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Sunday, March 5, 2023

Friends of Microsoft Teams - Week 9 - 2023 (February 27 - March 5)

Hello Friend of Microsoft Teams,

Find below a list of public posts and updates on Microsoft Teams (and Microsoft 365) that have been published in Week 9 of 2023, February 27 – March 5.

Feel free to share with your partners, customers, colleagues, and peers.

 

What's New in Microsoft Teams (and Microsoft 365):

Field Advisories:

 

Community:


M365 Message Center :

 

 

  • Teams :

 

Microsoft Teams: Explicit Recording Consent for Teams Meetings MC523053 · Published Mar 3, 2023

Message Summary

Microsoft Teams is going to support an Explicit Recording Consent meeting policy. When the policy is applied, the Teams meeting window will request explicit consent of all participants to be recorded. Before a user gives consent, the user’s audio, video, and screenshare/consent-share won’t be captured in the meeting recording.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 107781

Standard and GCC: We will begin rolling out in late March and expect to complete rollout by mid-April.

GCC-High: We will begin rolling out in late April and expect to complete rollout by early May.

DoD: We will begin rolling out in late May and expect to complete rollout by early June.

 

(Updated) Microsoft Teams support for Targeted Release MC510331 · Published Feb 2, 2023 · Last updated Mar 3, 2023

Updated March 3, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Microsoft Teams will support Targeted Release for commercial cloud customers.

With this support, users opted-in to Targeted Release will be the first production users to see the latest Microsoft Teams features and help shape the product by providing early feedback.

Prior to this, Targeted Release provided early access to OneDrive for Business, SharePoint Online, Office for the web, Microsoft 365 admin center and some components of Exchange Online.

What is Targeted Release?

  • Targeted release allows early access to high quality feature releases across Microsoft 365 apps and services, which customers can opt-in to prepare for the upcoming changes before they roll out to the rest of the organization.
  • Customers can choose to have a select set of individuals, or the entire organization receives updates early via Targeted Release.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID: 117577

We will begin rolling out in early March (previously late February) and expect to complete by mid-April (previously mid-March).

 

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows store application 4.16 update MC516349 · Published Feb 16, 2023 · Last updated Mar 3, 2023

Updated March 3, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

The latest version of Teams Rooms on Windows, 4.16, includes several new and improved features, such as:

  1. A revitalized Teams Rooms User interface
  2. Enhanced Layout Switcher
  3. Teams Premium support, including Watermark, End-to-end Encryption for meetings, and Sensitivity labels

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 98422

We will begin rolling out mid-March (previously late February) and expect to complete by late March.

 

(Updated) Cameo in PowerPoint Live MC395422 · Published Jun 29, 2022 · Last updated Mar 3, 2023

Updated March 3, 2023: We are delaying this release to GCC-High and DoD organizations to ensure an optimal experience. We will communicate via Message center when we are ready to proceed. Thank you for your patience.

With Cameo in PowerPoint Live, users will be able to integrate Teams camera feed into PowerPoint presentation and customize how and where they want to appear on slides.

⁠Cameo supports all personalization properties like any other Office graphical object such as those offered by Pictures, Gifs and Shapes. This includes layering Cameo between content, adding motion effects such as morph, changing styles, shapes etc.

Limitation: - Cameo in PowerPoint Live will not be shown in the recording, web or mobile clients.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 87725

Production will begin rolling out in early September 2022 and expect to complete by mid-September 2022.

GCC will begin rolling out mid-December 2022 (previously early December 2022) and expect to complete by end of December 2022 (previously mid-December 2022).

GCC-High and DoD we will communicate via Message center when we are ready to proceed.

 

Microsoft Teams: Insights about people in profile cards now coming to Microsoft Teams MC521886 · Published Mar 1, 2023

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 116006

We will begin rolling out in early March 2023 and expect to complete rollout by the end of March 2023.

 

(Updated) My Activity retirement in Teams desktop and web clients MC450203 · Published Oct 26, 2022 · Last updated Feb 28, 2023

Updated February 28, 2023: We have updated the timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

As announced in MC411679 (August '22) we are retiring "My Activity" feature within the Activity app from Microsoft Teams desktop and web clients.

Activity will now support only activities directed to you (the option to view activities initiated by you will be retired), where we will continue to invest our development resources.

We will begin rolling this out mid-March (previously late February) and expect to complete by late March (previously mid-March).

 

  • Microsoft 365/Viva :

 

Send Praise from Viva Connections Dashboard MC522480 · Published Mar 2, 2023

Site owners/authors of Viva Connections can add the Praise card from Microsoft Insights on the dashboard, allowing employees to send praise to their colleagues. The Praise experience is the same experience as the one available within Microsoft Viva Insights today.

This message is associated with Microsoft Roadmap ID 117378

We will begin rolling out in early March and expect rollout to be complete by late March.

