

NOTE:- A small workaround is suggested here that if your chat is short, then you can just simply copy and paste it in any editor software like WordPad, NotePad etc. So In this article we will show you many methods of saving / exporting your chat history in Microsoft Teams in Windows 11 PC. Therefore, it is always a good practice to have a copy of your old chats from Teams in order to use it for future reference, but saving the old chat history is not that easy as it looks like. Minimum 1-7 days later, it gets permanently deleted and not be able to search by eDiscovery tool. Usually organizations keep the chat data and other mailbox history for short period of time, after which it gets moved to SubstrateHold folder from which you can search it using eDiscovery tool. But when you are using Microsoft Teams provided by your Organization, the retention policies are managed by them. The default retention policy is to retain the old chats for a very long time. Make sure that team members are in Azure Active Directory (AAD).įor more information on how to utilize these APIs, see our technical documentation on how to import third-party platform messages to Teams using Microsoft Graph.Many Microsoft Team users have reported that their old chats are getting disappeared all of a sudden because they are not aware of MS Team’s retention policy.

