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Best Guide to Setting Up Live Chat in Microsoft Teams for Small Businesses

Best Guide to Setting Up Live Chat in Microsoft Teams for Small Businesses

Written By Anoop C Nair
Last Updated March 28, 2025
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Hai let’s discuss Best Guide to Setting Up Live Chat in Microsoft Teams for Small Businesses. As you all know, Microsoft Teams is an effective platform for communicating with colleagues and conducting official meetings. We have been using MS Teams for a while now, and we know that it gets updated in various ways, making it very effective for users.

Recently, Microsoft Teams received an update that includes many new features now available in Preview. In this post, we are discussing the Live Chat feature in Teams, which will be available in May 2025. One of the latest updates is the Live Chat feature, made to help small businesses offer smooth and effective customer support.

It helps small businesses connect with customers or website visitors instantly, making interactions more personal and quicker. The most important part of Teams new live chat is It includes real-time notifications, which instantly alert team members when a customer starts a chat.

Also, it offers a centralized dashboard simplifies communication with the customers. Live Chat in Microsoft Teams, designed specifically for small businesses. This feature lets your customers connect with you directly from your website, receiving instant answers to their questions.

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Best Guide to Setting Up Live Chat in Microsoft Teams for Small Businesses

Above we discussed an overall view on the topic of our new Teams new feature called Live chat. This feature is mainly focusing on small business because it helps to staying connected to your customers is crucial. Whether it’s about product details, pricing, or support always connected to your customers is always affect your business positively.

  • Staying Connected with the Customers will help you to stay productive.
Best Guide to Setting Up Live Chat in Microsoft Teams for Small Businesses Fig.1 Creds to MS
Best Guide to Setting Up Live Chat in Microsoft Teams for Small Businesses – Fig.1 Creds to MS

Setup Live Chat

It’s simple to set up, works smoothly, and it is accessible on any device. When you open the teams sign in as a admin. Then access the live chat by open the admin app in teams and select Live chat from the menu on the left.

  • Click on the Get started option.
StepProcedure
Step-1Customize Chat
Step-2Create Team for Chat
Step-3Set Support Hours for Chat
Best Guide to Setting Up Live Chat in Microsoft Teams for Small Businesses – Table.1
Best Guide to Setting Up Live Chat in Microsoft Teams for Small Businesses - Fig.2 Creds to MS
Best Guide to Setting Up Live Chat in Microsoft Teams for Small Businesses – Fig.2 Creds to MS

Customize Chat

There are 3 steps for setup the live chat on the teams. First step is the customization. Here you have to give a name to your name to personalize the chat widget. It will ask like What’s the name of your business? in the example it given as ”Margies Travel”.

  • Then click on next step.
Best Guide to Setting Up Live Chat in Microsoft Teams for Small Businesses - Fig.3 Creds to MS
Best Guide to Setting Up Live Chat in Microsoft Teams for Small Businesses – Fig.3 Creds to MS

Create Team for Chat

Add users to the customer support team who will handle chat requests. Note that only users with a Microsoft 365 Business license can be added, with a maximum of 25 users. Whe you select the users you can click on the Next step.

Best Guide to Setting Up Live Chat in Microsoft Teams for Small Businesses - Fig.4 Creds to MS
Best Guide to Setting Up Live Chat in Microsoft Teams for Small Businesses – Fig.4 Creds to MS

Set Support Hours for Chat

Now you have to allow the days and times your team will be available to chat with customers. You can also customize the bot’s response for times when no one is available. When no one is available to help or if customers reach out after hours you can also create message for the users.

  • Once you’ve configured the settings, click Save Changes to finalize the setup.
Best Guide to Setting Up Live Chat in Microsoft Teams for Small Businesses - Fig.5 Creds to MS
Best Guide to Setting Up Live Chat in Microsoft Teams for Small Businesses – Fig.5 Creds to MS

Now you can see that your Live chat will be created successfully. Get all your customer chats in Teams. Handle requests, solve problems, and connect with customers, all in one place.

Best Guide to Setting Up Live Chat in Microsoft Teams for Small Businesses- Fig.6 Creds to MS
HoBest Guide to Setting Up Live Chat in Microsoft Teams for Small Businesses – Fig.6 Creds to MS

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Anoop C Nair has been a Microsoft MVP from 2015 onwards for 10 consecutive years! He is a Workplace Solution Architect with more than 22+ years of experience in Workplace technologies. He is also a Blogger, Speaker, and leader of the Local User Group Community. His primary focus is on Device Management technologies like SCCM and Intune. He writes about technologies like Intune, SCCM, Windows, Cloud PC, Windows, Entra, Microsoft Security, Career, etc.

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Anoop C Nair is Workplace Technology solution architect with 25+ years of experience in global enterprise organizations such as JP Morgan, Capgemini, etc. Microsoft Certified Trainer. Microsoft MVP from 2015 onwards for consecutive 11+ years! He also conducts Intune and modern workplace tech training for enterprise organizations. He is Blogger, Speaker, and Founder of HTMD Community and HTMD Conference. His main focus is on Device Management technologies like Intune, Windows, Cloud PC. He writes about technologies like Intune, SCCM, Windows, Cloud PC, Windows, Entra, Microsoft Security.

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