Release notes for Government Channel releases
- Event group chat: Organizers, co-organizers, and presenters can chat privately in a separate chat from attendees. This chat is available to access before, during, and after the event.
Sensitivity label support for town hall and webinars: This feature will now allow organizers to set sensitivity labels for town halls and webinars.
Microsoft Teams: Voice and face profile data export controls: This new feature provides controls for data export for users. To ensure security and protection of user privacy, only individuals can export their own voice and face profile data, limiting the risk of download or sharing by tenant administrators.
- Microsoft Teams: Speed dial customization on line keys for nontouch phones: This feature lets users quickly access frequently dialed contacts and numbers with the ability to set up custom contacts and speed dial on the line key buttons and sidecars for nontouch phone devices certified for Microsoft Teams. This feature also enables one touch dialing capabilities and easy management of contact lists on line keys and sidecars.
- New VDI solution for Teams for Azure Virtual Desktops, Windows 365 and Citrix VDI environments: New VDI solution for Teams is a redesigned version of the current WebRTC-based optimization solution for the new Microsoft Teams in virtual desktop environments. This new solution 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) and provides enhanced performance, reliability, and security. The new media engine is based out of 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.
- New VDI solution for Teams for Azure Virtual Desktops, Windows 365 and Citrix VDI environments: New VDI solution for Teams is a redesigned version of the current WebRTC-based optimization solution for the new Microsoft Teams in virtual desktop environments. This new solution 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) and provides enhanced performance, reliability, and security. The new media engine is based out of 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.
- 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 client.
- 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 client.
- Microsoft Teams: Proximity join via ultrasound: Proximity join using ultrasound enables users to accurately identify and add the specific Teams room they are in, to their meeting. Their device detects ultrasonic signals emitted in the physical Teams room, providing a better precise list of nearby rooms on the prejoin screen.
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.
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 reactions sent as a stream of reactions on their screen.
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.
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 reactions sent as a stream of reactions on their screen.
- 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.
Multi-instance app customization support for Teams apps: If you're an IT admin, you'll have more control with this feature. You can make your supportive Teams apps fit your company brand and make them more useful for your employees. You can create and manage multiple customized app instances, boost branding, awareness, and user engagement. Overcoming single-instance limitations, this feature drives adaptability for diverse business needs.
Microsoft Teams: Custom backgrounds on Teams panels: Admins can now upload and set custom background images for Microsoft Teams Panels through the Teams admin center to highlight brand identity. This feature is available for panels with Teams Rooms Pro and Teams Shared Devices licenses.
Microsoft Teams: Proximity join via ultrasound: Proximity join using ultrasound enables users to accurately identify and add the 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.
Multi-instance app customization support for Teams apps: If you're an IT admin, you'll have more control with this feature. You can make your supportive Teams apps fit your company brand and make them more useful for your employees. You can create and manage multiple customized app instances, boost branding, awareness, and user engagement. Overcoming single-instance limitations, this feature drives adaptability for diverse business needs.
- Meeting options to control participants' ability to admit attendees from meeting lobby: Meeting organizers will have options in the meeting settings to control who can admit attendees from the lobby into the meeting.
- 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.
- Teams meeting recordings will be saved to meeting organizer's OneDrive for Business: This change will ensure that Teams meeting recordings are saved to meeting organizer's OneDrive for Business instead of recording initiator's OneDrive for Business. This would lead to improved compliance for recordings as meeting organizer can manage access permissions and further recording file management.
- Reactions in town halls (Premium): Currently in a town hall, attendees and others in an 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 reactions sent as a stream of reactions on their screen.
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.
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.
- 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.
Teams meeting recordings will be saved to meeting organizer's OneDrive for Business: This change will ensure that Teams meeting recordings are saved to meeting organizer's OneDrive for Business (OdB) instead of recording initiator's OdB. This leads to improved compliance for recordings as meeting organizer can then manage access permissions and further recording file management.
Lightweight People app on Teams phone devices: The updated People app provides a simplified and faster experience to help users manage contacts easily on Teams phone devices.
- 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 through automatic updates via the Teams Admin Center and when. Additionally, automatic updates can be paused temporarily, allowing time to validate scenarios. This feature is applicable for Teams Rooms on Android and Android-based Teams Phones, panels, and displays.
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.
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.
- 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.
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.
Prevent user from screen sharing in externally hosted meetings: If a user attends a meeting hosted by an external tenant, the IT admin of the person 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.
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 by using their initial identities. It's another step for improving external collaboration to support not only chats with external users, but meetings as well.
Block the download and access level improvement of OneDrive transcript file: Teams now supports IT admins to block the download of the 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 and who can view or edit on Stream.
Prevent user from screen sharing in externally hosted meetings: If a user attends a meeting hosted by an external tenant, the IT admin of the person 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.
View, download and delete OneDrive transcript files in Teams: Teams users view, download, and delete transcript files stored in OneDrive for Business.
Attach files from SharePoint sites from Teams Mobile: This feature introduces the ability to browse, multiselect, and attach files from SharePoint sites to a chat or channel conversation in the mobile app.
Custom emojis and reactions: This feature introduces custom emojis and reactions for users to create their own expressive content in Teams.
Teams meeting recordings would be saved to meeting organizers OdB: 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.
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 by using their initial identities. It's another step for improving external collaboration to support not only chats with external users, but meetings as well.
Attach files from SharePoint sites from Teams Mobile: This feature introduces the ability to browse, multiselect, and attach files from SharePoint sites to a chat or channel conversation in the mobile app.
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.
- Unified fun picker: Users can now find all their emojis, GIFs, and stickers in one unified picker. Users can search for any expression they want across all types of fun stuff in Teams.
- Specific People Link support for Collaborative Notes: With the launch of Collaborative Notes, we’re also improving the shareable link type that is created by Collaborative Notes to help make 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.
- Prepin meeting apps via admin policy in Teams Admin Center: Admins will now be able to prepin meetings apps (much like personal apps and messaging extensions) in Teams Admin Center.
- 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.
Microsoft Teams: Scan a QR Code to reserve a room on Teams panels: This feature lets users easily book a room for meetings now, in the future, or as part of a scheduled meeting by scanning a QR code on the scheduling panel with their mobile device. Requires the Teams mobile app on an Android or iOS mobile device.
Microsoft Teams: Organizers can select languages for translation in a town hall: Town hall organizers will be able to select the caption languages that will be available to the attendees for translation. Currently, the languages are preset for attendees to pick from; now organizers will be able to select from six languages (ten languages for Premium).
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 belongs to their organization (for example, 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.
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.
Allows users to easily redirect an incoming call to voicemail without having to accept or reject the call: Redirect incoming call directly to voicemail from incoming call toast.
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 belongs to their organization (for example, 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.
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 non-touch phones users can use advanced calling features such as park/unpark calls, busy on busy, auto restart, and manage contacts and contact groups.
- Hide attendees' identities during webinars (Premium): Organizers can hide the names of attendees from other attendees during a webinar or a meeting, and only organizers and presenters are able to see the names of attendees.
Unified fun picker: Users can now find all their emojis, GIFs, and stickers in one unified picker. Search for any expression you want across all types of fun stuff in Teams!
Hide attendees' identities during webinars (Premium): Organizers can hide the names of attendees from other attendees during a webinar or a meeting, and only organizers and presenters are able to see the names of attendees.
Collaborative Notes in Channel Meetings: In parallel to legacy Wiki-based Meeting Notes in channel meetings, teams across Microsoft are coming together to provide tools that help make meetings more effective. More specifically, we’re improving how you track what you want to discuss (Agenda), what you discussed/decided (Notes), and what you need to follow up on (Follow-up Tasks) in channel meetings. These capabilities are now integrated into the end-to-end meeting experience in Teams, Loop, Planner, To Do, and OneDrive for Business.
- 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 is enabled.
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 through automatic updates via the Teams Admin Center and when. 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.
Microsoft Teams: Automatic updates for the Teams app on Android-based Teams devices: Android-based Teams devices will receive automatic updates of the Teams app without the need for any 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.
Specific People Link support for Collaborative Notes: With the launch of Collaborative Notes, we’re also improving the shareable link type that is created by Collaborative Notes to help make 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Unified fun picker: Users can now find all their emojis, GIFs, and stickers in one unified picker. Search for any expression you want across all types of fun stuff in Teams!
- Specific People Link support for Collaborative Notes: With the launch of Collaborative Notes, we’re also improving the shareable link type that is created by Collaborative Notes to help make 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 to Specific People. Tenants who previously had Collaborative Notes disabled due to lack of PSL support can now enable and use this feature.
- 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.
- 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.
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.
Redirect an incoming call to voicemail without having to accept or reject the call: This feature allows users to easily redirect an incoming call directly to voicemail from incoming call toast.
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 nontouch 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.
- 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.
- User reported events in Teams Rooms Pro Management: When an end user reports an issue from the Teams Rooms device, a feedback event is raised in the Teams Rooms Pro Management portal. This event provides managers with the necessary data to act on the feedback or open a support case with logs that were generated by the end user. This feature is only available with the Teams Rooms Pro license.
- Microsoft Teams: new Teams is now part of Teams Rooms on Windows: With the new Teams app now 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 more reliably.
- 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.
- 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. Instead, the meeting options will now show up as an inline window within the scheduling form. This is applied for both create and edit experiences.
Microsoft Teams: Organizers can select languages for translation in a town hall: With this feature, town hall organizers will be able to select the caption languages that are available to the attendees for translation. Previously, the languages are preset for attendees to pick from; now organizers will be able to select from 6 languages (10 languages for Premium).
Duplicate webinar or townhall: Creating events from scratch takes time. This feature lets organizers to use an already created webinar or townhall to jump start scheduling of another event.
- Reduced presenter role permissions: We are introducing 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 now reserved for organizers and co-organizers.
- 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.
Simplified team and channel create: You can get started with collaboration by creating channels from the teams and channels list. The 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: This feature lets you 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 teams from templates and groups as a secondary view. This experience will only be available in the new Teams app.
Archive channels: Archive channels will now be available for Teams users. As a channel owner or administrator, you can archive a channel that you own. By archiving the channel, it will not be available in your or channel member's left rail anymore and no more actions are allowed on the channel like messaging, reacting, commenting, editing, etc. You can also unarchive the channel by going to Manage Teams > Channels. Team members can host the channel in their left rail even after archival.
Meeting invite improvements: Meeting invite is the first thing that a user invited to the meeting sees before joining. We are making some design improvements to ensure we have the most important information there and it's better grouped.
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.
Reduced presenter role permissions: We are introducing 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. When enabled, presenters will no longer be able to control attendee mics and cameras, change the role of other participants, lower participants' hands, and remove participants from the meeting. The reduced presenter permissions are now reserved for organizers and co-organizers.
Archive channels: Archive channels will now be available for Teams users. As a channel owner or administrator, you can archive a channel that you own. By archiving the channel, it will not be available in your or channel member's left rail anymore and no more actions are allowed on the channel like messaging, reacting, commenting, editing, etc. You can also unarchive the channel by going to Manage Teams > Channels. Team members can host the channel in their left rail even after archival.
Simplified team and channel create: You can get started with collaboration by creating channels from the teams and channels list. The 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 for it. This experience will only be available in the new Teams app.
Simplified team create: This feature lets you 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 teams from templates and groups as a secondary view. This experience will only be available in the new Teams app.
Archive channels: Archive channels will now be available for Teams users. As a channel owner or administrator, you can archive a channel that you own. By archiving the channel, it will not be available in your or channel member's left rail anymore and no more actions are allowed on the channel like messaging, reacting, commenting, editing, etc. You can also unarchive the channel by going to Manage Teams > Channels. Team members can host the channel in their left rail even after archival.
Hide general channel: Alike other channels, now you'll be able to hide general channels as well from your teams and have a cleaner left rail.
Simplified team and channel create: You can get started with collaboration by creating channels from the teams and channels list. The 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 for it. This experience will only be available in the new Teams app.
Simplified team create: This feature lets you 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 teams from templates and groups as a secondary view. This experience will only be available in the new Teams app.
Avatars for Microsoft Teams: This feature gives 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.
Audio and video flyout in Teams meetings: Audio and Video flyouts in Teams enable 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.
- New Shared display mode for BYOD meeting rooms: The Shared display mode provides users the ability to extend their Teams meeting via a pop-out view-only version of the stage onto the TV screen in BYOD meeting rooms. This mode ensures the meeting content is always extended to the front of the room for others to see. This gives the host of the room the peace of mind their desktop is for their viewing only, giving them the flexibility to multi-task or work privately on their host desktop.
3P eCDN support for premium town halls: This flag allows 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.
Preset organizational backgrounds (Premium): When enabled, a user will have a preset background defined by the IT admin without the ability to change the background.
Support for Stream Deck to interact with Microsoft Teams in a meeting: This feature enables Teams users to connect a Stream Deck device to their Teams desktop client and utilize it to mute/unmute themselves, turn on/off their camera or send reactions during a Teams meeting.
Teams Shared Device License support for android mobile: This feature is supported on the Teams Android mobile and provides a shared identity experience for frontline workers with basic & advanced calling, Walkie Talkie & People Search features.
