Teams Draft Messages
It's like email drafts, except it's not at all like email drafts.
Have you seen this feature in your tenant yet?
Microsoft Teams Finally Makes Draft Messages Easy to Find
If you have, you may have noticed that if you start typing a message in Teams, get distracted, click on a different chat, go to a meeting chat, and hours later remember that you started typing a Teams message somewhere, you can easily find it in the Quick View Drafts location.
It works really well.
It’s simple.
I am very happy about it.
Of course, new data also gives me another newsletter topic! The question is, where are those drafts? Is it like email, where we can collect them from a “Draft” folder in the mailbox? (Or the Teams equivalent of such a folder in the same Substrate area where Teams messages are stored?)
Not so much.
They may, in fact, be saved locally in the Teams app and not accessible for eDiscovery at all. Maybe that’s not a big deal, but if you’re expecting draft Teams messages to show up in the same way that draft email messages show up, you’re going to be disappointed.
Let’s look at the details:
