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Sunday, January 28, 2024

Friends of Microsoft Teams - Week 4 - 2024 (January 22 - January 28)

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 4 of 2024, January 22 - January 28.

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

 

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

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Content Camera on New Teams MC710415 · Published Jan 27, 2024

Content camera support will be available on the new Teams app experience for Windows and MacOS. Content camera enables remote attendees to get a clear view of physical objects like whiteboards, printed documents, books, and more that are in a meeting room. Content camera intelligently detects, crops and frames the in-room object and shares its content with remote meeting participants. Even when a presenter moves in front of it, for example the whiteboard, remote participants will be able to see the content right through them.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 377670

Target release: We will begin rolling out in early February 2024 and expect to complete roll out by mid-February 2024.

Standard Release and GCC: We will begin rolling out in early-March 2024 and expect to complete rollout by mid-March 2024.

GCC-High: We will begin rolling out in mid-April 2024 and expect to complete rollout by late April 2024.

DoD: We will begin rolling out in mid-May 2024 and expect to complete rollout by late May 2024.

 

Microsoft Teams: In form meeting option updates for webinars and townhalls MC710212 · Published Jan 26, 2024

In Microsoft Teams, configuring meeting options for events like webinars and townhalls required users to be taken to a web page after the event had been created. In order to optimize the user experience, we will now allow users to configure meeting options within the Teams app before event creation. This will provide users with more flexibility.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 373420

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

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

 

Microsoft Teams: Reordering registration form questions for webinars MC710211 · Published Jan 26, 2024

Registration form questions are an integral part of setting up a successful webinar. You can add predefined or custom questions to ask your event registrants. Prior to this update, registration form questions had to be added in the order in which you want them to appear on the registration page. With this update, you can add any and all questions to your registration form and then change the order of these questions.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 376970

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

 

Introducing the ability to duplicate an existing town hall MC709987 · Published Jan 25, 2024

Currently with town hall, you are unable to duplicate an event and create a new event based off an existing one. This can be time consuming if organizers would like to schedule multiple events that are similar to one another. To simplify event creation Microsoft Teams is introducing the ability to create a new town hall by duplicating the information for an existing scheduled one. Information includes a town hall's details, presenters, theming, and more. The organizer can also choose to edit and update the information as needed for their new town hall.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 376853

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

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

 

Microsoft SharePoint: Updated Lists in Team Sites, Lists progressive web app (PWA), and Teams MC709979 · Published Jan 25, 2024

This update improves the overall performance of Lists in Microsoft SharePoint and introduces new features, including the ability to add ratings to any list, drag and/or paste images directly into a list, see who is collaborating with you in real-time, switch views by clicking tabs, and more.

This rollout is a continuation of MC600726 (Updated) Microsoft Lists User Experience Update (June 2023).

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

Standard Release GCC, GCCHigh, DoD, USSec, and USNat: We will begin rolling out late February and expect to complete by late June 2024.

 

(Updated) Webinar Email feature updates -customize content and time to send reminders MC549348 · Published May 2, 2023 · Last updated Jan 24, 2024

Updated January 24, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Emails for Webinars are critical to engage with registrants and often organizers feel the need to customize the content. To enable this, we are rolling out two features.

The content of the emails (i.e. all webinar related attendee emails) can be edited by the event organizers. This is reserved for Teams Premium licensed organizers.

Time to send reminder emails can be configured by the event organizers. This is reserved for Teams Premium licensed organizers.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 119391

Standard Release: rollout will start in mid-July and expected to be completed by end of July.

GCC: rollout will start in mid-November 2023 (previously mid-October) and expected to be completed by late February 2024 (previously late January).

 

(Updated) Teams admin center (TAC) Header Search now supports Emergency Addresses MC707655 · Published Jan 17, 2024 · Last updated Jan 24, 2024

Updated January 24, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

We're excited to announce that the Header Search feature in Teams admin center will now be supporting Emergency Addresses.

The Header Search feature now supports a wide range of entities, including Teams, Users, Policies, Settings, Documentation, Emergency Addresses and more. This means you'll be able to quickly search for relevant information across these entities within the Teams admin center.