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 it's internally hosted meetings or externally hosted meetings. This can help your org to meet compliance needs and strengthen controls around Teams meetings.
Audio and video flyout in Teams meetings: Audio and video flyouts in Teams enable 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.
See who's joined a meeting and more from your calendar: From your calendar, you can see the profile picture of participants who've joined a meeting, as well as how long the meeting has been going and whether or not it's being recorded.
Watermark support for recording playback (Premium): Recording can now be enabled for watermarked meetings. An email ID will be 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 uploaded to a custom meeting theme as part of branded meetings.
Microsoft Teams: Share contact information of people in Microsoft 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.
Watermark support for recording playback (Premium): Recording can now be enabled for watermarked meetings. An email ID will be 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 uploaded to a custom meeting theme as part of branded meetings.
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 it's internally hosted meetings or externally hosted meetings. This can help your org 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 is will happen for both the create and edit experiences.
See who's joined a meeting and more from your calendar: From your calendar, you can see the profile picture of participants who've joined a meeting, as well as how long the meeting has been going and whether or not it's being recorded.
Microsoft Teams: Share contact information of people in Microsoft 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.
- Microsoft Teams: New gallery in meetings: This feature eases the transition from video on to video off and places everybody in a 16:9 ratio. Users can also change their gallery size by choosing one of the predefined options. Users can choose to go back to this view through the view switcher as desired. Microsoft Teams Room video is optimized enlarging the size by default, with user controls to re-size via the stage contextual setting. Available only in the new Microsoft Teams experience.
Customize and edit content of webinar emails (Premium): Organizers can edit content for all webinar emails like registration confirmation, reminder, cancellation, and others.
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 guest users will receive SMS text notifications about their appointment, including 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 reminder for 15 minutes before the appointment begins. This feature is only available to US tenants and users with a Teams Premium license.
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 other Teams Rooms on windows device. For customers licensed for Teams Rooms Pro, they can also easily monitory and manage Surface Hub devices in the Teams Rooms Pro Management portal.
Remove items from activity feed: This feature helps users to remove items from the activity feed.
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.
Customize and edit content of webinar emails (Premium): Organizers can edit content for all webinar emails like registration confirmation, reminder, cancellation and others.
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 other Teams Rooms on windows device. For customers licensed for Teams Rooms Pro, they can also easily monitory and manage Surface Hub devices in the Teams Rooms Pro Management portal.
New shared display mode for BYOD meeting rooms: The new shared display mode provides users the ability to extend their Teams meeting via a pop-out view-only version of the stage onto the TV screen in BYOD meeting rooms. This mode ensures the meeting content is always extended to the front of the room for others to see. This gives the host of the room the peace of mind that their desktop is for their viewing only, giving them the flexibility to multi-task or work privately on their host desktop.
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.
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. This feature is powered by Microsoft Designer, this feature uses generative AI to create expressive images.
Collaborative notes on Teams mobile: Collaborative notes allow 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. Assigned tasks in Collaborative notes automatically sync with ToDo & Planner too.
Microsoft Teams: Domain-specific search: Now, searching content in Teams is faster and more precise than ever before. 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's name.
Azure protected voicemail on Teams app: Teams users will now have link to their Azure protected voicemails from the Teams app. Users get notification for the voicemail on the Teams app and can open the attached link to access the voicemail on the web browser.
Microsoft Teams: QR code sign-in on Teams displays for hot-desking: This feature helps hot-desking users sign-in quickly and securely by scanning a QR code using their Teams mobile app on Android phones and iOS phones.
Microsoft Teams: Virtual front desk on Teams certified displays: The virtual front desk helps IT admins to interact with and provide personal assistance to customers, colleagues, or guests who are on-site via video call on Microsoft Teams displays.
Set sensitivity labels for meetings from your phone: Now you can set the sensitivity label for meetings when scheduling from mobile. Admins can set mandatory and default labels, and this will reflect in mobile apps as well. Enforcement of the label will also be honored on mobile.
Azure protected voicemail on Teams app: Teams users will now have link to their Azure protected voicemails from the Teams app. Users get notification for the voicemail on the Teams app and can open the attached link to access the voicemail on the web browser.
Engagement information in Teams attendance report: This feature enables organizers to access meeting engagement data in Teams attendance report.
Set sensitivity labels for meetings from your phone: Now you can set the sensitivity label for meetings when scheduling from mobile. Admins can set mandatory and default labels, and this will reflect in 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 invited to the meeting sees before joining. Some design improvements are made to ensure we have the most important information there and it's better grouped.
Azure protected voicemail on Teams app: Teams users will now have link to their Azure protected voicemails from the Teams app. Users get notification for the voicemail on the Teams app and can open the attached link to access the voicemail on the web browser.
Audio and video flyout in Teams meetings: Audio and Video flyouts in Teams enable 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.
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 belongs to their organization (for example, 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.
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 receive SMS text notifications about their appointment, including 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 reminder of 15 minutes before the appointment begins. This feature is only available to US tenants and users with a Teams Premium license.
Remove items from activity feed: This feature helps users to remove items from activity feed.
Customize and edit content of webinar emails (Premium): Organizers can edit content for all webinar emails like registration confirmation, reminder, cancellation, and others.
Microsoft Teams: Enabling cameras with IntelliFrame and people recognition experiences in the new Microsoft 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: Automatic updates for the Teams app on android-based Teams devices: Android-based Teams devices receive automatic updates of the Teams app without the need for any 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.
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 with other Teams Rooms on Windows device. For customers licensed for Teams Rooms Pro, they can also easily monitory and manage Surface Hub devices in the Teams Rooms Pro Management portal.
Remove items from activity feed: This feature helps users to remove items from activity feed.
- Call transcription on Microsoft Teams for Android: This feature lets you start transcription for both one-on-one and group calls.
Call transcription on Microsoft Teams for Android: This feature lets you start transcription for both one-on-one and group calls.
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. Assigned Tasks in Collaborative notes automatically sync with ToDo & Planner too.
Microsoft Teams: Domain-specific search: This feature makes searching content in Teams faster and more precise than ever before. 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.
Call transcription on Microsoft Teams for Android: This feature lets you start transcription for both one-on-one and group calls.
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. Assigned Tasks in Collaborative notes automatically sync with ToDo & Planner too.
Microsoft Teams: Domain-specific search: Now, searching content in Teams is faster and more precise than ever before. 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.
- Hide attendees' identities during webinars (Premium): Organizers can hide the names of attendees from other attendees during a webinar or a meeting, while only organizers and presenters are able to see the names of attendees.
- 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 but is reserved. The user will also be auto checked-in when the sensor detects occupancy if check-in is enabled.
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 but is reserved. The user will also be auto checked-in when the sensor detects occupancy if check-in is enabled.
Virtual Appointments Customer Insights: This feature supports our customers reach their business goals by providing insightful information on their virtual appointment's usage with Microsoft Teams.
- Microsoft Teams: Updated Files app with new OneDrive experience: Files app 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.
Call transcription on Microsoft Teams for Android: You can now start transcription for both one-on-one and group calls.
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, this feature uses generative AI to create expressive images.
Microsoft Teams: Updated Files app with new OneDrive experience: Files app 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.
Call transcription on Microsoft Teams for Android: You can now start transcription for both one-on-one and group calls.
Microsoft Teams: Updated Files app with new OneDrive experience: Files app 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.
- Virtual Appointments Customer Insights: This feature supports customers to reach their business goals by providing insightful information on their virtual appointment's usage with Microsoft Teams.
Generate unique join links for external presenters to easily join events: When organizers set up events and add external presenters, these presenters 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.
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.
Microsoft Teams: Scan a QR Code to reserve a room on Teams panels: This feature lets users easily book a room for meetings now, in the future, or as part of a scheduled meeting by scanning a QR code on the scheduling panel with their mobile device. It requires the Teams mobile app on an Android or iOS mobile device.
Generate unique join links for external presenters to easily join events: When organizers set up events and add external presenters, these presenters 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.
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.
Microsoft Teams: Scan a QR Code to reserve a room on Teams panels: This feature lets users easily book a room for meetings now, in the future, or as part of a scheduled meeting by scanning a QR code on the scheduling panel with their mobile device. It requires the Teams mobile app on an Android or iOS mobile device.
Generate unique join links for external presenters to easily join events: When organizers set up events and add external presenters, these presenters 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.
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, this feature uses generative AI to create expressive images.
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.
Real-time calendar sync and updates with Outlook: This feature lets you see any changes that you make to your calendar in real-time in your Teams calendar and Outlook.
New shortcuts for calls in Teams: This new feature brings changes to the shortcut keys for calls in Teams from Ctrl+Shift+C/Ctrl+Shift+U to the following:
- Windows
- Alt + Shift + A = Audio call
- Alt + Shift + V = Video call
- macOS
- Option + Shift + A = Audio call
- Option + Shift + V = Video call
- Windows
Real-time calendar sync and updates with Outlook: This feature lets you see any changes that you make to your calendar in real-time in your Teams calendar and Outlook.
New shortcuts for calls in Teams: This new feature brings changes to the shortcut keys for calls in Teams from Ctrl+Shift+C/Ctrl+Shift+U to the following:
- Windows
- Alt + Shift + A = Audio call
- Alt + Shift + V = Video call
- macOS
- Option + Shift + A = Audio call
- Option + Shift + V = Video call
- Windows
- Virtual Appointments Customer Insights: This feature supports our customers to reach their business goals by providing insightful information on their virtual appointment's usage with Microsoft Teams.
Channels 2.0 - New channels experience on Teams: New channels experience was built with an intuitive design that helps teams focus and actively engage. This new channels experience includes updated visuals for channel posts and replies, a conversation view for every post, and a new right pane with the channel's key information.
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.
Controlled Content Meeting 1P Template: This new template is useful for meeting with external participants and comes with a preset set of defaults for meeting options. To organize this meeting using this 1-P template, one needs a T-Pre license. The purpose of this template is to provide tight controls over:
- lobby bypass
- who can present
- allowing chat in lobby/in-meeting and
- who can record in meeting
Teams Shared Device License support for Android mobile: Teams Shared device license is supported on the Teams Android mobile providing a shared identity experience for frontline Workers with basic & advanced Calling, Walkie Talkie & People Search features.
Microsoft Teams: Scan a QR Code to reserve a room on Teams panels: This feature lets users easily book a room for meetings now, in the future, or as part of a scheduled meeting by scanning a QR code on the scheduling panel with their mobile device. Requires the Teams mobile app on an Android or iOS mobile device.
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.
Controlled Content Meeting 1P Template: This new template is useful for meeting with external participants and comes with a preset set of defaults for meeting options. To organize this meeting using this 1-P template, one needs a T-Pre license. The purpose of this template is to provide tight controls over:
- lobby bypass
- who can present
- allowing chat in lobby/in-meeting and
- who can record in meeting
Teams Shared Device License support for Android mobile: Teams Shared device license is supported on the Teams Android mobile providing a shared identity experience for frontline Workers with basic & advanced Calling, Walkie Talkie & People Search features.
Microsoft Teams: Scan a QR Code to reserve a room on Teams panels: This feature lets users easily book a room for meetings now, in the future, or as part of a scheduled meeting by scanning a QR code on the scheduling panel with their mobile device. Requires the Teams mobile app on an Android or iOS mobile device.
- New shortcuts for calls in Teams: This new feature brings changes to the shortcut keys for calls in Teams from Ctrl+Shift+C/Ctrl+Shift+U to the following:
- Windows
- Alt + Shift + A = Audio call
- Alt + Shift + V = Video call
- macOS
- Option + Shift + A = Audio call
- Option + Shift + V = Video call
- Windows
Teams Shared device license support for Android mobile: Teams Shared device license is supported on the Teams Android mobile providing a shared identity experience for frontline Workers with basic & advanced Calling, Walkie Talkie & People Search features.
Channels 2.0 - Users can now experience the new channels experience on Teams: New channels experience was built with an intuitive design that helps teams focus and actively engage. The new channels experience includes updated visuals for channel posts and replies, a conversation view for every post, and a new right pane with the channel's key information.
Teams Shared device license support for Android mobile: Teams Shared device license is supported on the Teams Android mobile providing a shared identity experience for frontline Workers with basic & advanced Calling, Walkie Talkie & People Search features.
Channels 2.0 - Users can now experience the new channels experience on Teams: New channels experience was built with an intuitive design that helps teams focus and actively engage. The new channels experience includes updated visuals for channel posts and replies, a conversation view for every post, and a new right pane with the channel's key information.
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.
Controlled Content Meeting 1P Template: This new template is useful for meeting with external participants and comes with a preset set of defaults for meeting options. To organize this meeting using this 1-P template, one needs a T-Pre license. The purpose of this template is to provide tight controls over:
- lobby bypass
- who can present
- allowing chat in lobby/in-meeting and
- who can record in meeting
- Real-time calendar sync and updates with Outlook: This feature lets you see any changes to your Teams calendar in real-time.
- Microsoft Teams: Enabling Cloud IntelliFrame for Teams Rooms in the new Microsoft Teams Experience: Cloud IntelliFrame that is 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.
- Attach cloud files in chat and channel from Teams mobile: This feature introduces the ability to upload files from OneDrive from the mobile app to a chat or channel conversation. Also, you can view recent files and attach most used files upfront from the Recent section.
