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a list of public posts and updates on Microsoft Teams (and Microsoft 365) that
have been published in Week 23 of 2025, June 2 – June 8.
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What's New in Microsoft Teams (and Microsoft 365):
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- Microsoft
Teams – new message center posts:
Microsoft Teams: Support for making a silent
test call MC1089323
Published Jun 6, 2025
Coming soon: IT administrators will be able to
run silent, synthetic Microsoft Teams call simulations to specific
subnets—enabling proactive network readiness checks and early detection of
issues before they affect users. This will ensure high-quality, seamless
communication experiences across the organization.
This feature requires a Teams Premium license
on your user's devices.
This message applies to Teams for Windows
desktop and Teams for Mac desktop.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365
Roadmap ID 490055.
Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out
mid-July 2025 and expect to complete by late July 2025
General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin
rolling out mid-August 2025 and expect to complete by late August 2025.
Microsoft Teams: Important updates for
Android-based Teams devices – Authentication changes coming soon MC1088732
Published Jun 5, 2025
If your organization does not manage one or
more certified Microsoft Teams Android devices, you can safely ignore this
message.
Your organization manages one or more certified
Microsoft Teams Android devices, such as Teams Phone devices, Teams Panels,
Teams Displays, and Teams Rooms on Android (MTRA). To enhance security
capabilities such as Continuous Access Evaluation and IP-based conditional
access enforcement, Microsoft is transitioning these devices to modern, secure
authentication using Entra ID (AAD) based tokens.
These changes will impact how devices
authenticate to Teams services. This update provides key dates, required
versions, and important cautions—especially for tenants using Teams Displays.
How this will affect your organization:
Once your devices are updated to the app
versions listed below, end users will see no change in their Teams experience,
while admins will have enhanced security capabilities such as Continuous Access
Evaluation and IP-based conditional access enforcement. These updates are
required to maintain connectivity and support secure authentication.
Minimum required app versions for modern
authentication:
- Teams Phones: 1449/1.0.94.2025020301
- Teams Rooms on Android (MTRA): 1449/1.0.96.2025020302
- Teams Panels: 1449/1.0.97.2025020502
- Teams Displays: To be released
July 31, 2025: Devices on supported app versions will
automatically switch to modern authentication. Devices on unsupported app
versions will continue to work with legacy authentication. NOTE: Teams Displays
will be excluded from this milestone.
September 30, 2025: All MTR-A devices on minimum app versions will
be leveraging modern authentication. Admins should ensure updating their apps
to suggested versions by this date.
December 31, 2025: All authenticated traffic must use modern
authentication. Ensure all Teams Android devices are updated to the versions
listed above as soon as they are available and before December 31, 2025, to
avoid service disruption.
Microsoft Teams: Inclusive meeting
enhancements for sign language users MC1088725
Published Jun 5, 2025
As hybrid and remote collaboration continues to
evolve, we’re seeing growing disparities in how people are seen, heard, and
engaged during meetings. These challenges are particularly noticeable for
participants joining remotely, using assistive technologies, or communicating
through different modalities.
Before this rollout, sign language users face
several challenges during meetings, including difficulty locating and
identifying their interpreters, as well as ensuring proper positioning of
interpreter video feeds. Furthermore, active speaker detection prioritizes
audio, resulting in participants who communicate through sign language often
receiving less visual prominence than verbal speakers. These challenges make it
more difficult for Deaf and hard-of-hearing participants to remain fully
engaged during meetings.
In Microsoft Teams, we are committed to
addressing these gaps, with a particular focus on enhancing the meeting
experience for Deaf and hard-of-hearing participants who communicate using sign
language. As part of our initial efforts, we are introducing Sign Language
Mode. When enabled, Sign language users will benefit from an enhanced meeting
experience. Interpreters will be clearly identified in the participant roster
and visually distinguished throughout meetings. Deaf and hard-of-hearing
participants who use sign language will be automatically detected and elevated
to active speaker status, ensuring equal prominence with spoken audio
participants. This will help create a more equitable and collaborative
environment for everyone.
