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Sunday, October 13, 2024

Friends of Microsoft Teams - Week 41 - 2024 (October 7 - October 13)

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 41 of 2024, October 7 – October 13.

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

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

Field Advisories:

Community:

M365 Message Center :

Microsoft Teams – new message center posts:

Microsoft Teams: Swap screens on Teams Rooms on Android MC908117 Published Oct 10, 2024

Coming soon to Microsoft Teams Rooms on Android: As an admin, you can configure dual display mode and swap the screens of dual display devices using device settings and the Teams admin center. This feature allows you to deliberately set the display mode of your device and also to fix reversed display installations remotely and at scale, enhancing your device management capabilities. A Teams Rooms Pro license is required for this feature.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 415243.

General Availability (Worldwide, GCC): We will begin rolling out early November 2024 and expect to complete by late November 2024.

General Availability (GCC High): We will begin rolling out early December 2024 and expect to complete by mid-December 2024.

Microsoft Teams: New calendar experience MC908116 Published Oct 10, 2024

Coming soon to Microsoft Teams. The New Calendar app aims to provide a single, modern, intelligent, and coherent calendar for both Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Outlook users. This new opt-in experience will be available in Teams, allowing users to toggle to the New Calendar interface. This message applies to Teams on Windows and Mac desktops.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 415415.

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

General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out mid-January 2025 and complete by the late January 2025.

Microsoft Teams: Meeting organizers can turn off copying of captions, transcript and recap MC908115 Published Oct 10, 2024

Coming soon: Meeting organizers with eligible licenses will have a Meeting option control called Turn off copying and forwarding of meeting chat, live captions, and transcript. When this control is enabled, meeting participants won’t be able to copy the meeting chat, live captions, live transcript, or any insights generated from intelligent meeting recap. This message applies to tenants with Teams Premium licenses on Teams for Windows desktop, Mac desktop, Teams on the web, and Teams for Android/iOS.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 416072.

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

General Availability (Worldwide, GCC): We will begin rolling out late November 2024 and expect to complete by early December 2024.

General Availability (GCC High, DOD): We will begin rolling out early January 2025 and expect to complete by early January 2024. Note: Only applicable for live captions and transcript.

Microsoft Mesh app on Meta Quest headsets supports hand interactions MC907538 Published Oct 9, 2024

Microsoft Mesh app users on Meta Quest 2, 3, and Pro headsets will be able to use their hands to use the app, move around in event environments, and interact with objects. Motion controllers will continue to be supported, and users can switch between using controllers or their hands while using the app. A tutorial on how to use hand interactions can be found in Menu -> Help -> Hand tutorial in the Quest Mesh app. The tutorial will also play when hand usage is detected for the first time during a meeting or event session in the Mesh app. To use the feature in Mesh, hand tracking on Quest device needs to be turned on via Settings -> Movement settings.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 412360

General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out early November 2024 and expect to complete by late November 2024.

Microsoft Teams: Admin email support for "Report a problem" on Teams Rooms on Android MC907108 Published Oct 8, 2024

Coming soon to Microsoft Teams Rooms on Android: As an admin, you can configure an email address for receiving issues submitted by users through the Report a problem feature on Teams Rooms on Android devices. The email address can be set through device settings or the Teams admin center. This feature will allow you to collect logs and feedback directly from your device Teams Rooms on Android devices, enhancing your ability to triage, respond, and escalate issues as needed.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 415247.

General Availability (Worldwide, GCC): We will begin rolling out early November 2024 and expect to complete by late November 2024.

General Availability (GCCH): We will begin rolling out early December 2024 and expect to complete by mid-December 2024.

Microsoft Teams: Net Promoter Score survey on Teams Rooms on Android MC906501 Published Oct 7, 2024

Coming soon to Microsoft Teams Rooms on Android: Users can rate how likely they are to recommend Microsoft Teams Rooms from 1 to 5 and provide their comments in a Net Promoter Score (NPS) survey delivered on Teams Rooms on Android devices.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 415245.

General Availability (Worldwide, GCC): We will begin rolling out early November 2024 and expect to complete by late November 2024.

General Availability (GCCH): We will begin rolling out early December 2024 and expect to complete by mid-December 2024.

Microsoft Teams: Virtual Appointment meeting template SMS notifications will soon support the Netherlands MC906486 Published Oct 7, 2024

The existing SMS appointment notifications feature (available to meeting organizers with a Microsoft Teams Premium license) in the Virtual Appointment Teams meeting template will soon support phone numbers in the Netherlands. The Netherlands country code will now appear in the phone number country code drop-down menu in the scheduling form, and appointment confirmation, reminder, updates, and cancellations will be supported for the Netherlands phone numbers. There is no change to the SMS notification behavior.

General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out late October 2024 and expect to complete by early November 2024.

