Limit in Microsoft Teams: Top 9 Limitations in Microsoft Teams – Office 365

Limit in Microsoft Teams – even though the uses of Microsoft Teams have been growing day by day, however, it has some limitations in the way it works, so we must know those limitations before we adopt to use the teams. Here, in this article, I will show what are the top 5 limitations of Microsoft Teams.

Key-Highlights: Limit in Microsoft Teams

• Limitations in Teams and channels
• Limitations in Microsoft Teams Messaging
• Character limitation in teams channel naming
• Limitations in Teams Meetings and calls
• Limitation in Teams Meeting Expiration
• Limitations in Teams live events
• Limitations in Teams Storage
• Limitations in Teams Tags
• Limitation in Browser – supported browser in Teams
• What is the maximum limit in terms of the active speaker in Microsoft Teams Video Calls?
• What is the maximum limit in Teams Meeting participants for audio/video meetings?
• What are the disadvantages of Microsoft Teams?

Limitations in Teams and channels (Limit in Microsoft Teams)

Notes:

1. Any directory object in Azure Active Directory counts towards this limit. Global admins are exempt from this limit, as are apps calling Microsoft Graph using application permissions.
2. This limit includes archived teams.
3. Deleted channels can be restored within 30 days. During these 30 days, a deleted channel continues to be counted towards the 200 channel per team limit. After 30 days, a deleted channel and its content are permanently deleted and the channel no longer counts toward the 200 channels per team limit.
4. 28 KB is an approximate limit because it includes the message itself (text, image links, etc.), @-mentions, number of connectors, and reactions.

Limitations in Microsoft Teams Messaging (Limit in Microsoft Teams)

Notes:

1. If you have more than 20 people in a chat, the following chat features are turned off: Outlook automatic replies and Teams status messages; typing indicator; video and audio calling; sharing; read receipts.
2. If the number of attachments exceeds this limit, you’ll see an error message.
3. 28 KB is an approximate limit because it includes the message itself (text, image links, etc.), @-mentions, and reactions.

Limit in Microsoft Teams – Limitation in Microsoft Teams Emailing a channel

If a user wants to send an email to a channel in Teams, they use the channel email address. When an email is part of a channel, anyone can reply to it to start a conversation. Here are some of the applicable limits for sending emails to a channel.

Notes:

1. If the message exceeds this limit, a preview message is generated and the user is asked to download and view the original email from the link provided.
2. If the number of attachments or images exceeds this limit, you’ll see an error message.

Character limit in teams channel name (Limit in Microsoft Teams)

We cannot have the below characters or words while creating the teams channel.

Note:

• Channel names also can’t start with an underscore (_) or period (.), or end with a period (.).

Limitations in Teams Meetings and calls (Limit in Microsoft Teams)

Limitations in Microsoft Teams meetings and calls are as below:

Limitations in Teams Meeting Expiration (Limit in Microsoft Teams)

Limitations of Teams live events (Limit in Microsoft Teams)

Below is the Microsoft Teams live events limitation:

1. You can schedule as many live events as you want, but you can only run 15 at a time. As soon as the producer joins a live event, it’s considered to be running. The producer who attempts to join the 16th live event gets an error.

Microsoft 365 live event limit increases to help customers meet rapidly changing communication needs, Microsoft 365 live events will temporarily raise default limits until July 1, 2020, for live events hosted in Teams. The following increases are being rolled out in late April 2020:

• Attendee limit: events can support up to 20,000 attendees
• Concurrent events: 50 events can be hosted simultaneously across a tenant
• Event duration: event length has been increased to 16 hours per broadcast

Limitations in Teams Storage (Teams files storage limit)

For each team, there is a dedicated SharePoint site collection. However, there is a limitation in terms of uploading files, file size, etc based on the office 365 subscription plan which is listed in the below table:

Notes:

• Channels are backed by folders within the SharePoint Online site collection created for the team, so file tabs within Channels share the storage limits of the team they belong to.

Limitations in Teams Tags (Limit in Microsoft Teams)

Limitation in Browser – supported browsers in Teams (supported browser for Microsoft teams)

The below table describes supported and not supported browsers in Microsoft Teams.

Notes:

1. To give and take control of shared content during sharing, both parties must be using the Teams, desktop client. Control isn’t supported when either party is running Teams in a browser. This is due to a technical limitation that we’re planning to fix.
2. Blur my background isn’t available when you run Teams in a browser. This feature is only available in the Teams desktop client.
3. Teams meetings on browsers are limited to a single incoming video feed of active speakers.

What is the maximum limit in terms of the active speaker in Microsoft Teams Video Calls?

Earlier we could have only 4 active speakers in a teams video call meeting, however, this limit has been increased to 9 since May 2020.

If you have a group chat you will only be able to start a video conference from that if you are 20 participants or fewer in that group chat.

What is the maximum limit in Teams Meeting participants for audio/video meetings?

Number of people in a meeting (can chat and call in) (300)” and “Number of people in a video or audio call from chat (20)

What are the disadvantages of Microsoft Teams?

Below are the bullets about the disadvantages of Microsoft Teams:

• No central search for all products of office 365.
• Unnecessary consumption of storage
• Needs improvements over the notification.
• The limited number of channels.
• There are similar tools available from Microsoft.

Key-Takeaway: Limit in Microsoft Teams

• This limitation is of today (05th July 2020), as the popularity of teams grows day by day, Microsoft is dedicated to increasing these limits, so these limitations are not constant.
• If the number of teams meeting attendees is more, go for teams live event(limit is 10,000 – very soon this limit will be increased to 20,000) rather than scheduling the teams meeting(limit is 300).

Summary: Limit in Microsoft Teams

Thus, in this article, we have learned the below with respect to the limitation in Microsoft Teams:

• Limitations in Teams and channels
• Limitations in Microsoft Teams Messaging
• Character limitation in teams channel naming
• Limitations in Teams Meetings and calls
• Limitation in Teams Meeting Expiration
• Limitations in Teams live events
• Limitations in Teams Storage
• Limitations in Teams Tags
• Limitation in Browser – supported browser in Teams
• What is the maximum limit in terms of the active speaker in Microsoft Teams Video Calls?
• What is the maximum limit in Teams Meeting participants for audio/video meetings?
• What are the disadvantages of Microsoft Teams?

See Also: Limit in Microsoft Teams

You may also like the below Microsoft Teams articles:

• Office 365: Manage meeting settings in Microsoft Teams
• How to manage meeting policies in Microsoft Teams – Office 365?
• How to turn on inline message translation in Microsoft Teams?
• How to finish setting up ‎Microsoft Teams Exploratory‎ in Microsoft 365 admin center step by step
• Office 365: Support remote workers with ‎Microsoft Teams‎
• Top 11 Microsoft Teams Updates (May 2020, these have much waited for your business)
• FAQs (Office 365): Is SharePoint being replaced by Teams?
• Create a modern team site using PnP PowerShell in SharePoint
• Office 365: Where do the Microsoft Teams channel conversations and files get saved?
• Office 365: SharePoint vs Microsoft Teams – Understanding the Differences in o365
• Office 365: Add Channel in Microsoft Teams – o365
• Create a Team in Microsoft Teams step by step process – Office 365
• o365: Getting started with Microsoft Teams in Office 365
• Limits and specifications for Microsoft Teams

Do you want to set up your Microsoft Teams and manage it following Microsoft standards? Here is our eBook – Microsoft Teams Administration eBook

About Post Author

SP Doctor

Your SharePoint and Power Platform Doctor and Guide, sharing expertise that unlocks the true potential of the Microsoft 365 ecosystem.

See author's posts