 

Viva connections is being released to Android tablets. MC522479 · Published Mar 2, 2023

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 117388

Standard Release: We will begin rolling out late March and expect to complete rollout by mid-April.

 

(Updated) Briefing Email Enhancements: dynamic subject titles, tasks from Teams chat, and integrations with Learning MC467904 · Published Nov 17, 2022 · Last updated Feb 28, 2023

Updated February 28, 2023: We've paused sending briefing emails starting early 2023 as mentioned in MC486289 and this service will continue to stay paused until further notice. You still have access to Viva Insights features with insights and recommendations to build healthy work habits. If you rely on different features within Briefing—like preparing for meetings, reviewing outstanding tasks, or booking focus time—you can find them in your Viva Insights Outlook add-in or Viva Insights app in Teams and web. Learn more: https://learn.microsoft.com/viva/insights/personal/reference/briefing-pause. 

The Briefing email from Microsoft Viva helps users start their day on track by surfacing information to prepare for upcoming meetings, follow up on outstanding tasks as well as protect time for independent work. A few updates are coming to the daily briefing email to highlight suggested tasks from 1:1 Teams chats and to highlight key information from Viva Learning directly in your inbox.

We've paused sending briefing emails starting early 2023 as mentioned in MC486289 and this service will continue to stay paused until further notice.

 

(Updated) Updates coming to Daily Briefing Emails MC414800 · Published Aug 16, 2022 · Last updated Feb 28, 2023

Updated February 28, 2023: We've paused sending briefing emails starting early 2023 as mentioned in MC486289 and this service will continue to stay paused until further notice. You still have access to Viva Insights features with insights and recommendations to build healthy work habits. If you rely on different features within Briefing—like preparing for meetings, reviewing outstanding tasks, or booking focus time—you can find them in your Viva Insights Outlook add-in or Viva Insights app in Teams and web. Learn more: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/viva/insights/personal/reference/briefing-pause. 

The Briefing email from Microsoft Viva helps users start their day on track by surfacing information to prepare for upcoming meetings, follow up on outstanding tasks as well as protect time for independent work. A few updates are coming to the daily briefing email to provide users with ways to fine-tune their email.

Favorite & Snooze

Currently, content in briefing email is delivered in a pre-configured order. Beginning in December 2022 (previously October 2022), the briefing email will add ‘favorite’ and ‘snooze’ preferences to provide users the ability to personalize and engage with content that matter most to them. Users will also be able to change their favorite and snooze preferences directly through the settings page.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 93392

Time zone card

We're introducing the ability for users to review, confirm, and change their working hours and time zone settings directly from this email to help ensure that it is sent at the right time for users who have different current time zone settings and meeting hour time zone settings.

We've paused sending briefing emails starting early 2023 as mentioned in MC486289 and this service will continue to stay paused until further notice.

 

(Updated) New home experience for Viva Connections desktop MC447338 · Published Oct 17, 2022 · Last updated Feb 28, 2023

Updated February 28, 2023: The New home experiences for Viva Connections desktop has begun rolling out to production tenants, starting with Targeted Release tenants and will continue until completion, expected by the end of Q1 of this calendar year.

As a reminder, customers that already have an existing home site can choose to keep their existing desktop experience using our new PowerShell command that is already available to all customers since mid-November. More information about the PowerShell command is captured in this doc Get more details in the customization guidance.

Customers with existing home sites can choose to keep their existing desktop experience using our new PowerShell command that is already available to all customers since mid-November. More information about the PowerShell command is captured in this doc: Customize and edit the Viva Connections home experience.

A new desktop experience is being released for Viva Connections that’s easier and faster to set up and optimizes content to deliver a modern employee experience. The new Viva Connections desktop design serves as a new home experience option that centers essential job tasks, personalized content, easy access to other Viva experiences, and better aligns with the mobile experience.

It uses existing assets from your organization’s home site and Viva Connection’s Dashboard, Feed, and Resources. If your organization already has Viva Connections set up, you’ll have the option to choose to keep the existing desktop experiences that features the home site or to use the new home experience. Learn more about the new Viva Connections home experience.

Key points:

  • If you’ve already set up Viva Connections, existing content will pre-populate the new home experience.
  • If you haven’t set up Viva Connections yet, the default experience includes starter cards on the Dashboard but otherwise doesn’t impact the current mobile experience.
  • There will be an option to select the default landing experience if your organization already has a home site. This option will become available to all customer by mid-November in the form of a PowerShell command. More information about the PowerShell command will be in the customization guidance.  

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 99917

The new home experience has begun rolling out and is expected to complete by late March.

 

Start Configuring Viva Engage in the new Engage admin experience MC521467 · Published Feb 27, 2023

The Viva Engage experience has now arrived! You can discover this experience through search by searching for Viva, or Engage, as well as navigate to the experience via the setup tab, and then click on the Viva Collection. From the Viva suite page admins can navigate to the Viva engage app page where admins can begin their Viva Engage deployment process.

This is now available.

 

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