Important notice:
Effective October 1, 2024, the University of Toronto implemented a 30-day retention protocol for all individual Teams chat messages. These are messages that do not reside inside a Teams channel.
Please note that Teams Chat deleted by a retention protocol is gone permanently and cannot be recovered. The new Teams Chat Retention protocol will be applied to ALL UofT Teams users.
For more information about the Microsoft Teams Chat Retention Protocol, please visit https://uoft.me/TeamsChatRetention.
The end of support for the classic Teams client starts July 1, 2024. The end of availability for the classic Teams client starts July 1, 2025.
All users must switch to the
new Teams for improved performance and features.
Learn more about the change and timeline.
Microsoft Teams is a chat-based collaborative workspace that brings together people, content and conversations. With Teams, channels of colleagues can create content while collaborating with one another at the same time. Users can share files through Teams both internally and externally, and access their team files on SharePoint.
The powerful chat functionality of Teams enables instant text, audio, and video communication among university colleagues. It integrates Office apps like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote, offering a collaborative experience.
