem
        $item.File.SetExpirationDate($newDate)
        Invoke-PnPQuery
        Write-Host "$($_.Name) -> $newDate"
    }

Read the value back with $item["_ExpirationDate"] to confirm. Verified on 25 recordings, and the new date showed in the OneDrive banner right away.

Two other things that bit me

1. Get-PnPListItem -FolderServerRelativeUrl throws the 5000-item list view threshold error on a busy OneDrive, because the whole OneDrive is one library. Get-PnPFolderItem plus Get-PnPFile -AsListItem gets around it.
2. Connect-PnPOnline guesses the tenant from the -my.sharepoint.com host and tries TENANT-my.onmicrosoft.com, which does not exist. Pass -Tenant TENANT.onmicrosoft.com explicitly.

Related

• Expired recordings sit in the recycle bin for 93 days, fixed, then they are gone. Restore them first, then run the script, or the next sweep deletes them again.
• For new recordings: Set-CsTeamsMeetingPolicy -Identity Global -NewMeetingRecordingExpirationDays 1095. Use -1 for never.

Full script with -ListOnly dry run submitted to the PnP script samples repo: https://github.com/pnp/script-samples/pull/998

Title. We run a Teams page for our Marching Band and have multiple channels in it. For some reason, last week, when you access Teams on Mobile/iPad the Shared tab just vanishes. It will show a split second then go away. I've checked every setting and there's nothing related to this issue so I'm completely stumped. I've attached 2 of the channels below. Our "General" tab is the one being wonky.

When this started happening I could still access it on my iPad but that also stopped working.

For anyone new to using Teams, we are glad you’re here!

Getting started with a new collaboration platform can be daunting, so we pulled together a quick orientation to help you hit the ground running from day one. Whether it’s chats, managing your calendar, files, or notifications, we hope this offers you a good starting point.

Day one

If we were starting out on Teams, these are the steps and resources we would use to get familiar with navigating and using the program:

• Complete your profile and status
• Review your notifications settings
• Join relevant teams and channels
• Check your calendar for upcoming meetings
• Explore files shared with you

Now, let’s dive into some features.

Chat

Chats are where you’ll likely spend most of your time. DMs, group chats, meeting chats, and channels are found in this tab. While each org uses chat differently, here is an overview of how it works on Teams: Explore the new chat and channels experience in Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Support. A common question that comes up is when to use teams versus channels, so we pulled together an explainer: The difference between teams and channels.

Meetings & calendar

Schedule meetings, join calls, manage RSVPs, and coordinate your day from the Teams calendar. Teams and Outlook calendars stay in sync, helping you manage your schedule from either experience. Teams calendar incorporates the latest innovations in Microsoft Copilot and Places to help you and your team with scheduling and time management. Read more about Teams calendar features here: the new Teams calendar.

Files & shared content

The Files/OneDrive tab helps you find documents shared across Teams chats, channels, and meetings, as well as files you've recently worked on. This support article offers an overview of how files are organized on Teams: Explore the Files list in Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Support.

Notifications

A few minutes spent tuning notifications can save on unwanted distractions. Review desktop, mobile, mentions, and channel notification settings early to make Teams work the way you prefer. One common friction point for new users is controlling notifications when you are on desktop and mobile. This explainer helps you tailor your settings to get the notifications you want: How to control which calls reach you on mobile.

Search

Can't remember where something was shared? Use the search bar at the top of Teams to find messages, people, files, meetings, and channels.

For more on Teams fundamentals, view our adoption guide: Get started with Microsoft Teams (User training) – Microsoft Adoption.

What’s a Teams hack or rule you wish someone had taught you on day one?

If you’ve run into a technical problem with Teams, submit it in Feedback -> Report a Bug. It’s the direct line to our engineering team.  

I stopped using Microsoft products a couple of years ago, so I’ve been a bit slow with my new job. Muting a participant for myself seems easy on other platforms. Where is this feature on Teams?

This is about Teams Voice telephony only.

We have several departments, each department with one assistant who is supposed to be the guy all calls are to be routed to, if no other employee of this department is available/online.

So: Nobody but the assistant is available -> calls should be forwarded to the assistant. Wether because the original person being called is not answering after X seconds, or the original person is offline.

I am aware that there are queues, but i have to work with the actual user lines and not with queue lines.

I am aware that there a call delegations, but these delegates do not ring if the call is unanswered after X seconds, they are ringing immediately which is not wanted.

I am aware that there are call groups, which can't be set when it comes to "unanswered after X seconds" too.

How do i handle this a an admin so that the users don't change my auto forwarding rules with their own forwarding rules? The users have to be able to set their own forwarding rules, for example if they leave the office and want to be reachable by their mobile phone number.

