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Find below a list of public posts and updates on Microsoft Teams (and Microsoft 365) that have been published in Week 43 of 2024, October 21 – October 27.
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What's New in Microsoft Teams (and Microsoft 365):
- Queues
app for Microsoft Teams now generally available
- More
new languages supported in Microsoft 365 Copilot
- Satya
Nadella: My annual letter: Relevance and reinvention
Field Advisories:
- New
autonomous agents scale your team like never before
- Transform
work with autonomous agents across your business processes
- Building
a WhatsApp AI bot for customer support
- SharePoint
content processing updates - translation and simple prebuilt models
- A
Product Marketer’s Secret to Efficiency – How Copilot in Loop Elevates My
Workflow
- Increase
productivity with Copilot in OneNote for iPad and Mac for commercial
customers
- Seamlessly
switch between your Apple devices with Handoff support for Word, Excel,
and PowerPoint
Community:
- Queues
App now Generally Available
- Teams
Phone Digest September
- 7
Prompting Hacks to Make Copilot Your Ultimate Workday Sidekick
- How
to Set Up Microsoft Teams for Project Management: A Step-by-Step Guide
M365 Message Center :
- Microsoft
Teams – new message center posts:
Microsoft Teams: Watermark for anonymous
meeting join MC918575 Published Oct 25, 2024
Coming soon to Microsoft Teams: Anonymous
unauthenticated users will be able to join watermarked meetings and have access
to all meeting content, including video. This message applies to Teams on
Windows desktop, Teams on the web, Teams for Android/iOS, and Teams Rooms.
General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin
rolling out early November 2024 and expect to complete by mid-November 2024.
Improved search for content around people MC918573 Published Oct 25, 2024
You can now search for content related to
specific people. Start by typing the name of the relevant person in the
search bar and select the filter to narrow down the search results and get
relevant content suggestions
This message is associated with Microsoft 365
Roadmap ID 421189
Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out
early-November 2024 and expect to complete by mid-November 2024.
General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin
rolling out mid-November 2024 and expect to complete by late November 2024.
Microsoft Teams: Stream Custom Agent and Bot
Responses MC918562 Published Oct 25, 2024
Custom engine agents and Teams bots can now
stream responses like Microsoft Copilot. They can provide real-time updates on
their actions while delivering parts of the response as they generate it,
making interactions feel faster and more engaging.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365
Roadmap ID 422261
Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out
mid-November 2024 and expect to complete by late-November 2024.
General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin
rolling out mid-December 2024 and expect to complete by late-December 2024.
Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Teams: Unified
management of Teams apps in Teams, Outlook, and the Microsoft 365 app MC796790 Published May 29, 2024
Updated October 25, 2024: We have updated the
rollout timeline and the phasing below. Thank you for your patience.
In 2023, we introduced Microsoft Teams apps
that are compatible with Microsoft Outlook and the Microsoft 365 App (manifest
version v1.13 or higher). Before this rollout, admin changes made in the
Integrated apps section of the Microsoft 365 admin center would only affect
these Teams apps in Outlook and the Microsoft 365 app. Similarly, changes made
in the Teams admin center would exclusively affect Teams. Starting in June
2024, we will roll out Unified App Management to streamline the management of
these apps across Teams, Outlook and the Microsoft 365 App, so they are
consistently available across all supported clients.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365
Roadmap ID 393931.
This rollout will happen in two major phases.
Unified App Management can apply only to tenants that have migrated to app
centric management in Teams admin center, as communicated in MC688930 (Updated)
Teams admin center: App centric management and changes to app permission
policies (November 2023).
Phase 1 | General Availability (Worldwide): We
will begin rolling out mid-December 2024 (previously July 2024) and expect to
complete mid-January 2025 (previously late November 2024). This phase applies
to tenants with no modified settings in either the Microsoft 365 admin center
(Integrated apps) or the Teams admin center for organization-wide defaults, app
deployment, app availability, or block/unblock. No merge rules apply to these
tenants, but after this phase, any app management setting configured in either
admin centers will apply to all relevant hosts.
Phase 2: We will update this post with a
timeline and more details. This phase is applicable to tenants with app
settings that have differences between Microsoft 365 admin center (Integrated
apps) and Teams admin center, and who have maintained a single app setup policy
in Teams that has a modified Installed apps section.
Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Outlook: Name
pronunciation on the profile card MC917748 Published Oct 24, 2024
Coming soon to Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft
Teams: A name pronunciation feature on the profile card in Microsoft Teams and
Microsoft Outlook. This new feature helps promote diversity by giving working
colleagues relevant information about each other. Names are a crucial part of a
person’s identity. The incorrect pronunciation of a person’s name can lead to
anxiety and offense in some cases. Correctly pronouncing a person’s name helps
to create an inclusive environment.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365
Roadmap ID 420329.
Pronunciation data is stored in each user's
mailbox until the user deletes the recording. Learn more: Data Residency for Exchange Online -
Microsoft 365 Enterprise | Microsoft Learn
This message applies to Teams for Windows
desktop, Teams for Mac desktop, new Outlook for Windows desktop, and new
Outlook for web.
Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out
mid-November 2024 and expect to complete by late November 2024.
General Availability (Worldwide, GCC, GCC High,
DoD): We will begin rolling out mid-January 2025 and expect to complete by
mid-February 2025.
(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Shifts Graph APIs
in beta moved to production (v1.0) MC916866
Published Oct 23, 2024
Updated October 24, 2024: We have updated the
rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
The Shifts Graph APIs will transition from beta
to production. This change brings enhanced stability and reliability to the
APIs, ensuring a seamless experience for developers and users.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365
Roadmap ID 422813.