- Attach cloud files in chat and channel from Teams mobile: This feature introduces the ability to upload files from OneDrive from the mobile app to a chat or channel conversation. Also, you can view recent files and attach most used files upfront from the Recent section.
- Attach cloud files in chat and channel from Teams mobile: This feature introduces the ability to upload files from OneDrive from the mobile app to a chat or channel conversation. Also, you can view recent files and attach most used files upfront from the Recent section.
- Microsoft Teams auto install approved apps: This feature uses intelligent signals from 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.
- Microsoft Teams auto install approved apps: This feature uses intelligent signals from 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.
- Microsoft Teams auto install approved apps: This feature uses intelligent signals from 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.
- Microsoft Teams: Scan a QR code to reserve a room on Teams panels: This feature lets users easily book a room for meetings now, or in the future, or as part of a scheduled meeting by scanning a QR code on the scheduling panel with their mobile device. It requires the Teams mobile app on an Android or iOS mobile device.
- Admin Policy for Collaborative Annotations: This new admin policy lets you control Collaborative Annotations for user, group, or entire organization.
- Admin Policy for Collaborative Annotations: This new admin policy lets you control Collaborative Annotations for user, group, or entire organization.
- Admin Policy for Collaborative Annotations: This new admin policy lets you control Collaborative Annotations for user, group, or entire organization.
Attach cloud files in chat and channel from teams mobile: This feature introduces the ability to upload files from OneDrive from the mobile app to a chat or channel conversation. You can also view recent files and attach most used files upfront from the Recent section.
Scoped Search for Viva Connections in Teams: The search experience for Teams apps is being updated so that an app can make use of the search box in Teams to start a search within the app that is being used. With this change, users of the Viva Connections app in Teams can 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.
Microsoft Teams: Scan a QR code to reserve a room on Teams panels: This feature lets users easily book a room for meetings now or in the future or as part of a scheduled meeting by scanning a QR code on the scheduling panel with their mobile device. Requires the Teams mobile app on an Android or iOS mobile device.
Attach cloud files in chat and channel from teams mobile: This feature introduces the ability to upload files from OneDrive from the mobile app to a chat or channel conversation. You can also view recent files and attach most used files upfront from the Recent section.
Scoped Search for Viva Connections in Teams: The search experience for Teams apps is being updated so that an app can make use of the search box in Teams to start a search within the app that is being used. With this change, users of the Viva Connections app in Teams can 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.
Microsoft Teams: Scan a QR code to reserve a room on Teams panels: This feature lets users easily book a room for meetings now or in the future or as part of a scheduled meeting by scanning a QR code on the scheduling panel with their mobile device. Requires the Teams mobile app on an Android or iOS mobile device.
Attach cloud files in chat and channel from teams mobile: This feature introduces the ability to upload files from OneDrive from the mobile app to a chat or channel conversation. You can also view recent files and attach most used files upfront from the Recent section.
Scoped Search for Viva Connections in Teams: The search experience for Teams apps is being updated so that an app can make use of the search box in Teams to start a search within the app that is being used. With this change, users of the Viva Connections app in Teams can 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.
Microsoft Teams: Scan a QR code to reserve a room on Teams panels: This feature lets users easily book a room for meetings now or in the future or as part of a scheduled meeting by scanning a QR code on the scheduling panel with their mobile device. Requires the Teams mobile app on an Android or iOS mobile device.
- Microsoft Teams Auto Install Approved Apps: Microsoft Teams Auto Install Approved Apps uses intelligent signals from 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.
- Microsoft Teams Auto Install Approved Apps: Microsoft Teams Auto Install Approved Apps uses intelligent signals from 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.
- Microsoft Teams Auto Install Approved Apps: Microsoft Teams Auto Install Approved Apps uses intelligent signals from 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.
Microsoft Teams: 1000 channels per team: This feature enables users to create up to 1,000 channels per team, which allows you to have the channels that you need organized in one team.
Microsoft Teams: Scan a QR Code to reserve a room on Teams panels: This feature lets users easily book a room for meetings in the future, or as part of a scheduled meeting by scanning a QR code on the scheduling panel with their mobile device. Requires the Teams mobile app on an Android or iOS mobile device.
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.
Microsoft Teams: 1000 channels per team.: This feature enables users to create up to 1,000 channels per team, which allows you to have the channels that you need organized in one team.
Microsoft Teams: Scan a QR Code to reserve a room on Teams panels: This feature lets users easily book a room for meetings in the future, or as part of a scheduled meeting by scanning a QR code on the scheduling panel with their mobile device. Requires the Teams mobile app on an Android or iOS mobile device.
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.
Microsoft Teams: 1000 channels per team.: This feature enables users to create up to 1,000 channels per team, which allows you to have the channels that you need organized in one team.
Microsoft Teams: Scan a QR Code to reserve a room on Teams panels: This feature lets users easily book a room for meetings in the future, or as part of a scheduled meeting by scanning a QR code on the scheduling panel with their mobile device. Requires the Teams mobile app on an Android or iOS mobile device.
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.
- Hotline Phones: This feature enables Teams certified phone devices to be set up as auto ringdown phones for scenarios such as emergency and help desk calling. Admins can configure the contact or phone number (to auto dial) and the display information.
- Hotline Phones: This feature enables Teams certified phone devices to be set up as auto ringdown phones for scenarios such as emergency and help desk calling. Admins can configure the contact or phone number (to auto dial) and the display information.
Hotline Phones: This feature enables Teams certified phone devices to be set up as auto ringdown phones for scenarios such as emergency and help desk calling. Admins can configure the contact or phone number (to auto dial) and the display information.
Microsoft Teams: Face enrollment on Teams Desktop to support recognition in Teams Rooms on Windows: This feature supports face recognition in Teams Rooms on Windows and 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.
- Animated Backgrounds in Teams Meetings: The dynamic background feature in Teams Meetings allows users to replace their existing background with a dynamic animation for a more immersive virtual environment. It offers various options to enhance meeting experience with creativity and personalization according to their preferences.
- Animated Backgrounds in Teams Meetings: The dynamic background feature in Teams Meetings allows users to replace their existing background with a dynamic animation for a more immersive virtual environment. It offers various options to enhance meeting experience with creativity and personalization according to their preferences.
- Animated Backgrounds in Teams Meetings: The dynamic background feature in Teams Meetings allows users to replace their existing background with a dynamic animation for a more immersive virtual environment. It offers various options to enhance meeting experience with creativity and personalization according to their preferences.
- Hotline Phones: Enables Teams certified phone devices to be set up as auto ringdown phones for scenarios such as emergency and help desk calling. Admins can configure the contact or phone number (to auto dial) and the display information.
- Hotline Phones: Enables Teams certified phone devices to be set up as auto ringdown phones for scenarios such as emergency and help desk calling. Admins can configure the contact or phone number (to auto dial) and the display information.
Hotline Phones: Enables Teams certified phone devices to be set up as auto ringdown phones for scenarios such as emergency and help desk calling. Admins can configure the contact or phone number (to auto dial) and the display information.
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.
- 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 appointment scenarios with the new Virtual Appointments app.
Block meeting chat access in external non-trusted meeting joins: This feature enables IT admins to not allow regulated internal users to access chat when they attend meetings organized by external nontrusted tenants.
Hotline Phones: This feature enables Teams certified phone devices to be set up as auto ringdown phones for scenarios such as emergency and help desk calling. Admins can configure the contact or phone number (to auto dial) and the display information.
Block meeting chat access in external non-trusted meeting joins: This feature enables IT admins to not allow regulated internal users to access chat when they attend meetings organized by external nontrusted tenants.
Hotline Phones: This feature enables Teams certified phone devices to be set up as auto ringdown phones for scenarios such as emergency and help desk calling. Admins can configure the contact or phone number (to auto dial) and the display information.
Block meeting chat access in external non-trusted meeting joins: This feature enables IT admins to not allow regulated internal users to access chat when they attend meetings organized by external nontrusted tenants.
Hotline Phones: This feature enables Teams certified phone devices to be set up as auto ringdown phones for scenarios such as emergency and help desk calling. Admins can configure the contact or phone number (to auto dial) and the display information.
- Breakout Rooms participant shuffle: This feature gives the ability for organizer to shuffle participant assigned to rooms.
- Breakout Rooms participant shuffle: This feature gives the ability for organizer to shuffle participant assigned to rooms.
- Breakout Rooms participant shuffle: This feature gives the ability for organizer to shuffle participant assigned to rooms.
Call Health Panel for VDI: The Call health view in Teams helps you identify and troubleshoot issues you might experience during a Teams meeting or call. In this view, you 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 that long. 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.
Mark all as read for activity feed: Using the Mark all as read feature, users can triage their activity feed more efficiently by marking all unread activities as read.
Call Health Panel for VDI: The Call health view in Teams helps you identify and troubleshoot issues you might experience during a Teams meeting or call. In this view, you 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 that long. 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.
Mark all as read for activity feed: Using the Mark all as read feature, users can triage their activity feed more efficiently by marking all unread activities as read.
Call Health Panel for VDI: The Call health view in Teams helps you identify and troubleshoot issues you might experience during a Teams meeting or call. In this view, you 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 that long. 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.
Mark all as read for activity feed: Using the Mark all as read feature, users can triage their activity feed more efficiently by marking all unread activities as read.
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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 appear to all participants to help make Teams meetings more inclusive, engaging, and fun.
- Spatial Audio: Spatial Audio brings next-generation spatialized audio to Teams, where you can meet like you're there together. This intelligent audio technology makes the meeting experience more natural, inclusive, and focused for everyone.
- Spatial Audio: Spatial Audio brings next-generation spatialized audio to Teams, where you can meet like you're there together. This intelligent audio technology makes the meeting experience more natural, inclusive, and focused for everyone.
- Spatial Audio: Spatial Audio brings next-generation spatialized audio to Teams, where you can meet like you're there together. This intelligent audio technology makes the meeting experience more natural, inclusive, and focused for everyone.
Call Health Panel for VDI: The Call health view in Teams helps you identify and troubleshoot issues you might experience during a Teams meeting or call. In this view, you 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 that long. 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.
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 on top of the existing disabled write access.
Microsoft Teams: Teams button to join meeting from Pre-Join Screen: Users can now successfully join and participate in a meeting directly with their Teams button on their Microsoft Teams certified peripheral. After a user receives a meeting start notification, the user can press the Teams button to bring up their Meeting Pre-Join Screen. Then, a subsequent press of the Teams button allows the user to join the meeting as well.
Call Health Panel for VDI: The Call health view in Teams helps you identify and troubleshoot issues you might experience during a Teams meeting or call. In this view, you 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 that long. 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.
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 on top of the existing disabled write access.
Microsoft Teams: Teams button to join meeting from Pre-Join Screen: Users can now successfully join and participate in a meeting directly with their Teams button on their Microsoft Teams certified peripheral. After a user receives a meeting start notification, the user can press the Teams button to bring up their Meeting Pre-Join Screen. Then, a subsequent press of the Teams button allows the user to join the meeting as well.
Call Health Panel for VDI: The Call health view in Teams helps you identify and troubleshoot issues you might experience during a Teams meeting or call. In this view, you 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 that long. 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.
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 on top of the existing disabled write access.
Microsoft Teams: Teams button to join meeting from Pre-Join Screen: Users can now successfully join and participate in a meeting directly with their Teams button on their Microsoft Teams certified peripheral. After a user receives a meeting start notification, the user can press the Teams button to bring up their Meeting Pre-Join Screen. Then, a subsequent press of the Teams button allows the user to join the meeting as well.
Breakout room pre-meeting room creation and participant assignment: Introducing capability for the organizer to perform breakout room configuration and participant assignment before the meeting starts.
Join meetings from calendar view on Apple CarPlay: You can now choose to join a meeting from the new calendar view on Apple CarPlay on your iPhone.
Microsoft Teams: Virtual front desk on Teams certified displays: The virtual front desk helps IT admins to interact with and provide personal assistance to customers, colleagues, or guests who are on-site via video call on Microsoft Teams displays.
Breakout room pre-meeting room creation and participant assignment: Introducing capability for the organizer to perform breakout room configuration and participant assignment before the meeting starts.
Join meetings from calendar view on Apple CarPlay: You can now choose to join a meeting from the new calendar view on Apple CarPlay on your iPhone.
Microsoft Teams: Virtual front desk on Teams certified displays: The virtual front desk helps IT admins to interact with and provide personal assistance to customers, colleagues, or guests who are on-site via video call on Microsoft Teams displays.
Breakout room pre-meeting room creation and participant assignment: Introducing capability for the organizer to perform breakout room configuration and participant assignment before the meeting starts.
Join meetings from calendar view on Apple CarPlay: You can now choose to join a meeting from the new calendar view on Apple CarPlay on your iPhone.
Microsoft Teams: Virtual front desk on Teams certified displays: The virtual front desk helps IT admins to interact with and provide personal assistance to customers, colleagues, or guests who are on-site via video call on Microsoft Teams displays.
Call Health Panel for VDI: The Call health view in Teams helps you identify and troubleshoot issues you might experience during a Teams meeting or call. In this view, you 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 that long. 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, and 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.
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 are able to set a new lobby policy, which allows registered users to bypass the lobby.
