This change impacts your organization in several ways: Microsoft recommends that customers roll this feature out before this date so that they can control the timing of the release. Rolling out incrementally starting August 16th, 2021 (previously July 7th) – No new meeting recordings can be saved to Microsoft Stream (Classic) all customers (Enterprise and Education) will automatically have meeting recordings saved to OneDrive and SharePoint even if they’ve changed their Teams meeting policies to “Stream”.Rolling out starting January 7th, 2021 (Complete) – All new Teams meeting recordings will be saved to OneDrive and SharePoint unless you delay this change by modifying your organization’s Teams Meeting policies and explicitly setting them to “Stream”.Octo(Complete) – You can enable the Teams Meeting policy to have meeting recordings saved to OneDrive and SharePoint instead of Microsoft Stream (Classic).Microsoft is changing the storage for new Teams meeting recordings to be stored on, and served from, OneDrive and SharePoint (ODSP) – instead of Microsoft Stream (Classic). Now, you would never miss out or forget about any important conversations that went on either during a private/group chat or a work call/meeting.MC222640 – Updated August 02, 2021: This post has been updated with new information regarding the move of Teams meeting recordings being saved to OneDrive and SharePoint, which is on track starting August 16th, 2021. Your saved in-meeting chat will show in ‘Saved’ panel on the team channel where the meeting took place. The saved in-meeting chats would also be accessible through the previously discussed process (User account icon » Saved). Now select the ‘Save this message’ option. Hover the cursor over any message you’d like to save and click on the ellipses icon that appears above the text. This would open the ‘Meeting Chat’ panel, where you would find the conversations of the ongoing call. If you have a conversation during a live meeting that you want to save, first click on the ‘Chat’ icon on the ongoing meeting screen. This would now instantly unsave that chat. It would turn grey from purple (or any other color). Just click on the ‘Save’ icon that appears on the required chat. You can easily unsave chats from this list too. When you click on these saved chats, it will direct you to the respective chat section. Your saved chats will now appear under ‘Saved’ panel on the left side of the screen. First, click on your user profile icon on the extreme right corner and then select the ‘Saved’ option in the drop-down. You will now find a couple of emojis and a three-dotted icon, click on the three-dotted icon and select ‘Save this message’. On the chat screen, choose the text you want to save and hover your cursor over that message. Then, open a chat from which you wish to save a message. Open your Microsoft Teams app and click on the chat section on the left margin.
Be it an important text or a reminder or anything on your team channel or private chats, saving chats is quite convenient on Microsoft Teams. Saved chats come in handy for future references a lot of times. Save important messages for future reference