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Monday, September 4, 2023

Friends of Microsoft Teams - Week 35 - 2023 (August 28 - September 3)

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 35 of 2023, August 28 – September 3.

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

Announcement:

This does not apply to all of you, but if you are getting your Teams Phone service through Direct Routing - please keep on reading.

On September 5th, Microsoft will perform a 24-hour test where all Direct Routing endpoints will switch to a new Certificate Authority. If your Session Border Controller does not trust the "DigiCert Global Root G2" Certificate Authority, you might not be able to connect to Teams SIP endpoints. There is a test you can perform right now to confirm that it is all working ahead of September 5th. For more information, please see the links below.

 

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

Field Advisories:

Community:

 

M365 Message Center :

 

 

  • Teams :

 

Teams Meeting Add-in in Outlook Support for Multi-Tenant Multi-Account Scenarios MC672757 · Published Sep 1, 2023

In parallel with the new Teams client supporting multi-tenant multi-account scenarios, Teams meeting add-in in Outlook will also start supporting the ability for users to switch between multiple tenants and accounts to schedule Teams meetings.

This feature is available.

 

Teams Cross Cloud Authenticated Meetings General Availability MC672752 · Published Sep 1, 2023

Teams 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.

Standard Release: This feature will be available in late September 2023.

 

Preview the new Microsoft Teams on Mac MC672547 · Published Sep 1, 2023

We’re rolling out the preview of the new Microsoft Teams desktop app for Mac to our users in the Public preview and Targeted release programs. Read MC533687 that we announced in March 2023 to learn about the benefits of new Teams for Windows.

The new app is built on a foundation of speed, performance, and flexibility, saving you time and helping your organization work together more efficiently. The new Teams app enables users that manage multiple work or school accounts to collaborate more effectively across organizational boundaries. You can seamlessly engage with users across multiple accounts and organizations without having to drop out of a call or meeting, ensuring no disruption to your workflow. With multi-tenant organization (MTO), users in organizations that manage employees across multiple tenants will have the ability to search for coworkers in another tenant, have single chat thread with other users, receive real-time notifications, join meetings, and calls in another tenant, and multitask from their home tenant.

This change is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID: 122540

We will begin rolling this out in early September 2023

 

Teams Cross Cloud Guest Access General Availability MC672521 · Published Aug 31, 2023

Teams 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.

Standard Release: This feature will be available in late September 2023.

 

Avatars: Hardware Requirements and Service Plan Update MC672518 · Published Aug 31, 2023 · Last updated Aug 31, 2023

You will soon see a new service plan associated with your Microsoft 365 or Office 365 license: Avatars for Teams (MESH_AVATARS_FOR_TEAMS).

Avatars for Teams app is also updating the minimum hardware requirements to access this feature. The new minimum specified hardware requirement is a two core CPU with 6gb RAM. Users will not be able to utilize this feature if it does not meet the minimum hardware spec. This change is due to be able to provide users with a better Avatars for Teams experience.

Rollout for the service plan will begin in late September and is expected to be complete by October. Rollout for the hardware requirements is expected to be complete by end of September.

 

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Explicit Recording Consent for Teams Meetings MC523053 · Published Mar 3, 2023 · Last updated Aug 30, 2023

Updated August 30, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

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. - Complete

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

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

 

(Updated) Microsoft Teams Panels Update MC602596 · Published Jun 22, 2023 · Last updated Aug 30, 2023

Updated August 30, 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).

 

(Updated) Microsoft Teams for Mobile: Chat Details Update MC537952 · Published Apr 6, 2023 · Last updated Aug 30, 2023

Updated August 30, 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 late September 2023 (previously early September).

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) Viva Topics app in Teams MC546937 · Published Apr 26, 2023 · Last updated Aug 30, 2023

Updated August 30, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

The official Viva Topics app in Teams is rolling out to external customers.

Previously, we had built a Topics app for Teams as a script that Teams admins could upload. Now, the Topics app is available as a first party "Microsoft-built" app. This means the app is available in the app store for your tenant already, no upload or script-downloading required. Users in your tenant can either easily 'add' the app, like other Microsoft-built or Viva apps, or the Teams admins can select to have the Topics app pre-installed for users.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 118592

Preview: We will begin rolling out late April and expect to complete by late April.

