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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 6 of 2025, February 3 – February 9.
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What's New in Microsoft Teams (and Microsoft 365):
- The
new calendar in Microsoft Teams now generally available
- Azure
Communication Services - January 2025 Feature Updates
- What’s
new in Microsoft Intune: January 2025
- Microsoft
Lists forms: What's New
Field Advisories:
- Enhancing
Teams video quality with Super Resolution
- Five
ways Microsoft Teams has transformed Microsoft
- New
and Improved Community Analytics in Viva Engage
- New
tools make it easier to build with Azure Communication Services
- Spread
the love this Valentine’s Day with Designer and Copilot
- How
real-world businesses are transforming with AI – with 50 new stories
- MDEP
at ISE 2025
- Enhancements
to Planner in Microsoft Teams channels
Community:
- Cloud8 What's new with
Teams Phone Mobile
- Teams
Phone - January Digest
- ISE
2025 Barcelona: Live AMA – Behind the Scenes with Ilya Bukshteyn
- Empowering.Cloud
Community Update – February 2025
- New
5-part SharePoint learning series
- The
Hidden Cost of Free: Why SMBs Should Rethink Using WhatsApp vs. Microsoft
Teams for Business Communication
Coming Events:
- Teams
Phone CommUnity Connection - February 20, 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM GMT+1,
Online event
- Smart
workplace: Teams Phone
M365 Message Center :
- Microsoft
Teams – new message center posts:
Microsoft Teams: Post and reply as
"Organizer" in Q&A MC1000272
Published Feb 7, 2025
Coming soon for Microsoft Teams: Organizers for
town halls, webinars, and meetings will be able to post and reply to questions
using the title “Organizer” in the Q&A experience, instead of their names.
This feature allows organizers to present a unified and official voice when
responding to attendee questions.
This message applies to Teams on Windows
desktop and Teams on Mac desktop.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365
Roadmap ID 475856.
General Availability (Worldwide, GCC): We will
begin rolling out mid-March 2025 and expect to complete by late March 2025.
Microsoft Teams: New keyboard shortcut for
adding emojis MC1000269
Published Feb 7, 2025
Coming soon: We are excited to announce a new
feature in Microsoft Teams that allows users to insert emojis in the compose
box by typing a word surrounded by colons. For example, :smile: will turn into
the smiling face emoji. Users can soon add any emoji, including custom ones,
for faster and easier personal expression.
This feature applies to Teams for Windows
desktop and Windows for Mac desktop.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365
Roadmap ID 369345.
Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out
early April 2025 and expect to complete by mid-April 2025.
General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin
rolling out mid-April 2025 and expect to complete by late April 2025.
General Availability (GCC): We will begin
rolling out early May 2025 and expect to complete by mid-May 2025.
General Availability (GCC High): We will begin
rolling out mid-May 2025 and expect to complete by late May 2025.
General Availability (DoD): We will begin
rolling out early June 2025 and expect to complete by mid-June 2025.
General Availability (Gallatin): We will begin
rolling out mid-June 2025 and expect to complete by late June 2025.
General Availability (USSec, USNat): We will
begin rolling out early July 2025 and expect to complete by mid-July 2025.
Microsoft Teams Events: Attendees and
presenters no longer receive an email when an attendee list is updated MC999446
Published Feb 7, 2025
For Microsoft Teams town halls and webinars,
presenters and attendees will no longer receive an updated email every time a
presenter is added or removed or when incremental changes are made to the
participants list for the event.
General Availability (Worldwide, GCC, GCC
High): We will begin rolling out early February 2025 and expect to complete
by late February 2025.
Microsoft Teams: Queues app to add Monitor,
Whisper, Barge, and Takeover MC999443
Published Feb 7, 2025
For Microsoft Teams, in the Queues app,
authorized users will be able to enter into a monitoring session for private
coaching. They can listen to customer calls, whisper to the agents for private
messages, and barge into or takeover the call.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365
Roadmap ID 473884.
Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out
mid-March 2025 for and expect to complete by early April 2025.
General Availability (Worldwide, GCC): We will
begin rolling out late April 2025 and expect to complete by early May 2025.
