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abhishekaravind
Oct 12, 2020Copper Contributor
Adding External but Federated users in a group chat
I would like to know how to Add external teams users (NOTE: not guests, and users i.e. more than one) to group chats Context We currently have a multi domain setup - domain A, domain B, etc. ...
- Oct 12, 2020
Nope, not missing anything, you cannot do group chats via federation(external) chat yet.
However, a work around is to create a meeting with everyone, may have to have them join the meeting then click chat, but then you can have an external chat that will be available across everyone's clients. Not ideal, but it works for now until we can get External group chats in. Once you chat, you also don't have to stay connected to the A/V of the meeting and still use the chat going forward.
No word on ETA etc. that I can share unfortunately.
Oct 12, 2020
Nope, not missing anything, you cannot do group chats via federation(external) chat yet.
However, a work around is to create a meeting with everyone, may have to have them join the meeting then click chat, but then you can have an external chat that will be available across everyone's clients. Not ideal, but it works for now until we can get External group chats in. Once you chat, you also don't have to stay connected to the A/V of the meeting and still use the chat going forward.
No word on ETA etc. that I can share unfortunately.
MasterDebater
Jan 05, 2021Copper Contributor
It is honestly unbelievable that you are not able to group chat in this context. The workaround is hardly that, and no ETA? Really? What is the issue that MS would not ensure group chat out of the gate?