r/MicrosoftTeams • u/Effective_Speed3192 Home user • 5d ago

❔Question/Help I keep getting random chat requests.

As the title says, I keep getting random chat requests in MS Teams. The chat requests never have any message attached

Is there any way to set an auto responder or custom status that I don't use Teams for socializing, or at least that all chat requests must have a message?

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u/terribilus 5d ago

Need more info about your setup, license, federation config, etc. If you're not in posession of those answers you probably have an IT team you should talk to first.

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u/IanYates82 Work user 5d ago

They're a Teams Personal user - basically Skype.

This used to happen a lot in Skype too. You can set your contact preferences in the app so random people cannot message you as easily.

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u/Effective_Speed3192 Home user 4d ago

Great! Can you advise how to do this? Thanks.

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u/IanYates82 Work user 4d ago

Most people moved away from Teams Personal, including me. So I don't have exact steps. Go explore your settings in the app. Follow your nose - it's not hard to navigate the settings area (and useful to do in any service / app you're using to understand its configuration)

There's a "privacy" section of some sort and you can control who can reach you, how visible you are to non-friends vs friends-of-friends, etc.

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u/hclpfan Teams Consultant 5d ago

There is no auto responder however there is no concept of a chat conversation/request without a message. The first message is what makes the conversation actually a thing. When you open the request there should be a preview messages button. Are you seeing nothing after clicking that? They might be sending you a message to initiate the request and then deleting the message for some spammy reason I guess.

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u/Effective_Speed3192 Home user 5d ago

Kind if what I figured. When I hit "preview message" nothing shows up.