Release notes for Microsoft Teams admin features

• Applies to:

  Microsoft Teams

These release notes provide information about new admin features for Microsoft Teams and Teams Admin Center.

October 24, 2024

• Refreshed view of your teams and channels: A new 'your teams and channels' view provides a centralized hub experience, where you can see all your teams and navigate to their channels. This refreshed view streamlines your workflows, enabling you to quickly access and manage your teams and channels.

• Microsoft Teams: Room audio auto-detect and preselect in BYOD meeting rooms: When users connect their laptop to a room's shared peripheral through USB, Teams automatically detects the room's audio and recommends connecting on the prejoin screen, streamlining the bring your own device (BYOD) meeting room experience. For room devices (for example, displays, audio devices) recognized as shared and on Microsoft's known BYOD devices list, users will automatically transition to the room's audio upon connection.

October 10, 2024

• Microsoft Teams: Proximity join via ultrasound: Proximity join using ultrasound enables users to accurately identify and add specific Teams room they are in, to their meeting. Their device detects ultrasonic signals emitted in the physical Teams room, providing a more precise list of nearby rooms on the prejoin screen.

September 26, 2024

• User onboarding to teams: The updated teams and channels onboarding flow will let users opt into channels of their interest while joining a team and have a lightweight teams and channels list experience. Users can choose to show/hide channels from a complete list of channels. When added to a new team, users can see which channels the team owner recommended, and select to show only the channels that are relevant to them. With the onboarding flow, "show for members" will change to "recommend to users," which will result in the channel no longer being shown in the members' teams and channels list, but will render the channel a "recommended one" for users to opt into by enabling its display on the onboarding page.

• Ability for external presenters to join on Android and iOS Teams: This enhancement will allow presenters who were invited using the External Presenter feature to join via their Android and iOS Teams clients.

September 12, 2024

• Microsoft Teams: Teams admins in education will be able to create and publish custom team templates: Education IT admins can now create team templates from Microsoft Teams Admin Center. Admins can use templates to easily deploy consistent teams across the organization. With templates, users can quickly create rich collaboration spaces with predefined settings, channels, and apps.

August 22, 2024

• Reactions in Town halls (Premium): Currently in a town hall, attendees and others in the event are unable to send reactions or see those reactions that are sent. With this new update, anyone in the town hall can send a reaction and see the sent reactions as a stream of reactions on their screen.

August 08, 2024

• New VDI solution for Teams for Azure Virtual Desktops, Windows 365, and Citrix VDI environments: New VDI solution for Teams is a rearchitecture of the current WebRTC-based optimization solution for the new Microsoft Teams in virtual desktop environments. This feature introduces a new media engine that is decoupled from the VDI Clients (Remote Desktop client, Citrix Workspace app, or Horizon client) and VDI Agents (Remote Desktop agent, Citrix VDA, or Horizon agent). The new media engine is based on the native media engine used in the Microsoft Teams Windows Desktop client. New VDI solution for Teams will be supported first on Windows endpoints only. Mac and Linux will be added later.

July 25, 2024

• Lightweight People app on Teams Phone devices: This light People app provides a simplified and faster experience to help users manage contacts easily on Teams Phone devices.

July 11, 2024

• Custom emojis and reactions: This feature lets users create their own expressive content in Teams using custom emojis and reactions.

• Have better control over notifications sound: You can choose from an extended list of sounds for notifications. You can choose if some or all notifications should produce sound or if notifications should produce sound when you're busy or in a meeting.

• Teams devices: Cancel scheduled device operations through Teams Admin Center: If a device operation is no longer required, admins will be able to cancel scheduled device operations, like software update and device restart through Teams Admin Center.

June 27, 2024

• Microsoft Teams: Bookable desks: With the bookable desks feature in Teams, users can reserve desks upon arrival by plugging in to desk peripherals without a reservation. IT admins can discover bookable desks in shared spaces and add them to inventory in the Microsoft Teams Rooms Pro Management portal. IT admins can also get insightful utilization data for bookable desks via the Pro Management portal for proactive management and planning.

• New and refreshed 3P app purchase experience in Teams and Teams Admin Center: This feature provides a new and refreshed purchase experience in Teams look and feel for Teams third party application in both Teams store and Teams Admin Center. This feature will slowly roll out, first to customers with a commerce billing account then to customers without a commerce billing account.

June 13, 2024

• Teams meeting recordings will be saved to meeting organizers OneDrive for Business: This change will ensure that Teams meeting recordings are saved to meeting organizers OneDrive for Business (OdB) instead of recording initiator's OdB. This would lead to improved compliance for recordings as meeting organizer can then manage access permissions and recording file management.

• Meet now in Teams group chat: With meet now in group chat, user would be able to instantly discuss articles with relevant people without disrupting other users in the chat.

• Closed captioning support in Teams Walkie Talkie: This feature allows users to view captions on the Walkie Talkie home screen for transmissions being received.

• Block download and access level improvement of OneDrive transcript file: Teams now supports IT admins to block the download of OneDrive transcript file for any users within the tenant. By default, only the owners can download or delete OneDrive transcript file while participants of the meeting can still view transcript in Teams app or Stream. In addition, owner of OneDrive transcript file will be able to configure who are blocked from downloading, who can view or edit on Stream.

May 23, 2024

• Redirect an incoming call to voicemail without having to accept or reject the call: This feature allows users to redirect incoming calls directly to voicemail from incoming call toast.

• Manual ingestion by teachers to update parent data inside Parent app: This feature allows teachers to add and edit existing parent data inside the Parent app. This request to update parent information can be directly made by teachers inside the Parent app. Once the request is raised, it needs an admin approval before updating the parent information in the app.

• Prevent user from screen sharing in externally hosted meetings: If a user attends a meeting hosted by an external tenant, the IT admin for the user attending the externally hosted meeting can decide if this user is enabled to share their screen or not. If this setting is disabled, the user can't share their screen in an externally hosted meeting.

• Enabling call forwarding directly from phone device home screen through Teams Admin Center: Users can enable call forwarding directly from phone device home screen, including common area phones. Admins can control display of call forwarding on phone device home screen through Teams Admin Center.

• Advanced calling and contact management support on non-touch phones: On nontouch phones, users can use advanced calling features such as park/unpark calls, busy on busy, auto restart, and manage contacts and contact groups.

May 09, 2024

• Microsoft Teams: Meeting ID and passcode to join on Teams Rooms on Windows: IT admins can configure and require a meeting ID and passcode to join a meeting on Teams Rooms on Windows to ensure higher levels of security and privacy. This feature is available for Teams Rooms Pro customers.

• Teams Connect chat enhancements: This feature will make it easier to search guests by name and establish 1:1 or group chats using their phone numbers. It will also make it easier to create a company curated profile that includes information like location, job role, business unit, and even assign an organization manager for external partners.

• Track usage of your frontline teams and apps in the Teams Admin Center.: Track usage across all your frontline teams deployed via DTAS (Deploy Teams at Scale) and frontline apps like Shifts, Tasks, Walkie Talkie in the Teams Admin Center.

• Microsoft Teams: New Teams is now part of Teams Rooms on Windows: With the new Teams app now being a part of Teams Rooms on Windows, all Teams Rooms devices can utilize available resources to optimize room experience and render intelligent audio and video reliably.

• Microsoft Teams: Single desktop app for all user types: Microsoft Teams on Windows and Mac will support every type of Teams account (work, school, or personal) in a single desktop application.

April 25, 2024

• Voice isolation: With this feature, you can enjoy clear and uninterrupted calls or meetings, no matter where you are. This feature uses AI to filter out all background noise, including other people's voices. By using your voice profile, this advance noise suppression capability ensures only the user’s voice is transmitted. Whether you are in a busy office, a noisy cafe, or a crowded airport, you can communicate with confidence and clarity. This feature is powered by our advanced deep learning, speech services, and audio processing technology, and it shows our dedication to solving user problems with AI and enhancing audio quality and experience.

• Multi-instance app customization support for Teams apps: If you're an IT admin, this feature will help you gain more control. You can make your supportive Teams apps fit your company brand and make them more useful for your employees. IT admins can create and manage multiple customized app instances, boosting branding, awareness, and user engagement. By overcoming single-instance limitations, this feature drives adaptability for diverse business needs.

• Microsoft Teams: Organizers can select languages for translation in a town hall: This feature lets town hall organizers to select caption languages that are available to the attendees for translation. Currently, the languages are preset for attendees to pick from. But, this feature lets organizers select from six languages (ten languages for Premium).

April 11, 2024

• Simplified compose experience: With this release, the message compose experience becomes simpler, more scalable, and clearer to use. Everything has a consistent place to be found and aligns with modern compose experiences that exist in many other apps. This experience will be available in both classic and new Teams.

• Voice isolation: With this feature, you can enjoy clear and uninterrupted calls or meetings, no matter where you are. This feature uses AI to filter out all background noise, including other people's voices. By leveraging your voice profile, this advance noise suppression capability ensures only the user’s voice is transmitted. Whether you are in a busy office, a noisy cafe, or a crowded airport, you can communicate with confidence and clarity. This feature is powered by our advanced deep learning, speech services, and audio processing technology, and it shows our dedication to solving user problems with AI and enhancing audio quality and experience.

• Microsoft Teams device store: With Teams device store inside Microsoft Teams, customers can easily discover and purchase certified Teams devices for personal or shared use cases, such as headsets, web cameras, desk phones, Teams Rooms and more. The store features a wide array of Teams certified audio and video devices to accommodate any space including home, office, or during transit. Explore devices in categories, use search or filters to find desired device, and purchase all through the familiar Microsoft Teams interface. This release is limited to customers in US and Canada, and with user licenses less than or equal to three hundred.

March 28, 2024

• Reduced presenter role permissions: This feature introduces a toggle in the Teams Admin Center to reduce presenter role permissions in untrusted environments, such as EDU, where students assigned as presenters could remove other students from the meeting. The reduced presenter permissions are only reserved for organizers and coorganizers.

• Hide general channel: Similar to other channels, now you'll be able to hide general channels from your teams and have a cleaner left rail.

• Simplified team and channel create: This feature lets you create channels from the teams and channels list. This new experience will promote creation of channels from the + button, in addition to team context menu and manage team> channels page. Users will be able to host channels by selecting the appropriate team. This experience will only be available in the new Teams app.

• Simplified team create: You can now create teams with a shorter and simpler approach! We made it a simpler default experience for users to create teams from scratch, with 80% of users utilizing “create teams from scratch” option. Users will still be able to use the other options of creating team from templates and groups as a secondary view. This experience will only be available in the new Teams app.

• 3P eCDN support for premium town halls: This flag enables the admins to allow organizers with teams premium license to turn off the usage of Microsoft eCDN and let them use the configured 3P eCDNs for their town halls.

• Duplicate webinar or town hall: Creating events from scratch takes time. Now, organizers can use an already created webinar or town hall to jump start scheduling of another event.

March 14, 2024

• Watermark support for recording playback (Premium): Recording can now be enabled for watermarked meetings. An email ID is displayed as the watermark during the meeting recording playback. Once a meeting has concluded, users can access the recorded content on both web and mobile platforms to watch the recording with watermarking.

• Branded meetings: Join Launcher Screen with brand image and logo support (Premium): The Teams Join Launcher web page will now support the brand logo and brand image upload capability to a custom meeting theme as part of branded meetings.

• Ability to join Teams for work meetings with Teams for Live client and identity (and vice versa): After this release, users with Teams for Live clients will be able to join and participate in Teams for work meetings right from their initial apps and using their initial identities. It's one more step for improving external collaboration. Now we support not only chats with guests but meetings as well.

• Automatic targeting based on roles for frontline: Frontline teams can notify the right set of colleagues on channel posts (for example, notifying colleagues in specific role or department).

• Meeting invite improvements: Meeting invite is the first thing that the user invited to the meeting sees before joining. We are making some design improvements to make sure we have the most important information there and it's better grouped.

