Kressmark Unified Communications: Friends of Microsoft Teams - Week 28 - 2023 (July 10

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 28 of 2023, July 10 – July 16.

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People Recognition in Teams Rooms on Windows via Face Enrollment on the Desktop MC644077 · Published Jul 15, 2023

Microsoft Teams users can take advantage of people recognition in Teams Rooms on Windows. The desktop client offers enrollment to enable face recognition and video labels for the active speaker in the gallery and participant roster. This feature is available for Microsoft Teams Rooms Pro license customers. Admins will need to set Teams policies to enable the feature.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 133737

Preview is now available.

Standard Release: We will begin rollout the first week of August and complete by end of August.

GCC: We will begin rollout in mid-August and expect to complete rollout by late August.

Teams Cross Cloud Guest Access Public Preview MC644068 · Published Jul 15, 2023

Cross Cloud Guest Access (CCGA) extends existing Guest Access functionality allowing a user to participate in rich collaboration experiences in teams, channels, documents and Teams meetings between tenants across Microsoft clouds. Guests are able to participate in a full collaboration experience including audio/video, screen share, file share and both 1:1 and 1: many chats. These features are enabled through the Azure Active Directory B2B feature and the newly released Cross Tenant Access Settings. When combined tenants can enable trusts between tenants and between Microsoft clouds.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 145459.

Preview: This rollout is currently underway and is expected to complete by late July.

Teams Cross Cloud Authenticated Meetings MC644065 · Published Jul 14, 2023

Cross-cloud authenticated meeting join (CCM) delivers the ability for a Teams user to join a meeting hosted in another cloud while signed into their account in their home tenant. This feature provides the meeting host the ability to validate the identities of meeting participants without granting those participants any access to the host tenant.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 145460.

Preview: This rollout is currently underway and is expected to complete by late July.

Insight Report in Teams Rooms Pro Management MC644057 · Published Jul 14, 2023

We are pleased to announce that the Insight Report will be available in the Microsoft Teams Rooms Pro Management portal starting August 1, 2023. This report provides a detailed overview of all the activities completed by the service during a specific time range, including the types of actions performed such as detections, remediation, and updates. The report also highlights the value the service provides by keeping your rooms well maintained and shows estimates of the number of hours and money saved by taking prompt actions to resolves issues with the value calculator.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 122571

This feature will be available August 1, 2023, for commercial and GCC Teams Rooms Pro license customers.

Enable 2nd video stream for Teams Content Camera on Desktop feature MC642270 · Published Jul 14, 2023

Users will be able to enable a second video stream to support both their Personal Video and Teams Content Camera on Desktop.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 118580

Standard Release: Rollout has begun and expect to complete by mid-August.

Cloud IntelliFrame: A New Way to See People in Teams Rooms MC642265 · Published Jul 14, 2023

Cloud IntelliFrame is a new experience that allows online meeting attendees to see people in Teams Rooms more clearly, enhancing the hybrid meeting experience by creating smart video feeds of in-room participants. The smart video feed is created by zooming into their faces and eliminating distractions. You can see the expressions and gestures of the people in the room more easily, which will help improve collaboration in hybrid meetings. It creates equity in hybrid meetings as everyone can be seen and heard.

Cloud IntelliFrame will be rolling out across Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows with Pro license and can be viewed on Microsoft Teams Desktop (Windows & Mac) with any license.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 130219.

Standard Release: We will begin rolling out to commercial tenants in mid-August and expect to complete rollout by early September.

GCC and GCCH will begin rollout by mid-August.

This experience is not available for DoD.

(Updated) Admin Policy for Collaborative Annotations MC579612 · Published Jun 9, 2023 · Last updated Jul 14, 2023

Updated July 13, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

With privacy and security restrictions, we have implemented a user-level IT admin policy for admins to choose whether some or all users in the company can use Collaborative Annotations. Currently, there is a way to turn Annotations ON or OFF through cmdlet Set-SPOTenant-IsWBFluidEnabled, this will also influence Whiteboard.

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

(Updated) Graph API for Teams Meetings Transcripts MC400569 · Published Jul 14, 2022 · Last updated Jul 13, 2023

Updated July 13, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

New org-wide application permissions and RSC application permissions have been introduced to make sure that apps can access meeting transcripts for a specific meeting. Resource specific consent (RSC) permissions, specifically enables admins to authorize users to provide consent to apps, so they get specific access to a Teams meeting’s transcripts to which it is installed to, rather than providing them access across the entire tenant.

This message is specifically associated with post-meeting transcripts access for apps - Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID: 95788 that allows authorized apps to access Teams Meetings transcripts once the meeting is over.

We will begin rolling this out in mid-August (previously mid-June) and expect to complete early September.

