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Sunday, July 30, 2023

Friends of Microsoft Teams - Week 30 - 2023 (July 24 - July 30)

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 30 of 2023, July 24 – July 30.

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

 

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

Field Advisories:

 

Community:

 

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  • Teams :

 

Microsoft Teams: Shared Device License on Mobile App for Android MC662254 · Published Jul 28, 2023

We are pleased to announce that we will soon support the Microsoft Teams Shared Device license on the Teams Android mobile application. The Teams Shared Device license offers a shared identity-based , common area phone experience, including basic and advanced calling, people search, voicemail and walkie talkie.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 126706

Preview: Rollout will be complete by early August 2023.

Standard Release: Rollout will begin in late August 2023 and is expected to be complete by early September 2023.

GCC: Rollout will begin in late August 2023 and is expected to be complete by early September 2023.

 

(Updated) Video Closed Caption in PowerPoint Live MC513049 · Published Feb 9, 2023 · Last updated Jul 28, 2023

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

Closed captions will soon be supported for embedded videos in PowerPoint Live for Teams. Video closed captions in PowerPoint Live will be rolling out across Microsoft Teams Desktop and Web and will allow PowerPoint Live users to create accessible presentations that include video.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 114494

We will begin rolling out to PowerPoint Live users in early-March and expect to complete rollout by mid-March.

GCC, GCC-High and DoD: We have begun rolling out and will complete by late September 2023 (previously mid-July).

 

(Updated) Enable 2nd video stream for Teams Content Camera on Desktop feature MC642270 · Published Jul 14, 2023 · Last updated Jul 28, 2023

Updated July 28, 2023: We have updated the rollout timing below. Thank you for your patience.

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-October 2023 (previously mid-August).

 

(Updated) Meet App on Microsoft Teams MC660610 · Published Jul 25, 2023 · Last updated Jul 28, 2023

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

Microsoft Teams users will soon have a dedicated space to manage their meetings – “Meet”. The Meet app is a centralized hub for all meeting activity and content.

The feature is rolling out exclusively on the new Microsoft Teams across Desktop and Web, and will serve as the destination for pre, during and after meeting insights, content, and action items. With the Meet app, users can prepare for upcoming meetings, catch on something they missed, and find meeting content, agenda, notes, chats, and recaps – all in one place. 

Standard Release: We will begin rolling out in mid-October 2023 (previously mid-August) and expect to complete by mid-November 2023 (previously mid-September).

 

(Updated) Admin Policy for Collaborative Annotations MC579612 · Published Jun 9, 2023 · Last updated Jul 28, 2023

Updated July 28, 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.

This change is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID: 92502

We will begin rolling out in mid-August 2023 (previously mid-June) and expect to complete rollout by late August 2023 (previously late July).

 

Teams New Service Plan: Collaboration Security for Microsoft Teams MC661823 · Published Jul 28, 2023

Collaboration security capabilities for Microsoft Teams will be generally available for all users of Microsoft Defender for Office 365.

Your Microsoft Defender for Office 365 subscription is being updated with a new service plan: Collaboration security capabilities for Microsoft Teams will be made generally available for all users by late August 2023.

 

(Updated) Microsoft Teams Panels Update MC602596 · Published Jun 22, 2023 · Last updated Jul 28, 2023

Updated July 27, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

With this update, Teams Panels will support reserving a room using a QR code. This feature lets Microsoft Teams users book a room for meetings now, in the future, or add the room to an existing meeting by scanning a QR code on the scheduling panel and using the Teams app on their Android or iOS mobile phones.

All Teams Panels will have a QR code shown in the top left of the home screen. Panels users can either schedule a new meeting with the room pre-populated for them or easily see the room’s availability for their meetings and book the room with one click.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 129366

Rollout is expected to begin in late August 2023 (previously early August) and is expected to be complete by late September 2023 (previously early September).

