Export messages from Teams Chat?

Hello Talie,

Welcome to post your query here.

As per my knowledge, it's not feasible to export the conversations in Teams directly. As a workaround we can copy the entire conversations, then paste them to Word, OneNote, or other apps. Also for the single chat, we can share it to Outlook via click Share to Outlook option after you click more options of that specific chat. Or other workaround is that capture the screenshots of those conversations, then save it as .PNG, .JPG or other type file.

Actually, for your first and second query, the admin have the permission to run the content search from admin center, there admin may be abled to export the needed information. So if you are not the global admin in your organization, please do involve your admin here to go ahead. For the admin reference: Conduct an eDiscovery investigation of content in Microsoft Teams.

Have a nice time.

Regards,

Rudy

Hello Rudy,

What you are describing is the steps to export a single "message", within a chat. What is needed is a the way to export all messages within a chat.

It seems you are calling it a "conversation", but that does not seem to be a Teams terminology. You wrote that as workaround we can copy entire conversation, but Teams does not copy the entire conversation, only a handful (screenful?) of messages in the conversation. 

As per my knowledge, it's not feasible to export the conversations in Teams directly. As a workaround we can copy the entire conversations, then paste them to Word, OneNote, or other apps. Also for the single chat, we can share it to Outlook via click Share to Outlook option after you click more options of that specific chat. Or other workaround is that capture the screenshots of those conversations, then save it as .PNG, .JPG or other type file.

Hi there,

You may try the following workaround:

1. Open Teams into the Browser, Chrome for instance
2. Select all the conversation, right click and select Print as PDF
3. It will save as PDF and also include the pictures 

You may also pop up the conversation from Microsoft Teams client, perform select full conversation, copy and paste into a Word document.

Hope this helps.

Regards,

R.

Hi there,

You may try the following workaround:

1. Open Teams into the Browser, Chrome for instance
2. Select all the conversation, right click and select Print as PDF
3. It will save as PDF and also include the pictures 

You may also pop up the conversation from Microsoft Teams client, perform select full conversation, copy and paste into a Word document.

Hope this helps.

Regards,

R.

Would it be beyond the wit of someone at Microsoft to build this critical functionality into Teams?