Call Health Panel for VDI: The Call health view in Teams helps you identify and troubleshoot issues you might experience during a Teams meeting or call. In this view, you 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 that long. 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, and 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.
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 are able to set a new lobby policy, which allows registered users to bypass the lobby.
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.
Call Health Panel for VDI: The Call health view in Teams helps you identify and troubleshoot issues you might experience during a Teams meeting or call. In this view, you 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 that long. 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, and 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.
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 are able to set a new lobby policy, which allows registered users to bypass the lobby.
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.
Join meetings from calendar view on Apple CarPlay: You can now choose to join a meeting from the new calendar view on Apple CarPlay on your iPhone.
Pronouns available on the profile card: Users will have the ability to add pronouns to their profile card. By adding pronouns to their profile card, users can express who they're and help inform others how to address them.
Change call queue and auto attendant greetings and announcements by authorized users: With changing environments, Teams users need to make adjustment to their call queue and auto attendant greetings and announcements more frequently than how IT helpdesk can handle typically. We, hereby, are introducing the user-managed CQ/AA greetings for Teams end users. Identified by Teams tenant administrators, these authorized users can change greetings and announcements for their respective call queues and auto attendants without leaving Teams.
Join meetings from calendar view on Apple CarPlay: You can now choose to join a meeting from the new calendar view on Apple CarPlay on your iPhone.
Pronouns available on the profile card: Users will have the ability to add pronouns to their profile card. By adding pronouns to their profile card, users can express who they are and help inform others how to address them.
Change call queue and auto attendant greetings and announcements by authorized users: With changing environments, Teams users need to make adjustment to their call queue and auto attendant greetings and announcements more frequently than how IT helpdesk can handle typically. We, hereby, are introducing the user-managed CQ/AA greetings for Teams end users. Identified by Teams tenant administrators, these authorized users can change greetings and announcements for their respective call queues and auto attendants without leaving Teams.
Join meetings from calendar view on Apple CarPlay: You can now choose to join a meeting from the new calendar view on Apple CarPlay on your iPhone.
Pronouns available on the profile card: Users will have the ability to add pronouns to their profile card. By adding pronouns to their profile card, users can express who they're and help inform others how to address them.
Change call queue and auto attendant greetings and announcements by authorized users: With changing environments, Teams users need to make adjustment to their call queue and auto attendant greetings and announcements more frequently than how IT helpdesk can handle typically. We, hereby, are introducing the user-managed CQ/AA greetings for Teams end users. Identified by Teams tenant administrators, these authorized users can change greetings and announcements for their respective call queues and auto attendants without leaving Teams.
- Together Mode Usability Improvements: We're bringing new usability improvements to Together Mode. Participants will now have name labels that will also support status icons for mute state, and if the participant is spotlighted, pinned, or set as an interpreter. Name labels will have an indicator to show who is actively speaking. Self-video will now be removed when Together Mode is active to avoid duplication of the me-video. Lastly, Together Mode will now display raised hands and reactions also, within the view.
- Together Mode Usability Improvements: We're bringing new usability improvements to Together Mode. Participants will now have name labels that will also support status icons for mute state, and if the participant is spotlighted, pinned, or set as an interpreter. Name labels will have an indicator to show who is actively speaking. Self-video will now be removed when Together Mode is active to avoid duplication of the me-video. Lastly, Together Mode will now display raised hands and reactions also, within the view.
- Together Mode Usability Improvements: We're bringing new usability improvements to Together Mode. Participants will now have name labels that will also support status icons for mute state, and if the participant is spotlighted, pinned, or set as an interpreter. Name labels will have an indicator to show who is actively speaking. Self-video will now be removed when Together Mode is active to avoid duplication of the me-video. Lastly, Together Mode will now display raised hands and reactions also, within the view.
Call Health Panel for VDI: The Call health view in Teams helps you identify and troubleshoot issues you might experience during a Teams meeting or call. In this view, you 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 that long. 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 later. For VMware Horizon 8, it requires 2106/8.3 Horizon clients (or later). For Horizon 7, it requires Horizon Client 5.5.4 (Windows only). For AVD/W365, it requires Remote Desktop Client 1.2.2459 or later for Windows, or 10.7.7 for MAC.
Microsoft Teams: Track and pause automatic firmware updates for Android-based Teams devices in the Teams admin center: Administrators can now easily track which firmware is being rolled out through automatic updates via the Teams admin center and when. Additionally, automatic updates can be paused temporarily, allowing time for validation of scenarios. This feature is applicable for Teams Rooms on Android and Android-based Teams Phones, panels, and displays.
Call Health Panel for VDI: The Call health view in Teams helps you identify and troubleshoot issues you might experience during a Teams meeting or call. In this view, you 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 that long. 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 later. For VMware Horizon 8, it requires 2106/8.3 Horizon clients (or later). For Horizon 7, it requires Horizon Client 5.5.4 (Windows only). For AVD/W365, it requires Remote Desktop Client 1.2.2459 or later for Windows, or 10.7.7 for MAC.
Microsoft Teams: Track and pause automatic firmware updates for Android-based Teams devices in the Teams admin center: Administrators can now easily track which firmware is being rolled out through automatic updates via the Teams admin center and when. Additionally, automatic updates can be paused temporarily, allowing time for validation of scenarios. This feature is applicable for Teams Rooms on Android and Android-based Teams Phones, panels, and displays.
Call Health Panel for VDI: The Call health view in Teams helps you identify and troubleshoot issues you might experience during a Teams meeting or call. In this view, you 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 that long. 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 later. For VMware Horizon 8, it requires 2106/8.3 Horizon clients (or later). For Horizon 7, it requires Horizon Client 5.5.4 (Windows only). For AVD/W365, it requires Remote Desktop Client 1.2.2459 or later for Windows, or 10.7.7 for MAC.
Microsoft Teams: Track and pause automatic firmware updates for Android-based Teams devices in the Teams admin center: Administrators can now easily track which firmware is being rolled out through automatic updates via the Teams admin center and when. Additionally, automatic updates can be paused temporarily, allowing time for validation of scenarios. This feature is applicable for Teams Rooms on Android and Android-based Teams Phones, panels, and displays.
Join meetings from calendar view on Apple CarPlay: You can now choose to join a meeting from the new calendar view on Apple CarPlay on your iPhone.
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.
Join meetings from calendar view on Apple CarPlay: You can now choose to join a meeting from the new calendar view on Apple CarPlay on your iPhone.
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.
Join meetings from calendar view on Apple CarPlay: You can now choose to join a meeting from the new calendar view on Apple CarPlay on your iPhone.
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.
- Ultrasound Howling Detection: When multiple people join a meeting in the same room, then a feedback loop is created which causes echo and in most cases the echo quickly escalates to howling (like when a musician holds the mic too close to a loudspeaker). If multiple users on laptops join from the same location, we share with the user that another Teams device is detected in the vicinity and is already joined with audio to the current meeting. We'll automatically mute the mic and speakers of the person who has joined post a user who has joined with audio on.
- Ultrasound Howling Detection: When multiple people join a meeting in the same room, then a feedback loop is created which causes echo and in most cases the echo quickly escalates to howling (like when a musician holds the mic too close to a loudspeaker). If multiple users on laptops join from the same location, we share with the user that another Teams device is detected in the vicinity and is already joined with audio to the current meeting. We'll automatically mute the mic and speakers of the person who has joined post a user who has joined with audio on.
Approvals - Sequential Approvers support: Requestors will now be able to toggle on sequential approvals to designate the approval order of the request.
Ultrasound Howling Detection: When multiple people join a meeting in the same room, then a feedback loop is created which causes echo and in most cases the echo quickly escalates to howling (like when a musician holds the mic too close to a loudspeaker). If multiple users on laptops join from the same location, we share with the user that another Teams device is detected in the vicinity and is already joined with audio to the current meeting. We'll automatically mute the mic and speakers of the person who has joined post a user who has joined with audio on.
Teams Admin Center: Simplified navigation: Simplified Left Navigation for TAC feature aims to improve the administrator experience by reducing clutter and simplifying the navigation process. This feature will hide less used left navigation menu items by default and provide an option for administrators to pin them to the default view if they choose. This way the navigation will be tailored to the specific needs of each administrator, making it faster and easier for them to find the information they need.
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 through automatic updates via the Teams Admin Center and when. 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.
Teams Admin Center: Simplified navigation: Simplified Left Navigation for TAC feature aims to improve the administrator experience by reducing clutter and simplifying the navigation process. This feature will hide less used left navigation menu items by default and provide an option for administrators to pin them to the default view if they choose. This way the navigation will be tailored to the specific needs of each administrator, making it faster and easier for them to find the information they need.
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 through automatic updates via the Teams Admin Center and when. 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.
Teams Admin Center: Simplified navigation: Simplified Left Navigation for TAC feature aims to improve the administrator experience by reducing clutter and simplifying the navigation process. This feature will hide less used left navigation menu items by default and provide an option for administrators to pin them to the default view if they choose. This way the navigation is tailored to the specific needs of each administrator, making it faster and easier for them to find the information they need.
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 through automatic updates via the Teams Admin Center and when. 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.
Apps in channel meetings: Meeting organizers and participants can now add apps to meetings in Teams channels for better collaboration and engagement across various scenarios.
Join meetings from calendar view on Apple CarPlay: You can now choose to join a meeting from the new calendar view on Apple CarPlay on your iPhone.
Apps in channel meetings: Meeting organizers and participants can now add apps to meetings in Teams channels for better collaboration and engagement across various scenarios.
Join meetings from calendar view on Apple CarPlay: You can now choose to join a meeting from the new calendar view on Apple CarPlay on your iPhone.
- Join meetings from calendar view on Apple CarPlay: You can now choose to join a meeting from the new calendar view on Apple CarPlay on your iPhone.
Profanity filtering on/off control for Live Captions: With the newly introduced toggle for turn on/off profanity filtering, user will be able to control whether they want to continue to use the profanity filtering capability provided out of box, or, if they want to see every word as-is.
Support Breakout Rooms on VDI: This feature enables organizer support for Breakout Rooms for VDI users.
Profanity filtering on/off control for Live Captions: With the newly introduced toggle for turn on/off profanity filtering, user will be able to control whether they want to continue to use the profanity filtering capability provided out of box, or, if they want to see every word as-is.
Support Breakout Rooms on VDI: This feature enables organizer support for Breakout Rooms for VDI users.
Profanity filtering on/off control for Live Captions: With the newly introduced toggle for turn on/off profanity filtering, user will be able to control whether they want to continue to use the profanity filtering capability provided out of box, or, if they want to see every word as-is.
Support Breakout Rooms on VDI: Enable organizer support for Breakout Rooms for VDI users.
Teams Admin Center: Simplified navigation: Simplified Left Navigation for TAC feature aims to improve the administrator experience by reducing clutter and simplifying the navigation process. The feature hides less used left navigation menu items by default and provide an option for administrators to pin them to the default view if they choose. This way the navigation is tailored to the specific needs of each administrator, making it faster and easier for them to find the information they need.
Simplified app update experience: Users will have a clear and transparent app update experience. Users will only need to approve an update once per app, and the new version will take effect seamlessly in all their chats, channels, and meetings.
Teams Admin Center: Simplified navigation: Simplified Left Navigation for TAC feature aims to improve the administrator experience by reducing clutter and simplifying the navigation process. The feature hides less used left navigation menu items by default and provide an option for administrators to pin them to the default view if they choose. This way the navigation is tailored to the specific needs of each administrator, making it faster and easier for them to find the information they need.
Simplified app update experience: Users will have a clear and transparent app update experience. Users will only need to approve an update once per app, and the new version will take effect seamlessly in all their chats, channels, and meetings.
Microsoft Teams: GCC-H support for Teams Panels: Teams Panels already support Government Community Cloud (GCC) tenants and now will meet Government Community Cloud High (GCC-H) account requirements.
Teams Admin Center: Simplified navigation: Simplified Left Navigation for TAC feature aims to improve the administrator experience by reducing clutter and simplifying the navigation process. The feature hides less used left navigation menu items by default and provide an option for administrators to pin them to the default view if they choose. This way the navigation is tailored to the specific needs of each administrator, making it faster and easier for them to find the information they need.
Simplified app update experience: Users will have a clear and transparent app update experience. Users will only need to approve an update once per app, and the new version will take effect seamlessly in all their chats, channels, and meetings.
Microsoft Teams: GCC-H support for Teams Panels: Teams Panels already support Government Community Cloud (GCC) tenants and now will meet Government Community Cloud High (GCC-H) account requirements as well.
Teams: External Access Invite Flow for Managed Organizations: When users receive new external 1:1 chats, they'll now have the option to accept the chat or block the guest. This also provides the ability to block guests at any point by revoking the access to present and incoming messages.
Magnify slide in PowerPoint Live: Allows presenters to magnify the slide for all meeting attendees and the meeting participants to magnify the slide privately.
Teams: External Access Invite Flow for Managed Organizations: When users receive new external 1:1 chats, they'll now have the option to accept the chat or block the guest. This also provides the ability to block guests at any point by revoking the access to present and incoming messages.
Magnify slide in PowerPoint Live: Allows presenters to magnify the slide for all meeting attendees and the meeting participants to magnify the slide privately.