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

 

(Updated) Collaborative Notes in Channel Meetings MC690924 · Published Nov 17, 2023 · Last updated Jan 24, 2024

Updated January 24, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

In parallel to legacy Wiki-based Meeting Notes in channel meetings, 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) in channel meetings. These capabilities are now integrated into the end-to-end meeting experience in Teams, Loop, Planner, To Do, and OneDrive Commercial.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 167330

Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out mid-April 2024 (previously early February) and expect to complete by late April 2024 (previously mid-February).

Standard Release: We will begin rolling out late April 2024 (previously mid-February). and expect to complete by early May 2024 (previously early March).

 

(Updated) Co-organizer experience updates in Teams Webinars and Townhalls MC688109 · Published Nov 8, 2023 · Last updated Jan 24, 2024

Updated January 24, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Scheduling, setting up, and managing an event is not a simple task. Which is why we allow co-organizer to be added to the event so they can work alongside or on behalf of the organizer. So far co-organizers were able to set up event theming, manage registration, meeting options, view reports and more but were not able to edit event details like title, date/time, description, event group; nor publish or cancel event. Now they can! Co-organizer can edit event details, publish, and cancel the event like the organizer can. So once the co-organizer is added they will have full parity of experience as organizer and control/manage/edit event.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 168524

Targeted release: We will begin rolling out late March (previously early February) and expect to complete by early April 2024 (previously mid-February).

Standard release: We will begin rolling out early April 2024 (previously early February) and expect to complete by mid-April 2024 (previously late February).

 

Microsoft Purview | Information Protection: Sensitivity labels to discover private teams and protect shared channels MC709659 · Published Jan 24, 2024 · Last updated Jan 24, 2024

Updated January 24, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

In the Microsoft Purview Compliance portal, under Information Protection, we are introducing two new controls in the sensitivity label creation/edit process. These changes are designed to improve the controls around private team discoverability in Teams and to provide additional controls for the shared channels in Teams channels.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap IDs 165698 and 174575.

Public Preview: We will begin rolling out in late January 2024 (previously early February) and expect to be complete by early February 2024.

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

 

Microsoft Teams: Latest meeting experiences with performance improvements on web for Safari and Firefox (for guests) MC705760 · Published Jan 10, 2024 · Last updated Jan 24, 2024

Updated January 24, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

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

All Environments: We will begin rolling out early April 2024 (previously early February) and expect to complete by early May 2024 (previously late February).

 

(Updated) Announcing External Access Analytics for Microsoft Teams MC698123 · Published Dec 14, 2023 · Last updated Jan 23, 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.

 

Microsoft Teams: Allow meeting participants to create Collaborative notes MC708499 · Published Jan 20, 2024

Currently, only Microsoft Teams meeting organizers can create Collaborative notes before and after meetings. We are rolling out enhanced Collaborative notes that allow any meeting invitee to create notes before, during, and after the meeting. This enhancement helps to improve collaboration and efficiency and provides a seamless teamwork experience.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 374515.

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.

 

Walkie Talkie: Generic Headset Support on Android MC709266 · Published Jan 23, 2024

Use any generic wired (USB-C and 3.5mm) headset for instant team communication on Android.

Frontline workers often need to instantly communicate with each other even when their phones are locked. We integrated Walkie Talkie in Teams with audio accessories partners to make this experience possible with the dedicated push-to-talk (PTT) button on headsets, which instantly brings up walkie talkie for clear and secure voice communication. In addition to select specialized headsets, we are excited to announce that Walkie Talkie in Teams will now work with any generic wired (USB-C and 3.5mm) headsets on Android devices.

As long as the generic headset has a control to play/pause media or to accept/decline calls, frontline workers can use that control to start and stop transmissions on walkie talkie. Frontline organizations will be able to easily start using walkie talkie with these lower-cost generic headsets.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 369470

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

 

Mute On Air available in the new Microsoft Teams on Windows MC709270 · Published Jan 23, 2024

The Mute On Air feature is now available. This feature, available in the new Teams experience on Windows, enables you to mute and unmute your audio by clicking the mic icon in Windows taskbar.

To control your call mic from the taskbar, do the following:

Select the mic icon on your taskbar or press Windows logo key + Alt + K to mute or unmute your microphone while using a calling app.

