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Sunday, January 14, 2024

Friends of Microsoft Teams - Week 2 - 2024 (January 8 - January 14)

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 2 of 2024, January 8 - January 14.

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

 

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  • Teams :

 

Meeting "Recording and Transcription" tab will be replaced by "Recap" tab MC704958 · Published Jan 8, 2024

Now, the “Recap” tab for scheduled meetings will include access to the recording and transcript. For meetings that have a “Recap” tab, the previous “Recording and Transcription” tab will be removed since the “Recap” tab will replace it. For meetings that don’t have a “Recap” tab, users can continue to access the recording and transcript from the “Recording and Transcription” tab.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 181918

Targeted release: We will begin rolling out early February 2024 and expect to complete by early February 2024.

Standard Release: We will begin rolling out late February 2024 and expect to complete by early March 2024.

 

(Updated) Immersive spaces available for General Availability MC700933 · Published Dec 22, 2023 · Last updated Jan 12, 2024

Updated January 12, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

We are making building relationships easier by bringing the power of Mesh into the place where people work every day—Microsoft Teams. With just one click, you can now easily transform your virtual meeting into a fun 3D experience with immersive spaces in Microsoft Teams.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 161720

Preview: This rolled out in October 2023.

We will begin rolling out in late January 2024 and will be completed by late February 2024.

 

(Updated) Announcing External Access Analytics for Microsoft Teams MC698123 · Published Dec 14, 2023 · Last updated Jan 12, 2024

Updated January 12, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

We are excited to announce that we are rolling out a new report in the Teams Admin Center that will provide basic analytics for external access. This report will allow admins to view information about external access.

The external access analytics report will be available soon in the Teams Admin Center under Analytics & reports > Usage reports. We hope that this report will provide admins with more visibility and control over external access in their tenant and enable them to make informed decisions about cross-tenant collaboration.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 370565

Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out late January 2024 and expect to complete by mid-February 2024.

Standard Release: We will begin rolling out mid-February 2024 and expect to complete by late February 2024.

 

(Updated) Audio and video flyout and settings in Teams meetings MC699715 · Published Dec 19, 2023 · Last updated Jan 12, 2024

Updated January 12, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Audio and Video flyouts in Teams enable users to efficiently manage their audio and video settings during meetings. These features are easily accessible, allowing users to control their devices and adjust key audio and video features quickly and effortlessly, without needing to navigate through multiple layers of settings.

Users can access this feature in 3 ways:

  • During a meeting, you can access the audio flyout and video flyout by clicking the split button with a downward arrow right next to 'camera' and 'microphone' in the meeting toolbar.
  • From both the audio and video flyouts, you can access audio settings and video settings, which open as panels on the right side of the calling window. You can access these settings by clicking 'more video options' and 'more audio options' at the bottom of the flyout to open the side panel.
  • Users can also access 'audio settings' and 'video effects and settings' by clicking the 'more' menu in the meeting toolbar:
    • Audio settings: “More” menu > Audio settings
    • Video effects and settings: “More” menu > “Video effects and settings”

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 187098

Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out late January 2024 and expect to complete by mid-February 2024.

Standard Release: We will begin rolling out mid-February 2024 and expect to complete by late February 2024.

 

(Updated) Microsoft Teams - Configure Maintenance window on Teams admin center for Android-based Teams devices MC695747 · Published Dec 6, 2023 · Last updated Jan 12, 2024

Updated January 12, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

With this feature, Teams device administrators will be able to configure maintenance windows for their Android-based Teams devices. This includes Teams Phones, Displays, Panels, and Teams Rooms on Android. This maintenance window will be used to carry out any automatic operation on the device including automatic updates.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 163600

Standard Release: We will begin rolling out in late January 2024 (previously early January) and complete the rollout by late February 2024 (previously late January).

 

(Updated) New Shared display mode for BYOD meeting rooms MC690920 · Published Nov 17, 2023 · Last updated Jan 12, 2024

Updated January 12, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

The new Shared display mode provides users the ability to extend their Teams meeting via a pop-out view-only version of the stage onto the TV screen in BYOD meeting rooms. This mode ensures the meeting content is always extended to the front of the room for others to see. This gives the host of the room the peace of mind their desktop is for their viewing only, giving them the flexibility to multi-task or work privately on their host desktop.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 184363

Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out late January 2024 and expect to complete by late February 2024.

Standard Release: We will begin rolling out late February 2024 and expect to complete by early March 2024.