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

 

(Updated) Avatars: Hardware Requirements and Service Plan Update MC669477 · Published Aug 21, 2023 · Last updated Aug 30, 2023

Updated August 30, 2023: We have identified that this message did not reach the intended audience. We apologize for any inconvenience and will be providing a new message, to the correct audience, shortly. You can safely disregard this message.

You will soon see a new service plan associated with your Microsoft 365 or Office 365 license: Avatars for Teams (MESH_AVATARS_FOR_TEAMS).

Avatars for Teams app is also updating the minimum hardware requirements to access this feature. The new minimum specified hardware requirement is a two core CPU with 6gb RAM. Users will not be able to utilize this feature if it does not meet the minimum hardware spec. This change is due to be able to provide users with a better Avatars for Teams experience.

Rollout for the service plan will begin in late August and is expected to be complete by September. Rollout for the hardware requirements is expected to be complete by end of September.

 

(Updated) Admin Policy for Collaborative Annotations MC579612 · Published Jun 9, 2023 · Last updated Aug 30, 2023

Updated August 30, 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 early August 2023 and expect to complete rollout by late August 2023.

 

Power Automate app changing name to "Workflows" within Microsoft Teams MC671824 · Published Aug 29, 2023

To provide a unified workflow experience within Microsoft Teams we will be merging the existing Workflows app with the Power Automate app. With this merger the Power Automate app will be changing its name to "Workflows".

There will be no change to user experience within the app. Users will still be able to manage all their flows within the app along with browsing workflow templates or creating a new flow from scratch. Whether you have existing workflows in the Power Automate app or the Workflows app your workflows will persist in the new unified app. Users will still be able to configure new workflows through the various app entry points (tab, bot, message extension, message action, personal app).

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 131294

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

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

GCC Release: We will begin rolling out early November and expect to complete by early November 2023.

 

  • Microsoft 365/Viva :

 

Microsoft Viva: Topic Page Improvements MC672756 · Published Sep 1, 2023

We are introducing new improvements in Microsoft Viva to prevent locking of pages on session abandonment. This adjustment not only addresses inadvertent locking, but also ensures consistency between topic pages and card experiences through proactive page check-ins and showing the latest published version to viewers on topic pages.

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

 

New Campaign Features in Viva Engage MC672528 · Published Aug 31, 2023

We are soon rolling out two new features to Campaigns in Viva Engage: Campaign sashes and campaign co-organizers.

Users will have the capability to include a campaign sash in their storyline cover photo and avatar sash. Additionally, campaign managers (administrators and corporate communicators) will possess the ability to appoint co-organizers for their campaigns.

This message is associated with Microsoft Roadmap ID 167212

The Campaign sash feature will begin rollout in late August 2023 and is expected to be complete by early September 2023.

The Campaign co-organizers feature will begin rollout in mid-September 2023 and is expected to be complete by late September 2023.

 

Viva Insights Updated Homepage for Organizational Leaders MC672159 · Published Aug 31, 2023

Organizational leaders will soon see a refreshed Viva Insights homepage with content tailored to them. This update will only apply to organizational leaders who have already been assigned the Group Manager or Insights Business Leader role in Viva Insights (details can be found here). This updated content will include more emphasis on leader-specific metrics, actions, and articles. Additionally, leaders can access filters on the homepage to toggle between teams, time periods, and benchmarks. The updated homepage will reflect in the existing Viva Insights app in Teams as well as Viva Insights web app.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 163971

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

 

REMINDER: Upcoming Changes to Customization Controls in Viva Pulse In-App Experience MC671812 · Published Aug 29, 2023

Currently, there are two customization controls in the Viva Pulse In-App Admin Experience. The ‘Stock Questions’ control allows employees to edit stock questions. The ‘New questions’ control allows employees to create their own questions. In the upcoming release, we will be merging the two controls into one customization control.

This one control, when turned ON, will allow employees to edit stock questions and add their own questions in the Pulse survey. All customization capabilities will be turned ON when this control is ON, and all customization capabilities will be turned OFF when this control is OFF. 

Rollout will begin in mid-September 2023 and is expected to be fully rolled out by late September 2023.

 

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