Teams Room -Disable Chat to open by default

Question

When you start a Meeting it automatically opens the chat on right hand side. I have found a way to disable it through TAC 

 

Teams admin portal > Teams Devices > Teams Rooms on Windows (or Android, depending on your OS) > Choose the room(s) > Edit Settings > Meetings tab > Open meeting chat by default to "off" and Save > **click hyperlink into the room > Restart (Device has to be restarted from the Teams Admin portal or the changes do not get applied)
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Anyway we can control this feature through PowerShell ?

Answer 1

@Vardhan, Vivek

As of now, Microsoft doesn’t offer a dedicated PowerShell cmdlet to toggle the “Open meeting chat by default” setting for Teams Rooms devices. In other words, the only supported method to change this setting is via the Teams Admin Center (TAC) as you described.

Here are some additional points to consider:

• Although many Teams settings can be managed via PowerShell, this particular option for Teams Rooms hasn’t been exposed through available cmdlets.

• If you’re interested in an automated solution, you might consider providing feedback to the Teams engineering team or monitoring the Microsoft 365 Roadmap and Teams PowerShell module release notes for future enhancements.

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