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Sunday, April 20, 2025

Friends of Microsoft Teams - Week 16 - 2025 (April 14 - April 20)

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 16 of 2025, April 14 – April 20.

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

 

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

Field Advisories:

Community:

Coming Events:


M365 Message Center :

 

 

  • Microsoft Teams – new message center posts:

 

 

Classic Microsoft Teams: The option to open files in Teams will retire MC1058266 Published Apr 19, 2025

We will retire the option to open a file in classic Microsoft Teams starting April 15, 2025, and ending April 30, 2025. Instead, we recommend opening the file in the appropriate app (Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, or Microsoft PowerPoint) in the desktop or web, where we will continue to invest our development resources. This retirement is to address certain security vulnerabilities that surfaced recently with classic Teams. NOTE: This retirement will not affect file open options for the new version of Microsoft Teams.

This message applies to classic Teams for Windows desktop, classic Teams for Mac desktop, and classic Teams for the web.

This change will happen automatically by the specified date. No admin action is required. Consider notifying your users about this change and updating relevant internal documentation.

 

Microsoft Teams: Bi-directional calendar syncing between Google Workspace and Microsoft Teams MC1058265 Published Apr 19, 2025

Businesses using Google Workspace for email and calendaring can now enable bidirectional syncing with Microsoft Teams through the Admin app in Teams. This improved sync ensures that events created in either platform are seamlessly reflected in both, reducing missed meetings and simplifying scheduling.

Previously, calendar forwarding only handled new incoming invites. The updated sync now supports all calendar invites, including incoming, outgoing, existing, and new events.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 488093.

General Availability (Worldwide): Rollout will begin in early May 2025 and is expected to complete by late May 2025.

 

Microsoft Teams: Preview changes before making them visible to attendees with "Manage what attendees see" MC1058259 Published Apr 18, 2025

Coming soon for Microsoft Teams: A new Manage what attendees see feature will help organizers and presenters deliver polished town hall events by simplifying the attendee view and keeping the focus on participants brought on screen. The new feature allows assigned organizers and presenters to preview changes before applying them all at once.

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 487431.

Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out mid-May 2025 and expect to complete by late May 2025.

General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out mid-June 2025 and expect to complete by late June 2025.

 

Microsoft Teams: Specify who can manage the screen in town halls MC1058258 Published Apr 18, 2025

Coming soon for Microsoft Teams: A new town hall meeting option called Who has control of production tools allows organizers to designate who can manage the screen during the event. Assigned individuals will be able to start the event, control what attendees see, and end the event, for a smoother, more organized experience.

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 487432.

Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out early May 2025 and expect to complete by mid-May 2025.

General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out late May 2025 and expect to complete by early June 2025.

 

Microsoft Teams: We will retire SMS invitations from Teams to external partners MC1057714 Published Apr 18, 2025

Effective May 17, 2025, we will retire the option for users to invite external partners to Microsoft Teams by sending an SMS to their phone number to join Teams and continue the conversation. We are retiring this feature to provide a more consistent experience. Organizations can continue to use emails to invite partners outside of their organizations for external teamwork.

Alternatively, customers can sign up for a two-way SMS calling plan to continue inviting external partners to Teams by sending an SMS to their phone number.

This change will happen automatically by the specified date. No admin action is required. Please notify your users about this change, update relevant documentation as appropriate, and share alternatives for users to invite external partners to Teams.

 

Microsoft Teams: Use OS-level animation settings instead of Teams-level animation settings MC1056991 Published Apr 16, 2025

We have removed the Animation setting in Microsoft Teams. Instead, users can configure animations at the operating system (OS) level. If users disable animations in Microsoft Windows or macOS, Teams will honor that preference. This means users no longer need a separate setting in Teams to control animations. We will not reinstate the Teams-level animation control. Moving forward, Teams will rely entirely on the OS setting for animation preferences.

This message applies to Teams for Windows desktop, Teams for Mac desktop, and Teams for the web.

General Availability (Worldwide): Available now.

 

Microsoft Teams: Streamlined unified Role-Based Access Controls (RBAC) for Teams device management MC1056977 Published Apr 16, 2025

We are releasing Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) enhancements in the Teams Rooms Pro management portal (PMP). As part of our ongoing efforts to improve device management across portals, we will be extending PMP's RBAC to support additional Entra built-in roles currently available in the Teams admin center (TAC). This transition aims to provide a seamless experience for admins managing Teams Rooms devices.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 485760.

General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out early May 2025 and expect to complete by mid-May 2025.

General Availability (GCC, GCCHigh): We will begin rolling out mid-May 2025 and expect to complete by late May 2025.

 

Microsoft Teams: Detect sensitive content shared in meetings MC1056976 Published Apr 16, 2025

Coming soon to Microsoft Teams Premium: A new tenant-level feature called Detect sensitive content during screen sharing that will be on by default to proactively analyze onscreen content and alert meeting organizers, co-organizers, and presenter to any risk of exposure. This feature helps you build a shield of trust and security around your organization. When this feature is on at the tenant level, meeting organizers and co-organizers will still need to enable the feature at the meeting level. Admins can disable the feature at the tenant level if desired.

This message applies to Teams for Windows desktop, Teams for the web, and Teams for iOS/Android.