NOTE: Teams for Windows desktop and Teams for
Mac desktop are required for sign language detection. Support for Teams for web
will come later this year. Sign language detection will not work on mobile
devices. Signer promotion to the primary meeting view will work in Teams for
Windows desktop, Teams for Mac desktop, Teams for the web, and Teams for
iOS/Android.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365
Roadmap ID 494843.
Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out
early July 2025 and expect to complete by mid-July 2025.
General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin
rolling out mid-July 2025 and expect to complete by late July 2025.
Microsoft Teams Rooms Pro: New AI assistant for
admins in the Teams Rooms Pro Management portal MC1088177
Published Jun 4, 2025
Coming soon for Microsoft Teams Rooms Pro: As
an admin, you will be able to save time and effort by using the new AI-powered
assistant in the Teams Rooms Pro Management portal that can answer data
retrieval questions specific to your organization's inventory. This new chatbot
can also answer "how to" product questions related to Teams meetings
spaces and management solutions.
Important note: This LLM chatbot provides
information and cannot perform actions. The chatbot is not part of Microsoft
365 Copilot and a Microsoft 365 Copilot license is not required. A Teams Room
Pro license is required to access this AI assistant.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365
Roadmap ID 489821.
General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin
rolling out mid-June 2025 and expect to complete by late June 2025.
Microsoft Teams: New threaded conversation
layout option for channels MC1088172
Published Jun 4, 2025
Coming soon to Microsoft Teams channels: A new
threaded layout similar to group chats. Before this rollout, channels have a
Post reply layout option only.
After this rollout, the threaded layout will
encourage immediate back-and-forth communication in channels. In threaded
layout channels, users can reply to specific messages and start a thread in the
side pane. Threads allow users to have side conversations while keeping the
main conversation without cluttering the main conversation.
This message applies to Teams for Windows
desktop, Teams for Mac desktop, Teams for the web, and Teams for iOS/Android.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365
Roadmap ID 488300.
Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out
late June 2025 and expect to complete by early July 2025.
General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin
rolling out mid-August 2025 and expect to complete by late August 2025.
Microsoft Teams: Interactive agents for
meetings and calls MC1087634
Published Jun 3, 2025
Introducing a new feature that will bring
interactive agents into Microsoft Teams meetings and 1-on-1 calls. Users will
be able to engage with agents as a group or privately, with zero-state prompts
and history support for seamless interactions. Before this rollout, only agents
built on Microsoft Copilot can support sessions, which means they can remember
the context of previous interactions in the same session, for more relevant
responses. Custom agents do not yet have session support.
After this rollout, all agents from Microsoft
365 Copilot Chat and Microsoft Copilot Studio will be available for users in
their meetings and calls. This feature will allow developers to invite
colleagues to give feedback and securely test agents, without affecting
sensitive data or production channels.
A Microsoft 365 Copilot license or a Microsoft
365 license is required to use this feature. As part of the Microsoft 365 SKUs,
if users have access to declarative agents in Microsoft Copilot Chat, agents
are available in their meetings and calls. No license is required for custom
engine agents.
This message applies to Teams for Windows
desktop, Teams for Mac desktop, and Teams for the web.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365
Roadmap ID 490564.
Targeted Release: We began rolling out early
June 2025 and expect to complete by mid-June 2025.
General Availability (Worldwide, GCCH): We will
begin rolling out mid-June 2025 and expect to complete by late June 2025.
Microsoft Teams: LEAP will transition to
Microsoft Unified MC1087565
Published Jun 3, 2025
On July 1, 2025, the Microsoft
365 Live Event Assistance Program (LEAP) will transition from a
complimentary preview offer to a paid service provided by Microsoft Unified
that will be known as Teams Events Hosting Assistance.
We are also pleased to inform you that we will
be expanding our services to include Microsoft Teams Events Advanced Production
Services, which will provide production and broadcasting services for town
halls, webinars, and events.
To learn more and benefit from these services,
please contact your account management team. We are committed to ensuring that
your transition is smooth and successful.
Microsoft Teams: Remote log collection in
Teams admin center MC1087099
Published Jun 2, 2025
We're introducing a new capability in the Teams
Admin Center that allows Teams administrators to remotely collect diagnostic
logs from users' Teams clients on Windows and Mac devices. This feature helps
streamline troubleshooting by enabling secure, admin-initiated log collection
without requiring user action or causing disruption.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365
Roadmap IDs 491439
General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin
rolling out late June 2025 and expect to complete by late July 2025.