• New admin policy for enabling/disabling tenant users to join externally hosted meetings: As an admin, you can control which meetings your org users can attend, whether they are internally hosted meetings or externally hosted meetings. This can help your org to meet compliance needs and strengthen controls around Teams meetings.

• Allowing participants to create Collaborative notes before and after meetings: This enhancement to Collaborative notes enables anyone invited to the meeting to create collaborative meeting notes and agendas both before and after the meeting. This means more collaboration, more efficiency, and an even more seamless teamwork experience.

• Archive channels: Archive channels will now be available for Teams users. As a channel owner or administrator, you can archive a channel you own. By archiving, the channel will not be available to your channel members in their left rail anymore and no more actions will be allowed on the channel like messaging, reacting, commenting, editing, etc. In case, you want, you can unarchive the channel as well, by going to manage teams and then select channels. Team members can host the channel in their left rail even after archival.

• Microsoft Teams Admin Center: Deploy and manage shifts for your frontline teams: Admins will gain the ability to standardize shifts settings (open shifts, swap shifts requests, offer shifts requests, time off requests and time clock), identify schedule owners, and create scheduling groups uniformly for all frontline teams at the tenant level.

• Inactive teams and inactive domains report export capability: We will add capability to export the list of inactive teams and inactive domains to a .csv file in the Teams Admin Center.

• Preset Organizational Backgrounds (Premium): When this feature is enabled, a user will have a preset background defined by the IT admin without the ability to change the background.

• Microsoft Teams: Share contact information of people in Microsoft Teams chat: Users can now share the contact information of someone who is not in a chat to make it easy for others to confidently get to know other collaborators.

• Update your organization's privacy statement URL: Admins can customize their privacy statement URL shown to attendees, who are joining virtual appointments. They can update this setting under the Privacy Profile in the Microsoft Admin Center.

February 22, 2024

• Specific People Link support for Collaborative Notes: This feature brings improvement to the shareable link type that is created by Collaborative Notes making meetings more effective and secure. The new Collaborative Notes file will generate a Specific People Link (PSL) by default. This link type offers more controlled access than Company Specific Link (CSL). This change also aligns with tenants who have their file-sharing policy set as Specific People. Tenants who previously had Collaborative Notes disabled due to lack of PSL support can now enable and use the feature.

• Set sensitivity labels for meetings from your phone (iOS): This feature enables you to set the sensitivity label for meetings when scheduling from mobile. Admins can set mandatory and default labels, and this will reflect in their mobile apps as well. Enforcement of the label will also be honored on mobile.

• Meeting invite improvements: Meeting invite is the first thing that the user who is invited to the meeting sees before joining. Some design improvements are being made to ensure that the most important information is presented and it's better grouped.

• New admin policy for enabling/disabling tenant users to join externally hosted meetings: As an admin, you can control which meetings your organization users can attend - only internally hosted meetings or externally hosted meetings as well. This can help your organization to meet compliance needs and strengthen controls around Teams meetings.

• In form meeting options for Teams town halls and webinars: Event organizers for town halls and webinars will no longer be sent to a webpage to edit their event's meeting options. The meeting options will now show up as an inline window within the scheduling form. This happens for both create and edit experiences.

• Microsoft Teams: UX improvements for Multi-Tenant Organization (MTO) users: This release features user experience improvements when Microsoft Teams users interact with users in another tenant that belong to their organization (e.g., for conglomerates, as a result of M&A). Key changes include removing the possibility of split 1:1 chat threads, richer profile information, removal of the "External" label, and introducing support for an optional admin configurable label.

February 08, 2024

• Decorate your background (Premium): This feature lets users create more personal and engaging backgrounds by applying advanced effects.

• Extended real-time telemetry retention for up to 7 days (Premium): To facilitate better troubleshooting experience for admins in Teams admin center, real-time telemetry that is available during the meeting will be retained for an extended period of time (up to seven days after meeting is ended) for users with Premium licenses. This will help admins identify and fix quality issues using granular telemetry after the meeting is over for up to seven days.

• Azure protected voicemail on Teams App: Teams users will now have link to their Azure protected voicemails from the Teams App. Users will get notification for the voicemail on their Teams App, and can open the attached link to access the voicemail on the web browser.

• Audio and video flyout in Teams meetings: This feature enables users to efficiently manage their audio and video settings during meetings. These features are easily accessible, allowing users to control their devices and adjust key audio and video features quickly and effortlessly, without needing to navigate through multiple layers of settings.

• Enable cameras with IntelliFrame and people recognition experiences on new Teams Experience: IntelliFrame enables multi-stream video, face recognition of in-room participants, active speaker recognition, attributed voice-based transcription, and panoramic video on Front-of-room (180-degree view) and Center-of-room (360-degree view) cameras, taking Teams Rooms on Windows cameras to the next level of intelligence. IntelliFrame is available only with the Microsoft Teams Rooms Pro license. This feature was released to public in August 2023 on existing Teams application, and this update is to announce the availability of IntelliFrame features on new Microsoft Teams Experience.

• Microsoft Teams: Share contact information of people in Teams chat: Users can now share the contact information of someone, who isn't in a chat to make it easy for others to confidently get to know other collaborators.

• Operational hierarchy for FL locations: This feature enables admins to define how different locations are organized within their organization. This includes their operational hierarchy (groupings of locations to areas, regions, divisions etc.), defining the departments at every location (if applicable) and adding location metadata (such as type of location). This information will be used to power cross location operations (such as Shifts marketplace), targeted communications, task assignment etc.

• Remove items from Activity Feed: This feature helps users to remove items from activity feed.

• Select the domain to use for Teams Email Service: Admins will now have the functionality to select the domain to use to send emails to their users via Teams Email Service.

December 14, 2023

• Microsoft Teams: Updated Files app with new OneDrive experience.: Files app that is accessed from left side of Teams desktop client is upgraded to use OneDrive app. This brings all the performance improvements and new features of OneDrive app within Teams while bringing updated visuals to existing functionality. For new Teams Desktop client, Files app will also be renamed to OneDrive app.

• Microsoft Teams: Surface Hubs on the new platform are managed as Teams Rooms on Windows devices in the Teams Admin Center: With Microsoft Surface Hubs transitioning from a specialized platform to Teams Rooms on Windows, admins can now manage them in the Teams Admin Center as they would manage other Teams Rooms on Windows device. Customers with Teams Rooms Pro license can easily monitory and manage Surface Hub devices in the Teams Rooms Pro Management portal.

• Microsoft Teams: Domain-specific search: Searching content in Teams is faster and more precise than ever before with this feature. You can easily narrow down your search results by clicking on the domain pills in the first row in the search box. You can also search files or group chats by entering a person name.

• School Connection in Microsoft Teams: The School Connection app in Microsoft Teams (mobile) empowers parents and guardians to engage, support, and monitor their student's learning at school. As a parent, you can stay up to date on assignments that are upcoming, overdue, or recently completed, assignment feedback, grades, or rubric feedback insights from the past month on digital activity, assignment turn-ins, and reading progress. School Connection would need to be enabled by school IT administrators through a setting in Teams Admin Center, for parents to view their kid's profile. This app in Microsoft Teams is currently in Private Preview, and with this release, this becomes generally available to all regions, except countries in the European Union (EU) and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA). The release to these countries will be coming soon at a later date. However, if you're a school in any of these countries, you can sign up for our private preview program, in which not all data storage and processing occurs within the EU Data Boundary. The interest form for private preview is available here. For more information about School Connection, visit parent.microsoft.com.

• Teams Phone and Teams Rooms licenses in device store: This feature enables IT admins to discover, try to buy Teams Phone and Teams Rooms licenses from the device store in the Teams admin center.

• Priority Account Chat Controls (Premium): As part of the Teams Premium package, a new management capability called Priority Account Chat Controls is being introduced. This feature empowers users with decision making control for unwanted internal communications via Policies setting. Users are notified about chats from new contacts, giving them a choice to accept or block the conversations.

• Suggested Files in 1:1 Chats: As an extension of Suggested Replies in 1:1 chats, you can now easily save time when you need to send a file in a chat by tapping on a Share file suggestion.

• Custom backgrounds for announcement posts in Channels: Teams users will be able to create engaging custom backgrounds for channel announcements in just a few clicks. Powered by Microsoft Designer, use generative AI to create expressive images.

November 23, 2023

• Virtual Appointments Customer Insights: This new feature supports our customers reach their business goals by providing insightful information on their virtual appointment's usage with Microsoft Teams.

November 09, 2023

• Engagement information in Teams Attendance report: This feature enables organizers to access meeting engagement data in Teams Attendance Report.

• Virtual Appointment desktop joins route to Teams web: This feature allows schedulers to enable the 'have attendees join from a web browser' setting so that attendees joining the virtual appointment on desktop will be routed to the Teams web browser experience. This allows attendees to have access to engagement features including raise hand and live reactions.

• Generate unique join links for external presenters so they can easily join events: When organizers set up events and add external presenters, these presenters will receive unique join links automatically. These links allow them to enter events directly so that the organizers don't need to admit them from the event lobby or manually change their event role during the event.

• Workflows within Channels: Users will be able to configure workflows within their Teams channels.

• SMS appointment notifications in Virtual Appointment Teams Meeting template in US (Premium): Introducing SMS notifications to improve your guests' appointment experience when scheduling business-to-consumer meetings via the Virtual Appointment Teams Meeting Template. When enabled, external guests will receive SMS text notifications about their appointment that includes appointment details and the meeting join link, so they can join directly from their phone. Text notifications are sent for appointment confirmation, updates, and a 15-minutes reminder before the appointment begins. This feature is only available to US tenants and users with a Teams Premium license.

October 26, 2023

• Microsoft Teams: Automatic updates for Teams app on android-based Teams devices: Android-based Teams devices will receive automatic updates of the Teams app without the need for manual intervention. Administrators can manage the automatic updates by organizing devices into update phases or pausing the rollout temporarily, if needed, from Teams admin center.

• Controlled Content Meeting 1P Template: We're launching a template that is useful for meetings with external participants. The template comes with a preset set of defaults for meeting options. The purpose of these templates is to provide tight control over:

  • lobby bypass
  • who can present
  • allowing chat in lobby/in-meeting
  • who can record in meeting

  To organize a meeting using this 1P template, one needs a T-Pre license.

• Customization for Watermark (Premium): Teams meeting organizers now have the flexibility to choose between a Single watermark or a repeated watermark. The Single watermark displays the viewer's email on top of the shared content and/or video feed in a clean and unobtrusive manner. When the Single watermark option is enabled via Meeting options, the watermark is enforced for all meeting attendees.

• Workflows app: Users will be able to manage all their Teams workflows (powered by Power Automate) within the Teams Workflow app. Users will also be able to create new workflows through the Message Extension along with Message Actions.

• Microsoft Teams: Enabling Cloud IntelliFrame for Teams Rooms in the new Microsoft Teams Experience: Cloud IntelliFrame launched earlier this year is now available in the new Microsoft Teams Experience. Remote users attending a meeting with Teams room enabled with Cloud IntelliFrame will be able to see a zoomed in and segmented view of in-room participants in a grid gallery, making meeting experience more inclusive and immersive for hybrid meetings.

October 12, 2023

• Collaborative notes on Teams mobile: This feature allows meeting attendees to cocreate and collaborate on their meeting agenda, notes, and action items. Since Collaborative notes are a Loop component, it's always in sync regardless of how many places they live in. Also, the assigned tasks in Collaborative notes automatically sync with ToDo & Planner.

• Microsoft Teams: Town halls: Set up and host large scale events across an organization with the familiar Teams app you use for webinars and meetings. Town hall capabilities include a new meeting template, capacity for up to 10K attendees, third-party eCDN support, green room, manage what attendees see, moderated Q&A, RTMP-in, live translated captions, and more.

• Transcript access post meetings through Graph API: This feature is built for 3 P apps to access a meeting's transcript once the meeting is over.

• Ratings and reviews for Teams Apps: Users can now view and provide ratings and review for apps they install on Teams.

