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Invite an participant to an meeting without chat history
hello, we have often 1-2-1 teams meetings. sometimes we need to invite an 3th participant. but the 3th participant can also read the chat history. also when we forget to remove him from the meeti...
Boxdoy At this time it isn't possible to delete a chat but it's on the backlog at least https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/33535006-delete-private-chat-threads Vote on it to stay updated when status changes.
What you would have to do now as far as I know is to delete your own messages which isn't the most handy approach.
One thing you can do about the other issue is to "end the meeting" for everyone when it's over https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/end-a-teams-meeting-for-everyone-in-attendance-5051fa72-8470-4a38-99e4-014535208971 in combination with a lobby settings that fit your needs, for example "only you" can bypass the lobby. Meaning you'd have to let the participants in when the next meeting starts so they don't automatically enter https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/change-participant-settings-for-a-teams-meeting-53261366-dbd5-45f9-aae9-a70e6354f88e
Even removing them from the chat only prevents future messages from showing up. Currently there is no way to just have a meeting with no chat or removing chat from the time they are on the call and have that same call be reused.
What you can do is utilize meet now and invite then into the meeting. You don't want to have a call from an existing chat and invite them into it as they will be able to see the chat. If you invite to the chat first, you can specify what they see, then call them, that can be an option as well, but you will have to remember to remove them from the chat after the call happens. Your best bet might be to make a chat with the individuals only and then give it a name, and only use that chat going forward, if oyu invite the same people the chat history will pop back up, but if you create a new chat with new individuals it will not and so forth.
What you can do is utilize meet now and invite then into the meeting. You don't want to have a call from an existing chat and invite them into it as they will be able to see the chat. If you invite to the chat first, you can specify what they see, then call them, that can be an option as well, but you will have to remember to remove them from the chat after the call happens. Your best bet might be to make a chat with the individuals only and then give it a name, and only use that chat going forward, if oyu invite the same people the chat history will pop back up, but if you create a new chat with new individuals it will not and so forth.
ChrisWebbTech See this conversation started by Chris Hoard and the reply from Laurie Pottmeyer https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams-ama/end-meeting-completely/m-p/1371040
When I voted for the named UserVoice it was only like 2-3 votes. It still needs to be pushed up though, but feels reassuring that the product team are aware of it.
Boxdoy In other words you have a couple of options as mentioned above but I understand it isn't optimal right now.