Teams: External Access Invite Flow for Managed Organizations: When users receive new external 1:1 chats, they'll now have the option to accept the chat or block the guest. This also provides the ability to block guests at any point by revoking the access to present and incoming messages.
Magnify slide in PowerPoint Live: Allows presenters to magnify the slide for all meeting attendees and the meeting participants to magnify the slide privately.
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.
Teams: External Access Invite Flow for Managed Organizations: When users receive new external 1:1 chats, they'll now have the option to accept the chat or block the guest. This also provides the ability to block guests at any point by revoking the access to present and incoming messages.
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.
Teams: External Access Invite Flow for Managed Organizations: When users receive new external 1:1 chats, they'll now have the option to accept the chat or block the guest. This also provides the ability to block guests at any point by revoking the access to present and incoming messages.
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.
Teams: External Access Invite Flow for Managed Organizations: When users receive new external 1:1 chats, they'll now have the option to accept the chat or block the guest. This also provides the ability to block guests at any point by revoking the access to present and incoming messages.
Suggested replies: This feature in Teams chat uses assistive AI to create short responses based on the context of the previous message.
View attendance reports: You can now check the attendance information for regular meetings or webinars and also the registration information before webinars.
Notification Granularity: Admins can use Intune to determine the types of content a user can see in a notification on their mobile lock screen.
Calling Federation for Group Calls: Collaborate with people outside the organizations using group calls.
Suggested replies: This feature in Teams chat uses assistive AI to create short responses based on the context of the previous message.
View attendance reports: You can now check the attendance information for regular meetings or webinars and also the registration information before webinars.
Notification Granularity: Admins can use Intune to determine the types of content a user can see in a notification on their mobile lock screen.
Calling Federation for Group Calls: Collaborate with people outside the organizations using group calls.
Suggested replies: This feature in Teams chat uses assistive AI to create short responses based on the context of the previous message.
View attendance reports: You can now check the attendance information for regular meetings or webinars and also the registration information before webinars.
Notification Granularity: Admins can use Intune to determine the types of content a user can see in a notification on their mobile lock screen.
Calling Federation for Group Calls: Collaborate with people outside the organizations using group calls.
Meeting transcription: You can now start transcription for your meetings, and view the meeting transcripts after meetings end.
Teams: External Access Invite Flow for Managed Organizations: When users receive new external 1:1 chats, they'll now have the option to accept the chat or block the guest. This also provides the ability to block guests at any point by revoking the access to present and incoming messages.
Meeting transcription: You can now start transcription for your meetings, and view the meeting transcripts after meetings end.
Teams: External Access Invite Flow for Managed Organizations: When users receive new external 1:1 chats, they'll now have the option to accept the chat or block the guest. This also provides the ability to block guests at any point by revoking the access to present and incoming messages.
Meeting transcription: You can now start transcription for your meetings, and view the meeting transcripts after meetings end.
Teams: External Access Invite Flow for Managed Organizations: When users receive new external 1:1 chats, they'll now have the option to accept the chat or block the guest. This also provides the ability to block guests at any point by revoking the access to present and incoming messages.
Suggested replies: This feature in Teams chat uses assistive AI to create short responses based on the context of the previous message.
View attendance reports: You can now check the attendance information for regular meetings or webinars and also the registration information before webinars.
Rich Call History: Provides a comprehensive view of calls.
Notification Granularity: Admins can use Intune to determine the types of content a user can see in a notification on their mobile lock screen.
Calling Federation for Group Calls: You can collaborate with people outside the organizations using group calls.
Suggested replies: This feature in Teams chat uses assistive AI to create short responses based on the context of the previous message.
View attendance reports: You can now check the attendance information for regular meetings or webinars and also the registration information before webinars.
Rich Call History: Provides a comprehensive view of calls.
Notification Granularity: Admins can use Intune to determine the types of content a user can see in a notification on their mobile lock screen.
Calling Federation for Group Calls: You can collaborate with people outside the organizations using group calls.
Suggested replies: This feature in Teams chat uses assistive AI to create short responses based on the context of the previous message.
View attendance reports: You can now check the attendance information for regular meetings or webinars and also the registration information before webinars.
Rich Call History: Provides a comprehensive view of calls.
Notification Granularity: Admins can use Intune to determine the types of content a user can see in a notification on their mobile lock screen.
Calling Federation for Group Calls: You can collaborate with people outside the organizations using group calls.
Meeting transcription: You can now start transcription for your meetings, and view the meeting transcripts after meetings end.
Teams: External Access Invite Flow for Managed Organizations: When users receive new external 1:1 chats, they'll now have the option to accept the chat or block the guest. This also provides the ability to block guests at any point by revoking the access to present and incoming messages.
Meeting transcription: You can now start transcription for your meetings, and view the meeting transcripts after meetings end.
Teams: External Access Invite Flow for Managed Organizations: When users receive new external 1:1 chats, they'll now have the option to accept the chat or block the guest. This also provides the ability to block guests at any point by revoking the access to present and incoming messages.
Meeting transcription: You can now start transcription for your meetings, and view the meeting transcripts after meetings end.
Teams: External Access Invite Flow for Managed Organizations: When users receive new external 1:1 chats, they'll now have the option to accept the chat or block the guest. This also provides the ability to block guests at any point by revoking the access to present and incoming messages.
View attendance reports: You can now check the attendance information for regular meetings or webinars and also the registration information before webinars.
Rich Call History: Provides a comprehensive view of calls.
View attendance reports: You can now check the attendance information for regular meetings or webinars and also the registration information before webinars.
Rich Call History: Provides a comprehensive view of calls.
View attendance reports: You can now check the attendance information for regular meetings or webinars and also the registration information before webinars.
Rich Call History: Provides a comprehensive view of calls.
Meeting transcription: You can now start the transcription for your meetings and view the meeting transcripts after meetings end.
Call transcription on Microsoft Teams for Android: You can now start transcription for both one-on-one and group calls.
Teams: External Access Invite Flow for Managed Organizations: When users receive new external 1:1 chats, they'll now have the option to accept the chat or block the guest. This also provides the ability to block guests at any point by revoking the access to present and incoming messages.
Browser screen pop for incoming PSTN calls: Admins can enable policy so that on acceptance of a PSTN call, an automatic browser launch can happen alongside Teams, displaying relevant information (CRM data, case data, etc.) to the user.
Prioritize videos for Sign language in meetings: Add or remove videos on stage with priority for sign language, including the ability to change between views and enable live captions by default.
Delete chats: With Delete Chats, users can permanently delete entire conversations from their view. This doesn't affect what any other users in the chat see.
Meeting transcription: You can now start the transcription for your meetings, and view the meeting transcripts after meetings end.
Call transcription on Microsoft Teams for Android: You can now start transcription for both one-on-one and group calls.
Teams: External Access Invite Flow for Managed Organizations: When users receive new external 1:1 chats, they'll now have the option to accept the chat or block the guest. This also provides the ability to block guests at any point by revoking the access to present and incoming messages.
Browser screen pop for incoming PSTN calls: Admins can enable policy so that on acceptance of a PSTN call, an automatic browser launch can happen alongside Teams, displaying relevant information (CRM data, case data, etc.) to the user.
Prioritize videos for Sign language in meetings: Add or remove videos on stage with priority for sign language, including the ability to change between views and enable live captions by default.
Delete chats: With Delete Chats, users can permanently delete entire conversations from their view. This doesn't affect what any other users in the chat see.
Meeting transcription: You can now start the transcription for your meetings, and view the meeting transcripts after meetings end.
Call transcription on Microsoft Teams for Android: You can now start transcription for both one-on-one and group calls.
Teams: External Access Invite Flow for Managed Organizations: When users receive new external 1:1 chats, they'll now have the option to accept the chat or block the guest. This also provides the ability to block guests at any point by revoking the access to present and incoming messages.
Browser screen pop for incoming PSTN calls: Admins can enable policy so that on acceptance of a PSTN call, an automatic browser launch can happen alongside Teams, displaying relevant information (CRM data, case data, etc.) to the user.
Prioritize videos for Sign language in meetings: Add or remove videos on stage with priority for sign language, including the ability to change between views and enable live captions by default.
Delete chats: With Delete Chats, users can permanently delete entire conversations from their view. This doesn't affect what any other users in the chat see.
View chat bubbles during a meeting on Teams Rooms on Android devices: With the addition of chat bubbles, participants in Teams Rooms on Android can now see what participants are chatting about on the front of room display.
Users can request access to apps: Enables users to discover Teams apps in the store and request approval from administrators.
View attendance reports: You can now check the attendance information for regular meetings or webinars and the registration information before webinars.
Rich Call History: Provides a comprehensive view of calls.
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 is enabled.
Notification Granularity: Admins can use Intune to determine the types of content a user can see in a notification on their mobile lock screen.
Users can request access to apps: Enables users to discover Teams apps in the store and request approval from administrators.
View attendance reports: You can now check the attendance information for regular meetings or webinars and also the registration information before webinars.
Rich Call History: Provides a comprehensive view of calls.
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 is enabled.
Notification Granularity: Admins can use Intune to determine the types of content a user can see in a notification on their mobile lock screen.
Users can request access to apps: Enables users to discover Teams apps in the store and request approval from administrators.
View attendance reports: You can now check the attendance information for regular meetings or webinars and also the registration information before webinars.
Rich Call History: Provides a comprehensive view of calls.
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 is enabled.
Notification Granularity: Admins can use Intune to determine the types of content a user can see in a notification on their mobile lock screen.
4K display support: 4K display support for Teams Rooms on Android.
Intelligent translation in Teams Mobile: Teams Android will now prompt you to translate messages that aren't in your set language.
Intelligent translation in Teams Mobile: Teams iOS will now prompt you to translate messages that aren't in your set language.
Call transcription on Microsoft Teams for Android: You can now start transcription for both one-on-one and group calls.
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.
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.
Pull people in via @ mention: Pull in via @mention provides a shortcut to the add-dialog, saving you time from realizing that the person isn’t already in the group chat and navigating to the add-dialog manually.
Expanded Reactions: Expanded reactions allow users to apply any emoji as a reaction to chat and channel messages! Pick from 800+ Teams emojis to express yourself the way you want to.
Microsoft Teams: Start Whiteboard from Teams meeting from Teams rooms on Windows: Teams rooms 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.
Intelligent translation in Teams Mobile: Teams Android will now prompt you to translate messages that aren't in your set language.
Intelligent translation in Teams Mobile: Teams iOS will now prompt you to translate messages that aren't in your set language.
Call transcription on Microsoft Teams for Android: You can now start transcription for both one-on-one and group calls.
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.
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.
Pull people in via @ mention: Pull in via @mention provides a shortcut to the add-dialog, saving you time from realizing that the person isn’t already in the group chat and navigating to the add-dialog manually.
Expanded Reactions: Expanded reactions allow users to apply any emoji as a reaction to chat and channel messages! Pick from 800+ Teams emojis to express yourself the way you want to.
Microsoft Teams: Start Whiteboard from Teams meeting from Teams rooms on Windows: Teams rooms 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.
Microsoft Teams Rooms Companion Device Experience Enhancement - Optimize Video Gallery for in-room participants.: When joining a meeting in a Microsoft Teams Rooms with a personal laptop that runs Microsoft Teams, the video galleries on both the Teams Rooms and laptop will be optimized to display only remote attendees. (Proximity Join with Microsoft Teams Rooms is required.)
Intelligent translation in Teams Mobile: Teams Android will now prompt you to translate messages that aren't in your set language.
Intelligent translation in Teams Mobile: Teams iOS will now prompt you to translate messages that aren't in your set language.
Call transcription on Microsoft Teams for Android: You can now start transcription for both one-on-one and group calls.
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.
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.
Pull people in via @ mention: Pull in via @mention provides a shortcut to the add-dialog, saving you time from realizing that the person isn’t already in the group chat and navigating to the add-dialog manually.
Expanded Reactions: Expanded reactions allow users to apply any emoji as a reaction to chat and channel messages! Pick from 800+ Teams emojis to express yourself the way you want to.
Microsoft Teams: Start Whiteboard from Teams meeting from Teams rooms on Windows: Teams rooms 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.
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 Rooms Companion Device Experience Enhancement - Optimize Video Gallery for in-room participants.: When joining a meeting in a Microsoft Teams Rooms with a personal laptop that runs Microsoft Teams, the video galleries on both the Teams Rooms and laptop will be optimized to display only remote attendees. (Proximity Join with Microsoft Teams Rooms is required.)
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 is enabled.
Microsoft Teams: Meeting chat on Gallery, Large gallery, and Together mode for Teams Rooms on Windows: Always know the context by bringing the chat pane onto the front of room display for Teams Rooms on Windows. In the room, the participants can use the touch console to show and hide chat on the front of room display alongside meeting participants and/or content. Ability to show and hide chat is available through the view switcher menu. IT administrators have configuration control to hide a meeting chat for a room if needed.
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 is enabled.
Microsoft Teams: Meeting chat on Gallery, Large gallery, and Together mode for Teams Rooms on Windows: Always know the context by bringing the chat pane onto the front of room display for Teams Rooms on Windows. In the room, the participants can use the touch console to show and hide chat on the front of room display alongside meeting participants and/or content. Ability to show and hide chat is available through the view switcher menu. IT administrators have configuration control to hide a meeting chat for a room if needed.
