Friends of Microsoft Teams - Week 21 - 2025 (May 19 - May 25)

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 21 of 2025, May 19 - May 25.

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

 

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

• What’s New in Microsoft Teams | May 2025 - Build Edition
• What’s new in Microsoft 365 Copilot | May 2025
• Introducing Microsoft 365 Copilot Tuning, multi-agent orchestration, and more from Microsoft Build 2025
• Build 2025: Agents in Microsoft 365 announcements
• Introducing Microsoft 365 Copilot Tuning
• New! Copilot Analytics improves access and reporting on Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat and agents
• New in May: Create in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app
• Announcing Agreements and Microsoft 365 Copilot Tuning integration
• Microsoft Build 2025: The age of AI agents and building the open agentic web
• The Future is Calling: Virgin Media O2 Business offers Microsoft Teams Phone Mobile to supercharge business productivity and flexibility

Field Advisories:

• Microsoft Teams Leads in Audio Quality: Echo Cancellation and Noise Suppression Performance
• Copilot Adoption Community Now Available for All Viva Engage Customers
• Create next-gen voice agents with Azure AI's Voice Live API and Azure Communication Services
• Getting Started with Email in Azure Communication Services
• Unlocking the value of Microsoft 365 Copilot at Microsoft
• The Microsoft 365 Copilot app: Built for the new way of working
• Microsoft Build 2025: How to create a “frontier” workplace powered by agents
• Gear up for summer reading with Reading Coach

Community:

• Sharing the Vision: Microsoft 365 Community Conference Keynotes Now Available
• Selling Microsoft Teams Rooms - May 23 2025
• Microsoft Teams Rooms Speaker Recognition & Attribution Demo
• How to delete a Loop Workspace connected to a Teams channel?
• Test your Auto Attendant and Call Queue Text to Speech!

Coming Events:

• Teams Fireside Chat June - MVPs Michael LaMontagne and Habib Mankal,  12th June at 16:00 BST.

M365 Message Center :

 

 

• Microsoft Teams – new message center posts:

 

 

Microsoft Teams: Automatically set work location by connecting to a Wi-Fi network MC1081568 Published May 23, 2025

Coming soon to Microsoft Teams: When users connect to their organization's Wi-Fi, Teams will automatically set their work location to reflect the building they are working in.

This message applies to Teams for Windows desktop and Teams for Mac desktop.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 488800.

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

 

Microsoft Teams: New bilateral chat policy for restricting external group chats to a maximum of two organizations MC1080690 Published May 22, 2025

Bilateral chat policy is a new type of policy for restricting external group chats in Microsoft Teams to maximum of two organizations. This policy will be available for admins to set up and apply to users and groups where external access policies are already set up. After the policy is enabled, automatically enforced compliance controls will prohibit users from creating or adding users from more than two organizations to external group chats.

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

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 490566.

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

 

Microsoft Teams: Introducing the Network Strength Indicator MC1077865 Published May 19, 2025

To improve meeting clarity and reduce confusion caused by connectivity issues, we’re adding a new Network Strength Indicator.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 414513

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

General Availability (Worldwide, GCC): We will begin rolling out early August 2025 and expect to complete by early September 2025.

 

 

• Microsoft Teams – updated message center posts:

 

 

(Updated) Microsoft Viva Engage: New reply and reaction notifications in Microsoft Teams MC978923 Published Jan 14, 2025

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Meeting participants can request collaborative annotation sessions MC1019312 Published Feb 28, 2025

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Integrate Chat notification with Meeting RSVP status MC704035 Published Jan 5, 2024

(Updated) Microsoft Viva Connections: New News feature in Microsoft Teams MC1020218 Published Feb 28, 2025

(Updated) Mute with Windows Taskbar available in the new Microsoft Teams on Windows MC709270 Published Jan 23, 2024

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

 

 

• Microsoft Viva – new message center posts:

 

 

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• Microsoft Viva – updated message center posts:

 

 

(Updated) Microsoft Viva Glint: Use Feature Access Management in Viva for Microsoft 365 Copilot in Glint MC1004409 Published Feb 12, 2025

Microsoft Viva Insights | Copilot Analytics: Unified experience for Copilot Dashboard and Insights analyst workbench MC1072399 Published May 12, 2025

 

For the latest information/updates you can always check these resources :

• Microsoft Teams Channel on YouTube
• Staying on top of Office 365 Updates
• What's new in Microsoft Teams
• What's new in Microsoft Teams devices - Office Support
• Microsoft Teams Rooms (MTR) - Release Notes
• Microsoft Teams content updates
• TechCommunity Teams Blog
• Teams Community Blog
• TechCommunity Microsoft 365 Blog
• TechCommunity Viva Blog
• Microsoft Teams Public Preview - Microsoft Tech Community
• https://aka.ms/TeamsFeedback
• Microsoft 365 Roadmap
• Microsoft 365 Message Center (M365 Admin rights)
• Stay on top of Microsoft 365 changes
• Track your message center tasks in Planner

 

 

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Mattias Kressmark

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