A Teams Premium license is required to use this feature.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 487433.

Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out early May 2025 and expect to complete by late June 2025.

General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out late June 2025 and expect to complete by late July 2025.

 

Microsoft Teams: town hall organizers, co-organizers, presenters can join the event to preview as attendee MC1056269 Published Apr 15, 2025

Organizers, co-organizers, and presenters in a Microsoft Teams town hall will soon be able to join and view the event from an attendee's perspective.

This feature will be available for customers who have access to town hall in Teams for Windows or Mac desktop, Teams for the web, or Teams for iOS/Android.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 484126.

Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out mid-May 2025 and expect to complete by late May 2025.

General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out mid-June 2025 and expect to complete by late June 2025.

 

Microsoft Teams Premium: Ultra-low latency (ULL) attendee experience for town halls MC1056268 Published Apr 15, 2025

Before this rollout, Microsoft Teams town hall attendees typically watch the presentation with a 20-30 second delay. After this rollout, with ultra-low latency (ULL), attendees will be able to view and participate in a town hall at a much lower latency than before, ensuring they are in sync with content being shared by presenters and organizers.

This feature is available for town hall organizers with a Teams Premium license. This feature will only be available for tenants who use the Microsoft eCDN (Enterprise Content Delivery Network) or who do not have an eCDN provider.

This message applies to Teams for Windows desktop, Teams for Mac desktop, Teams for the web, and Teams for iOS and Android.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 486535.

Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out late April 2025 and expect to complete by early May 2025.

General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out mid-May 2025 and expect to complete by late May 2025.

General Availability (GCC): We will begin rolling out early June 2025 and expect to complete by mid-June 2025.

 

Microsoft Teams admin center: Improvements to controls for Microsoft 365 Copilot MC1055552 Published Apr 15, 2025

Coming soon: Improvements to the controls for Microsoft 365 Copilot and transcripts in the Microsoft Teams admin center (TAC). This rollout aims to reduce complexity and prevent conflicting states for those controls, to help provide a smoother experience for admins and users. This rollout will help prevent issues such as Copilot requiring a transcript when Transcript is Off, resulting in error messages for users that cannot be resolved.

The feature described in this message is available to all admins in the TAC, but error messages only occur for Teams users who also have a Microsoft 365 Copilot license.

General Availability (Worldwide, GCC): We began rolling out early April 2025 and expect to complete by late May 2025.

 

Microsoft Teams: The "Code snippets" feature for chats and channels will retire MC1055554 Published Apr 15, 2025

We will retire the code snippets feature for chats and channels from Microsoft Teams starting May 30, 2025 and ending June 16, 2025. We made this decision to streamline our development efforts and enhance the overall user experience by focusing on code blocks, which are faster and more efficient, allowing users (mainly developers) to create, edit, and share code directly in the compose box without needing a title. Code blocks offer almost all the features of code snippets, except for line numbers. We will be adding line numbers to code blocks in the coming months. Also, code blocks will soon be viewable on mobile devices, ensuring that users can access and collaborate on code from anywhere.

This message applies to Teams for Windows desktop. Teams for Mac desktop, and Teams for the web.

Users will no longer be able to create code snippets after the feature retires, but all previously sent code snippets will remain accessible in Teams. Users will not be able to create new code snippets after May 30, 2025.

This change will happen automatically by the specified date. No admin action is required. Please notify your users about this change, update relevant documentation as appropriate, and share the code blocks alternative.

 

 

  • Microsoft Teams – updated message center posts:

 

 

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: New recording policies for town halls and webinars MC971032 Published Jan 3, 2025

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: New transcription policies for town halls and webinars MC971031 Published Jan 3, 2025

(Updated) Transitioning from user's OneDrive to SharePoint for Whiteboards created in Teams Channels MC1024395 Published Mar 5, 2025

(Updated) Teams admin center: App centric management and changes to app permission policies MC688930 Published Nov 11, 2023

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Facilitator agent real-time notes in meetings MC1017117 Published Feb 26, 2025

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: In channels, the "Shared" tab (formerly the "Files" tab) will have new capabilities MC1025217 Published Mar 7, 2025

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: New location sharing settings for emergency calls and other features MC993226 Published Jan 31, 2025

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: New keyboard shortcut for adding emojis MC1000269 Published Feb 7, 2025

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Join town halls using dial-in options and join codes MC1009929 Published Feb 19, 2025

(Updated) Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Outlook: Name pronunciation on the profile card MC917748 Published Oct 24, 2024

Microsoft Teams: Create new channels faster from the "New items" menu at top of the list of chats and channels MC1053645 Published Apr 11, 2025

 

 

  • Microsoft Viva – new message center posts:

 

 

Microsoft Viva Connections: New Folder card in Dashboard MC1056267 Published Apr 15, 2025

Coming soon for Microsoft Viva Connections: A new Folder card in the Connections card gallery will provide users with a quick view of the document library files on the dashboard.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 408536.

General Availability (Worldwide, GCC, DoD): We will begin rolling out mid-April 2025 and expect to complete by late April 2025.

 

 

  • Microsoft Viva – updated message center posts:

 

(Updated) Microsoft Viva Learning: Surfaces will be personalized according to user skills/interests MC1041459 Published Mar 26, 2025

 

 

 

 

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