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Sunday, April 23, 2023

Friends of Microsoft Teams - Week 16 - 2023 (April 17 - April 23)

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 16 of 2023, April 17 – April 23.

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

 

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(Updated) Collaborative Meeting Notes MC538385 · Publicerad 6 apr. 2023 · Uppdaterades senast 20 apr. 2023

Updated April 20, 2023: We will not be rolling this feature to customers in GCC at this time. We will communicate via Message center when we are ready to proceed. Thank you for your patience.

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). These capabilities are now integrated into the end-to-end meeting experience in Teams, Loop, Planner, To Do, Office.com and OneDrive for Business.   

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 101509

Preview Release: We will begin rolling out late April and expect to complete by mid-May.   

Standard Release: We will begin rolling out late May and expect to complete by late June.

 

SIP / H323 dialing from MTR-W to a VTC MC543860 · Publicerad 19 apr. 2023

Starting early June, you can configure your Teams Rooms on Windows with a Pro license (MTR-W Pro) to place and receive one-to-one calls from the room to a SIP/ H323 endpoint and vice versa. If you want to enable this calling feature, you must work with a CVI provider to enable the service.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 95263

Standard Release: We will begin rolling out in early June and expect to complete by mid-June.

 

Join BJN meeting from MTR-W via Direct Guest Join MC543859 · Publicerad 19 apr. 2023

As part of a Preview release, around mid-May you will be able to configure your Teams Rooms on Windows to join BlueJeans meetings.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 121769

Preview:  We will begin rolling out end of April and expect to complete by early May.

Standard Release: We will begin rolling out late June and expect to complete by early July.

 

Intelligent Meeting Recap in Microsoft 365 Feed MC543390 · Publicerad 19 apr. 2023

We are announcing Intelligent Meeting Recap functionality in Microsoft 365 Feed for both Teams Premium users and users without Teams Premium.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 122529

Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out mid-April 2023.

Standard Release: We will begin rolling out late April 2023.

 

Microsoft Teams: Mark All As Read for Activity Feed MC543386 · Publicerad 19 apr. 2023

Users can triage their activity feed more efficiently using the new ‘Mark all as read’ feature. With just one click, users can mark all unread activities as read.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 102238

Preview: We will begin rolling out in mid-May and expect to complete rollout by late May.

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

 

User's policies details page enhancements MC543382 · Publicerad 19 apr. 2023

The user's policy details page in Microsoft Teams admin center provides admins with the ability to manage policies for individual users. However, the current experience falls short in meeting critical needs, such as presenting a comprehensive view of all policies assigned to a user and a policy assignment view to understand how a policy is applied to the user.

To address these concerns, the new user details policy page offers an enhanced experience that enables admins to view all effective policies for a user, along with a clear policy assignment hierarchy view. With this new functionality, admins can easily troubleshoot any problematic policy assignments, ensuring that policies are correctly assigned, and their users' experiences are optimal.

Standard Release: We will begin rolling out early May 2023 and expect to complete by late May 2023.

 

(Updated) Profanity filtering on/off control for Live Captions in Teams meetings MC537415 · Publicerad 5 apr. 2023 · Uppdaterades senast 18 apr. 2023

Updated April 18, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

With the newly introduced toggle for turn on/off profanity filtering in Live Captions, users will now be able to control whether they want to continue to leverage the profanity filtering capability provided out of the box, or if they want to see every word as-is.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 113412.

Targeted Release (Public preview): We will begin rolling out early April and expect to complete by mid-April.

Standard Release: We will begin rolling out mid-April (previously early May) and expect to complete by early May (previously mid-May).

GCC-High and DoD: We will begin rolling out mid-June (previously early July) and expect to complete by early July (previously mid-July).

 

(Updated) The Room Remote feature for desktop MC499441 · Publicerad 20 jan. 2023 · Uppdaterades senast 18 apr. 2023

Updated April 18, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

The Room Remote feature enables touchless meetings by allowing users to control a nearby shared meeting room device from their Desktop/PC with Teams client.