- Microsoft
Teams – updated message center posts:
(Updated) Microsoft Teams: CVI coordinates
enables presenters to join Town hall via VTC devices MC1070182
Published May 8, 2025
(Update) Microsoft Teams: Meeting option
suggestions in classic Microsoft Outlook for Windows MC1059668
Published Apr 21, 2025
(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Users can report
security concerns involving external collaborators MC1037768
Published Mar 20, 2025
(Updated) Microsoft Teams: The "Code
snippets" feature for chats and channels will retire MC1055554
Published Apr 15, 2025
(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Client health
dashboards in Teams admin center MC1015900
Published Feb 25, 2025
(Updated) Microsoft Teams for iOS/Android: New
location sharing settings for emergency calls and more MC1041451
Published Mar 26, 2025
Microsoft Teams: Expanded and enhanced
peripheral auto-association support for Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) spaces MC1059673
Published Apr 21, 2025
(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Automatically set
work location by connecting to a Wi-Fi network MC1081568
Published May 23, 2025
(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Edit your display
name in meetings MC974361
Published Jan 8, 2025
(Updated) Microsoft Teams: New Cross-location
shifts in the Shifts app MC800503
Published Jun 10, 2024
(Updated) Microsoft Teams: New microphone
volume indicator for users MC989974
Published Jan 28, 2025
(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Viva Engage
storyline will be integrated in Teams MC969448
Published Dec 31, 2024
(Updated) Teams: Latest meeting experiences
with performance improvements on web for Safari and Firefox (for guests) MC705760
Published Jan 10, 2024
(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Usage reports will
include all town hall usage data in your tenant MC1053648
Published Apr 11, 2025
(Updated) Microsoft Teams: town hall
organizers, co-organizers, presenters can join the event to preview as attendee
MC1056269
Published Apr 15, 2025
(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Preview changes
before making them visible to attendees with "Manage what attendees
see" MC1058259
Published Apr 18, 2025
- Microsoft
Viva – new message center posts:
Autoplay videos
in Engage (Muted) MC1088730
Published Jun 5, 2025
To enhance the
viewing experience in Engage, videos in the feed will now autoplay on mute with
captions enabled by default. Users can enable sound with a single click, making
video content more accessible and engaging.
This message is
associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 494686
General
Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out on early July 2025 and expect
to complete by mid-July 2025.
Microsoft Viva
Pulse: New question types including skip logic in surveys MC1087633
Published Jun 3, 2025
Before this
rollout, we do not support skip logic in Microsoft Viva Pulse surveys. We
currently support rating scale questions, multiple choice questions, matrix,
and ranking order questions in Pulse surveys.
After this
rollout, users can add skip logic to single-select multiple choice and rating
scale questions (without follow-ups) in Viva Pulse. With skip logic, a
respondent’s answer can determine which question they see next, for more
tailored and dynamic surveys.
This message
applies to Teams for Windows desktop, Teams for Mac desktop, Teams for the web,
and Teams for iOS/Android.
Viva Pulse is
available for users with a license for Microsoft Viva Suite, Viva Workplace
Analytics and Employee Feedback, or for tenants who are using a Pulse admin-led
trial. Users with a Microsoft 365 Copilot license may also be able to access
Viva Pulse, if admins have enabled access using their Copilot subscription.
This message is
associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 407640.
General
Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out early June 2025 and expect
to complete by late June 2025.
- Microsoft
Viva – updated message center posts:
(Updated)
Microsoft Viva Insights: Microsoft Copilot Studio agents report (Preview) for
the advanced insights app MC1034590
Published Mar 18, 2025
(Updated)
Microsoft Viva Engage: New Communications Dashboard MC1041122
Published Mar 25, 2025
(Updated)
Advanced Insights - Copilot Headlines Report MC1048622
Published Apr 4, 2025
(Updated)
Microsoft 365 Copilot: People Skills will be available starting in May MC1060842
Published Apr 23, 2025
(Updated)
Microsoft Viva Connections: New Engage card in Connections dashboard MC1052164
Published Apr 10, 2025
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