 

(Updated) Specific People Link Support for Collaborative Notes MC694130 · Published Nov 29, 2023 · Last updated Jan 12, 2024

Updated January 12, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

With the launch of Collaborative Notes, we’re also improving the shareable link type that is created by Collaborative Notes to help make meetings more effective and secure. The new Collaborative Notes file will now support a Specific people link which offers more controlled access than People in your organization link. This change will automatically align the Collaborative Notes file link type with customer's default setup. Customers who previously had Collaborative Notes disabled due to lack of People in your organization link support can now enable and use the feature.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 167328

Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out late January 2024 and expect to complete rollout by late February 2024.

Standard Release: We will begin rolling out late February 2024 and expect to complete rollout by late March 2024.

 

(Updated) Tasks in my area or department (a mobile Planner in Teams feature) MC695495 · Published Dec 4, 2023 · Last updated Jan 12, 2024

Updated January 12, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

In the Tasks by Planner and To Do app in Microsoft Teams, buckets are a common way to organize tasks into different areas of work.

The mobile experience for the Tasks app in Teams will soon be updated to make it easier to filter to a specific bucket or set of buckets so that you can focus on the tasks in your area. We expect this simple user experience change to provide greater focus and greater productivity, while maintaining the familiar look and feel throughout the Tasks app.

Note: This change is specific to the Tasks by Planner and To Do app in Teams mobile.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 135561

We will begin rollout in early December 2023 and complete by mid-February 2024 (previously late December).

 

(Updated) Promote channel creation MC697808 · Published Dec 13, 2023 · Last updated Jan 12, 2024

Updated January 12, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Today, our experience focusses on letting users create team at the top level, with channel creation as a per team level option. Looking at the user behavior here, users end up creating more teams, where it could have been channels within teams, leading to team proliferation and difficulty in managing teams. To address this, we are looking to promote channel creation.

For users to collaborate effectively, they need to set-up the right collaboration space. Channels being the main hub of collaboration, we made it easier for users to create channels. With the channel creation option elevated to the top, users can now create the appropriate collab space by picking between team or channel. They will be able to host the channel into a team of their choosing.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID: 163363

Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out early January 2024 and expect to complete by mid-January 2024.

Standard Release: We will begin rolling out mid-February 2024 and expect to complete by late February 2024.

 

(Updated) Simplified team creation MC697434 · Published Dec 12, 2023 · Last updated Jan 12, 2024

Updated January 12, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Today, users go through multiple steps, selecting between options while creating teams. However, most users are inclined towards setting up their team from scratch and as private. Hence, we defaulted to a simpler experience, yet giving users the rich options of creating a team from a template or group and selecting privacy/sensitivity of the team. It is a simple by default, power on demand experience.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID: 163364

Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out early January 2024 and expect to complete by mid-January 2024.

Standard Release: We will begin rolling out mid-February 2024 and expect to complete by late February 2024.

GCC High and DoD: We will begin rolling out late March 2024 and expect to complete by early April 2024.

 

(Updated) Affected Teams behavior in Chrome due to privacy sandboxing MC697433 · Published Dec 12, 2023 · Last updated Jan 12, 2024

Updated January 12, 2024: We have updated the content with additional information.

Starting in January, Chrome will begin gradually rolling out privacy sandboxing in the web to 1% of their users, with general rollout happening in late 2024. This will impact some Teams experiences in Chrome. The recommendation is to use the Teams desktop client if you are part of the rollout cohort.

Starting in January 2024 and continuing through the remainder of 2024.

 

(Updated) Microsoft Teams Connect chat - Extended Directory MC704952 · Published Jan 8, 2024 · Last updated Jan 12, 2024

Updated January 12, 2024: We have updated the content below to show as intended. Thank you for your patience.

Microsoft Teams is now introducing enhancements on top of Teams Connect for chats. With the Teams Connect chat extended directory, IT admins can create an external directory of known external collaborators using their phone numbers. Once created, it will be easier for users in the tenant to:

  • Search external users by name and establish 1:1 or group chats with them.
  • View a company curated profile that includes information like a user's location, job role, or business unit and even assign an organization manager for these external partners.

In addition to these end user improvements, IT admins can continue to use all compliance and security features available with Teams Connect chat along with enhancements like restricting external chat to the list of users added via phone numbers.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 119789

Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out in early February 2024 and expect to complete by mid-February 2024.

Standard Release: We will begin rolling out mid-February 2024 and expect to complete by late February 2024.