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: New Channels Experience MC550081 · Published May 3, 2023 · Last updated Jul 13, 2023

Updated July 13, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

A new channels experience in Microsoft Teams has been built with an intuitive design that allows teams to focus and stay on tasks, bring everyone up to speed, and actively engage in real-time. The following features will be rolling out:

The compose box and recent posts will appear at the top of the page. It'll now be much easier to start a new post, keep up with the latest conversations and participate - giving users the confidence that they’ve not missed anything.
Every post is now a true conversation that users can focus on. Users can navigate to a conversation view that makes the discussion more engaging and synchronous, just like a chat. Users can also pop out the post, keep an eye on the discussion, while continuing to work on other topics.
A streamlined information pane will include all the important contextual information like channel’s members and pinned posts so new team members can quickly on-board and for all members to find the information they need, right in the channel.
Pin posts to make it easy for everyone to know what’s important in the channel and quickly reference it.
Simplified badging is making it easier for users to understand when there are new unread activities in teams. In addition, the simplified design helps users focus on the specific channels which requires the most attention, like channels in which the user was @mentioned.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 91683

Targeted Release: Started rolling out in May and is expected to complete in early July.

Standard and GCC: We will begin rollout in early August (previously late July) and expect to complete rollout by mid-August (previously early August).

GCC-H and DoD: We will begin rollout in mid-August (previously early August) and expect to complete rollout by mid-September (previously late August.

(Updated) New Graph APIs for accessing Teams Meeting Recording MC600733 · Published Jun 21, 2023 · Last updated Jul 13, 2023

Updated July 13, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

New org-wide application permissions and RSC application permissions have been introduced to allow apps to access meeting recordings for a specific meeting. Resource specific consent (RSC) permissions, specifically enables admins to authorize users to provide consent to apps, so they get specific access to a Teams meeting’s recordings to which it is installed to, rather than providing them access across the entire tenant.

This message is specifically associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 95787

Graph Beta We will begin rolling out in late July (previously early July) and expect to complete by early August (previously mid-July).

Standard Release: We will begin rollout in late August and expect to complete by mid-September.

(Updated) Microsoft Teams for Mobile: Chat Details Update MC537952 · Published Apr 6, 2023 · Last updated Jul 13, 2023

Updated July 13, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

We are updating the chat details experience for Teams Mobile Group Chats, One on One Chats, and Self Chats.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID: 114938

Targeted Release and Preview: We will begin rolling out in late July (previously mid-June) and expect to complete rollout by early August (previously late June).

Standard Release: We will begin rolling out in early August (previously late June) and expect to complete rollout by early September (previously early July).

GCC, GCC-H, DoD: We will begin rolling out in early September (previously early July) and expect to complete rollout by late September (previously late July).

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Updating the Bookings app to the Virtual Appointments app MC560731 · Published May 24, 2023 · Last updated Jul 12, 2023

Updated July 12, 2023: We have updated the content below with additional information. Thank you for your patience..

Bookings is supported across multiple entry points spanning Web, Teams and Outlook, however there is lack of parity in the feature set across these entry points leading to an inconsistent user experience. This fragmented experience has resulted in high DSAT for customers that has provided feedback to Microsoft to unify and provide feature parity in Bookings across all entry points.

The Bookings experience in Teams will soon be updated to match the web version on https://book.ms, ensuring consistent features across all endpoints. However, certain features like Forms, Queuing & scheduler-initiated SMS reminders for appointments will be available only on the new Virtual Appointments app on Teams.

With the Virtual Appointments app, we are introducing an end-to-end B2C meetings solution that leverages Bookings as the scheduling engine and includes advanced meetings features such as real time meeting state update, chat with attendees in waiting room lobby via Queue view, rich analytics to shows virtual appointment usage trends to drive business outcomes such as no-shows.

With this change, the updated Bookings Teams app will have feature parity and consistent user experience as Bookings web app. Virtual Appointments app will be a superset of the current Bookings Teams app experience embedded within the new app and will include advanced virtual appointments features.

This feature is associated with Microsoft Roadmap ID 120420

Rollout will begin in mid-July (previously late June) and is expected to be complete by late July (previously early July).

Microsoft Teams: Pin / Favorite Channels on Teams Walkie Talkie MC638138 · Published Jul 12, 2023

Teams Walkie is enabling users to pin/favorite up to five channels on the Microsoft Teams Walkie Talkie Home Page. Users can easily switch in between the favorited channels with a single tap going forward.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 99943

Preview: We will begin rolling out in mid-July and expect to complete rollout by early August.

Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out in mid-July and expect to complete rollout by early August.