This feature was first launched on Mobile and will now be available on your Desktop device formfactor.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 95482

Rollout is expected to start mid-February (previously mid-January) and will complete mid-December (previously late March).

 

(Updated) Microsoft Teams support for Targeted Release MC510331 · Publicerad 2 feb. 2023 · Uppdaterades senast 18 apr. 2023

Updated April 18, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. We are currently rolling this feature out and as users are onboarded (per your settings) they will see "EA" on their profile picture to indicate Early Access to Teams features. 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-May (previously late April).

 

(Updated) Teams: Teams button to Join Meeting from pre-join Screen for all Microsoft Teams Certified Peripherals MC533818 · Publicerad 27 mars 2023 · Uppdaterades senast 18 apr. 2023

Updated April 18, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Users can soon successfully join and participate in a meeting directly with their Teams Button on their Microsoft Teams certified peripheral.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 95632

Preview: We will begin rolling out in late May (previously early April) and expect to complete rollout by early June (previously mid-April).

Standard Release: We will begin rolling out in mid-June (previously mid-April) and expect to complete rollout by late June (previously late April).

 

(Updated) Microsoft Teams certified Peripherals: Teams Button to bring Teams Meeting Stage to Foreground During Meeting MC533817 · Publicerad 27 mars 2023 · Uppdaterades senast 18 apr. 2023

Updated April 18, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Microsoft Teams users can soon bring up the meeting stage to the foreground by pressing their Teams Button during a meeting.

Note: This feature only applies to devices with dedicated Teams Buttons. If the device has a dual-purpose button (supports both hookswitch and Teams Button), pressing the button will end the call.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 98496

Preview: We will begin rolling out in late May (previously early April) and expect to complete rollout by early June (previously mid-April).

Standard Release: We will begin rolling out in mid-June (previously mid-April) and expect to complete rollout by late June (previously late April).

 

(Updated) Microsoft Teams user request configuration to external systems (URL redirect) MC411463 · Publicerad 9 aug. 2022 · Uppdaterades senast 18 apr. 2023

Updated April 18, 2023: We are pleased to announce the availability of the PowerShell script and supporting GraphAPIs for enabling user requests to unavailable Teams apps in the organization.

Microsoft Teams apps help facilitate collaboration and enhance team productivity. Some organizations choose to control which apps their users can use, blocking apps from use until IT has reviewed and approved them. For these organizations, the recent app discovery update (MC350372) enables users to indicate which blocked apps they want to use, allowing IT to focus their attention on the apps their users want. As always, IT retains control over which apps their users can use.

We heard from some IT organizations that they have existing processes to manage how users should request access to apps, and they want to use these same processes for approving Teams apps as well. In response, we are adding optional organizational settings to enable Teams admins to customize the experience for their users to request access to apps that are blocked from use. These settings include:

A customizable instructional message shown to users when they find an app that’s blocked from use. The default message is “This app requires approval from your IT admin to make it available for you to add.”

An IT provided URL that will open in a browser when users click the “Request approval” button to request access to an app (e.g., IT support ticketing systems, user education pages, or corporate policy pages).

In the Teams app store, users who discover apps that are blocked from use will see the customized instructional message (if provided) on the app details page and be redirected to the URL (if provided) when the “Request approval” button is clicked.

Example scenario: Contoso’s IT department has configured Teams to block all third-party apps by default. They have enabled access only to specific third-party apps that they have evaluated and determined to be acceptable. For the user request feature, the Teams admin for Contoso configures the instructional message to say "This app is not allowed by Contoso IT. If you have a business need for this app, please submit your request in the Contoso helpdesk portal." This makes clear (i) that the app cannot be used, and (ii) instructions to submit a request. They then configure the "Request approval" button to point to their internal portal where users can submit IT helpdesk requests: https://intranet.contoso.com/helpdesk. This experience drives awareness of corporate policy and the existing Contoso request process.

This feature is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 89288.

Note: As an administrator, if you prefer to deactivate the ability for users to see and request apps that are blocked from use, you will be able to do so via PowerShell that is expected to be delivered in January 2023. We will update this message once the PowerShell script is available.