September 28, 2023

• Microsoft Teams Auto Install Approved Apps: This feature uses intelligent signals from the users to install and surface the apps that the admin has already allowed for the tenant. An admin can enable it to help users naturally discover and use apps that are highly relevant to their needs within Microsoft Teams.

September 14, 2023

• Proactive monitoring of meeting quality using Real-time telemetry (Premium): Proactive monitoring capability for admins in the Teams Admin Center (TAC) helps identify audio, video, and app sharing related quality issues while the meeting is in progress. Admins can define the desired monitoring parameters in TAC, which they'll be notified for investigation of users with poor meeting quality. This monitoring is based on real-time meeting quality telemetry data available in TAC.

• Teams Shared Device License support for Android mobile: Teams Shared Device License is now supported on the Teams Android mobile providing a shared identity experience for frontline workers with basic & advanced calling, Walkie Talkie & people search features.

• Admin Policy for Collaborative Annotations: This new admin policy lets you control Collaborative Annotations for user, group, or entire organization.

August 24, 2023

• Microsoft Teams: 1000 channels per team.: This feature allows users to now create up to 1,000 channels per team, which allows you to have the channels you need organized in one team.

• Microsoft Teams: Intelligent camera support on Teams Rooms on Windows: IntelliFrame enables multi-stream video, face recognition of in-room participants, active speaker recognition, attributed voice-based transcription, and panoramic video on Front-of-room (180-degree view) and Center-of-room (360-degree view) cameras, taking Teams Rooms on Windows cameras to the next level of intelligence. IntelliFrame is available only with the Microsoft Teams Rooms Pro license.

• Microsoft Teams: Face enrollment on Teams Desktop to support recognition in Teams Rooms on Windows: To support face recognition in Teams Rooms on Windows, the desktop client offers enrollment to enable face recognition and video labels. This feature is available for Microsoft Teams Rooms Pro license customers. Admins will need to set Teams policies to enable the feature.

• Microsoft Teams: Cloud IntelliFrame for Teams Meeting Rooms on Windows: Cloud IntelliFrame makes non-AI cameras smarter. With Cloud IntelliFrame, participants in the room appear similar to remote attendees, creating an immersive and engaging experience for everyone. Whether it's work from home or in the office, participants can see every facial expression and cue, as if they were there in person. This feature is available only with the Microsoft Teams Rooms Pro license.

August 10, 2023

• Teacher-led announcements for parents: The Parents App inside Teams will now allow educators to send broadcast messages (announcements) to all the parents of a class.

• Scoped search for Viva Connections in Teams: The search experience for Teams apps is being updated to enable the use of search box in Teams to start a search within the used app. With this change, users of the Viva Connections app in Teams will start searching within the Viva Connections app by default, making it easier for users to access the tenant wide search experience that Viva Connections provides. This change will first come to the current version of Teams and will be coming to the "New Microsoft Teams App" in the coming months.

• Unified user experience for Bookings app in Teams: The Bookings app in Teams is moving to the new Virtual Appointments app and users will see a unified Bookings app experience across all the entry points. Users will be able to access features targeted for virtual appointments scenarios with the new Virtual Appointments app.

July 27, 2023

• Channels 2.0 - New channels experience on Teams: This feature enables new channels experience, built with an intuitive design that help teams to focus and actively engage. The new channels experience includes compose box and recent posts will appear at the top of the page, every post will now have a conversation view and a new right pane with the channel's key information.

• Block meeting chat access in external non-trusted meeting joins: This feature enables IT admin to not allow regulated internal users to access chat when these users attend meetings organized by external nontrusted tenants.

July 13, 2023

• Microsoft Teams: Express yourself in Teams meetings on VDI: While in a Teams meeting on a virtual desktop, you can express yourself using emojis that will appear to all participants to help make Teams meetings more inclusive, engaging, and fun.

• Virtual Appointments app for GCC: The Virtual Appointments app provides a single location where professionals and administrators can create and manage scheduled and on-demand virtual appointments in Microsoft Teams, view valuable appointment insights and analytics, get real-time status updates in a queue view, and send appointment reminders.

June 22, 2023

• Block anonymous users' meeting chat read access in addition to current write access: This feature enables IT admins to not allow anonymous users to access chat in internally hosted meetings by disabling the read access in addition to the existing disabled write access.

• Give Feedback- For GCC and GCC-H: When an admin enables Give Feedback, customers will be able to give their feedback via the Help icon in Teams in regard to their experience with the product. This drives how Microsoft addresses trends and influences devolvement of future features and updates via customer feedback/verbatims.

June 08, 2023

• Microsoft Teams: QR code sign-in on Teams Displays for hot-desking: This feature helps hot-desking users sign in quickly and securely by enabling them scan a QR code using their Teams mobile app on Android and iOS phones.

• Microsoft Teams: Virtual front desk on Teams certified Displays: The virtual front desk helps IT Administrators interact with and provide personal assistance to customers, colleagues, or guests who are on-site via video call on Microsoft Teams displays.

• Allowing registered users to bypass the lobby in Webinars: Previously in public webinars, organizers didn't have the ability to distinguish between who was or wasn't registered while configuring lobby policies. With this new update, you'll be able to set a new lobby policy, which allows registered users to bypass the lobby.

• Microsoft Teams: Easier Teams Meeting join for Cloud Video Interop (CVI) users: Cloud Video Interop (CVI) licensed users can join Teams meetings as a guest without CVI coordinates. The Teams platform enables all four certified CVI partners to offer customers the ability to quickly join a Teams meeting without requiring the CVI coordinates in the meeting invite.

May 25, 2023

• Avatars for Microsoft Teams: Avatars for Microsoft Teams give you that much-needed camera break, while still allowing you to collaborate effectively. You can add a new layer of choice to your meetings and represent yourself the way you want with customizable avatars and reactions.

• Microsoft Teams Auto Install Approved Apps: Microsoft Teams Auto Install Approved Apps uses intelligent signals for your users to install and surface the apps that the admin has already allowed for the tenant. An admin can enable it to help users naturally discover and use apps that are highly relevant to their needs within Microsoft Teams.

• Change call queue and auto attendant greetings and announcements by authorized users: With changing environment, Teams users need to make adjustment to their call queue and auto attendant greetings and announcement more frequently than typically IT helpdesk can handle. Hereby, we're introducing the user-managed CQ/AA greetings for Teams end users. Identified by Teams tenant admins, these authorized users can change greetings and announcements for their respective call queues and auto attendant without leaving Teams.

• Microsoft Teams: Track and pause automatic firmware updates for Android-based Teams devices in the Teams Admin Center: Admins can now easily track which firmware is being rolled out and when through the automatic updates via the Teams Admin Center. Additionally, automatic updates can be paused temporarily, allowing time to validate scenarios, etc. This feature is applicable for Teams Rooms on Android and Android-based Teams Phones, Panels, and displays.

May 11, 2023

• Call health panel for VDI: The Call health view in Teams helps you to identify and troubleshoot issues you might experience during a Teams meeting or call. In this view, you'll get data on your network, audio, screen sharing, and outgoing video quality. These real-time metrics are updated every 15 seconds and are best used to troubleshoot issues that last for at least 15 seconds. To view your stats during a call or meeting, select More actions icon at the top of the call window, and then select Call health near the top of the menu. This feature is now available in VDI for Citrix, VMware, Azure Virtual Desktops and Windows 365. For Citrix, it requires Workspace app 2109 or higher. For VMware Horizon 8, it requires 2106/8.3 Horizon clients (or higher). For Horizon 7, it requires Horizon Client 5.5.4 (Windows only). For AVD/W365, it requires Remote Desktop Client 1.2.2459 or higher for Windows, or 10.7.7 for MAC

• Microsoft Teams: GCC-H support for Teams Panels: Teams Panels already support Government Community Cloud (GCC) tenants and will now meet Government Community Cloud High (GCC-H) account requirements as well.

March 09, 2023

• Video Closed Captions in PowerPoint Live: Closed Captions are now supported for embedded videos in PowerPoint Live for Teams. If the video contains out-of-band closed captions, all viewers will automatically have the option to turn on closed captions for the video.

• Allowing Rich call controls during an outage with SBA: Enables users to access the following call controls with Survivable Branch Appliance (SBA) in the event of network outage:

  • Dial by name
  • Contact search/calling
  • Dial from call history
  • Peer to peer calling

February 23, 2023

• Magnify slide in PowerPoint Live: Allows presenters to magnify the slide for all meeting attendees and allows the meeting participants to magnify the slide privately.

• Parent Teacher Meeting: Enables teachers to schedule virtual meetings with parents/guardians of students through Teams.

• Room Remote on Desktop: The Room Remote feature enables touchless meetings by allowing users to control a nearby shared meeting room device from their desktop/PC with Teams client. This feature was first launched on mobile and will now be available on your desktop device form factor.

February 09, 2023

• Parent Teacher Meeting: This feature enables teachers to schedule virtual meetings with parents/guardians of students through Teams.

January 26, 2023

• Calling Federation for Group Calls: Collaborate with people outside the organization using group calls.

January 12, 2023

• Notification Granularity: Admins can use Intune to determine the types of content a user can see in a notification on their mobile lock screen.

December 22, 2022

• View chat bubbles during a meeting on Teams Rooms on Android devices: With the addition of chat bubbles, participants in a Teams Rooms on Android can now see what the participants are chatting about, on the front of the room display.

• Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Teams Rooms on Android - New touch and collaboration experiences: New touch and collaboration experiences will include (a) 4K display support to further enhance your meeting experience on large-screen devices and (b) the ability to control the room system from both the front of Room touch display and the touch console for convenience; to get this experience, the Enable touch controls setting on the device must be enabled. You'll also be able to quickly start collaborating outside of a Teams meeting with the new, one-touch Whiteboard icon on the home screen. Tapping on this icon will launch the Microsoft Whiteboard app locally, and it will also allow you to start an ad-hoc meeting with your local whiteboard, enabling you to seamlessly switch from local to online collaboration. The Allow initiate Whiteboard setting on the device must be enabled to get this experience. When you join from a Teams Rooms device, you’ll start to see incoming chat messages to increase meeting inclusiveness. As a remote meeting participant, you’ll be able to add the PTZ Camera Controls app and control the zoom and orientation of a Teams Rooms camera directly from your desktop during a meeting; to get this experience, the Far end camera control policy must be enabled on the resource accounts.

• Microsoft Teams: Start Whiteboard from Teams meeting from Teams rooms on Windows: Teams room users can now share a Whiteboard in a Teams meeting by using share content user interface. With hybrid work, whiteboarding is a key feature to enable collaboration between in-room and remote users. When Whiteboard is started from the room, it's attributed to the meeting organizer so that they can manage access to the artifact.

December 08, 2022

• Hardware Occupancy Sensor Integration: With a supported hardware occupancy sensor, users can see via a banner if the room is occupied when it's available and if the room isn't occupied when it's reserved. The user will also be auto checked-in when the sensor detects occupancy if check-in has been enabled.

November 24, 2022

• Additional Filters in Approvals app: Within the Approvals app, there will be more filters for you to filter your approval list on, for example, filtering on approval status or keyword in the title.

• Schedule message delivery in chats: Users can now schedule when a chat message will be delivered to the recipient.

• Browser screen pop for incoming PSTN calls: Administrators can enable this policy so that on acceptance of a PSTN call, an automatic browser launch can happen alongside Teams, displaying relevant information such as CRM data and case data to the user.

• Teams: External Access Group Chat Invitation Flow: When users are invited to a group chat by an unknown, unmanaged Teams user, they'll be prompted with options to (1) acknowledge the invitation, or (2) leave the group chat. The users can continue to use existing block and unblock functionality to manage their external communications.

November 10, 2022

• Modern meeting experience on the web: The modern meeting and calling experience is available for Teams on the web in Chrome and Microsoft Edge browsers - including improved prejoin, dynamic view, and the updated control bar.

October 27, 2022

• Users can create e-signature approvals containing signature fields within Teams: Users can now create e-signature approvals and include multiple signature fields to the e-sign providers website, without bringing the fields outside Teams.