Users can request access to apps: Enable users to discover Teams apps in the store and request approval from administrators.
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 is enabled.
Microsoft Teams: Meeting chat on Gallery, Large gallery, and Together mode for Teams Rooms on Windows: Always know the context by bringing the chat pane onto the front of room display for Teams Rooms on Windows. In the room, the participants can use the touch console to show and hide chat on the front of room display alongside meeting participants and/or content. Ability to show and hide chat is available through the view switcher menu. IT administrators have configuration control to hide a meeting chat for a room if needed.
Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Teams Rooms on Android - New touch and collaboration experiences: New touch and collaboration experiences 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 launches 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 start to see incoming chat messages to increase meeting inclusiveness. As a remote meeting participant, you're 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.
Intelligent translation in Teams Mobile: Teams Android will now prompt you to translate messages that aren't in your set language.
Intelligent translation in Teams Mobile: Teams iOS will now prompt you to translate messages that aren't in your set language.
Adobe PDF experience in Microsoft Teams: Tenant administrators can set Adobe Acrobat as the default PDF app in Teams admin center to view and edit PDF files in Microsoft Teams.
Call transcription on Microsoft Teams for Android: You can now start transcription for both one-on-one and group calls.
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.
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.
Intelligent translation in Teams Mobile: Teams Android will now prompt you to translate messages that aren't in your set language.
Intelligent translation in Teams Mobile: Teams iOS will now prompt you to translate messages that aren't in your set language.
Adobe PDF experience in Microsoft Teams: Tenant administrators can set Adobe Acrobat as the default PDF app in Teams admin center to view and edit PDF files in Microsoft Teams.
Call transcription on Microsoft Teams for Android: You can now start transcription for both one-on-one and group calls.
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.
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.
Intelligent translation in Teams Mobile: Teams Android will now prompt you to translate messages that aren't in your set language.
Intelligent translation in Teams Mobile: Teams iOS will now prompt you to translate messages that aren't in your set language.
Adobe PDF experience in Microsoft Teams: Tenant administrators can set Adobe Acrobat as the default PDF app in Teams admin center to view and edit PDF files in Microsoft Teams.
Call transcription on Microsoft Teams for Android: You can now start transcription for both one-on-one and group calls.
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.
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.
- Live Audio Interpretation: Live audio interpretation allows interpreters to convert what the speaker says into another language in real time without disrupting the original flow of delivery of the speaker. This feature allows more inclusive meetings, where participants who may not speak the same language can fully collaborate with each other.
- Live Audio Interpretation: Live audio interpretation allows interpreters to convert what the speaker says into another language in real time without disrupting the original flow of delivery of the speaker. This feature allows more inclusive meetings, where participants who may not speak the same language can fully collaborate with each other.
- Live Audio Interpretation: Live audio interpretation allows interpreters to convert what the speaker says into another language in real time without disrupting the original flow of delivery of the speaker. This feature allows more inclusive meetings, where participants who may not speak the same language can fully collaborate with each other.
Detailed call history: Get a more comprehensive view into whether calls were transferred or forwarded, and into how group calls arrived and were controlled once received.
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 is enabled.
Detailed call history: Get a more comprehensive view into whether calls were transferred or forwarded, and into how group calls arrived and were controlled once received.
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 is enabled.
Users can request access to apps: Enable the users to discover Teams apps in the store and request approval from administrators.
Detailed call history: Get a more comprehensive view into whether calls were transferred or forwarded, and into how group calls arrived and were controlled once received.
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 is enabled.
Intelligent translation in Teams Mobile: Teams Android will now prompt you to translate messages that aren't in your set language.
Intelligent translation in Teams Mobile: Teams iOS will now prompt you to translate messages that aren't in your set language.
Record video messages directly from within a Teams chat using Video clips.: Video clip is a new feature in Microsoft Teams that enables the user to record, review, send, and view short-form video in Teams chat from desktop and mobile.
Teams: External Access Invite Flow for Managed Organizations: When receiving new external 1:1 chats, the 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.
Schedule message delivery in chats: Users can now schedule when a chat message is 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.
Intelligent translation in Teams Mobile: Teams Android will now prompt you to translate messages that aren't in your set language.
Intelligent translation in Teams Mobile: Teams iOS will now prompt you to translate messages that aren't in your set language.
Record video messages directly from within a Teams chat using Video clips.: Video clip is a new feature in Microsoft Teams that enables the user to record, review, send, and view short-form video in Teams chat from desktop and mobile.
Teams: External Access Invite Flow for Managed Organizations: When receiving new external 1:1 chats, the 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.
Schedule message delivery in chats: Users can now schedule when a chat message is 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.
Intelligent translation in Teams Mobile: Teams Android will now prompt you to translate messages that aren't in your set language.
Intelligent translation in Teams Mobile: Teams iOS will now prompt you to translate messages that aren't in your set language.
Record video messages directly from within a Teams chat using Video clips.: Video clip is a new feature in Microsoft Teams that enables the user to record, review, send, and view short-form video in Teams chat from desktop and mobile.
Teams: External Access Invite Flow for Managed Organizations: When receiving new external 1:1 chats, the 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.
Schedule message delivery in chats: Users can now schedule when a chat message is 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.
Additional Filters in Approvals app: Within the Approvals app, there will be additional filters for you to filter your approval list on, for example, filtering on approval status or keyword in the title.
Automatically view up to 49 videos (7x7) in Teams meeting: Microsoft Teams Meetings currently supports a maximum of 9 videos (3x3) on the screen, by default (that is, Gallery view). For seeing more than 9 videos, the user needs to manually select the Large Gallery view. With this update, the users will be able to automatically see up to 49 videos (7x7) on their screen, by default, without an explicit action. The actual number of videos seen by a user depend on hardware/device capabilities.
Detailed call history: Get a more comprehensive view into whether calls were transferred or forwarded, and into how group calls arrived and were controlled once received.
Teams admin center: View users and groups assigned to a policy: Administrators can view the list of assigned users and groups for a custom policy.
Automatically view up to 49 videos (7x7) in Teams meeting: Microsoft Teams Meetings currently supports a maximum of 9 videos (3x3) on the screen, by default (that is, Gallery view). For seeing more than 9 videos, the user needs to manually select the Large Gallery view. With this update, the users will be able to automatically see up to 49 videos (7x7) on their screen, by default, without an explicit action. The actual number of videos seen by a user depend on hardware/device capabilities.
Detailed call history: Get a more comprehensive view into whether calls were transferred or forwarded, and into how group calls arrived and were controlled once received.
Teams admin center: View users and groups assigned to a policy: Administrators can view the list of assigned users and groups for a custom policy.
Automatically view up to 49 videos (7x7) in Teams meeting: Microsoft Teams Meetings currently supports a maximum of 9 videos (3x3) on the screen, by default (that is, Gallery view). For seeing more than 9 videos, the user needs to manually select the Large Gallery view. With this update, the users will be able to automatically see up to 49 videos (7x7) on their screen, by default, without an explicit action. The actual number of videos seen by a user depend on hardware/device capabilities.
Detailed call history: Get a more comprehensive view into whether calls were transferred or forwarded, and into how group calls arrived and were controlled once received.
Teams admin center: View users and groups assigned to a policy: Administrators can view the list of assigned users and groups for a custom policy.
Intelligent translation in Teams Mobile: Teams Android will now prompt you to translate messages that aren't in your set language.
Intelligent translation in Teams Mobile: Teams iOS will now prompt you to translate messages that aren't in your set language.
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 the present and incoming messages.
Intelligent translation in Teams Mobile: Teams Android will now prompt you to translate messages that aren't in your set language.
Intelligent translation in Teams Mobile: Teams iOS will now prompt you to translate messages that aren't in your set language.
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 the present and incoming messages.
Intelligent translation in Teams Mobile: Teams Android will now prompt you to translate messages that aren't in your set language.
Intelligent translation in Teams Mobile: Teams iOS will now prompt you to translate messages that aren't in your set language.
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 the present and incoming messages.
Suggested Replies on mobile for Government Clouds: Suggested replies in Teams chat uses assistive AI to create short responses based on the context of the previous message.
Detailed call history: Get a more comprehensive view into whether calls were transferred or forwarded, and into how group calls arrived and were controlled once received.
Suggested Replies on mobile for Government Clouds: Suggested replies in Teams chat uses assistive AI to create short responses based on the context of the previous message.
Detailed call history: Get a more comprehensive view into whether calls were transferred or forwarded, and into how group calls arrived and were controlled once received.
Suggested Replies on mobile for Government Clouds: Suggested replies in Teams chat uses assistive AI to create short responses based on the context of the previous message.
Detailed call history: Get a more comprehensive view into whether calls were transferred or forwarded, and into how group calls arrived and were controlled once received.
Intelligent translation in Teams Mobile: Teams Android will now prompt you to translate messages that aren't in your set language.
Intelligent translation in Teams Mobile: Teams iOS will now prompt you to translate messages that aren't in your set language.
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, Transcription is turned on together with Recording when the meeting starts if transcription is allowed by the administrators. This setting makes the recording playback experience accessible.
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.
Intelligent translation in Teams Mobile: Teams Android will now prompt you to translate messages that aren't in your set language.
Intelligent translation in Teams Mobile: Teams iOS will now prompt you to translate messages that aren't in your set language.
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, Transcription is turned on together with Recording when the meeting starts if transcription is allowed by the administrators. This setting makes the recording playback experience accessible.
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.
Intelligent translation in Teams Mobile: Teams Android will now prompt you to translate messages that aren't in your set language.
Intelligent translation in Teams Mobile: Teams iOS will now prompt you to translate messages that aren't in your set language.
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, Transcription is turned on together with Recording when the meeting starts if transcription is allowed by the administrators. This setting makes the recording playback experience accessible.
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.
Admins can pin apps in messaging extensions: With app setup policies in Teams admin center, administrators can now pin apps with messaging extensions in Teams compose experience.
Admins can pin apps in messaging extensions: With app setup policies in Teams admin center, administrators can now pin apps with messaging extensions in Teams compose experience.
Unassign individual policies from users in bulk: Administrators can clean up individual policy assignments from users in bulk so that those users can inherit the correct policy either via a group policy assignment or via a global organization-wide default.
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.
Rich Call History: Rich Call History.
Admins can pin apps in messaging extensions: With app setup policies in Teams admin center, administrators can now pin apps with messaging extensions in Teams compose experience.
Admins can pin apps in messaging extensions: With app setup policies in Teams admin center, administrators can now pin apps with messaging extensions in Teams compose experience.
Unassign individual policies from users in bulk: Administrators can clean up individual policy assignments from users in bulk so that those users can inherit the correct policy either via a group policy assignment or via a global organization-wide default.
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.
Rich Call History: Rich Call History.
Virtual Visits usage report in the Teams Admin Center: The Virtual Visits usage report in the Microsoft Teams admin center gives you an overview of Teams Virtual Visits activities in your organization for Global Admins and Teams Admin. Customers can view the detailed activity for virtual appointments scheduled through the Bookings app and the Microsoft Teams Electronic Health Record (EHR) connector.
Admins can pin apps in messaging extensions: With app setup policies in Teams admin center, administrators can now pin apps with messaging extensions in Teams compose experience.
Admins can pin apps in messaging extensions: With app setup policies in Teams admin center, administrators can now pin apps with messaging extensions in Teams compose experience.
Unassign individual policies from users in bulk: Administrators can clean up individual policy assignments from users in bulk so that those users can inherit the correct policy either via a group policy assignment or via a global organization-wide default.
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.
Rich Call History: Rich Call History.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
- Speaker Coach in Microsoft Teams Meetings: Speaker Coach provides private, personalized feedback on your speaking and presentation skills in both real time and post-meeting in a summary.
Suggested Replies: Suggested replies.
Admins can pin apps in messaging extensions: With the app setup policies in Teams admin center, administrators can now pin apps with messaging extensions in Teams compose experience.
HID Support for VMware: This feature supports the use of Human Interface Devices (HID) in Microsoft Teams on virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) for VMware.
Suggested Replies: Suggested replies.
Admins can pin apps in messaging extensions: With the app setup policies in Teams admin center, administrators can now pin apps with messaging extensions in Teams compose experience.
HID Support for VMware: This feature supports the use of Human Interface Devices (HID) in Microsoft Teams on virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) for VMware.
Suggested Replies: Suggested replies.
Admins can pin apps in messaging extensions: With the app setup policies in Teams admin center, administrators can now pin apps with messaging extensions in Teams compose experience.
HID Support for VMware: This feature supports the use of Human Interface Devices (HID) in Microsoft Teams on virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) for VMware.
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 also provides the ability to block guests at any point, which revokes access to presence and incoming messages.
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.
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 also provides the ability to block guests at any point, which revokes access to presence and incoming messages.
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.
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 also provides the ability to block guests at any point, which revokes access to presence and incoming messages.
Pre-assign Channel members to Breakout Rooms: Ability for organizer to preassign participants to a breakout room within Channel meetings for channel members not explicitly invited to the meeting. Currently, preassignment can only be completed for participants invited to the meeting.