 

Classic Teams users to be updated to new Teams after March 31, 2024 MC706396 · Published Jan 12, 2024

As communicated in MC686187 (October ’23), after March 31, 2024, any classic Teams users that haven't updated to new Teams, will be automatically updated to new Teams.

With March 31 being less than three months away, we advise you to update users in your organization to new Teams as quickly as you can.

New Teams now has over 90M monthly active users, and the figures are increasing by millions daily. It only takes one click to update to new Teams. You can easily pick up and resume exactly where you left off in classic Teams and your chat messages, Teams and channels, and apps will appear in new Teams.

 

Microsoft Teams: Meeting participants time zone MC706177 · Published Jan 12, 2024

Currently the scheduling form in Microsoft Teams does not show the time zone or work hours of the attendees, which can make it difficult for users to find a common time to schedule a meeting. A new feature will address this issue by allowing meeting organizers to see the time zone for all meeting attendees in the scheduling form of the scheduling assistant.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 123963

Standard Release: We will begin rolling out early February 2024 and expect to complete by late April 2024.

 

Microsoft Teams: Meeting invite improvements MC706174 · Published Jan 12, 2024

Meeting invite is the first thing that the user invited to the meeting sees before joining. We are making some design improvements to make sure we have the most important information there and it's better grouped.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 366447

Standard Release: We will begin rolling out mid-February 2024 and expect to complete by mid-March 2024.

 

Organizers can select up to six languages for attendees to choose from for live translated captions during a town hall MC705765 · Published Jan 10, 2024

Currently in a town hall, an organizer is unable to select which auto-translated captions they would like their attendees to see. Attendees can select from a pre-selected list of translated languages for their captions. With this new update, organizers can now pick up to 6 translated languages from a list of over 40 languages to be shown to the attendees for captions during a town hall.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 371308

Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out early February 2024 and expect to complete by mid-February 2024.

Standard Release: We will begin rolling out mid February 2024 and expect to complete by late February 2024.

 

Keep your Microsoft Teams desktop client compliant by updating regularly MC705764 · Published Jan 10, 2024

Since Microsoft Teams is governed by the Modern Lifecycle Policy, the Teams desktop client needs to be up to date. Users who are on old versions of Classic Teams app will receive in-app notifications to encourage them to update to the latest version of Teams. This is to ensure that users have the latest capabilities, performance enhancements, security features, and service reliability.

Note: This in-app notification will not apply to users on machine wide (non-persistent setup) Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) deployments. Admins will need to regularly update those users to remain supported on Teams.

Per MC298823 (Nov '21), a version that is too far out of date will become incompatible with the service until it’s updated.

This will be enforced on January 22, 2024.

 

Sensitivity Labels enabled in Teams Mobile Meetings MC705762 · Published Jan 10, 2024

Users can collaborate in a way that meets compliance standards in meetings on a mobile device by picking sensitivity labels on Teams calendar. Users will see any default label if applied by the admin. When clicking on the Sensitivity label field in the meeting creation form, users will also see the list of specific labels allotted to them by the admin and choose the relevant label. According to the settings of the label, the meeting will become labeled and the content will be considered sensitive accordingly.

Channel meetings inherit the label that is used in Teams by default and cannot be changed.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 178013

Preview: We will begin rolling out mid-February 2024 and expect to complete by late February 2024.

Standard Release: We will begin rolling out late February 2024 and expect to complete by early March 2024.

 

Admins can select the domain to use for Teams Email Service MC705761 · Published Jan 10, 2024

Admins will now have the functionality to select the domain to use to send emails to their users via Teams Email Service.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 375694

Standard Release: We will begin rolling out mid-February 2024 and expect to complete by late February 2024.

GCC High and DoD: We will begin rolling out early May 2024 and expect to complete by mid-May 2024.

 

Microsoft Teams: Latest meeting experiences with performance improvements on web for Safari and Firefox (for guests) MC705760 · Published Jan 10, 2024

The latest Teams meeting experiences will be available for Teams on the web in Safari and Firefox browsers - including performance improvements, refreshed pre-join, updated meeting stage, and the updated meeting toolbar. (for anonymous join only)

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 329253

Standard Release: We will begin rolling out early February 2024 and expect to complete by late February 2024.

 

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Improved View Switcher for Teams Rooms on Android MC687848 · Published Nov 7, 2023 · Last updated Jan 10, 2024

Updated January 10, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

The latest version of Teams Rooms on Android Update 3 (2023) includes improved view switcher and front of room display controls.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 159128

Standard Release: We will begin rolling out in early February 2024 (previously early January) and expect to complete rollout by mid-February 2024 (previously mid-January).