 

Microsoft Teams: On-Demand Recording Feature in Webinars MC661825 · Published Jul 28, 2023

Organizers can soon publish the recording of their webinars and automatically send an update to their attendees, in which they will receive a link to watch the on-demand recording hosted on their event page.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 123052

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

 

(Updated) Visio Personal App in Teams MC509577 · Published Jan 31, 2023 · Last updated Jul 27, 2023

Updated July 27, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Visio will be available soon as a Teams Personal App. There are no changes to the existing file open behavior, however there are new abilities that the Visio Personal App can provide. Additionally, this change comes with a number of UX improvements to the Office ribbon in Teams to provide a decluttered experience consistent with Office for the Web.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 109596

Standard and GCC: this has completed.

GCC-High and DoD: will begin in early August 2023 and expect to complete by late August 2023.

 

Deploy new Microsoft Teams with Microsoft 365 apps MC661241 · Published Jul 27, 2023

Starting in September 2023, we will begin including new Microsoft Teams as part of the new and existing installations of Microsoft 365 apps for Windows depending on the schedule provided in this post. Currently, users can install the new Teams by using the Try the new Teams toggle switch in classic Teams or having administrators bulk deploy directly to the computers in their organization. Read MC533687 and MC617066 for details for earlier announcements for new Teams.

Administrators can exclude installing new Teams from their Microsoft 365 apps deployment if they don't wish to have new Teams included in the installation.

This announcement includes details about the upcoming changes for rolling out the new Teams desktop app with Microsoft 365 apps and details on managing opt-outs. This change is beginning currently for Microsoft 365 Apps for Windows.

We will begin by including the new Teams app as part of new and existing Microsoft 365 app installations on Windows depending on your office update channel and license Type. You will continue to have the classic Teams app included in the installation as well.

Administrators will be able to manage opt-out from this deployment if they do not wish to have new Teams included in the installation. More details in the section below.

 

Join third-party meetings from Teams MC661228 · Published Jul 26, 2023

When a third-party meeting is created from Outlook or OWA, participants of the meeting will now be able to Join the meeting directly from Microsoft Teams. The participants will see "Join" button on the Teams calendar events card and in the meeting details page. On clicking on the Join button, the link will route the users to the browser or the third-party application to join the meeting. This experience will be available on both mobile and desktop.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 138139

Preview: We will begin rolling out late August 2023 and expect to complete by early September 2023.

 

Channel meeting invitation | Allow organizer to send a channel meeting invite to everyone in team MC661224 · Published Jul 26, 2023

Channel meeting invitations will now allow channel meeting organizers the ability to share invites on personal calendars of all channel members.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 142405

Standard Release: We will begin rolling out in early August, expected completion by mid-August.

 

(Updated) Cloud Video Interop New Release Notes MC649045 · Published Jul 17, 2023 · Last updated Jul 25, 2023

Updated July 25, 2023: We have updated the content below to show as intended. Thank you for your patience.

Microsoft will soon begin publishing release notes for Cloud Video Interop (CVI).You can always get the latest from the public documentation for CVIpublic 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.

 

(Updated) Introducing "Microsoft Default" setting to Teams Tag Management Settings MC591878 · Published Jun 16, 2023 · Last updated Jul 25, 2023

We are introducing a Microsoft Default setting to Teams Tag Management settings in Teams Admin Center.

  • If you have already explicitly made a selection to your Tag Management settings your tenant will not be affected by this change.
  • If you have not made changes to Tag Management settings, Microsoft Default settings will apply for your tenant. Microsoft Default settings currently map to "Team Owners" value but is subject to change in the future.
  • As Admin, please set tag management settings to reflect tenant-level preference. Select “Team Owners” to keep tag management limited to Team Owners, or select “Team owners and members” to allow all team members to create and edit tags. 

In Teams client, users will still see the same options as they do today: "Team Owners" and "Team owners and members".

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 88318

Preview: We will begin rolling out late June 2023 and expect to complete by late July 2023 (previously mid-July).