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.
View TogetherMode for everyone: Meeting organizer and presenters will be able to start Together Mode in the meeting for all the participants.
Live Transcript for Teams Meetings for GCC-High & DoD: Teams Meetings now have a real-time transcript during their meetings and a post-meeting transcript. This will help users in real-time recall what has been spoken during the meeting and review the meeting after the fact.
Calendar Show As in meetings: Organizers of a Teams meeting and participants will be able to choose a Calendar Show As status feature such as free, busy or OOF to reflect their status for the scheduled meeting. In addition, organizers will also be able to select private meeting functionality, which will allow users to hide meeting details from other users when their calendar is shared.
'Share to Teams' from Teams personal Apps or Tabs: 'Share to Teams' now allows users to share URLs from personal app or tab to other user or group or channel within Teams. This launches the 'Share to Teams' experience in a pop-up/modal window enabling a faster and seamless sharing experience.
Co-organizer Meeting Role: Organizers will now be able to share control by assigning the new "Co-organizer" role to people they invite. Co-organizers have almost all of the capabilities of the organizer, including management of Meeting Options.
Assign seats in Together Mode: Allow meeting organizers to assign seats to participants in Together Mode
View Together Mode for everyone: Meeting organizer and presenters will be able to start Together Mode in the meeting for all the participants.
New guest user usability improvements enabling pending invitation decline and show/hide guest tenant list from Teams app account settings: A guest user can now decline a pending guest invitation from Teams app. A guest user can now leave an org from Teams app account settings. A guest user can also choose to hide/show guest tenants from the Teams account settings.
View TogetherMode for everyone: Meeting organizer and presenters will be able to start Together Mode in the meeting for all the participants.
Live Transcript for Teams Meetings for GCC-High & DoD: Teams Meetings now have a real-time transcript during their meetings and a post-meeting transcript. This will help users in real-time recall what has been spoken during the meeting and review the meeting after the fact.
Calendar Show As in meetings: Organizers of a Teams meeting and participants will be able to choose a Calendar Show As status feature such as free, busy or OOF to reflect their status for the scheduled meeting. In addition, organizers will also be able to select private meeting functionality, which will allow users to hide meeting details from other users when their calendar is shared.
'Share to Teams' from Teams personal Apps or Tabs: 'Share to Teams' now allows users to share URLs from personal app or tab to other user or group or channel within Teams. This launches the 'Share to Teams' experience in a pop-up/modal window enabling a faster and seamless sharing experience.
Co-organizer Meeting Role: Organizers will now be able to share control by assigning the new "Co-organizer" role to people they invite. Co-organizers have almost all of the capabilities of the organizer, including management of Meeting Options.
Assign seats in Together Mode: Allow meeting organizers to assign seats to participants in Together Mode
View Together Mode for everyone: Meeting organizer and presenters will be able to start Together Mode in the meeting for all the participants.
New guest user usability improvements enabling pending invitation decline and show/hide guest tenant list from Teams app account settings: A guest user can now decline a pending guest invitation from Teams app. A guest user can now leave an org from Teams app account settings. A guest user can also choose to hide/show guest tenants from the Teams account settings.
View TogetherMode for everyone: Meeting organizer and presenters will be able to start Together Mode in the meeting for all the participants.
Live Transcript for Teams Meetings for GCC-High & DoD: Teams Meetings now have a real-time transcript during their meetings and a post-meeting transcript. This will help users in real-time recall what has been spoken during the meeting and review the meeting after the fact.
Calendar Show As in meetings: Organizers of a Teams meeting and participants will be able to choose a Calendar Show As status feature such as free, busy or OOF to reflect their status for the scheduled meeting. In addition, organizers will also be able to select private meeting functionality, which will allow users to hide meeting details from other users when their calendar is shared.
'Share to Teams' from Teams personal Apps or Tabs: 'Share to Teams' now allows users to share URLs from personal app or tab to other user or group or channel within Teams. This launches the 'Share to Teams' experience in a pop-up/modal window enabling a faster and seamless sharing experience.
Co-organizer Meeting Role: Organizers will now be able to share control by assigning the new "Co-organizer" role to people they invite. Co-organizers have almost all of the capabilities of the organizer, including management of Meeting Options.
Assign seats in Together Mode: Allow meeting organizers to assign seats to participants in Together Mode
View Together Mode for everyone: Meeting organizer and presenters will be able to start Together Mode in the meeting for all the participants.
New guest user usability improvements enabling pending invitation decline and show/hide guest tenant list from Teams app account settings: A guest user can now decline a pending guest invitation from Teams app. A guest user can now leave an org from Teams app account settings. A guest user can also choose to hide/show guest tenants from the Teams account settings.
- Suggested Replies: Suggested replies
Suggested Replies: Suggested replies
Microsoft Teams: Pin and hide the room video for Teams Rooms on Windows: Teams Rooms on Windows allow room users to pin or hide room video on the front of room screen. In-room participants can control these options by selecting the room from the roster on the console. This added capability provides greater personalization for room users who feel the room video to be potentially distracting or not needed.
Suggested Replies: Suggested replies
Microsoft Teams: Pin and hide the room video for Teams Rooms on Windows: Teams Rooms on Windows allow room users to pin or hide room video on the front of room screen. In-room participants can control these options by selecting the room from the roster on the console. This added capability provides greater personalization for room users who feel the room video to be potentially distracting or not needed.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Pre-assign Channel members to Breakout Rooms: Ability for an organizer to preassign participants to a breakout room within Channel meetings for channel members not explicitly invited to the meeting. Currently, preassignment can only be completed for participants invited to the meeting.
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.
Dynamic Emergency Calling for Work From Home: This feature enables users to validate (and, if necessary, edit) the address that is communicated to emergency responders when an emergency call is placed by an individual working from home.
Pop out shared content into a separate window.: Users can pop out shared meeting content in a separate window.
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 and provides experience clarity for in-room users, ensuring that the users can easily share content in the meeting.
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.
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.
Attendee restriction to remove another attendee from chat for government clouds: Attendee removal from chat is now restricted to organizers.
Channel owner/s can delete meeting chat messages within channel meetings for government clouds: An IT admin can turn on "owners can delete sent messages" and assign this messaging policy to a user or group of users. This policy must be applied before channel owner/s can see "owners can delete sent messages" option on Member Permissions through Manage Team -> Settings. If this option is enabled, channel owner/s who were assigned the policy will be permitted to delete chat messages in the main window and meeting window.
Dynamic Emergency Calling for Work From Home: This feature enables users to validate (and, if necessary, edit) the address that is communicated to emergency responders when an emergency call is placed by an individual working from home.
Pop out shared content into a separate window.: Users can pop out shared meeting content in a separate window.
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 and provides experience clarity for in-room users, ensuring that the users can easily share content in the meeting.
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.
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.
Attendee restriction to remove another attendee from chat for government clouds: Attendee removal from chat is now restricted to organizers.
Channel owner/s can delete meeting chat messages within channel meetings for government clouds: An IT admin can turn on "owners can delete sent messages" and assign this messaging policy to a user or group of users. This policy must be applied before channel owner/s can see "owners can delete sent messages" option on Member Permissions through Manage Team -> Settings. If this option is enabled, channel owner/s who were assigned the policy will be permitted to delete chat messages in the main window and meeting window.
Dynamic Emergency Calling for Work From Home: This feature enables users to validate (and, if necessary, edit) the address that is communicated to emergency responders when an emergency call is placed by an individual working from home.
Pop out shared content into a separate window.: Users can pop out shared meeting content in a separate window.
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 and provides experience clarity for in-room users, ensuring that the users can easily share content in the meeting.
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.
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.
Attendee restriction to remove another attendee from chat for government clouds: Attendee removal from chat is now restricted to organizers.
Channel owner/s can delete meeting chat messages within channel meetings for government clouds: An IT admin can turn on "owners can delete sent messages" and assign this messaging policy to a user or group of users. This policy must be applied before channel owner/s can see "owners can delete sent messages" option on Member Permissions through Manage Team -> Settings. If this option is enabled, channel owner/s who were assigned the policy will be permitted to delete chat messages in the main window and meeting window.
- 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 the call is encrypted end to end and is secure.
- 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 the call is encrypted end to end and is secure.
Join a Live Meeting from an MTR-A: The Join button will appear for live events on Displays devices where a user is designated as a presenter. Detailed: Microsoft Teams live events are an extension of Teams meetings that enable a user to schedule and produce events that stream to large online audiences. In an ongoing live event, there are three different views for producer, presenter, and attendee in Teams PC client. Teams Display devices have now enabled live event attendee view to allow producer and presenter join with a quick join-link, so that they can have same capability in Displays as in the Teams mobile App. The attendee can access the live event with the event link provided in the calendar details.
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 the call is encrypted end to end and is secure.
- Bots in GCC-High: GCC-High customers are able to build and deploy bots in their Microsoft Teams environment. This release supports custom, line-of-business bots.
- Chat with self: Users can send themselves notes, messages, files and images/videos; helping them stay organized.
Teams admin center: Joined teams per user: Teams administrators can view the list of teams that a user has joined.
Search in Teams admin center: Admins can search for users, teams, pages, and settings using a common search box in the Teams admin center.
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 callback number is the call queue number rather than the agent's personal line.
Teams admin center: Joined teams per user: Teams administrators can view the list of teams that a user has joined.
Search in Teams admin center: Admins can search for users, teams, pages, and settings using a common search box in the Teams admin center.
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 callback number is the call queue number rather than the agent's personal line.
Teams admin center: Joined teams per user: Teams administrators can view the list of teams that a user has joined.
Search in Teams admin center: Admins can search for users, teams, pages, and settings using a common search box in the Teams admin center.
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 callback number is the call queue number rather than the agent's personal line.
Export a Teams list from the Teams admin center: Administrators can export a Teams list as a CSV file from the Teams admin center.
Support of Transcription for Teams for Azure Virtual Desktop on Virtual Desktop Infrastructure: Users on virtual machines can use transcription. After a meeting, the transcript file is automatically saved in the chat tab for that meeting.
Export a Teams list from the Teams admin center: Administrators can export a Teams list as a CSV file from the Teams admin center.
Support of Transcription for Teams for Azure Virtual Desktop on Virtual Desktop Infrastructure: Users on virtual machines can use transcription. After a meeting, the transcript file is automatically saved in the chat tab for that meeting.
Export a Teams list from the Teams admin center: Administrators can export a Teams list as a CSV file from the Teams admin center.
Support of Transcription for Teams for Azure Virtual Desktop on Virtual Desktop Infrastructure: Users on virtual machines can use transcription. After a meeting, the transcript file is automatically saved in the chat tab for that meeting.
- Pinned apps for frontline workers: We're providing a tailored experience for frontline workers in Teams! With this feature users with an F license will get frontline worker apps pinned out of the box.
- Pinned apps for frontline workers: We're providing a tailored experience for frontline workers in Teams! With this feature users with an F license will get frontline worker apps pinned out of the box.
- Pinned apps for frontline workers: We're providing a tailored experience for frontline workers in Teams! With this feature users with an F license will get frontline worker apps pinned out of the box.
- Language Translation Preference Setting: Languages translation preference coming to Chat and Channel message translation. Users will have the ability to designate a preferred language to have incoming messages translated to when initiating "translate" on a message.
Meeting organizer control for meeting invite language: This feature allows the meeting organizer to select the Teams meeting invite language when scheduling a meeting from Outlook for Windows.
Language Translation Preference Setting: Languages translation preference coming to Chat and Channel message translation. Users will have the ability to designate a preferred language to have incoming messages translated to when initiating "translate" on a message.
Teams device management for Surface Hubs: Administrators will be able to setup, manage, and monitor their Surface Hubs through the Teams admin center.
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.
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 two languages can be applied to sues, group or the entire organization.
Home page customization for Teams admin center: IT admins can customize the Home page in Teams admin center.
Teams device management for Surface Hubs: Administrators will be able to setup, manage, and monitor their Surface Hubs through the Teams admin center.
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.
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 two languages can be applied to sues, group or the entire organization.
Home page customization for Teams admin center: IT admins can customize the Home page in Teams admin center.
Teams device management for Surface Hubs: Administrators will be able to setup, manage, and monitor their Surface Hubs through the Teams admin center.
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 two languages can be applied to sues, group or the entire organization.
Home page customization for Teams admin center: IT admins can customize the Home page in Teams admin center.
Support of Live Caption Teams on VDI for Citrix: Users on Virtual machine will be able to use live captions. Live Captions display the text version of the audio in the call.
- Workflow templates in Teams Store: Workflows enable Teams users to automate repetitive tasks in order to collaborate more effectively and get more done. Users will be able to view all workflow templates by category, create a workflow from scratch, and learn more about the feature right from within the Teams store. Clicking on any template will guide the user through the configuration experience in-context.
- Mute notifications during meetings: The feature allows 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.
- Mute notifications during meetings: The feature allows 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.
- 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.
- Local time available added to people profile: You can now know the local time of the people you collaborate with.
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, and the Website tab. These tab actions will be found by selecting the tab name to show a dropdown menu.
Group assignment of app setup policies: App setup policies allow apps to be preinstalled and pinned to the app bar by the admin. App setup policies can now be assigned to groups.
