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Sunday, July 23, 2023

Friends of Microsoft Teams - Week 29 - 2023 (July 17 - July 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 29 of 2023, July 17 – July 23.

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 :

 

Opportunity to roll back Teams Live Events to temporarily enable Attendee Guest Web join MC653737 · Published Jul 21, 2023

Recently, we rolled out a change to the Teams Live Events attendee experience which did not allow Guest users to join as an attendee on the Web. This change came about as an update to improve the attendee experience and to support the new RTMP-In experience for Teams Live Events.

To better transition to the new Teams Live Events Experience, we are offering customers the opportunity to roll back the new Teams Live Events version to an earlier version to allow Guest users to join the Teams Live Event as an attendee on the web; however, if you do choose this option, you will lose several new teams live events capabilities for your entire tenant including the following:

Multi-window experience for attendees

Video on Demand (VOD) for Teams Encoder Events

We recommend only choosing this rollback option if attendee Guest joins on Web in a Teams Live Event is important to your organization.

We will support this rollback until the end of June 2024. Please note that Stream external encoder support, otherwise known as RTMP-In, will be deprecated in the future. This is important if your organization is dependent on Stream or the later version of Teams Live Events to support external encoder events or external encoder VOD scenarios. Please refer to Roadmap ID 84960 and MC513601 for more information.

You may request this rollback effective immediately. Once a request is received, it will take approximately 5-10 business days for the changes to be reflected in your tenant.

 

Reminder: Microsoft Defender for Office Empowers End Users to Report Suspicious Messages in Microsoft Teams MC650414 · Published Jul 20, 2023

This is a follow up of Message Center post - MC567478 and MC611677

The ability for Microsoft Teams users to report internal chats, channels and meeting conversations within Teams as a security risk will be turned ON by default. Security risk messages could include ones that contain phishing or spam or malicious content, such as phishing URL or malware file, spam content. To learn how end users can report, please visit: user reported message settings in Microsoft Teams.

NOTE: This only applies to Microsoft for Defender Plan 2 customers or Microsoft E5/ Office E5 customers.

This change began going into effect in mid-July 2023 and will be completed for all tenants by late July 2023, if the tenant hasn't opted out.

 

(Updated) Upgrade to Microsoft Defender for Endpoints Plan 2 for Teams Rooms Pro customers MC557824 · Published May 19, 2023 · Last updated Jul 20, 2023

Updated July 20, 2023: We have updated the content to show as intended. Thank you for your patience.

The latest version of Teams Rooms on Windows, 10.0.19044.2846, includes an upgrade to Microsoft Defender for Endpoints Plan 2 for Teams Rooms Pro customers.

Standard release will begin June 1.

GCC and GCC-High: rollout will begin late July 2023 (previously early July).

 

(Updated) Quick Access Teams and Sharepoint Document Libraries in win32 backstage MC432475 · Published Sep 16, 2022 · Last updated Jul 20, 2023

Updated July 20, 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 June 2023 (previously late April) and expect to complete by late July 2023 (previously late May).

Standard Release: We will begin rolling out late July 2023 (previously mid-July) and expect to complete by early September 2023 (previously mid-August).

 

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Intelligent Meeting Recap (Premium) MC537956 · Published Apr 6, 2023 · Last updated Jul 20, 2023

Updated July 20, 2023: We have content with additional information. 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 mid-June (previously late May).

 

Multi-Stream IntelliFrame for Teams Rooms on Windows Cameras MC649941 · Published Jul 19, 2023

IntelliFrame enables multi-stream video, face recognition of in-room participants, active speaker recognition, attributed voice-based transcription, and panoramic video on Front-of-room (180-degree view) and Center-of-room (360-degree view) cameras, taking Teams Rooms on Windows cameras to the next level of intelligence. IntelliFrame is available only with the Microsoft Teams Rooms Pro license.

The Teams Rooms on Windows app update (version 4.18) will include Hybrid meeting enhancements via the IntelliFrame camera technology including:

  • Multi-frame IntelliFrame
  • Conference room attendee “Recognition”
  • Active Speaker
  • Room View

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 133727

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

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

 

Microsoft Teams: 1000 Channels per Team MC649926 · Published Jul 19, 2023

Microsoft Teams channel limits are soon increasing to 1000 channels per team. Users will be able to create any combination of standard and shared channels, plus up to 30 private channels, for a total of 1000 per team, allowing for even more collaboration and organization within your team.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 127496

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

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

GCCH and DoD: We will begin rolling out in mid-September and expect to complete rollout by late September.

 

Microsoft Teams: Stream Preview and Playback in Teams Chat and Channels MC649917 · Published Jul 19, 2023

Users can preview and play Stream videos directly in Teams Chat and Channel without having to open them in a browser and going to Stream.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 127596

We will begin rolling out in late July and is expect to complete rollout by late August.

 

(Updated) PDF Tools app retirement MC584834 · Published Jun 12, 2023 · Last updated Jul 18, 2023

Updated July 18, 2023: We have updated the timing of this change below. Thank you for your patience.

