Export messages from Teams Chat?

The thing is that the export functionality on Channel conversations is already there and perfectly working, by selecting the first message of a Channel conversation and then choose “Share to Outlook”.

So why oh why doesn't Microsoft simply make the same functionality available for Chat conversations? This would easily solve the problem that everyone has in not being able to archive/export their important Teams chats.

If this feature would be unlocked, one could simply send chat conversations to oneself via Outlook, and then archive them as MSG files, for example.

In addition, this kind of export to Outlook even would contain all embedded images from the chat in their original resolution!

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Dont forget that you must have an E3 or E5 to do this! As usual, microsoft make all of their products 65% functional with a side of a migraine.

This sucks! My life is too short for this!

See this blog: https://regroove.ca/stellark/2019/07/02/how-to-export-ms-teams-chat-history/

Read through months of this thread to get to this work-around and find that it only works for very short chats. The chat I need to preserve is a couple months of roughly weekly chats. Tried to pop-out the chat then use ctrl-A but it only copies what's visible in the popout chat window. So THEN waited patiently while scrolling to the very beginning of the chat in May 2021 and did the mouse click hold and scroll routine to get back to today's chat, then ctrl-C to copy, ctrl-V to paste into a blank Word document. All this to find out that the entire chat didn't get selected but only the last couple hours! I couldn't even copy today's complete chat log!

I agree with the many other heated replies that this is a critical function that needs a MUCH HIGHER priority in the Teams Dev backlog. This plus other limitations makes it difficult to fully use Teams as the primary groups collaboration tool.

Blane