This feature will be available in April 2023.

 

(Updated) Meeting Recap Enhancements MC538726 · Publicerad 8 apr. 2023 · Uppdaterades senast 18 apr. 2023

Updated April 18, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

We are bringing improvements for Meeting Recapping. Now, you can find your recording, transcripts, meeting content, and meeting notes all under a single new Recap tab. Watch your recording directly in the Recap tab to catch up on what was discussed while reviewing the notes and transcript without having to switch screens/apps.

Targeted Release and Preview: We will begin rolling out early May (previously late April) and expect to complete by mid-May (previously early May).

Standard Release: We will begin rolling out late May and expect to complete by early June.

 

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Intelligent Meeting Recap (Premium) MC537956 · Publicerad 6 apr. 2023 · Uppdaterades senast 18 apr. 2023

Updated April 18, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Users with a Teams Premium license will now be able to access a comprehensive meeting overview in the new ‘Recap’ tab in Teams, which leverages AI to provide personalized highlights and key insights from the meeting.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 122529

Targeted Release (Preview): We will begin rolling out early May (previously late April) and expect to complete by early May.

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

 

(Updated) Quick Access Teams and Sharepoint Document Libraries in win32 backstage MC432475 · Publicerad 16 sep. 2022 · Uppdaterades senast 18 apr. 2023

Updated April 18, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Currently, users experience some frustration when using Office products because of all different routes that they must use to access all their content. The Quick Access feature will allow users to access shared libraries from both their SharePoint and Teams locations. When the user opens files from shared libraries, these libraries will show up in the form of a list which will encourage users to save and open files to these libraries with ease. This helps deliver a more consistent, coherent storage location experience across M365 apps. This new backstage experience won’t show up in Teams, SharePoint, or OneDrive but does include storage locations from OneDrive and Teams (sites/channels) which are stored on SharePoint.

Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out late April (previously early April) and expect to complete by late May (previously late April).

Standard Release: We will begin rolling out late June and expect to complete by late July.

 

Enhanced Capabilities for Managing Deleted and Expiring Teams from the Teams admin center MC542836 · Published 17 Apr 2023

Microsoft Teams Admin Center will be updated with new capabilities to manage deleted & expiring teams.

Rollout will begin in late April and is expected to be complete by mid-May.

 

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Microsoft Viva: Mobile SharePoint site navigation MC544390 · Publicerad 20 apr. 2023

We will be releasing a feature update that will allow Viva connections mobile users to browse and reach SharePoint sites by surfacing their hub and site navigation in Viva Connections.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 117527

We will begin rolling out early May and expect to complete by mid-May.

 

(Updated) New Admin Capabilities in Viva Goals MC467610 · Publicerad 16 nov. 2022 · Uppdaterades senast 20 apr. 2023

Updated April 20, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Integrations in Viva Goals help save time and energy by automatically updating your key results and projects through connections to other applications from Microsoft and third parties. These integrations allow data to flow from the connected applications into Viva Goals so that results and projects are up to date. As Viva Goals is continuing to grow support for more integrations, we will be adding new capabilities for global admins to manage Viva Goals integrations for all organizations in their tenant.

Rollout is expected to begin in late December and is expected to be completed by late April (previously mid-April).

 

Viva Goals: Changes to Members' Listing in Organization and Team Administration pages MC543873 · Publicerad 20 apr. 2023

As part of our continued efforts to improve customer experience in Viva Goals, we are bringing in a few changes to how members of organizations and teams are listed in the admin pages in Viva Goals.

In March 2023, we rolled out a feature that allowed Viva Goals team admins to add an AAD group as members to a team. As part of this feature, org admins can also add multiple groups as members to an organization. As groups can now be added as members of an organization/team, we will soon be launching an updated members listing page that will list both individuals and groups as members of an organization or team.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 117470

Standard Release: We will begin rolling out in mid-May 2023 and expect to complete rollout by late May 2023.

 

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