Mute notifications during meetings: The feature allows 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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.
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. Blurring or replacing your background might not prevent sensitive information from being visible to other people in the call or meeting. Learn more
- 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 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.
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.
Custom Backgrounds: Microsoft-provided and user-uploaded custom backgrounds are now available on Android devices on OS10 and OS11 with capable chipsets. 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
- Turn Off Reactions and App notifications from Activity: The feature allows users to turn off reactions and app notifications from surfacing in the activity feed by directly right clicking on the feed item and exercising "Turn off all reactions" or "Turn off app notification" from the ellipsis.
- Turn Off Reactions and App notifications from Activity: The feature allows users to turn off reactions and app notifications from surfacing in the activity feed by directly right clicking on the feed item and exercising "Turn off all reactions" or "Turn off app notification" from the ellipsis.
- Turn Off Reactions and App notifications from Activity: The feature allows users to turn off reactions and app notifications from surfacing in the activity feed by directly right clicking on the feed item and exercising "Turn off all reactions" or "Turn off app notification" from the ellipsis.
- Teams admin center: Sensitivity label support in Government clouds: Teams administrators can assign sensitivity labels when creating Teams.
- Teams admin center: Sensitivity label support in Government clouds: Teams administrators can assign sensitivity labels when creating Teams.
- Teams admin center: Sensitivity label support in Government clouds: Teams administrators can assign sensitivity labels when creating Teams.
- Surprised reaction: Participants in a meeting can now send a surprised reaction.
Channel entry point for Workflows in Teams: There can be multiple workflows fueling collaboration within or across channels. With channel based entry point, users can view/search for applicable workflows and trigger preconfigured workflows from the manage channel menu alongside apps. This enables easy discovery and running of workflows at the channel level.
Surprised reaction: Participants in a meeting can now send a surprised reaction.
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.
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.
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.
Shared Channels now supports tabs: Tabs are now supported in Teams Connect shared channels.
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.
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
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.
- End-to-end-encryption in 1:1 calls: End-to-end-encryption in now enabled on 1:1 calls on Teams displays.
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.
Tags are available: 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.
End-to-end-encryption in 1:1 calls: End-to-end-encryption in now enabled on 1:1 calls on Teams displays.
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.
End-to-end-encryption in 1:1 calls: End-to-end-encryption in now enabled on 1:1 calls on Teams displays.
Tags are available: 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.
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.
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.
Approval App add-in within Microsoft Word: Users will be able to create an approval request for an entire document or a section of a document within Microsoft Word via add-ins.
Dynamic Emergency Calling for Work From Home: This feature enables users to validate (and if necessary, edit) the address that will be communicated to emergency responders in the event that an emergency call is placed by an individual working from home.
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 don't 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 call history in call details panel. Call Recording for 1:1 PSTN and VOIP calls will show in call history in call details panel. Users can delete recording from chat and the recording won't show in call history in call details panel. If there are multiple recordings in a call, they'll show in a list form in call history in call details panel.
Breakout room presenter support: Extend the management of Breakout rooms to specific presenters.
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.
Approval App add-in within Microsoft Word: Users will be able to create an approval request for an entire document or a section of a document within Microsoft Word via add-ins.
Breakout room presenter support: Extend the management of Breakout rooms to specific presenters.
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.
Approval App add-in within Microsoft Word: Users will be able to create an approval request for an entire document or a section of a document within Microsoft Word via add-ins.
- Send RTMP feeds into a Teams meeting: Utilize RTMP PUSH feeds to contribute media streams into a Teams meeting.
- Send RTMP feeds into a Teams meeting: Utilize RTMP PUSH feeds to contribute media streams into a Teams meeting.
- Send RTMP feeds into a Teams meeting: Utilize RTMP PUSH feeds to contribute media streams into a Teams meeting.
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.
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
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.
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 an Teams administrator, allowing them to specify granular access restrictions.
Admins can delegate management of Teams using Administrative Units: Administrators can designate other admins to manage subset of their Teams organization
Live Transcript for Teams Meetings in GCC-H and DoD Clouds: Teams Meetings in GCC-H and DoD now have a real-time transcript during their meetings and a post-meeting transcript. This will help users follow along the meeting in real-time and review the meeting after the fact.
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.
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
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.
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 an Teams administrator, allowing them to specify granular access restrictions.
Admins can delegate management of Teams using Administrative Units: Administrators can designate other admins to manage subset of their Teams organization
Live Transcript for Teams Meetings in GCC-H and DoD Clouds: Teams Meetings in GCC-H and DoD now have a real-time transcript during their meetings and a post-meeting transcript. This will help users follow along the meeting in real-time and review the meeting after the fact.
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.
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
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.
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 an Teams administrator, allowing them to specify granular access restrictions.
Admins can delegate management of Teams using Administrative Units: Administrators can designate other admins to manage subset of their Teams organization.
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.
- 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.
Sign out from 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.
Export Teams list from Teams admin center: Administrators can export a Teams list as a csv file from the Teams admin center.
Shared Channels now supports tabs: Tabs are now supported in Teams Connect shared channels.
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.
Sign out from 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.
Export Teams list from Teams admin center: Administrators can export a Teams list as a csv file from the Teams admin center.
Sign out from 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.
Export Teams list from Teams admin center: Administrators can export a Teams list as a csv file from the Teams admin center.
Present from PowerPoint to Teams: Present your slides directly from the PowerPoint app into a Teams meeting via PowerPoint Live.
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.
Portrait mode for calling/meeting screens: Teams Display devices now also support portrait mode for all calling and meeting screens in addition to the previously supported noncalling and meeting screens.
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.
Global sign-in and sign-out: Teams iOS app will support global sign-in and sign-out to provide a hassle free sign-in and sign-out experience for Frontline Workers. Employees can pick a device from the shared device pool and do a single sign in to "make it theirs" for the duration of their shift. At the end of their shift, they should be able to perform sign out to globally sign out on the device. This will remove all their personal and company information from the device so they can return the device to the device pool.
Breakout Room Presenter support: This feature extends the management of Breakout Rooms to specific presenters.
End-to-end encryption option for Teams 1:1 VoIP calls: 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
Present from PowerPoint to Teams: Present your slides directly from the PowerPoint app into a Teams meeting via PowerPoint Live.
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.
Portrait mode for calling/meeting screens: Teams Display devices now also support portrait mode for all calling and meeting screens in addition to the previously supported noncalling and meeting screens.
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.
Global sign-in and sign-out: Teams iOS app will support global sign-in and sign-out to provide a hassle free sign-in and sign-out experience for Frontline Workers. Employees can pick a device from the shared device pool and do a single sign in to "make it theirs" for the duration of their shift. At the end of their shift, they should be able to perform sign out to globally sign out on the device. This will remove all their personal and company information from the device so they can return the device to the device pool.
Present from PowerPoint to Teams: Present your slides directly from the PowerPoint app into a Teams meeting via PowerPoint Live.
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.
Portrait mode for calling/meeting screens: Teams Display devices now also support portrait mode for all calling and meeting screens in addition to the previously supported noncalling and meeting screens.
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.
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: Pin multiple video streams: Ability to pin multiple video streams (up to nine 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: 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.
SMS notifications from Bookings app in Teams: SMS confirmations and reminders with Teams meeting link for appointments created from Bookings app in Teams.
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.
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.
Start a Teams Chat with Distribution Groups, Mail-enabled Security Groups, and O365 Groups: The DLs with hidden members and DLs with restricted send access aren't supported because they're not returned in the Graph APIs for DLs and so won't be searchable in Teams.
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 coauthored and edited by everyone in line.
SMS notifications from Bookings app in Teams: SMS confirmations and reminders with Teams meeting link for appointments created from Bookings app in Teams.
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.
Start a Teams Chat with Distribution Groups, Mail-enabled Security Groups, and O365 Groups: The DLs with hidden members and DLs with restricted send access aren't supported because they're not returned in the Graph APIs for DLs and so won't be searchable in Teams.
SMS notifications from Bookings app in Teams: SMS confirmations and reminders with Teams meeting link for appointments created from Bookings app in Teams.
Start a Teams Chat with Distribution Groups, Mail-enabled Security Groups, and O365 Groups: The DLs with hidden members and DLs with restricted send access aren't supported because they're not returned in the Graph APIs for DLs and so won't be searchable in Teams.
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.
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.
Screen sharing in webRTC: Provider can share their screen with patients in webRTC enabled meetings
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.
Explicit Recording Start/Stop Messages to improve Recording Chicklet 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Screen sharing in webRTC: Provider can share their screen with patients in webRTC enabled meetings
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.
Explicit Recording Start/Stop Messages to improve Recording Chicklet 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.
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.
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.
Screen sharing in webRTC: Provider can share their screen with patients in webRTC enabled meetings.
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.
Explicit Recording Start/Stop Messages to improve Recording Chicklet 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.
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.
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 change, the default for new user will change to Native Notification.
Introducing background effects on web: With this feature, 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. Blurring or replacing your background might not prevent sensitive information from being visible to other people in the call or meeting. Learn more
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.
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 change, the default for new user will change to Native Notification.
Introducing background effects on web: With this feature, 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. Blurring or replacing your background might not prevent sensitive information from being visible to other people in the call or meeting. Learn more
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.
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 change,, the default for new user will change to Native Notification.
Introducing background effects on web: With this feature, 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. Blurring or replacing your background might not prevent sensitive information from being visible to other people in the call or meeting. Learn more
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.
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.
Search in Teams admin center: Admins can search for Users, Teams, Pages, and settings using a common search box in Teams admin center
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.
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.
Room occupancy information in TAC: IT admins can 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.
Pilot and deploy Teams for frontline with the frontline worker onboarding wizard: Pilot and deploy Teams for frontline with the frontline worker onboarding wizard.
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.
Search in Teams admin center: Admins can search for Users, Teams, Pages, and settings using a common search box in Teams admin center
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.
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.
Room occupancy information in TAC: IT admins can 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.
Pilot and deploy Teams for frontline with the frontline worker onboarding wizard: Pilot and deploy Teams for frontline with the frontline worker onboarding wizard.
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.
Search in Teams admin center: Admins can search for Users, Teams, Pages, and settings using a common search box in Teams admin center
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.
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.
Room occupancy information in TAC: IT admins can 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.
Pilot and deploy Teams for frontline with the frontline worker onboarding wizard: Pilot and deploy Teams for frontline with the frontline worker onboarding wizard.
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.
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.
Together Mode Extensibility: Together Mode Extensibility
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.
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.
Teams now available on CarPlay: You can now connect Teams to CarPlay for hands-free calling and to join your next meeting.
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.
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.
Together Mode Extensibility: Together Mode Extensibility
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.
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.
Teams now available on CarPlay: You can now connect Teams to CarPlay for hands-free calling and to join your next meeting.
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.
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.
Together Mode Extensibility: Together Mode Extensibility
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.
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.
Teams now available on CarPlay: You can now connect Teams to CarPlay for hands-free calling and to join your next meeting.
Bookings app in Teams in Government Cloud (Moderate): Availability of Bookings app in Teams in GCC Moderate environment.
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.
Bookings app in Teams in Government Cloud (Moderate): Availability of Bookings app in Teams in GCC Moderate environment.
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.
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.
Bookings app in Teams in Government Cloud (Moderate): Availability of Bookings app in Teams in GCC Moderate environment
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.
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.
Translate slideshow content: Translate the slide show content privately in a Teams meeting with PowerPoint Live.
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.
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.
Translate slideshow content: Translate the slide show content privately in a Teams meeting with PowerPoint Live.
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.
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
Translate slideshow content: Translate the slide show content privately in a Teams meeting with PowerPoint Live.
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.
Certificate Pinning: Certificate pinning refers to using some information about the certificate chain from an alternate source to do more 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.
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
ATP safe links for Teams: ATP Safe links in Teams provides more protection for E5 and ATP customers.
Guest access in GCCH: Enable guest access in GCCH.
Guest access in DOD: Enable guest access in DOD.
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.
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.
Mobile browser join redirect: If the interop isn't on or functioning, we'll reroute patients to download or join through the app.
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 use the App setup policies, Installed apps section in which admins can specify the apps to install on behalf of their users.
Certificate Pinning: Certificate pinning refers to using some information about the certificate chain from an alternate source to do more 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.
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
ATP safe links for Teams: ATP Safe links in Teams provides more protection for E5 and ATP customers.
Guest access in GCCH: Enable guest access in GCCH.
Guest access in DOD: Enable guest access in DOD.
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.
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.
Mobile browser join redirect: If the interop isn't on or functioning, we'll reroute patients to download or join through the app.
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 use the App setup policies, Installed apps section in which admins can specify the apps to install on behalf of their users.
Certificate Pinning: Certificate pinning refers to using some information about the certificate chain from an alternate source to do more 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.
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
ATP safe links for Teams: ATP Safe links in Teams provides more protection for E5 and ATP customers.
Guest access in GCCH: Enable guest access in GCCH.
Guest access in DOD: Enable guest access in DOD.
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.
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.
Mobile browser join redirect: If the interop isn't on or functioning, we'll reroute patients to download or join through the app.
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 use the App setup policies, Installed apps section in which admins can specify the apps to install on behalf of their users.