Microsoft Teams: Share files faster in Chat
and channels MC998511
Published Feb 6, 2025
Coming soon for Microsoft Teams: Users will be
able to share a file from a Chat conversation, a Chat Shared tab, or a channel
post to 1:1 chats, group chats, or channels with fewer clicks. When files are
shared, their permissions are maintained, ensuring that recipients have the
appropriate access rights. Users can include a message with the shared file and
@mention recipients.
This message applies to Teams for Windows
desktop, Teams for Mac desktop, and Teams for the web.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365
Roadmap ID 475852.
Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out
late March 2025 and expect to complete by early April 2025.
General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin
rolling out early April 2025 and expect to complete by late April 2025.
Windows 10 End of Support for Microsoft Teams
Rooms on Windows MC997581
Published Feb 5, 2025
Support ends soon for Window 10 on October 14,
2025, and devices will no longer receive security and feature updates. Upgrade
your Teams Rooms on Windows devices now to Windows 11 for a smooth transition
and get the latest productivity, security, and management features.
This will happen: October 14, 2025
- Microsoft
Teams – updated message center posts:
(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Add a Loop workspace
tab to standard channels MC973493
Published Jan 7, 2025
(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Record a video and
share in channels MC947832
Published Dec 3, 2024
(Updated) Microsoft Teams: New policy for voice
and face enrollment will default to "On" (configure now) MC912707
Published Oct 17, 2024
(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Live chat for small
businesses MC974364
Published Jan 8, 2025
(Updated) Microsoft Viva Engage: New reply and
reaction notifications in Microsoft Teams MC978923
Published Jan 14, 2025
(Updated) Teams admin center: App centric
management and changes to app permission policies MC688930
Published Nov 11, 2023
(Updated) Microsoft Teams admin center: App
centric management for app installation and changes to app setup policies MC795355
Published May 23, 2024
- Microsoft
Viva – new message center posts:
Microsoft Viva: Tenant-wide notification
settings moving to Viva Engage Admin center MC998509
Published Feb 6, 2025
We are modernizing the existing admin
notification settings in Viva Engage to make admin notification settings and
configuration more user-friendly and intuitive within Viva Engage. Previously,
the tenant-wide notifications settings for admin configuration opened in legacy
web pages. With this update, these notification settings will now appear under
Viva Engage Admin center > Tenant settings.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365
Roadmap ID 472925.
General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin
rolling out in late February 2025 and expect to complete by mid-March 2025.
Microsoft Viva Connections: New user-created
cards MC998508
Published Feb 6, 2025
Employees will soon be able to create their own
link cards that connect to other tools and destinations on the Microsoft Viva
Connections dashboard.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365
Roadmap ID 472021.
Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out
mid-February 2025 and expect to complete by late February 2025.
General Availability (Worldwide, GCC, GCC High,
DoD): We will begin rolling out late February 2025 and expect to complete by
late March 2025.
Microsoft Viva Engage on the web: New way to
access to "Delegate management" feature MC997579
Published Feb 5, 2025
Before this rollout, users accessed the
Delegate management feature for Microsoft Viva Engage on the web and Viva
Engage in Microsoft Teams from different locations: The gear icon in Viva
Engage on the web and the three-dot overflow menu in Teams. After this rollout,
users can access the Delegate management feature in Viva Engage on the web from
the three-dot overflow menu next to their profile picture, just like they do in
Viva Engage in Teams for Windows and Mac desktops.
General Availability (Worldwide): Available
now (since mid-January 2025).
Microsoft Viva Learning: Archive learning
objects in My Learning sections MC997578
Published Feb 5, 2025
In Microsoft Viva learning, users can archive
learning objects shown in the My Learning > In-progress section and in the
My Learning > Recommendations section of their courses. Users can access the
Archive button under the vertical ellipsis (…) on the course tile.
General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin
rolling out early March 2025 and expect to complete by mid-March 2025.
- Microsoft
Viva – updated message center posts:
(Updated) SharePoint Pages Flexible Sections MC973514
Published Jan 7, 2025
(Updated) Microsoft Viva Connections: Update to
app name MC979826
Published Jan 15, 2025
(Updated) Microsoft Viva Insights: Users can
request delegate access MC922625
Published Oct 31, 2024
(Updated) Microsoft Viva Engage: New reply and
reaction notifications in Microsoft Teams MC978923
Published Jan 14, 2025
(Updated) Microsoft Viva Insights: Data export
for Viva Glint and Viva Insights data MC937159
Published Nov 19, 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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