 

Deploy your Frontline Operational hierarchy in the Teams Admin Center MC705350 · Published Jan 9, 2024

Operational hierarchy will enable admins to map their organization’s structure of frontline teams/locations to a hierarchy in the Teams Admin Center. Admins can define metadata that ranges from department information to brand information metadata for each team/location. The operational hierarchy coupled with this metadata will enable numerous frontline apps and experiences in the future like task publishing and others that are forthcoming.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 138480

Standard Release: The rollout of this feature will be completed in February 2024 in the Teams Admin Center.

 

Join meetings and make calls via Teams Mobile on Android Auto MC705349 · Published Jan 9, 2024

Users can now join meetings via the calendar view, easily call speed dial contacts, and get back to recent calls on Teams on Android Auto with Android phones.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 375701

Standard Release: We will begin rolling out late February 2024 and expect to complete by early March 2024

 

Deploy Shifts to your Frontline teams at scale. MC705347 · Published Jan 9, 2024

Admins will be empowered to deploy Shifts across their frontline dynamic teams through the Teams Admin Center. They will have the ability to uniformly configure the Shifts app settings, identify schedule owners, and create schedule groups for the Microsoft Teams Shifts app on their frontline teams. This will enable frontline managers to start managing their frontline teams through Shifts with minimal friction.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 138479

Standard Release: The rollout of this feature will be completed in February 2024 in the Teams Admin Center.

 

Now get Real Time Calendar Notifications in Teams MC704955 · Published Jan 8, 2024

You can now get the Calendar Notifications in Teams from the Activity Feed.

  • You will get calendar notifications in the Activity Feed for the below scenarios:
    • Meeting invite (including channel meetings you are explicitly invited to)
    • Meeting updates
    • Meeting cancellations
    • Meeting forwards (as an organizer)
  • When you get a calendar notification, you will see an unread notification in the Activity Feed pane or at the bell icon.
  • When you click on a notification, you will see the details of the meeting/event in the right pane.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 314355

Standard Release: We will begin rolling out mid-February 2024 and expect to complete by late February 2024.

 

New Policy: Turn Off Teams Meeting Feedback Surveys for Unauthenticated Users MC703705 · Published Jan 4, 2024

We will be introducing the existing Teams Meetings feedback surveys (such as Net Promoter Score (NPS)) to unauthenticated users that join Teams Meetings. When an unauthenticated user joins a meeting originating from your organization, they may be eligible to receive a prompt to complete a feedback survey on their Microsoft Teams experience. We will be introducing a new Teams Meeting Configuration policy setting that will allow tenant admins to disable all Teams Meeting feedback surveys for unauthenticated users if needed.

Standard Release: We will begin rolling out late February 2024 and expect to complete by late February 2024.

 

 

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(Updated) Automatic Transcription for Video Uploads to SharePoint Online, Yammer, and Office.com MC635989 · Published Jul 11, 2023 · Last updated Jan 12, 2024

Updated January 12, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. We apologize for the delay and thank you for your patience.

Videos uploaded to SharePoint Online, Yammer, and Office.com will have transcriptions automatically generated shortly after upload. This feature will not be available for A1 and trial tenancies.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 124932

Standard Release: We will begin rolling out in late July and expect to complete rollout by late January 2024 (previously early December).

 

(Updated) Community Campaigns in Viva Engage MC694119 · Published Nov 29, 2023 · Last updated Jan 12, 2024

Updated January 12, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Introducing community campaigns to boost engagement within your community. Now, community admins can easily create campaigns directly within the community. Simply locate the campaign's right rail, click the plus button, and fill in campaign details like #hashtag, description, and default publisher in the pop-up.

Campaigns start as drafts, allowing admins to upload cover photos, set goals, and pin links before hitting the publish button. Admins and regular users can view all community campaigns by clicking "View all campaigns" in the right rail.

Community members are automatically followers of the campaign, and using the community campaign hashtag in posts will display them in the campaign's feed. Conveniently, when typing "#" in the community, a dropdown suggests relevant community campaigns.

We expect to begin rolling out in mid-January 2024 (previously early January) and expect to complete by early February 2024 (previously late January). 

 

Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals - Enhanced goal sharing experience MC705348 · Published Jan 9, 2024

Microsoft Viva will offer an enhanced experience to facilitate effortless sharing of goals and goals progress with the introduction of a new share modal in Viva Goals.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 375220

Standard Release: We will begin rolling out mid-February 2024 and expect to complete by mid-March 2024.

 

 

 

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