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As a global administrator I'm attempting to retrieve the list of MS Teams chats for a different user, however no matter which id I pass to GET /beta/users/{id}/chats the response is always the list of chats for the authenticated user. How do you get the list of chats for a different user?

The API documentation (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/chat-list?view=graph-rest-beta&tabs=http) suggests that I should be able to call GET /beta/me/chats to retrieve the list of my chats and GET /beta/users/{id}/chats to retrieve the list of someone else's chats.

Through experimentation I've noticed that I can pass any string for {id} and the request always succeeds with response 200 OK, but with my list of chats.

Chris Coughtrey
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Retrieving the list of chats that another user is a part of isn't currently supported, that's why Application level permissions aren't supported.

Andrew Clear
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    Is there a plan to support this functionality at some point? How is an organization meant to perform eDiscovery for MS Teams if an administrator cannot access their employee's chats? – mag382 Dec 09 '19 at 19:51
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    To add to this: the Graph API already allows us to read all of the email messages for another user. Why are chats considered more secure in this way? It will allow for content and communication within an organization to not be exportable for legal review. – mag382 Dec 09 '19 at 20:16