• Transcription for calls on Microsoft Teams for Android: You can now start a transcription for both your 1:1 and group calls.

• Rich Call History: Rich Call History.

• Music on hold for call transfer: This feature ensures that music can be played to the caller on hold when a call transfer is initiated.

October 13, 2022

• Viewing the Full Chat conversation thread after clicking on search message results: When users search for a chat message in Teams and select a message result, they're taken to a view that contains only the selected message, rather than the entire chat thread. This fix will now land the users on the full chat thread once the message search result is selected, thereby providing full context of the conversation around the message result.

• Integrated CART Captioning in Meetings on Web: Users will now be able to view captions coming from a CART provider (real-time captioning) within the Microsoft Teams meeting on Chrome and Microsoft Edge. Meeting organizers and participants will be able to ask their captioning providers to stream captions to Microsoft Teams.

• Microsoft Teams chat embedded within Dynamics 365: Microsoft Teams chat can now be accessed directly from Dynamics 365, allowing users to continue existing chats, or create new individual or group chats.

• Ability for Teams Admins to manage Teams 3P App subscriptions from within Teams Admin Center: Ability for the administrators to view and manage in a single place all third-party app subscriptions they’ve purchased from Teams Admin Center; easily adding more licenses for the purchased subscriptions; cancel, upgrade, and downgrade subscriptions and access invoices.

September 22, 2022

• Native Apple Silicon Support - Universal Binary Teams Version: Teams now comes as a Universal Binary Mac so it runs natively on both Intel and Apple Silicon based Mac devices.

• Suggested Replies in Group Chat: Suggested Replies are now available in group chats, allowing you to select a quick response when you're mentioned in a group chat or when you're having a 1:1 conversation within a group chat.

• Deploy Teams at Scale for Frontline workers: Your organization may have many teams that you use to drive communication and collaboration among your frontline workforce, who are spread across different stores, locations, and roles. Currently, there isn't an easy solution to deploy, set up, and manage these teams and users at scale. We're building a solution to enable admins to deploy and manage teams at scale.

August 25, 2022

• Pre-assign Channel members to Breakout Rooms: Ability for an organizer to preassign participants in Channel meetings, explicitly for channel members who aren't invited to the meeting.

• Transcription will be turned on together with Recording if the "Record automatically" meeting option is on: If the meeting organizer has set the "Record automatically" meeting option to on for a meeting, Transcription will be turned on together with Recording when the meeting starts, if transcription is allowed by administrators. This feature will make recording play back experience accessible.

• Teams: External Access Invite Flow for Managed Organizations: When receiving new external 1:1 chats, users will now have the option to accept the chat or block the guest. This feature also provides the ability to Block guests at any point, which revokes access to present and incoming messages.

• Intelligent translation in Teams Mobile: Teams iOS will now prompt you to translate messages that aren't in your set language.

• Microsoft Teams: Join Teams meeting by meeting ID and passcode from Teams rooms on Windows: Users can use Teams room on Windows to join Teams meetings, using meeting ID and passcode. This feature significantly improves meeting-join experience for meetings across tenants or where room isn't invited to the meeting.

• Intelligent translation in Teams Mobile: Teams Android will now prompt you to translate messages that aren't in your language.

• View attendance report on Microsoft Teams for Android: You can now check the attendance information for regular meetings or webinars and also the registration information before webinars on Microsoft Teams for Android.

• View meeting transcripts on Microsoft Teams for Android and iOS: You can now start transcription for your meetings, and view the meeting transcripts after the meetings on Microsoft Teams for iOS.

• Microsoft Teams: Direct guest join for Zoom and WebEx Meetings on Teams Certified Android Devices: Direct guest join (aka Third-party meeting join) is an ability to join meetings of other meeting providers from Microsoft Teams. Third-party meetings will appear on the Teams calendar and users will be able to join them the same way they join any other Teams meeting. This functionality will be limited to video-enabled Teams-certified Android devices and will support only Zoom and Webex meetings.

• E-signature approval requests can now be created in Teams Approvals on any mobile device: Users will now be able to create e-signature requests in Teams approvals on any mobile device.

August 11, 2022

• Microsoft Teams: Share content experience improvement on Teams rooms on Windows: Teams Rooms on Windows is updating the user interface to share HDMI and content camera in the meeting. The new experience provides a better task-completion experience and clarity for in-room users, ensuring that the users can easily share content in the meeting.

• Microsoft Teams: End to end encryption for one-to-one calls in Teams Rooms on Windows: Teams Rooms on Windows can be configured to encrypt all person-to-person (P2P) calls. The callee must also have the encryption setting turned on. When in an encrypted call, both caller and callee can verify encryption key to ensure that the call is encrypted end to end and secure.

• Microsoft Teams: Mute/unmute status icon for Teams Rooms on Windows: To ensure users in the room are aware of the mute state of the room, a mute icon is added to the room video on the front-of-room display.

• Call controls via directly bluetooth connected audio devices: Use device buttons to control a call (answer, end, hold) from Bluetooth audio devices without needing a USB dongle when connected to Windows PC running Teams desktop client. For many headsets and speakerphones, this call-control feature will work without requiring any user action other than pairing the headset with their PC. This feasibility is because the functionality is built upon industry standard HFP protocol which many headsets support currently. In short, if your headset is able to answer or end a cellular call on your mobile, it should work with this feature. Watch our certification page for more information coming soon about devices tested to meet all certification criteria with direct bluetooth connections (without needing a USB dongle).

July 28, 2022

• Brightspace (D2L) LMS integration with M365.: Microsoft has now partnered with Brightspace (D2L) LMS to deliver more seamless integrated learning experiences. Microsoft Teams Meeting LTI and Classes LTI apps are now available within Brightspace. Teams Classes LTI enables Educators to create a Team for their Brightspace course using the roster information of the course. Teams Meeting LTI empowers educators and students to access, schedule and manage Teams Meetings within the Brightspace LMS. Sign up for Microsoft 365 LMS LTI integrations

• Open LMS integration with M365: Microsoft has now partnered with Open LMS to deliver more seamless integrated learning experiences. Microsoft Teams Meeting LTI and Classes LTI apps are now available within Open LMS. Teams Classes LTI enables Educators to create a Team for their Open LMS course using the roster information of the course. Teams Meeting LTI empowers educators and students to access, schedule, and manage Teams Meetings within the Brightspace LMS. Learn more

July 14, 2022

• Disable chat write access for anonymous or unauthenticated users: IT admins can now disable chat write access at the policy level for non-federated users and unauthenticated users who join Teams meetings through a link that must be used in conjunction with disabled meeting chat policy to provide additional security against data exfiltration.

• Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Teams Connect shared channels: Workplace collaboration has become increasingly digital and cloud based. In our interconnected world, we need to collaborate with people beyond our own organization—communicating with partners, following up with suppliers, and reaching out to customers. Through Microsoft Teams, you can securely collaborate with external stakeholders. With Teams Connect, we are making it easier to collaborate with those inside and outside your organization, helping your extended team work effectively and efficiently across organization boundaries. With shared channels, multiple organizations can work together in a shared space. Have conversations, schedule a meeting, share, and co-author files, and collaborate on apps, without ever switching tenants.

June 23, 2022

• Dynamic caller ID for call queue agents: Call queue agents can now place calls from the Calls app using a call queue phone number as their caller ID. This ensures the call is properly identified by the recipient and that the call back number is the call queue number rather than the agent's personal line.

• Moodle LMS integration with Microsoft Teams: In addition to integration with Canvas and Blackboard, Microsoft has now partnered with Moodle LMS to deliver seamless integrated learning experiences. Microsoft Teams Meeting LTI and Teams Classes LTI apps are now available within Moodle. Learn more about Moodle LMS integration

May 26, 2022

• Multi-language meeting invite control for IT admin: IT administrators can apply a new Teams meeting policy to set multiple languages in Teams meeting invites. The control of up to 2 languages can be applied to users, groups or the entire organization.

• Policy propagation - Enhanced activity log: Admins can see group policy assignments in the activity log along with other policy operations. The activity log has enhanced details regarding a policy operation to give admins more visibility.

May 12, 2022

• Microsoft Teams: Career Coach - Student engagement insights: Faculty and staff license holders will now be able to view aggregated student engagement insights in Career Coach. These insights will include the number of engaged students, engaged student sessions, resume uploads, and transcript uploads from within Career Coach.

April 14, 2022

• Support of Transcription for Teams for Citrix on Virtual Desktop Infrastructure: Users on virtual machines can use transcription once the feature is available. After a meeting, the transcript file is automatically saved in the chat tab for that meeting.

• Music on Hold for Voice over IP Calls.: This feature ensures that music can be played when a Voice over IP call is placed on hold.

• Support of Transcription for Teams for Azure Virtual Desktop on Virtual Desktop Infrastructure: Users on Virtual machines can use transcription once the feature is available. After a meeting, the transcript file is automatically saved in the chat tab for that meeting.

• Web Browser Join: Join Virtual Appointments from your web browser on any device.

• Room capacity warning (based on Teams Room on Android people counting supported cameras): When Teams panels is deployed in a room with Teams Rooms that support people counting, Teams panels can display a warning message when the room is at or over capacity to inform people in the hallway that the room is full. Teams Rooms on Android will display a warning message on the front of room display when the room is over capacity.

March 24, 2022

• Export a Teams list from the Teams admin center: Administrators can export a Teams list as a CSV file from the Teams admin center.

• Chat filter for non-meeting chats: There will be a new chat filter within the Chat app which filters out meeting chats and chats with bots. It filters in one on one and group chats with people.

• Search in Teams Admin Center: Admins can search for users, teams, pages, and settings using a common search box in the Teams admin center.

• Roaming bandwidth control: A new roaming policy to provide specific settings from other policies which need to be rendered dynamically based upon the location of the Teams client. Initially two settings from the TeamsMeetingPolicy will be included: AllowIPVideo and MediaBitRateKb.

March 11, 2022

• Calendar Show As in meetings: Using Show As, organizers can set free-busy statuses for a meeting and schedule OOF meetings from Teams. Along with this, private meeting functionality is also enabled which allows users to hide meeting details from other users when their calendar is shared.

• Mandatory Comments for Approvals App in Teams: Teams Admins and Approval Template creators can enable mandatory comments for when an approver responds to a request.

• Apps in channel meetings: Ability for EDU users to use apps like Forms and Sli.do to improve engagement.

• Dynamic Emergency Calling for Work From Home for VDI - Citrix: This feature enables users on Virtual Machine to validate the address that will be communicated to emergency responders in the event that an emergency call is placed by an individual working from home.

• Auto-answer with video for iOS devices: This feature brings the ability for iOS devices to automatically answer incoming meeting nudges with or without their video on. The feature availability to the end user is controlled through AutoAnswerwithVideo Powershell policy.

• Dynamic Emergency Calling for Work From Home for VDI on Azure Virtual Desktop: This feature enables users on Azure Virtual Desktop on VDI to make an emergency call while working from home. It will allow users to validate (and if necessary, edit) the address that will be communicated to emergency responders.

• Teams admin center: Joined teams per user: Teams administrators can view the list of teams that a user has joined.

• Admins can pin apps in messaging extensions: With app setup policies in Teams admin center, admins can now pin apps with messaging extensions in Teams compose experience. Learn more

February 24, 2022

• Pin your own video in Teams meetings: Currently, users can pin video feeds to increase the size of the desired video on their own screen. Now, we have expanded the ability for users to pin their own video on the stage as well. This way, users can also see their own video in the increased size on their screen.

• Local time available added to people profile: You can now know the local time of the people you collaborate with.

• Microsoft Teams: Career Coach - Job market trends: Faculty and staff license holders will now be able to view location-based job market trends within Career Coach. This experience is powered by LinkedIn workforce hiring data.

February 10, 2022

• Information tip added to new features in Bookings: When a new feature is added to Bookings like SMS and mobile browser join, users will be informed on what these features mean.

• New feature notification in appointment view: When a new feature like SMS or WebRTC is added to Bookings, users will see a "new" pill by the toggle in the appointment.