General Availability (Worldwide and GCC): We
will begin rolling out mid-January 2025 (previously mid-November) and expect
to complete by late January 2025 (previously late November).
(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Users can take
control during screensharing on the web MC915486
Published Oct 21, 2024
Coming soon to Microsoft Teams on the web:
Users will be able to use the Take control feature during screensharing on the
web, like they can in Teams for Windows desktop.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365
Roadmap ID 420327.
Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out
early December 2024 and expect to complete by mid-December 2024.
General Availability (Worldwide, GCC, GCC High,
DoD): We will begin rolling out mid-January 2025 and expect to complete by
late January 2025.
New Microsoft Teams and Skype for Business Call
Hold Synchronization
MC916294 Published Oct 23, 2024
Improving interop between the new Microsoft
Teams client and Skype for business
Currently when making or receiving a call in
the new Microsoft Teams client while an existing Skype for Business (SfB) call
is ongoing, the call in Skype for Business does not automatically go on hold.
The reverse scenario has the same problem.
General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin
rolling out mid-October 2024 and expect to complete by late October 2024.
General Availability (GCC): We will begin
rolling out mid-October 2024 and expect to complete by late October 2024.
General Availability (GCC High): early
November 2024 and expect to complete by mid-November 2024.
General Availability (DoD): We will begin
rolling out mid-November 2024 and expect to complete by late November 2024.
Eligible users can now signup for Teams Exploratory
on MOBILE MC915487 Published Oct 21, 2024
Microsoft Teams Exploratory Trial will be
available to eligible users on mobile devices
The Teams Exploratory trial license allows
users in your organization to explore the full features of Microsoft Teams for
free for up to 6 months, if they are eligible. This update brings mobile
experience at par with Desktop wherein users trying to sign up for Exploratory
on mobile devices will not receive errors.
General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin
rolling out early/mid-November 2024 and expect to complete by mid/late
November 2024.
- Microsoft
Teams – updated message center posts:
(Updated) Microsoft Teams: New policy for voice
and face enrollment will default to "On" (configure now) MC912707
Published Oct 17, 2024
Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Teams: Unified
management of Teams apps in Teams, Outlook, and the Microsoft 365 app MC796790
Published May 29, 2024
(Updated) Teams admin center: App centric
management and changes to app permission policies MC688930
Published Nov 11, 2023
(Updated) Microsoft Places will be generally
available in Q4 CY24 MC901823
Published Sep 30, 2024
(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Auto-detect and
pre-select room audio in BYOD meeting rooms MC892647
Published Sep 19, 2024
(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Tenant-wide policy
for permission to download meeting transcription MC781595
Published Apr 19, 2024
(Updated) Microsoft Teams: View, download, and
delete Microsoft OneDrive transcript files MC726122
Published Mar 6, 2024
(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Digital signage on
Teams Rooms on Windows MC862235
Published Aug 14, 2024
(Updated) Microsoft Teams apps and Microsoft
Copilot extensions: New security and certification information MC889528
Published Sep 13, 2024
(Updated) Microsoft Teams Rooms: Enhanced
cross-platform meetings via SIP join MC810411
Published Jul 11, 2024
(Updated) Microsoft Teams: New Cross-location shifts
in the Shifts app MC800503
Published Jun 10, 2024
(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Access Workflows
from the three-dot menu on shared file MC750668
Published Mar 21, 2024
(Updated) Microsoft Teams: New skin tone settings
and reactions MC809602
Published Jul 8, 2024
(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Roster grouping for
in-room participants through Proximity Join for Teams Rooms MC814577
Published Jul 16, 2024
- Microsoft
Viva – new message center posts:
Microsoft Viva Engage: Community settings for Community Resources and Files
tab MC917752
Published Oct 24, 2024
Coming soon in Microsoft Viva Engage
Communities: Community settings for the Community Resources module and the
Files tab.
General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin
rolling out late October 2024 and expect to complete by mid-November 2024.
Microsoft Viva Engage (Yammer): Enhanced audit log schema MC917742
Published Oct 24, 2024
Coming soon to Microsoft Viva Engage (Yammer):
We will update the audit log schema to include parameters that uniquely
identify both the user performing an action (actor) and the user/object affected
by that action (target).
After this rollout:
The actor will be identified by their unique
Microsoft Entra ID ObjectId, stored in the UserKey field.
The target will be identified by a new
parameter TargetObjectId that will also store the target's Entra ID ObjectId.
To improve transparency on changes to admin
roles and other key scenarios, a new ModifiedProperties parameter will capture
both the old and new values of modified fields.
These new parameters will be available for
users with an E3 license.
General
Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out end-November 2024 and expected
to complete by late December 2024.
- Microsoft
Viva – updated message center posts:
(Updated) Microsoft Viva Learning: Learner
Completion Record bulk export MC806522
Published Jun 28, 2024
For the latest information/updates you can always
check these resources :
- Microsoft Teams Channel on
YouTube
- Staying on top of Office 365
Updates
- What's new in Microsoft Teams
- What's new in Microsoft Teams devices
- Office Support
- Microsoft Teams Rooms (MTR)
- Release Notes
- Microsoft Teams content
updates
- TechCommunity Teams Blog
- Teams Community Blog
- TechCommunity Microsoft 365 Blog
- TechCommunity Viva Blog
- Microsoft Teams Public
Preview - Microsoft Tech Community
- https://aka.ms/TeamsFeedback
- Microsoft 365 Roadmap
- Microsoft 365 Message Center (M365 Admin rights)
- Stay on top of Microsoft 365 changes
- Track your message center tasks in Planner
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