-OR- Click the volume icon in the hardware indicator for volume in Windows taskbar.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 191528

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

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

 

Changes in file open behavior in classic Teams. MC709269 · Published Jan 23, 2024

We are making changes to the file open experience in Teams that will affect users in select scenarios. These changes are part of our ongoing security enhancements and optimizations to provide you with the best possible collaboration platform.

Beginning in early February 2024 and completing by early March 2024, on classic Teams version >1.6.00.34970

 

Introducing the ability to duplicate an existing webinar MC709268 · Published Jan 23, 2024

Currently with webinars, you are unable to duplicate a webinar and create a new webinar based off an existing one. This can be time consuming if organizers would like to schedule multiple events that are similar to one another. To simplify event creation Microsoft Teams is introducing the ability to create a new webinar by duplicating the information for an existing scheduled one. Information includes a webinar's details, presenters, theming, and more. The organizer can also choose to edit and update the information as needed for their new webinar.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 375177

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

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

 

Review and update your Microsoft Teams update policy MC709264 · Published Jan 23, 2024

As communicated in MC686187 (October 2023) and MC706396 (January 2024), after March 31, 2024, any classic Microsoft Teams users that have not updated to the new Microsoft Teams will be automatically updated to new Teams.

New Teams now has over 100M+ monthly active users and is increasing by millions daily. All new and innovative features, capabilities, and enhancements to existing features are available exclusively on new Teams.

With March 31, 2024, being less than three months away, we observe that you have currently blocked new Teams by setting the Teams update policy to Not enabled. Alternatively, you may also have the Teams update policy set to Classic Teams as default or User choice, which only allows users to opt-in to using new Teams.

This message center post is to strongly encourage admins to modify the existing Teams update policy to enable users to update to new Teams.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 122540

Standard Release: As stated above, we will complete the rollout in late March 2024.

 

 

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Microsoft Copilot Dashboard for Viva Insights licensed customers MC709985 · Published Jan 25, 2024

Additional insights that combine Microsoft Copilot usage metrics with collaboration and sentiment data will be available to Viva Insights licensed organizations in the Copilot Dashboard. These additional insights provide more granular views of Copilot adoption, usage patterns, user sentiment, and return on investment across teams, functional roles, and more. Viva Insights analysts can create custom reports based on these metrics as well.

We will begin rolling out for preview in early February 2024 and expand into general availability by mid-February 2024.

 

(Updated) REMINDER: Upcoming Changes to Customization Controls in Viva Pulse In-App Experience MC671812 · Published Aug 29, 2023 · Last updated Jan 24, 2024

Updated January 24, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

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 January 2024 (previously mid-January).

 

(Updated) Send Viva Goals email notifications from your own domain MC696864 · Published Dec 8, 2023 · Last updated Jan 24, 2024

Updated January 24, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Email notifications from within Microsoft 365 are sent to users in various ways. Today, Viva Goals sends email notifications such as digest emails and sharing notifications from msft-viva-noreply@microsoft.com. Over the coming months, changes are coming for email senders. When users share goals from Viva Goals, these emails will be sent from the user. Emails such as digest emails that are generated by Viva Goals will support being sent from your domain if you have opted in to send email notifications from your domain in the Microsoft 365 admin center.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap IDs 148471, 117479

Support for this will be added in phases.

Standard Release: We will begin rolling out late January 2024 (previously mid-January) and expect to complete by late April 2024 (previously late March).

 

(Updated) Viva Engage: Answers in Communities MC700929 · Published Dec 22, 2023 · Last updated Jan 24, 2024

Updated January 24, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Answers in Microsoft Viva lets people learn from each other by asking and answering questions. Now, if you have a premium license, you can use Answers in your Viva Engage communities. This new feature lets you:

See related questions to avoid duplicates and save time.

Ask questions with separate title and details for easy scanning.

Earn badges for answering questions in communities.

Track question activity in communities with Answers Analytics and Global Answers Analytics.

Reach more people with your questions through Answers feeds and digests.

Note: If you organization is not using Viva Engage you can safely disregard this message.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 152480

Standard Release: This feature will start rolling out in late January 2024 (previously mid-January) and is expected to complete in early April 2024 (previously late March).

 

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