• Tags are available in DOD: Tags in Teams let users quickly reach a group of people without having to @mention or type out everyone. For more information on tag in teams, see Using tags in Teams.

• Microsoft Teams for Education: Career Coach - edX learning content: Career Coach will now feature edX content within the learning experience.

• Admin notifications for Custom app submissions: When a developer submits a custom app for IT admin approval, admins will receive a notification in a dedicated Teams channel, so they can review and take next steps to publish the app. Learn more

• Mute notifications during meetings: The feature will allow the user to mute notifications during meetings thereby helping focus during meetings. A user can choose to mute notifications from the global notifications settings for all meetings and uBar for a per meeting basis.

January 27, 2022

• Expiration of Teams meeting recordings: For Teams meeting recordings saved to OneDrive & SharePoint you'll now be able to define a default number of days to keep recordings before they are automatically deleted. Users will be notified of upcoming expiration dates of their recordings and be able to override the expiration date per recording file.

• Pin your own video in Teams meetings: Currently, users can pin video feeds to increase the size of the desired video on their own screen. Now, we have expanded the ability for users to pin their own video on the stage as well. This way, users can also see their own video in the increased size on their screen.

• Microsoft Teams for Education: Career Coach - Admin feature enabling: IT admin will have controls in Teams Admin Center for enabling new Career Coach features for their school.

• Additional information on app detail page: The app detail page will provide greater description for each app, including images and product videos.

• App lists and banners in the app management page: The Manage Apps page today allows admins to manage apps in the tenant. Lists of apps and editorial banners aid the admin to find relevant apps for the tenant.

• Simultaneous sharing of video and screen content through the Teams web client: Users can share screen content and video simultaneously during calls or meetings through the Teams web client.

• Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows: Switch between multiple video cameras: Ability for a Teams Room to switch between multiple video cameras in a meeting space.

• Microsoft Teams: Meet now support for Teams Rooms on Windows: Teams Rooms on Windows are making an alignment for Meet now experience to Teams desktop replacing New meeting control on the Teams room console with Meet (aka Meet now). With Meet, users can start an ad-hoc meeting with a single tap and invite participants to it. This change is only applicable if the Teams rooms is running in Microsoft Teams only or Microsoft Teams (default) and Skype for Business modes. With this change, all P2P calling and group calling functionality is moved under calling application.

• Microsoft Teams: Calling app update for Teams Rooms on Windows: Teams Rooms on Windows are making an alignment for calling experience to Teams desktop replacing Dial pad control on the Teams room console with Call. Calling app provides users functionality to dial PSTN calls where available as well as enable entry point for P2P Teams calls, group Teams calls and P2P federated user calls. This change is only applicable if the Teams rooms is running in Microsoft Teams only or Microsoft Teams (default) and Skype for Business modes. With this change, all P2P calling and group calling functionality that was previously under New meeting button is moved under Call. For customers that use SIP URI calling through Skype for Business, Enter SIP URI entry point is available in Microsoft Teams (default) and Skype for Business mode.

January 13, 2022

• Teams admin center: Sensitivity label support: Teams administrators can assign sensitivity labels when creating Teams.

• Video Streams Out via AJA or Blackmagic Design Hardware: Isolated video streams can be sent out of Teams meetings via AJA and Blackmagic Design hardware devices.

• Parent App: Teachers can reach out to their students' parents and guardians using chat in Teams.

• Introducing background effects on web: When you use Teams on the web, you can either blur your background or replace it entirely with the images provided in your video meeting or call. Note: Blurring or replacing your background might not prevent sensitive information from being visible to other people in the call or meeting. Learn more

• End-to-end encryption option for Teams 1:1 VoIP calls (Android and iOS): Microsoft Teams will support an option to use end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for ad hoc 1:1 Teams VoIP calls, providing an additional option for conducting sensitive online conversations. To support customer security and compliance requirements, IT will have full control of who can use E2EE in the organization. E2EE for Teams 1:1 VoIP calls will be available to commercial customers in preview in the first half of this calendar year, expanding support for online meetings later. Learn more

• Federation and external access with user in Teams outside of IT managed organizations: This feature extends the Teams Connect offerings to also allow users in an IT managed organization to start 1:1 and group chats with users outside of an IT managed organization (TFL). There is no support for meetings, TFL users starting chats, or calls in this release. This feature will only be supported for EDU tenants initially.

December 23, 2021

• Chat with Teams users with accounts that are not managed by an org: Chat with Teams extends collaboration support by enabling Teams users to chat with team members outside their work network with a Teams personal account. Customers can invite any Teams user to chat using an email address or phone number and remain within the security and compliance policies of their organization.

• Microsoft Teams Career Coach – Improved IT onboarding: Teams Admin Center settings for Career Coach will be updated to improve the provisioning and configuration process, as well as add more descriptive field validation and error messaging. The settings update will also introduce controls for managing the release of Career Coach features to app users.

• Simultaneous sharing of video and screen content through the Teams web client: Users can share screen content and video simultaneously during calls or meetings through the Teams web client.

• Cross cloud authenticated meeting join (Android and iOS): Enable authenticated meeting join experiences across clouds for iOS, especially needed for GOV scenarios.

• Hot desking support on Teams displays: Hot desking allows users to sit in a location of their choice, for a brief period in an ad hoc manner and be productive in their work with innovation and collaboration.

• Tags in Teams: Tags in Teams let users quickly reach a group of people without having to @mention or type out everyone. For more information on tag in teams, see Using tags in Teams.

December 09, 2021

• Teams admin center: Joined teams per user: Teams administrators can view the list of teams that a user has joined.

• Home page customization for Teams admin center: IT admins can customize the Home page in Teams admin center.

• Custom backgrounds: Microsoft-provided and user-uploaded custom backgrounds are now available on Android devices on OS10 and OS11 with capable chipsets. Learn more

• Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows: Split video layout across multiple screens: Ability to split the video gallery across all available displays in a Teams Room, when content isn’t being shared, maximizing screen space and bringing greater attention to the people joining remotely.

November 25, 2021

• Export Teams list from the Teams admin center: Administrators can export Teams list as a CSV file from the Teams admin center.

• Speed dial for iOS and Android: This feature makes your most used calling contacts easy to access with one tap dialing.

• Video Streams Out via AJA or Blackmagic Design Hardware: Isolated video streams can be sent out of Teams meetings via AJA and Blackmagic Design hardware devices.

• Microsoft Teams tab actions are moving: Microsoft Teams tab actions are moving out of the tab header bar and into the tab dropdown to help declutter the user experience. This impacts all application tabs such as Assignments, Grades, Planner or the Website tab. These tab actions will be found by clicking on the tab name to show a dropdown menu. These actions include: Reload tab, Go to website, Copy link to tab, Pop-out tab, and About this tab. Users that have come to rely on these tab actions being available in the tab header bar may have difficulty finding these common actions. A one-time educational coachmark bubble will be provided to educate users about the change, so consider bringing awareness to your users about this change.

• Anonymous user join policy: Teams meeting policy that controls allowing anonymous users on the meeting organizer level.

• Chat with Teams users with accounts that are not managed by an organization: Chat with Teams extends collaboration support by enabling Teams users to chat with team members outside their work network with a Teams personal account. Customers can invite any Teams user to chat using an email address or phone number and remain within the security and compliance policies of their organization.

• Apps in chats and meetings with external users: When complete, we will support apps in meetings and group chats with guests.

• End-to-end encryption for Teams calling: End-to-end encryption is the encryption of information at its origin and decryption at its intended destination without the ability for intermediate nodes to decrypt. End-to-end encryption would be an optional mode of real-time media collaboration where one-to-one Teams calls between two parties would be end-to-end encrypted.

• Teams device management for SIP devices: IT Administrators will be able to manage the Teams SIP devices of their organization through the Teams admin center.

• SMS patient notification for EHR integrated virtual visits: Ability for patients to receive SMS notifications for confirmation and remainders of their EHR integrated virtual visits.

• Teams device management for Surface Hubs: Administrators will be able to setup, manage, and monitor their Surface Hubs through the Teams admin center.

• Interactive Large Gallery: View up to 49 video participants at once, and interact with them via actions like pin and spotlight, and observe their meeting activity like raise hand and reactions.

• Approvals eSignature DocuSign integration: Users will now be able to choose DocuSign as their eSign provider when creating an eSignature request within Approvals. Admins will have the ability to turn off this connector within the Teams admin center.

November 11, 2021

• Shared Channels now supports tabs: Tabs are now supported in Teams Connect shared channels.

• Fluid components in Teams chat: Fluid components in Teams chat allow end users to send a message with a table, action items or a list that can be co-authored and edited by everyone in line.

• Sign out from the Teams admin center: Tenant admins will be able to sign out from phones remotely from the Teams admin center. Later, tenant admins will be able to sign out from displays remotely from the Teams admin center.

• Meeting Activities in Teams audit log: This update to the Microsoft Teams audit log adds Meeting Activities to further help organizations effectively respond to security events. The audit log will have information about Teams meetings including the start time, the end time, and the URL to join the meeting. Information about the participants of a meeting, including the user ID of each participant, the time each participant joined the meeting, and the time each participant left the meeting is also included.

• New Search results page experience: A new search results page experience in Teams will make finding messages, people, answers, and files faster and more intuitive. A new All page to show top results from each domain, Bookmark and Acronym Answers, decluttered search result snippets, preview message results for more context, more discoverable filters, previews for files - with better relevance based on the people and content you engage with most in Teams and other Microsoft 365 services.

• Approvals card within Viva Connections: Admins can now pin the Approvals card within their organizations Viva Connections dashboard. Users can then easily view all their pending approval requests, or quickly create a new one.

November 05, 2021

• Breakout Room Presenter support: Extend the management of Breakout Rooms to specific presenters.

• Breakout Room pre-meeting room creation and participant assignment: Introducing capability for organizer to perform breakout room configuration and participant assignment before the meeting starts.

• Enable developers to link a SaaS offers directly from DevCenter.: Enable developers to link a SaaS offers directly from DevCenter to an App with deep link to Partner Center for publishing/offer creation.

• Support for CART and human typed captions: Teams meetings now supports embedded CART (Communication Access Realtime Translation) captions from 3P CART service providers. CART users now don't have to open up a secondary browser window to stream CART captions. This will help attendees who are deaf or hard of hearing participate in meetings and makes it easier because the meeting presenter and meeting content will be in one place.

• Teams support of guest users with credentials managed by the host tenant: Support Internal Guest Users that their credentials are managed by the resource tenant (this is formerly known as State 3 and 4 guests accounts)

October 15, 2021

• Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows: Support for large meeting controls: Ability for a Teams Room on Windows to join a large meeting as a presenter or attendee. Based on the role assumed by the Teams Room, appropriate meeting controls are made available to presenters for meeting moderation and for attendees.

• Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows: Pin multiple video streams: Ability to pin multiple video streams (up to 9 participants) simultaneously during a Teams meeting. User can select which participants to pin from the center of room console.

• Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows: Spotlight multiple video streams: Ability to Spotlight multiple video streams (up to seven participants) simultaneously during a Teams meeting. Users can select which participants to pin from the center of room console.

• Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows: Lock meeting support: Ability to lock a meeting, preventing additional participants from joining. Users attempting to join a locked meeting will be informed that the meeting is locked.

• Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows: Live reactions: Ability to view live reactions sent by participants in a Teams meeting on the front of room display in a Teams Room. Room users can also send reaction from center of the room console.

• Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows: Support for Logitech Scribe content camera: From a Teams Room you can effortlessly share analog whiteboards into Teams meetings using the Logitech Scribe content camera and Intelligent Capture feature in Teams.

• Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows: Large gallery view and Together Mode in GCCH: Ability for Teams Rooms to support different video gallery layouts including n Large gallery and Together mode, in GCCH clouds.

• Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows: Presenter mode support: Ability for presenter mode views to appear on the front of room display in a Teams Room. Presenter mode is a feature in PowerPoint Live that helps you customize how your video feed and content appear to the meeting audience.

• Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows: Updated Meeting Roster: The updated meeting roster (viewable on the Teams Rooms console) more closely aligns with the experience available through the Teams desktop app, and includes capabilities like participant grouping, sort roster by raised hand, integrated user search. As well as with ability to ask others to join meeting from invited list or from chat.

• Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows: Dynamic view on single and dual displays: Dynamic view automatically optimizes shared content and video participants in Teams meetings. New controls let you personalize the view to suit your preferences and needs, such as the ability to show shared content and specific participants side-by-side or to view content or people only.

October 7, 2021

• Screen sharing in webRTC: Provider can share their screen with patients in webRTC enabled meetings.

October 4, 2021

• SMS notifications from Bookings app in Teams: SMS confirmations and reminders with Teams meeting link for appointments created from Bookings app in Teams.

October 3, 2021

• Message Deletion for Chat Supervisors: This feature, designed with our Teams for Education users in mind, allows chat supervisors to delete anyone's message in chats.

September 30, 2021

• Microsoft Teams - 2x2 video in Gallery view for web meetings in Safari: Gallery view can now show up to four participant videos during a meeting in Safari browser.

• Teams Q&A: Availability of Question & Answer application for Teams webinars and meetings. By adding this application to any Teams webinars or meetings, users will be able to create either moderated or non-moderated Q&A experience.

• Custom Role based access control (RBAC) support for Teams admin center: Global Admins will be able to pick and choose permissions that will be assigned to a Teams administrator, allowing them to specify granular access restrictions.

• Teams Guest Access Support for Sovereign Clouds (GCC-H): Teams now supports Guest Access in Sovereign Clouds.

• SMS notifications from Bookings app in Teams: SMS confirmations and reminders with Teams meeting link for appointments can be created from Bookings app in Teams.

• Graph APIs for Tags in Teams: This set of APIs can be used to programmatically assign users tags in a team, making tag creation and maintenance faster and easier. Tags in Teams let users quickly reach a group of people without having to @mention or type out everyone. For more information on tag in teams, see Using tags in Teams. Using these new APIs, developers can now create tags in a team and assign users, get a list of tags in a team, update tags, and delete tags.

• 1:1 VOIP and PSTN Call Recording and Transcription In Call App V2: 1:1 VOIP and PSTN Call Recording and Transcription will now show in Call App V2 in the call details panel. This is a critical feature specifically for our PSTN customers. In absence of chat, PSTN users do not have a way to view call recordings and transcriptions. We have now integrated call recording and transcription in Calls History in Calls App V2.
  What did we enable? Call Transcription for 1:1 PSTN and VOIP calls will show in the call history in call details panel. Call Recording for 1:1 PSTN and VOIP calls will show in the call history in call details panel. Users can delete recording from chat and the recording won't show in the call history in call details panel. If there are multiple recordings in a call, they'll show in a list form in the call history in call details panel.

• Screen sharing in webRTC: Provider can share their screen with patients in webRTC enabled meetings.

• Sensitivity labels for templates and graph API: Support for sensitivity labels when creating Teams via Graph APIs and templates. Learn more

• Better Together feature for Calls on Teams phones and displays: Better together allows Microsoft Teams devices to seamlessly integrate with your PC to bring a companion experience for cross-device interaction. With the new feature support, users can make and receive calls from either Teams device or PC client with a distributed calling experience across both devices.

• Microsoft Teams Rooms on Surface Hub: This next generation of Teams on Surface Hub has been redesigned to bring your favorite features from the desktop and Microsoft Teams Rooms into the meeting space.

September 29, 2021

• Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows: Chat bubbles: Ability to view chats sent during a Teams meeting on the front of room display in a Teams Room, calling attention to the chat conversation happening alongside the meeting.

• Admins can trigger cloud shell from Teams admin center: Admins can open Azure cloud shell from Teams admin center inline and run PowerShell scripts from browser.

• Explicit recording start/stop messages to improve recording availability and discoverability: Redesign of recording start and stop messages in chat to improve discoverability and accessibility. It will also be easier to find a successfully uploaded recording in a meeting chat.

• Microsoft Entra Conditional Access support for Teams Rooms on Windows: Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows now supports Microsoft Entra Conditional Access. Admins can configure Teams Rooms devices access to Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Exchange Online services based on device compliance status. In addition, to make it simpler for our customers, Microsoft Entra ID P1 or P2 license is added to the Room System Standard and Room System Premium and variations of these SKUs for education, government customers. Detailed documentation on how to configure Teams Rooms on Windows to use Microsoft Entra Conditional Access feature will be published to give IT admins a head start for configuring it.

September 27, 2021

• Pilot and deploy Teams for frontline with the frontline worker onboarding wizard: The frontline worker onboarding wizard allows IT admins to create a team, assign a license, and policy package in a few quick steps.

September 21, 2021

• Breakout Room pre-meeting room creation and participant assignment: Introducing capability for organizer to perform breakout room configuration and participant assignment before the meeting starts.

• Career Coach - Improved accessibility and minor updates: Career Coach will receive minor updates to copy and performance. The application will also adhere to greater levels of accessibility for keyboard navigation and screen readers.

September 15, 2021

• Room occupancy information in TAC: IT admins will be able to see the occupancy of a room for a particular meeting and average occupancy against allowed capacity for that particular room where the device is installed.

September 8, 2021

• Teams Network planner for government clouds: Network Planner can help you determine and organize network requirements for connecting Microsoft Teams users across your organization. When you provide your network details and Teams usage, the Network Planner calculates your network requirements for deploying Teams and cloud voice across your organization's physical locations.

• Message Deletion for Chat Supervisors: This feature, designed with our Teams for Education users in mind, allows chat supervisors to delete anyone's message in chats.

September 7, 2021

• Teams Virtual Visit Mobile Browser Join: With mobile browser join, when an attendee joins a virtual visit from a mobile device, they aren’t prompted to download Teams. Instead, Teams opens in a mobile browser, where the attendee can select Join now to join.

• Changing default notification style to Native notification from Teams built-in for new users: Native Notifications provide a host of benefits like support for action center, accessibility, and support for focus assist mode. Currently the default notification style for a new user in Microsoft Teams is Teams Purple. With this feature, the default for new user will change to Native Notification.

September 1, 2021

• Team Templates: Refresh to Team Templates content with more apps and channels in the Microsoft-provided predefined team structure. Learn more

August 31, 2021

• Teams now available on CarPlay: You can now connect Teams to CarPlay for hands-free calling and to join your next meeting.

• Perform operation on bulk set of devices in one go: IT admins will be able to perform any operation or execute any command on a bulk set of devices in single go. Currently they have to select devices manually in pagination view.

August 30, 2021

• Bookings app in Teams in Government Cloud (Moderate): Availability of Bookings app in Teams in GCC Moderate environment.

August 27, 2021

• Spam Call Notifications: Spam Call Notifications enables the ability for Spam likely calls to be identified for incoming calls in the call toast. All answered or missed Spam likely calls will also be reflected respectively in the Call History screen as well.

August 25, 2021

• Embedded CART Captioning support for Teams Meetings: Teams Meetings now support integration with real-time captioning providers and CART writers (Communication Access Real-Time Transcription) so that users who utilize CART captions can view the captions in the same window as their meeting.

August 24, 2021

• Walkie Talkie iOS (Preview): Walkie Talkie, a push-to-talk experience that enables clear and secure voice communication over the cloud, enables teams to communicate instantly and always stay on the same page. This native built-in app in Teams turns employee or company-owned iOS smartphones and tablets into a walkie-talkie, reducing the number of devices employees must carry and lowering costs for IT. Learn more

August 16, 2021

• Missed Activity Email in DOD: Missed activity email enables the user to stay on top of Microsoft Teams. A missed activity email is generated in case a user is away from Microsoft Teams and hasn't reviewed their notifications. A user can choose to receive Missed activity emails by going to Settings > Notifications > Choosing the frequency.

August 9, 2021

• Together Mode Extensibility: Together Mode Extensibility

• Simplified class team navigation for Teams for Education: Access Assignments, Grades, Class Notebook and Insights more easily from your main class team navigation.

August 2, 2021

• Present from PowerPoint to Teams with M365 Apps for Business license: The capability of presenting your slides directly from the PowerPoint desktop apps to a meeting via PowerPoint Live in Teams is now extended to the Microsoft 365 Apps for Business license.

• Text Predictions for Teams Mobile: Assistive AI predicts text so you can finish a phrase in one tap.

August 1, 2021

• Suggested Replies for EDU Customers - Teachers & Faculty Only: Suggested replies presents users with an option of three responses to choose from for selected messages. This functionality will be enabled by default. It will be disabled completely for students.

July 30, 2021

• Certificate Pinning: Certificate pinning refers to using some information about the certificate chain from an alternate source to do extra validations of the service-provided certificate chain. Usually, the public key of a pinned certificate is used to validate that the chain contains the expected certificate. This is needed to reduce the risk of man in the middle attack.

• Apps in chats/meetings with external users: When complete, we'll support apps in meetings and group chats with guests (users from other TFW domains).

• Developers can select to Block the apps by default: Introduce a new app status 'Blocked by publisher' to allow developers to block the app by default until admin takes an action in Teams admin center to allow the app. Learn more

July 29, 2021

• Quiet time across Microsoft apps on mobile devices: Set recurring quiet hours or days on either Microsoft Teams or Outlook mobile apps and your notifications from both of these apps will be blocked during these times.

July 26, 2021

• ATP safe links for Teams: ATP Safe links in Teams provides extra protection for E5 and ATP customers.

July 21, 2021

• EDU tailored deployment plan in Teams Advisor: EDU IT Administrators can use a tailored plan to deploy Teams to their organization.

July 20, 2021

• Power Automate flow recommendations with 1P Team Templates: Surface Power Automate flow templates for teams created from 1P team templates.

July 18, 2021

• Guest access in GCCH: Enable guest access in GCCH.

• Guest access in DOD: Enable guest access in DOD.

July 16, 2021

• Admin notifications for Custom app submissions: When a developer submits a custom app for IT admin approval, admins will receive a notification in a dedicated Teams channel, so they can review and take next steps to publish the app. Learn more

• Direct app purchases and invoice billing support in Teams Admin Center: Admins can complete orders for paid app licenses directly within Teams Admin Center. Also, invoice billing is a new supported payment method.

July 14, 2021

• App protection policies (APP) based conditional access (CA): Teams mobile apps will start supporting app protection policies (APP) based conditional access (CA) for greater security.

July 12, 2021

• Speed Dial[iOS]: Speed dial is coming to mobile devices. This feature makes your most used calling contacts easy to access with one tap dialing.

• Speed Dial[AND]: Speed dial is coming to mobile devices. This feature makes your most used calling contacts easy to access with one tap dialing.

July 8, 2021

• Roaming bandwidth control: A new roaming policy to provide specific settings from other policies which need to be rendered dynamically based upon the location of the Teams client. Initially two settings from the TeamsMeetingPolicy will be included - AllowIPVideo, and MediaBitRateKb.

July 7, 2021

• Admins can install Apps in Meetings: We're enabling IT admins to select Teams apps that can be installed in meetings for their organization. It will leverage the App setup policies, Installed apps section in which admins can specify the apps to install on behalf of their users.

July 6, 2021

• Translate slideshow content: Translate the slide show content privately in a Teams meeting with PowerPoint Live.

July 2, 2021

• Mobile browser join redirect: If the interop isn't ON or functioning, we'll reroute patients to download or join through the app.

June 30, 2021

• Teams Meetings Auto Recording: This feature allows users to auto record meetings by choosing auto record option in meetings options.

June 29, 2021

• Approvals in GCC: Approvals app is now usable in GCC environments.

June 28, 2021

• End-to-end encryption for Teams calling: End-to-end encryption is the encryption of information at its origin and decryption at its intended destination without the ability for intermediate nodes to decrypt. E2EE would be an optional mode of real-time media collaboration where one-to-one Teams calls between two parties would be end-to-end encrypted.

