Microsoft Teams chat history is stored in a hidden file in the user’s mailbox, which cannot be accessed via Outlook or OWA. Besides, the hidden files are not even accessible by users or administrators. However, there are various ways to access Team chat history, including Office 365 Group, Exchange Management Shell, etc.
Chats in Teams conversations are stored in the mailbox of the Office 365 Group. Personal chats including group chats are stored in the mailboxes of the users. However, these are not accessible immediately and are in hidden folders.
How to find previous chat messages in Microsoft Teams?
Based on this article, Teams chat, channel, and files data are retained forever by default. To find previous chat messages, you can select one chat and scroll it up. You can find more detailed instruction in above article.
If you want to use API to export chat history, you can try to use Teams Export API. It allows you to export 1:1 and group chat messages from Microsoft Teams. The chat message can be a root chat message or part or a reply that is defined by the Reply. Told property in the chat message.
This begs the inquiry “How to find team chat history in Office 365 mailbox?”
Exchange Management Shell is a great way to find Team chat history within a group mailbox created by Office 365. As mentioned above, whenever you make a Teams group, an Office 365 mailbox is automatically created where the chat history is stored. To find the Team chat history for a specific mailbox, you can use the below command:.
Where are meeting files stored in Microsoft Teams?
They can be located by title, date, and other criteria. As far as chat within the meeting and files shared in the meeting, those are stored the same as always in Teams. Meaning the files go into the Microsoft Teams chat files folder of the sharer and the chat is available only under Discovery.