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Namespace: microsoft.graph

Get all retained messages across all channels in a team.

To learn more about how to use the Microsoft Teams export APIs to export content, see Export content with the Microsoft Teams export APIs.

Note: This is a metered API that supports the model=A and model=B payment models. For details, see Payment models. If you don't specify a payment model in your query, the default evaluation mode will be used.

Depending on which payment model you choose, a license might also be required.

Note

This API requires Teams retention policies to be configured. For more information, see Manage retention policies for Microsoft Teams.

This API is available in the following national cloud deployments.

Global service US Government L4 US Government L5 (DOD) China operated by 21Vianet
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Permissions

Choose the permission or permissions marked as least privileged for this API. Use a higher privileged permission or permissions only if your app requires it. For details about delegated and application permissions, see Permission types. To learn more about these permissions, see the permissions reference.

Permission type Least privileged permissions Higher privileged permissions
Delegated (work or school account) Not supported. Not supported.
Delegated (personal Microsoft account) Not supported. Not supported.
Application ChannelMessage.Read.All Not available.

HTTP request

GET /teams/{teamsId}/channels/getAllRetainedMessages

Optional query parameters

The following example shows how to use the model query parameter with values A or B to select the preferred licensing and payment model. If you don't specify a model, evaluation mode is used by default.

GET /teams/{team-id}/channels/getAllRetainedMessages?model=A
GET /teams/{team-id}/channels/getAllRetainedMessages?model=B

This method supports the following OData query parameters to help customize the response. For general information, see OData query parameters.

Name Description
$filter The $filter query parameter supports date and time range queries on the lastModifiedDateTime property.
$top Use the $top query parameter to control the number of items per response.

Request headers

Name Description
Authorization Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.

Request body

Don't supply a request body for this method.

Response

If successful, this function returns a 200 OK response code and a collection of chatMessage objects in the response body.

Examples

Request

The following example shows a request.

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/teams/8b081ef6-4792-4def-b2c9-c363a1bf41d5/channels/getAllRetainedMessages

Response

The following example shows the response.

Note: The response object shown here might be shortened for readability.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#Collection(chatMessage)",
  "@odata.count": 2,
  "@odata.nextLink": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/teams/fbe2bf47-16c8-47cf-b4a5-4b9b187c508b/channels/getAllRetainedMessages?$skip=2",
  "value": [
    {
      "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.chatMessage",
      "id": "1616990417393",
      "replyToId": null,
      "etag": "1616990417393",
      "messageType": "message",
      "createdDateTime": "2021-03-29T04:00:17.393Z",
      "lastModifiedDateTime": "2021-03-29T04:00:17.393Z",
      "lastEditedDateTime": null,
      "deletedDateTime": null,
      "subject": null,
      "summary": null,
      "chatId": null,
      "importance": "normal",
      "locale": "en-us",
      "webUrl": "https://teams.microsoft.com/l/message/19%3Ad5d2708d408c41d98424c1c354c19db3%40thread.tacv2/1616990417393?groupId=fbe2bf47-16c8-47cf-b4a5-4b9b187c508b&tenantId=2432b57b-0abd-43db-aa7b-16eadd115d34&createdTime=1616990417393&parentMessageId=1616990417393",
      "policyViolation": null,
      "eventDetail": null,
      "from": {
        "application": null,
        "device": null,
        "conversation": null,
        "user": {
          "id": "8ea0e38b-efb3-4757-924a-5f94061cf8c2",
          "displayName": "Robin Kline",
          "userIdentityType": "aadUser"
        }
      },
      "body": {
        "contentType": "text",
        "content": "Test message"
      },
      "channelIdentity": {
        "teamId": "fbe2bf47-16c8-47cf-b4a5-4b9b187c508b",
        "channelId": "19:[email protected]"
      },
      "attachments": [],
      "mentions": [],
      "reactions": []
    },
    {
      "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.chatMessage",
      "id": "1616990171266",
      "replyToId": "1616990032035",
      "etag": "1616990171266",
      "messageType": "message",
      "createdDateTime": "2021-03-29T03:56:11.266Z",
      "lastModifiedDateTime": "2021-03-29T03:56:11.266Z",
      "lastEditedDateTime": null,
      "deletedDateTime": null,
      "subject": null,
      "summary": null,
      "chatId": null,
      "importance": "normal",
      "locale": "en-us",
      "webUrl": "https://teams.microsoft.com/l/message/19%3A4a95f7d8db4c4e7fae857bcebe0623e6%40thread.tacv2/1616990171266?groupId=fbe2bf47-16c8-47cf-b4a5-4b9b187c508b&tenantId=2432b57b-0abd-43db-aa7b-16eadd115d34&createdTime=1616990171266&parentMessageId=1616990032035",
      "policyViolation": null,
      "eventDetail": null,
      "from": {
        "application": null,
        "device": null,
        "conversation": null,
        "user": {
          "id": "8ea0e38b-efb3-4757-924a-5f94061cf8c2",
          "displayName": "Robin Kline",
          "userIdentityType": "aadUser"
        }
      },
      "body": {
        "contentType": "text",
        "content": "Hello World"
      },
      "channelIdentity": {
        "teamId": "fbe2bf47-16c8-47cf-b4a5-4b9b187c508b",
        "channelId": "19:[email protected]"
      },
      "attachments": [],
      "mentions": [],
      "reactions": []
    }
  ]
}

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