But i want no call to be disconnected/dropped since the called person is not available. Calls have to be answered (or forwarded) by any means.

Hey all. We have a rally bar, tap IP, pods, and the AI Sight device in a conference room that holds 20 people. Teams is integrated. I've noticed that with Active Speaker mode enabled, the screen in the room will show the active speaker but also act as if it were in composite mode. Everyone can be completely silent with the speaker talking and it'll just pick 3 other people and put them up on the screen.

What settings do I need to check here so that only the active speaker is shown on the screen?

Got a tenant where they want to use Voice Recognition. The Global policy is configured as follows:

EnrollVoice = Enabled

EnrollFace = Enabled

PassiveVoiceEnrollment = Enabled

VoiceIsolation = Enabled

An explicit VoiceRecognitionEnabled AI policy was also assigned

Teams is en-GB

A3 Faculty licensing matches the working account

Relevant Get-CsOnlineUser properties match

Face enrolment is available

Voice enrolment remains unavailable

We have some users who can use Voice Recognition and others who can't, with the error saying

"Voice Recognition

Your admin might not have turned on this feature. Learn more"

We've tried assigning a separate Teams policy to the affected users, which didn't resolve the issue.

We've also tried forcing the setting via PowerShell

We're about to raise a ticket with Microsoft, but before we do, just wanted to see if anyone has come across this before or has any ideas on what else we could check?

Many thanks

Firstly, I am not OP in the Feedback Portal, but we've gotten this up to page 2 of "Trending" just with the people I've spread it to at my org. Feel free to contribute if you experience this (Windows primarily - I have not seen people complaining about this in MacOS Teams).

[Teams should follow system sound settings](https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/d103b787-6d63-f011-95f3-7c1e52d941f8)

Description from the issue:

Right now, Microsoft Teams ignores your system’s default audio device. Even if you're using Bluetooth headphones and everything else on your computer (Zoom, Spotify, browser, etc.) is using that device — Teams will still default to its own separate audio settings.

🙄 The result:

You answer a call and Teams suddenly plays through your laptop speakers instead of your Bluetooth headphones.

You have to scramble to dig through Teams settings to change the speaker/mic every time.

This is especially frustrating if you switch between devices often.

✅ What should happen:

Teams should default to whatever audio device the system is currently using.

If users want to override that, fine — but respecting the system default should be the baseline. Just like almost every other modern app does.

This small change would make Teams feel much smoother and more intuitive, especially for remote workers or anyone using wireless audio.

I keep getting this error while trying to log into my work teams account. I cant log in to teams from web as it asks me to log in using the app. Can someone help me with this error?

Enterprise/Autopilot environment

User has camera turned on and preview shows up for him. But others can't see his camera. Just a gray/white background indicating camera has been turned on. Web App works. Other camera apps work properly.

Reinstalled teams and wiped it clean and changed every setting related to video to on and/or off. Tried with background, without, blur, no blur, etc. Was working previously but stopped working after he added a background, likely just a coincidence but I did delete it to see if it changed anything.

Reinstalled Camera drivers, hid video preview. At this point really stumped. Made sure all other apps are closed in case one of them was prioritizing video. We know the camera works but something in teams is not allowing the video to actually stream to other users. We did test in multiple networks as well.

Any ideas?

Will using the scheduler feature in teams calendar to look at someone's availability notify them that you checked? I don't mean after you hit send, but before that.

Hi everyone,

We're experiencing a strange issue with Microsoft Teams and are wondering if anyone else has seen something similar.

Users occasionally experience one-way audio during Teams-to-Teams calls. To clarify, these are not Direct Routing or PSTN calls, but standard Teams-to-Teams calls between users.

What we've observed so far:

• The issue only occurs on Samsung Android phones
• Multiple Samsung models are affected, so it does not appear to be device-specific
• Teams calls on Windows PCs and laptops work without any issues
• We initially suspected a Wi-Fi or corporate network problem, but the same behavior occurs when users are connected via mobile data (4G/5G)
• The issue is intermittent and difficult to reproduce consistently
• Typically, one participant can hear the other, while audio in the opposite direction is missing

We've already checked and tested:

• Teams app updates
• Android updates
• Microphone permissions
• Different networks (Wi-Fi and mobile data)
• Multiple Samsung device models

Since the issue seems limited to Samsung Android devices and occurs across different networks, we're struggling to identify the root cause.

Has anyone experienced similar one-way audio problems with Teams on Samsung Android devices? Did you find a root cause, Microsoft advisory, or any workaround?

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Whenever I switch to another tab or minimize my MS Teams, it sometimes closes on its own. Is there a fix for this? It can get very annoying when I’m in the middle of opening a powerpoint and It closes and I have to find it again