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Microsoft Teams is adding a Slack-favorite emoji feature


You’ll have to ask your IT admin to keep it on.

Microsoft is adding a new feature to its Teams communications platform that enables users to upload their own custom emoji to use in reactions and messages. IT admins for businesses that use Teams will have the ability to limit which users can upload or delete custom emoji, or they can turn the feature off entirely. The announcement comes three months after Microsoft employees discovered an early version of the feature on an internal Teams build, finding an animated emoji of the widely memed Pepe the Frog character in some reactions and messages.

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