We will be retiring the PDF Tools app from Teams, Office and Outlook store by late July, 2023.

Please note that this doesn't take away the ability to open PDFs on Teams, Outlook and other existing apps or convert to PDFs on the Word, Excel or PowerPoint apps. No use case outside of the app's usage will be impacted by this change.

Late July, 2023

 

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: App Suggestions by Task in In-Context Stores MC561700 · Published May 26, 2023

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

Users think about which tasks they need to complete, such as creating a survey, inside Microsoft Teams. Soon, app suggestions will be organized by tasks that the apps support as opposed to conventional categories (productivity, project management). As a result, the new categorization will reduce the amount of time users need to spend learning about these apps – helping them to work more effectively.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 122527

GA: Rollout will begin in late July 2023 (previously early June) and is expected to be complete by early August 2023 (previously mid-June).

GCC: Rollout will begin in early August 2023 (previously mid-June) and is expected to be complete by late August 2023 (previously late June).

GCCH: Rollout will begin in early August 2023 (previously mid-July) and is expected to be complete by late August 2023 (previously late July).

 

(Updated) Collaborative Meeting Notes MC538385 · Published Apr 6, 2023 · Last updated Jul 18, 2023

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

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 May (previously late April) and expect to complete by early June (previously mid-May).   

Standard Release: We will begin rolling out mid-June (previously late May) and expect to complete by early August 2023 (previously mid-July).

 

Call delegation feature enhancements MC649047 · Published Jul 17, 2023

Delivering a more tailored experience for delegates and delegators with a refreshed, simplified UI in the Calls app, and the ability for delegates and delegators to join active calls, if permitted.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 123753

Standard Release: We will begin rolling out mid-August and expect to complete by late September for Teams Desktop and Teams Phone devices.

 

Cloud Video Interop New Release Notes MC649045 · Published Jul 17, 2023

Microsoft will soon begin publishing release notes for Cloud Video Interop (CVI).

You can always get the latest from the public documentation for CVI.

The first release notes will appear no later than late July and will be updated when new features for Cloud Video Interop are released by Microsoft and by certified CVI partners.

 

  • Microsoft 365/Viva :

 

Date picker during a check-in MC653733 · Published Jul 21, 2023

We have made some changes to date picker during check-ins.

Standard Release: We will begin rolling this out in mid-July and will complete rolling out in mid-August.

 

Viva Suite app: Viva Pulse – Enabling Notifications MC649478 · Published Jul 18, 2023

Viva Pulse is a new employee feedback experience that is available for use with your Viva Suite subscription. Viva Pulse empowers managers and project team leaders to request and receive feedback from their teams at any time. Managers and project leads can choose from research-based templates to quickly create a survey and send it to select individuals or groups. They can also track feedback to understand team sentiment over time and show teams they’re being heard by working together to take clear steps to address needs.

With the upcoming release of Viva Pulse (MC613509 June '23), we want to provide some additional information on steps to enable notifications.

What you need to do to get your organization ready - Enable Notifications

Viva Pulse leverages email to deliver notifications. As an admin, you need to execute a script in PowerShell for these notifications to appear. After the script is executed successfully, users will receive email notifications when a feedback author requests a Pulse, when feedback providers are reminded to respond, when a feedback author is notified their Pulse request has closed, and when a feedback author shares a Pulse report.

Enable email notifications for your tenant and ensure you have PowerShell installed:

  1. Connect to the target tenant in PowerShell: Connect-AzureAD - TenantId "TENANT-ID"
  2. When prompted, login as the Tenant Admin / Global Admin for the tenant.
  3. Create the service principle: New-AzureADServicePrincipal-AppId "56233257-15ee-4d3d-bdcd-9aa975244e4c" -DisplayName "Viva Pulse"
  4. Validate that the service principle is created: Get-AzureADServicePrincipal -ObjectId <objectID> where objectId = what you get back after running step (2) OR Get-AzureADServicePrincipal And find Viva Pulse in the list returned

Note that if email notifications are not enabled by running this script, feedback authors may not receive enough responses to their Pulses to review their team’s feedback and notifications increase the likelihood that more responses are generated.

To learn more, please visit: Enable notifications for your organization.

All other configurations are optional. To learn more about how to configure Viva Pulse for your organization, please visit: Set up the in-app Viva Pulse experience | Microsoft Learn

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Viva Goals: Date Picker in Check-in Modal to Show UTC Timezone MC649376 · Published Jul 18, 2023
Previously in Viva goals, when making a check-in, the user could update the date of check-in from the check-in modal, which was based on the user's local time zone. Users in different time zones saw the date of check-in and its representation on the progress graph differently, computation of progress and status also became a challenge.
We are unifying the date picker to have the UTC date picker, which means that any Viva goals user making a check-in from any time zone will always see the same date and its representation on the progress graph will be consistent.
Rollout will begin in late July and is expected to be complete by late August.

 

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