June 25, 2021

• Paging on Video Gallery: When you choose Large Gallery, and there are more than 49 videos or in Gallery with more than nine videos, navigation controls < and > now appear below the Large Gallery and Video Gallery. You can use these controls to view more video participants.

June 19, 2021

• Meeting reminder notification: Meeting reminder notification x mins before meeting start, so you never miss your next meeting. Default value for reminder will be 15 mins before meeting (but you can customize it from notification settings). You can directly Join the meeting or chat with participants from the reminder

June 7, 2021

• Meeting ID: User can join a meeting by entering a numerical ID.

June 4, 2021

• Announcing attendance data dashboard views: You don't need to manually download reports. Teams now allows you to view all aggregated data in a one-click dashboard view.
• Apps in Meeting Chats with External Users: We'll now support apps added by native users (hosts) in meeting chats with guests (users from other domains).

May 31 2021

• Meeting reminders: Meeting reminder notification x mins before meeting start, so you never miss your next meeting. Default value for reminder will be 15 mins before meeting (but you can customize it from notification settings). You can directly Join the meeting or chat with participants from the reminder.
• Missed Activity Email in DOD: Missed activity email enables the user to stay on top of Microsoft Teams. A missed activity email is generated in case a user is away from Microsoft Teams and hasn't reviewed their notifications. A user can choose to receive Missed activity emails by going to Settings > Notifications > Choosing the frequency.

May 26, 2021

• Control Optional Connected Experiences in Microsoft Teams: With this release, users will be able to manually disable from connecting with optional external services like URL Preview and Giphys, if their admins allow so. Learn more.

May 21, 2021

• Release notes widget: We have added a new dashboard widget that contains all of the links/URLs to preview and GA release notes.

May 19, 2021

• Update to Network planner tool for bandwidth estimation: Network planner tool will be updated to reflect the latest bandwidth requirements of Teams client. This will help IT administrators better estimate and plan their office bandwidth needs.
• Teams webinar capabilities general availability: Schedule and deliver 1,000 person webinars with the same Teams app you use for meetings! Webinar capabilities support registration page creation, email confirmation for registrants, host management for attendee video and audio, attendee reporting, plus interactive features like polls, chat, and reactions.

May 18, 2021

• Approvals App - eSignature Integration with 3rd party providers: There may be times when you need something approved and recorded with more formal attestation, and adding signatures to the approval process is necessary. We’re working closely with key partners to allow you to create an electronic signature approval using Adobe Sign, DocuSign, and other 3rd party providers natively within the Approval app. Simply choose your electronic signature provider and add the details. Once submitted, signers are notified with an email and can easily review and sign. Approvals will keep track of the entire workflow right in context within Teams.
• Chat with External Users in Group Chats: With this feature, users can create group chats that include people external to their organization using Teams (requires all users to have external access capabilities enabled).

May 17, 2021

• Approvals Templates: User can simply choose a template provided by their tenant admins or a Team Owner when creating a new approval request.
• Create Teams with Team Templates: With Templates in Teams, users can choose from a variety of customizable templates when creating a new team, helping them get started quickly. IT Admins can also create custom templates for their organization, allowing them to standardize team structures, preinstall relevant apps, and scale best practices. IT Admins can choose which team templates to show to end users in Teams Admin Center, and also preconfigure website tabs by adding URLs to a website tab in a team template. Learn more.

May 7, 2021

• Customize apps in Microsoft Teams: The app customization feature allows developers to specify certain properties of their Teams apps to be customizable and allows IT admins to rebrand any of those properties in Teams admin center. As an example, IT admins can customize the name, description and icons of Now Virtual Agent app from ServiceNow to meet their organization's unique needs.Learn more.

May 3, 2021

• Supervised chat: Use Teams administrative policy to ensure students are supervised by an educator during private 1:1 or group chats. With Supervised Chat, students won't be allowed to engage in chats without a supervising educator present.Learn more.

April 30, 2021

• Call queue feature for Teams on VDI: Call queue feature for Teams on VDI. Call queues provide a method of routing callers to people in your organization who can help with a particular issue or question. Calls are distributed one at a time to the people in the queue (who are known as agents).

April 29, 2021

• Offline access for files: Users can now access previously opened files even when there is no internet connectivity.
• Auto Answer for Meet Now: Allow a device to auto answer when it is added to an ad hoc meeting.

April 26, 2021

• Custom Backgrounds: Microsoft provided and user uploaded custom backgrounds are now available on iOS. Learn more.
• Anonymous users can present: When hosting a Teams live event, we added the ability for an anonymous user to join a Live Event and so that they can also present during the event. Learn more.

April 16, 2021

• Custom (LOB) tabs are available for DoD customers: Now DoD customers can upload and deploy their own custom (LOB) Teams apps.

April 15, 2021

• Policy package assignment to groups in PowerShell: Streamline assignment of policy package with group assignment in PowerShell. Group assignment empowers admins to assign a policy package to a group instead of individual users.
• Out-of-Office: Set up a message to let others know you're not working or on vacation so you're not available to reply when they send a chat message. Your out-of-office status will also sync with Automatic Replies that are found in your Outlook calendar.

April 12, 2021

• New bypass lobby option : Meeting policies have a setting for letting users bypass the meeting lobby. We added an option for People in the organization but exclude guest users. Learn more.
• Enable Manage apps page in the Microsoft Teams admin center for GCCH and DOD customers: As an admin, the Manage apps page in the Microsoft Teams admin center is where you view and manage all Teams apps for your organization. Here, you can see the org-level status and properties of apps, approve or upload new custom apps to your organization's app store, block, or allow apps at the org level, add apps to teams, purchase services for third-party apps, view permissions requested by apps, grant admin consent to apps, and manage org-wide app settings.Learn more.

April 5, 2021

• Custom policy packages: Manage and streamline your policy assignment with custom policy packages. This feature empowers admins to configure their own set of policy packages tailored to users in their organization.

April 2, 2021

Add video filter mode: Add the background video filter mode to the Teams Admin Center. So the admin can change the mode from Teams Admin Center and PowerShell on both sides. Learn more.

March 31, 2021

• Share to Teams from Outlook: Share to Teams from Outlook allows you to send a copy of email messages or conversations, including attachments, into Teams chats and channels. Find the Share to Teams option in the Outlook ribbon or the action menu for an email. Share to Teams supports Outlook on the web, Outlook for Windows, and the new Outlook for Mac Preview. Learn more.

March 30, 2021

• Customize apps in Teams (preview): Microsoft Teams provides app customization to enhance the Teams experience. The admin can customize or rebrand the app properties based on the organizational needs using the Teams admin center Manage apps page. Learn more.

March 29, 2021

• Remote provisioning and sign-in for Teams Android devices: IT admins can remotely provision and sign in to a Teams Android device. To provision a device remotely, the admin needs to upload the MAC IDs of the devices being provisioned and create a verification code. The entire process can be completed remotely from the Teams admin center. Learn more.

March 24, 2021

• Enable live transcripts in Teams: This is a per-user policy and applies during a meeting. This setting gives the control to a user to turn on or turn off live captions during the meeting that they're attending. Learn more.

March 23, 2021

• Supervised chats: Supervised chats allow designated educators to initiate chats with students and blocks students from starting new chats unless an appropriate educator is present. When chat supervision is enabled, supervisors aren't allowed to leave chats and other participants aren't allowed to remove them, ensuring that chats involving students are properly supervised. Learn more.

• Masking phone numbers: We released a new admin setting for masking phone numbers for dial-in participants when they join a meeting. Admins can choose to mask phone numbers from everyone in the meeting (except the organizer), from external people only or have masking disabled. If the admins choose to have this setting disabled, the phone numbers will be displayed fully in the meeting. Learn more.

• Create a phone system auto attendant: Auto attendants let people call your organization and navigate a menu system to speak to the right department, call queue, person, or an operator. You can create auto attendants for your organization with the Microsoft Teams admin center, or with PowerShell. Learn more.

March 1, 2021

• Additional GoLocal support in Teams live events: Support for South Africa, South Korea, Switzerland, France, Germany, and Brazil has been added to Live events. Learn more.

February 22, 2021

• Custom (LOB) tabs are available for DoD customers: Now DoD customers can upload and deploy their own custom (LOB) Teams apps.

February 18, 2021

• Meeting reactions policy: Meeting reactions are Off by default. Turning off reactions for a user doesn't mean that a user can't use reactions in meetings they schedule. The meeting organizer can still turn on reactions from the meeting option page, regardless of the default setting. Learn more.

February 11, 2021

• View-only meeting experience: Microsoft Teams allows up to 10,000 attendees to join a Teams meeting. After the capacity of the main meeting has been reached, extra attendees will join with a view-only experience. Learn more.

January 27, 2021

• Virtual visits with Teams - Integration into EHR: We've updated the interface for Microsoft Teams Electronic Health Record (EHR) Connector, and connector that makes it easy for clinicians to launch a virtual patient visit or consultation with another provider in Teams directly from the EHR system. Learn more.

January 22, 2021

• Firstline Workers are now called Frontline Workers: We've changed the title of Firstline Workers to Frontline Workers.

January 21, 2021

• Offline documentation: Teams keeps running even when you're offline or running in low-bandwidth conditions. Teams saves all your unsent messages for existing chats (for up to 24 hours) and sends them as soon as you're back online. Learn more.

January 19, 2021

• Teams Approvals app availability: The Approvals app is available as a personal app for all Microsoft Teams users. The Approvals app provides a simple way to bring auditing, compliance, accountability, and workflows to both structured and unstructured Approvals in Teams. Learn more.

January 15, 2021

• Set up Microsoft Teams meeting add-on for Google Workspace: The Microsoft Teams meeting add-on for Google Workspace must be enabled by a Teams admin before tenant users can access the app. Learn more.

January 4, 2021

• Calendar sharing: We added the ability to add a channel to a calendar tab.

December 21, 2020

• Supported rate centers and coverage for Calling Plans: A rate center is the industry term for a geographical area that traditionally defines boundaries for local calling, billing rates, and phone number assignment for the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN). Learn more.

December 18, 2020

• Updated meeting settings policies for Breakout rooms: Breakout Rooms in Teams are used to split meetings into separate, smaller meeting rooms. This setting controls whether meeting organizers have the option to create and manage Breakout Rooms in meetings they schedule or start. This policy setting affects all meetings, including Meet Now meetings. Learn more.

December 9, 2020

• Advisor for Teams with Microsoft 365 Learning Pathways: Microsoft 365 learning pathways are an on-demand learning solution that you can customize to train your users, and increase usage and adoption of Teams in your organization. Use learning pathways together with Advisor for Teams to get your users up and running quickly and drive adoption. Learning pathways gives you a SharePoint Online site template and the ability to easily build a learning site for your users. You can customize the learning pathways training portal to include training and support content specific to your users' needs. Use the Teams playlists from the Microsoft online catalog and add your own. Learn more.

October 28, 2020

• Get started with Teams in healthcare: Microsoft Teams offers many features useful for hospitals and other healthcare organizations, including:

  • Virtual visits and Electronic Healthcare Record (EHR) integration
  • Teams policy packages
  • Secure messaging
  • Teams templates
  • Care coordination and collaboration

This functionality is part of the Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare. Learn more.

October 27, 2020

• Teams displays: Microsoft Teams displays are a category of all-in-one dedicated Teams devices that feature an ambient touchscreen. Learn more.

October 22, 2020

• Manage Skype for Business settings for your users: You can manage Skype for Business settings for Skype for Business users in your organization in the Microsoft Teams admin center. Go to the Skype for Business tab on the user details page. From here, you can manage external access and meeting settings for individual users. Learn more.

• Manage Skype for Business settings for your organization: You can manage Skype for Business features for Skype for Business users in your organization in the Microsoft Teams admin center. Go to Org-wide settings > Skype for Business. From here, you can manage Skype Meeting Broadcast, presence, and mobile notifications. Learn more.