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

Limiting public webinar attendee joins to three concurrent devices MC638135 · Published Jul 12, 2023

Currently in public webinars, an attendee can use their registration link to join and be present in a webinar with any number of devices. For public webinars, there is also a possibility for that attendee to forward their registration link to others who have not registered and have them join with the registered attendee’s join link. With this new update, only 3 concurrent join instances can be present in a webinar using the same registration join link. This means that attendees can now use only up to three devices to participate in a webinar.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 147098.

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

Microsoft Teams: Capture Request to Use Shared Channels for External Collaboration MC635987 · Published Jul 11, 2023

Microsoft Teams admins will soon be able to capture and redirect requests for external collaboration in shared channels. This update of Microsoft Teams will be rolling out on Teams admin center, Microsoft Teams Desktop and Web, and will provide a way for organizations to capture and redirect requests for external collaboration when users attempt to add an external member to a shared channel where B2B direct connect cross-tenant trust has not been mutually configured between the two organizations.

We will begin rollout to commercial tenants in early August and expect to complete rollout by mid-August.

Dynamic Emergency Calling on Teams Web MC635983 · Published Jul 11, 2023

We will be enabling Dynamic Emergency calling support for Teams Web. This will allow users to manually add an address on the web client before dialing the 911 call. Since this is critical functionality, we will be releasing this functionality as soon as possible.

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

Gov. Clouds: We will begin rolling out in August.

Microsoft 365/Viva :

(Updated) Microsoft Viva: Auto-Categorization Coming to Meeting Category Insights in Viva Insights MC546939 · Published Apr 26, 2023 · Last updated Jul 13, 2023

Updated July 13, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Meeting category insights in the Viva Insights app helps Viva Insights licensed users understand how they are allocating their time across meeting categories. Today, the feature uses the categories manually assigned by users in Outlook and Teams. In an upcoming update, meeting category insights will begin automatically categorizing meetings for users based on meeting size, cadence, and number of people in the meetings. Categories include:

Long meetings – More than 1 hour long and 0-8 invitees
Large meetings – At least 9 invitees and at most 1 hour long
Large and long meetings – At least 9 invitees and more than 1 hour long
Recurring meetings – Meeting series with multiple instances
1:1 meetings – Include 1 other participant

These categories can help users identify meetings that are expensive in terms of time spent, participants included, or both. Using these insights, users can assess whether meetings that fall under this category are a valuable use of time and resources as a step towards doing more with less.

Categorizations will show up in Viva Insights only and will not reflect in Outlook or Teams calendar.

With this update, users who are not currently categorizing in Outlook or Teams will be able to access meeting category insights and begin developing an understanding of how their meeting time is being spent. Users who are already categorizing will receive additional insights about their meeting time allocation according to well-known meeting attributes.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 117396

We will begin rolling out in mid-August (previously early July) and complete rollout by mid-September (previously late July).

(Updated) New Viva Connections Analytics Experience Coming Soon MC598641 · Published Jun 20, 2023 · Last updated Jul 13, 2023

Updated July 13, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

We are pleased to announce the next set of features for Viva Connections usage analytics. The analytics experience now includes a full page dashboard view that will help organizations better understand user engagement by being able to visualize the metrics. The analytics dashboard will be available through both the Viva Connections desktop experience in Teams and through a SharePoint home site if your organization has one. Additionally, this release also includes engagement metrics for individual dashboard cards which will enable a more in-depth view of popular cards and those with less engagement.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 124918

Rollout will begin in mid-July (previously late June) and is expected to be complete by late July (previously mid-July).

Feature Access Management in Viva Learning for Admin features MC640227 · Published Jul 13, 2023

We are introducing feature access management in Viva Learning for admin features. Global Admin and Knowledge Admin can delegate admin feature access to non-admin users via M365 groups.

Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out mid-July to existing Viva Learning EAP customers.

Standard Release: We will begin rolling out late July.

Planned Maintenance: Viva Goals MC638123 · Published Jul 12, 2023

We have maintenance planned for Viva Goals:

Starting July 13, 2023 5:30 UTC.

Ending July 13, 2023 6:00 UTC.

Lightweight management of manually created topics outside the Viva Topics license MC635992 · Published Jul 11, 2023

Viva Topics provides a central knowledge base for manually created topics and definitions inside apps like Viva Engage. These topics don't use Viva Topics' AI, topic cards, or pages, but can be selected to classify conversations and posts in Viva Engage.

With this release, we are providing a way for Viva Engage admins to edit, create, and delete these "simple" topics without Viva licensing as a way to make knowledge management more accessible to more users. Please visit the 'Manage topics' page via the URL below:

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 118672.

Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out early July and expect to complete by mid-July 2023.

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

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