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

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

 

Teams Auto-Install Approved Apps (AAA) Feature Update MC660072 · Published Jul 24, 2023

Microsoft Teams Auto-Install Approved Apps (AAA) uses activity from your users to install and surface apps that admins have already allowed for the tenant. An admin can enable AAA to help users naturally discover and use apps that are highly relevant to their needs within Microsoft Teams. Specifically, when a user signs into specific SaaS apps using Azure AD (e.g. in web browser), the app will be installed for that user on Teams.

This feature is Generally Available as OFF by default and can be turned ON by admins in Teams Admin Center.

This message is to inform about an update to the feature: when Adobe Acrobat is auto installed by AAA, users who received the auto install will also have their default PDF file handler in Teams changed to open attached PDF files with the Teams Adobe Acrobat app. This experience applies to both new and existing users who have Adobe Acrobat installed in Teams through AAA, as it has been described in the feature documentation. Users benefit from:

  • Discovering Adobe Acrobat easily in Teams without manually searching and installing it, since users are already using Adobe Acrobat outside of Teams.
  • Convenient access to the features they are using when opening a PDF file with Adobe Acrobat.

We will begin rolling out in late July 2023 and expect to complete rollout by early August 2023.

 

Microsoft Teams: Front Row AI (artificial intelligence) enhancements for Teams Rooms on Windows MC660071 · Published Jul 24, 2023

The latest version of Teams Rooms on Windows app 4.18 update includes Front Row AI enhancements including:

Front row gallery improvement – video segmentation with a unified background

Spatial audio on the front row  

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap IDs 95267 and 122554

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

 

  • Microsoft 365/Viva :

 

Update Search Experience for Viva Connections MC662248 · Published Jul 28, 2023

We are making some changes to the search experience in Viva Connections app to make it easier to search in Viva Connections.

Standard Release: Rollout will begin in early August and is expected to be complete by late September.

GCC: Rollout will begin in late September and is expected to be complete by early October.

GCCH: Rollout will begin in early October and is expected to be complete by late October.

 

(Updated) Update to the Free LinkedIn Courses Available in Viva Learning MC630310 · Published Jul 7, 2023 · Last updated Jul 28, 2023

Updated July 28, 2023: We have updated the rollout timing below. Thank you for your patience.

As part of the Viva Learning integration with LinkedIn, Microsoft provides free content in Viva Learning that can be accessed by any Viva Learning user without the need for a LinkedIn premium license. As part of this partnership, we are increasing the set of free courses to the Global Skilling Initiative catalog which consists of more than 300 courses. This will replace the existing catalog of 125 free LinkedIn courses available in Viva Learning.

You can find more details on the Global Skilling Initiative program here.

We will begin rollout in early July 2023 and expect rollout to be complete by late August 2023 (previously mid-July).

 

Microsoft Viva: Use of Viva Topics in Viva Engage Grants Visibility of Topic Names MC661222 · Published Jul 26, 2023

In January, we announced the General Availability of Viva Topics in Viva Engage (Yammer) to customers. As part of the Viva Engage topics transition to Viva Topics, posts in Viva Engage (conversations, questions, polls, announcements, storyline posts) will be considered as Viva Topic resources. As a result, all users with access to posts in Viva Engage will be able to see the topic names applied to those posts in Engage as well as in other Viva Topics experiences in Microsoft 365 (e.g., Topic cards and pages).

Migrating Viva Engage to use Viva Topics supports a consistent topics experience in Microsoft 365 and allows for community-sourced knowledge to be accessible across an organization. For organizations not using premium Viva Topics experiences, the use of topics in Viva Engage will appear the same before and after topic migration. For organizations using Viva Topics, you will gain the premium benefits, such as topic cards in Yammer (Viva Engage), Viva topic pages, and centralized topic management.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 148465

Rollout will begin in late August 2023 and will continue to roll out to all Viva Engage networks by late September 2023.

 

 

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