October 16, 2020

• Manage shift-based access for Frontline Workers: As an admin, you can configure Teams to show a set of shift-based presence states for the Frontline Workers in your organization to indicate when they're on and off shift. With shift-based access, you can manage access to Teams when Frontline Workers are off shift. For example, you can set Teams to display a message that Frontline Workers must acknowledge before they can use Teams when they're not on a scheduled shift. Learn more.

October 15, 2020

• Custom policy packages: This feature is in private preview Custom policy packages let you bundle your own set of policies for users with similar roles in your organization. Create your own policy packages by adding the policy types and policies that you need. Learn more.

• Add an app to a team in the Microsoft Teams admin center: On the Manage apps page of the Microsoft Teams admin center, you can use the Add to team button to install an app to a team. Learn more.

October 1, 2020

• Use OneDrive for Business and SharePoint for meeting recordings: Microsoft Teams has a new method for saving meeting recordings. As the first phase of a transition from classic Microsoft Stream to the new Stream, this method stores recordings on Microsoft OneDrive for Business and SharePoint in Microsoft 365 and offers many benefits. Learn more.

• Free audio conferencing for small to medium businesses: If you're a small or medium-sized business with up to 300 users and you currently don’t have any Audio Conferencing licenses, you can get Audio Conferencing free for one year. This free offer is available starting October 1, 2020. Learn more.

• View app permissions and grant admin consent in the Microsoft Teams admin center: Now in Teams admin center global admins will be able to review and grant consent to Graph API permissions registered in Microsoft Entra ID, on behalf of the entire tenant for the permissions an app is requesting such as reading information stored in a team or sending an email on behalf of users. Now IT admins will be able to review resource-specific consent (RSC) permissions for the apps within Teams admin center. With that admins will be able to unblock their users for the third-party apps they have already reviewed and approved to use in their organization. Learn more.

• Calling Plans support for Austria, Denmark, Italy, Portugal, Sweden, and Switzerland: We've recently added calling plan support for Austria, Denmark, Italy, Portugal, Sweden, and Switzerland. Learn more.

September 29, 2020

• Meeting policy settings: Adding two policy settings for IP audio and IP video in Teams meetings policies: Mode for IP audio and Mode for IP video. You can now set incoming and outgoing IP audio and IP video in Teams meeting policies. Learn more.

September 27, 2020

• Simplified notification setting: Users can now manage their notifications settings in a more simplified manner with enhanced functionalities.

September 24, 2020

• Teams integration with Android contacts: Call using Teams directly through your Android Phonebook.

September 21, 2020

• Manage Microsoft Power Platform apps in the Microsoft Teams admin center: As an admin, you can control whether users can see and install Microsoft Power Platform apps in Built by your colleagues on the Apps page in Teams. You can collectively block or allow all apps created in Power Apps or all apps created in Power Virtual Agents at the org level on the Manage apps page or for specific users using app permission policies. Learn more.

September 19, 2020

• Sharing files in Microsoft Teams: In Microsoft Teams, users can share content with other Teams users within and outside their organization. Sharing in Teams is based on the settings configured in SharePoint and OneDrive, so whatever you set up for SharePoint and OneDrive will control sharing in Teams as well. Learn more.

September 16, 2020

• New third-party video provider Riverbed: Use Teams live events settings to configure settings for live events that are held in your organization. You can set up a support URL and configure a third-party video distribution provider. These settings apply to all live events that are created in your organization. Riverbed is a new third-party provider. Learn more.

September 15, 2020

• Skype for Business Online Connector integrated to Teams PowerShell module: The latest Teams PowerShell public release is integrated with Skype for Business Online Connector, providing a single module for Teams PowerShell management. Learn more.

September 8, 2020

• Porting PIN: We added the ability to set up and manage a PIN used for porting or transferring phone numbers. You'll provide this PIN to the PSTN service desk when you want to port numbers out to a service provider from Microsoft. Learn more.

September 3, 2020

• Custom apps store in Microsoft Teams: Now you can customize the Teams Apps store with your organizational branding by adding your logo, custom backgrounds, and custom text colors to make it more inviting to end users. Learn more.

September 1, 2020

• On-demand translation in Android: Inline message translation is a Microsoft Teams feature that lets users translate Teams messages into the language specified by their personal language settings. The translation setting is On by default. Learn more.

August 17, 2020

• Group chat size increase: We added the ability to now have 250 participants in a group chat. Learn more.

• Manage the Praise app: The Praise app in Microsoft Teams helps users show appreciation to members of their organization or classroom. The Praise app has a selection of badge sets to choose from and provides the option to create your own badges. Praise is designed to help recognize the effort that goes into the wide range of work that Teams users do, from educators to Frontline Workers. Learn more.

• Set up Coordinated Meetings with Microsoft Teams Rooms and Surface Hub: If you've one or more Microsoft Teams Rooms devices or Surface Hubs in a meeting room, you can set up Coordinated Meetings. Coordinated Meetings lets you set up your Teams Rooms devices and Surface Hubs so that when you join a meeting on one device, the other devices in the room are also joined to the same meeting. Learn more.

• Tagging by shift: With this feature, people are automatically assigned tags that match their schedule and shift group name in the Shifts app in Teams. Learn more.

• Teams Devices Administrator: Users with this role can manage Teams certified devices from the Teams admin center. They can check details of each device including the account that is signed in, and the make and model of the device. They can change the settings on the device, update the software, and restart devices remotely. Learn more.

August 12, 2020

• Lists app in Teams: Teams users can now directly manage, create, and maintain their lists using the Lists app tab. The Lists app works on all Teams clients and enables collaboration and communication around list items. Learn more.

August 6, 2020

• Approve custom apps: Approve custom apps submitted through the Teams App Submission API. Learn more.

August 3, 2020

• Purchase services for Teams third-party apps in the Microsoft Teams admin center: Teams apps are free to install and some may require purchasing service subscriptions to experience the app's full functionality and scope. These service subscriptions are called Software as a Service (SaaS) offers, which are available for purchase through AppSource and now through the Microsoft Teams admin center. Learn more.

• Publish a custom app submitted through the Teams App Submission API: Developers can use the Teams App Submission API to submit custom apps directly to the Microsoft Teams admin center for admins to review and approve. Learn more.

July 29, 2020

• Enhanced Manageability using Device Tagging functionality: As part of enhanced manageability, we are releasing Device Tagging functionality. It will enable IT admins to group-specific set of devices with user-generated Tags and perform actions on the same. Learn more.

• View-only in meetings: View-only allows for up to 20,000 listen-only participants to join a meeting in which the organizer has a license for the Advanced Communications add-on SKU.1 This is a preview or early release feature. Learn more.

July 28, 2020

• Create your own Teams template: You can now use templates from the Admin console to create your own Teams template or create a Teams template from existing templates. Learn more.

July 20, 2020

• Admins can control outgoing webhooks at the user level: Admins can control outgoing webhooks at the user level by allowing or blocking the Outgoing Webhooks app in app permission policies. Learn more.

July 17, 2020

• NDI-out for Teams meetings: We added the ability to enable NDI-Out to a Teams meeting. NDI-Out allows for the audio and video of a meeting to be utilized by video production tools. Learn more.

July 15, 2020

• Enable suggested replies: Turn this setting on to enable suggested replies for chat messages. Learn more.

July 9, 2020

• Voicemail support in call queues: We added support for call queues to use a shared voicemail box. Learn more.

July 8, 2020

• Policy packaging batch assignment: We made it possible to use PowerShell to batch assign a Policy Package for user and groups. Learn more.

July 7, 2020

• Sensitivity labels for Teams: Sensitivity labels allow Teams admins to regulate access to sensitive organizational content created during collaboration within teams. Learn more.

July 2, 2020

• Suggested replies: We added the ability for Teams users to have a suggested reply to their conversations. These suggestions will appear at the bottom of a chat message if they're enabled. They make replying to messages quick and easy! Learn more.

• Transferring incoming calls: We added the ability for auto attendants and call queue incoming calls to be transferred to an external PSTN phone number. Learn more.

June 30, 2020

• Install apps on behalf of others: You choose which apps are installed by default for users when they start Teams. Learn more.

• Screen sharing on behalf of others: Many IT Admins have complained that they can't have their employees screen share from chat when they disable the AllowPrivateCalling policy. This feature work has decoupled the ability to start a screens hare from chat from the AllowPrivateCalling policy, but it still blocks users from adding audio/video to the screen share session if their AllowPrivateCalling policy is disabled.

June 29, 2020

• Walkie Talkie app in Microsoft Teams: Instant voice communication using push-to-talk. Learn more.

June 25, 2020

• Teams filter option: We added a new filter option in the command bar so you can set specific parameters when searching for specific teams.

• Users widgets: We added a new User summary widget that's available when you're adding teams and channels.

June 21, 2020

• Sign in restrictions for Android and iOS users: If user isn't signed in to their Microsoft 365 account anywhere else, they'll be asked to provide single-factor or multifactor authentication (SFA or MFA), depending on what your organization has configured for mobile sign-in policies. Learn more.

June 15, 2020

• Monitor shifts with audit logs: You can search the audit log to view Shifts activity in your organization. Learn more.

June 11, 2020

• Call queues - Presence-based routing: When turned off, calls will be routed to agents who have opted in to receive calls, regardless of their presence state. When turned on, opted-in agents will receive calls only when their presence state is Available. Learn more.

June 10, 2020

• Call queues - Longest-idle routing: When you choose this, incoming calls will be routed to call agents who haven't answered an incoming call for the longest period of time. Learn more.

June 1, 2020

• Raise hand in meetings: Users can now raise a virtual hand in a meeting! Other participants will see your raised hand next to your name in the meeting stage and next to your name in the roster. Learn more.

May 15, 2020

• Add more people to a chat: We made it possible to now add up to 350 people to a single chat thread.

May 5, 2020

• Easily access meeting options from within a Teams meeting in progress: We're making it easier for meeting organizers to quickly and easily change their presenter and lobby settings once a Teams meeting starts by providing an easy to access link directly in the participants pane. This new functionality will be present for both scheduled and “Meet now” meetings.

• Download a participant report in a Teams meeting: Meeting organizers, especially teachers, often need to know who joined their Teams meetings. Soon you'll be able to download a participant report, found in the roster view that includes join and leave times for participants. Available in the roster view, meeting organizers can download the report that includes those users who joined while the organizer was present. This feature is only available within the meeting while the meeting is active. Available on desktop (Windows and Mac) and the web. Learn more.

April 26, 2020

• Include system audio in live events: Presenters and producers in live events can now include system audio when sharing a desktop or window screen during the live event. This will allow your users to hear any audio part of the content you're sharing.

April 24, 2020

• Team and channel analytics: In addition to team analytics, now you can also view channel level metrics and insights. We've also enhanced the time period to 90 days so you can analyze data for longer periods. Apart from that, this release also includes new metrics and charts around the count of posts, replies, and meetings for a team or channel. Learn more.

April 20, 2020

• Enable organizers to change lobby settings for dial-in participants: This setting controls whether people who dial in by phone join the meeting directly or wait in the lobby regardless of the Automatically admit people setting.

April 8, 2020

• Customize meeting video backgrounds: When you're meeting with video, you now have the choice of different static background images to use. This will let you show this image and not the actual background of where you're sitting. Learn more.

April 1, 2020

• Teams for RealWear: Microsoft Teams client for RealWear enables Frontline Workers using RealWear's ruggedized head-mounted wearables to operate Teams 100 percent hands-free and seek remote assistance from experts using Teams video calling. Learn more.

March 31, 2020

• Tag, you're it: Create tags and assign people to them so you can @mention a group, role, department, etc. Team owners, try it out for yourselves. Go to a team, select More options > Manage tags. Learn more.

March 30, 2020

• Policy-based recording for Teams calls and meetings: This feature enables automatic policy-based recordings of Teams calls and meetings via Microsoft-certified software vendors.

March 25, 2020

• Manage your Collaboration Bar devices in Microsoft Teams: As an admin, you want to manage all your Collaboration Bar devices from Microsoft Teams admin center. You can view inventory of devices, take specific actions on the devices and give commands remotely to all the devices.