Microsoft Teams – updated message center posts:

(Updated) Microsoft 365 admin center: New Premium Teams Usage Report MC673714 Published Sep 5, 2023

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Ask to join a shared channel with a channel link MC792603 Published May 13, 2024

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: New administrative units (AUs) for Teams administration MC810173 Published Jul 10, 2024

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Channel cards MC797474 Published May 31, 2024

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Custom backgrounds for Teams Rooms on Android MC798684 Published Jun 4, 2024

(Updated) Teams: Updated developer tools to share content from Teams apps to chats, channels, and meetings MC797476 Published May 31, 2024

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Ability to purchase third-party app subscriptions from Teams Admin Center and Teams app store MC794545 Published May 20, 2024

(Updated) Now get Real Time Calendar Notifications in Teams MC704955 Published Jan 8, 2024

(Updated) Simplified Compose Experience for Teams MC686919 Published Nov 3, 2023

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: In-meeting Error Messaging MC683928 Published Oct 25, 2023

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Emojis, GIFs and Stickers Unified in One Picker MC674737 Published Sep 11, 2023

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Block a user for your organization MC888879 Published Sep 12, 2024

(Updated) Affected Teams behavior in Chrome due to privacy sandboxing MC697433 Published Dec 12, 2023

Microsoft Viva – new message center posts:

Microsoft Viva Pulse: New Pulse tenant admin dashboard for users with Pulse admin access MC907535 Published Oct 9, 2024

Human Resources and IT departments need a way to track user telemetry and usage to ensure that Microsoft Viva Pulse is being used effectively and has a strong return on investment. They also want to identify any issues related to user adoption that hinder the rollout of Pulse in an organization. With the rollout of the tenant admin dashboard, Pulse admins will be able to visualize usage metrics in their tenant. This rollout will include metrics such as total pulses sent, response rate per pulse, and responses per pulse.

General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out late October 2024 and expect to complete by early November 2024.

Microsoft Viva – updated message center posts:

(Update) Microsoft SharePoint: Feed for Viva Connections web part and Video news link retires starting September 1, 2024 MC846391 Published Aug 1, 2024

(Updated) Microsoft Viva Connections: Refreshed Resources section on mobile to align with desktop MC804768 Published Jun 24, 2024

(Updated) Microsoft Viva: Pulse admins can share links to Pulse templates MC891237 Published Sep 16, 2024

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Monday, October 7, 2024

Friends of Microsoft Teams - Week 40 - 2024 (September 30 - October 6)

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 40 of 2024, September 30 – October 6.

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

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

Field Advisories:

Community:

M365 Message Center :

Microsoft Teams – new message center posts:

Microsoft Teams: Update to macOS keyboard shortcuts MC903634 Published Oct 2, 2024

Teams is making updates to its macOS keyboard shortcuts to follow macOS HIG policy.

Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out late October 2024 and expect to complete by the beginning of November 2024.

General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out at the beginning of November 2024 and expect to complete by mid-November 2024.

General Availability (GCC, GCC High, DoD): We will begin rolling out mid-November 2024 and expect to complete by mid-December 2024.

Microsoft Places will be generally available in Q4 CY24 MC901823 Published Sep 30, 2024

Microsoft Places, an AI-powered workplace app for flexible work, will be generally available in Q4 CY24. Places reimagines flexible work with AI by intelligently coordinating your hybrid team to make the most of in-office days, modernizing how employees connect, and optimizing space management with occupancy and utilization data.

There will be two new service plans for core and premium features:

Places core (PLACES_CORE)
Places enhanced (Microsoft Places premium) (PLACES_ENHANCED)

As an existing customer, you will see an additional service plan as part of your Office 365 subscription: Places core. This service plan includes all core features such as setting up and updating location plans, viewing collaborators’ location plans, accessing peek card experiences, scheduling in person meetings, managing hybrid RSVP, and workplace presence related capabilities.

If you have Teams Premium, you will have Places enhanced premium features like Places Finder, intelligent booking, Places Explorer, Places Space Analytics, and auto-release policies.

We will be backfilling these service plans into the following SKUs below.

List of SKUs for Places core:

Microsoft 365 Business Basic
Microsoft 365 Business Standard
Microsoft 365 Business Premium
Microsoft 365 or Office 365 E1, E3, E5
Microsoft 365 or Office 365 F3

List of SKUs for additional Teams-specific features in Places core:

Microsoft Teams Essentials
Microsoft Teams Enterprise
Microsoft Teams EEA

List of SKUs for Places enhanced:

Microsoft Teams Premium Introductory Pricing

We will begin rolling out both service plans in mid- to late-November for all platforms. Once the Places core service plan is deployed to your organization, core features will become available within your Office 365 subscription with basic set up and onboarding buildings to Places directory. Enhanced experiences will require additional deployment planning.

Microsoft Teams – updated message center posts:

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Access Workflows from the three-dot menu on shared file MC750668 Published Mar 21, 2024

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Participant roster grouping in Teams BYOD meeting rooms MC892055 Published Sep 17, 2024

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Automatic location updates on bookable desks MC808158 Published Jul 3, 2024

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Image viewing improvements in chat MC886600 Published Sep 10, 2024

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Mesh app on PC supports guest access for events MC888047 Published Sep 11, 2024

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

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Host and attendee interaction improvements for multi-room Mesh events MC888045 Published Sep 11, 2024

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Refreshed view of all your teams and channels page MC887377 Published Sep 10, 2024

Microsoft Viva – new message center posts:

Microsoft Viva Glint and Viva Insights integration for sentiment and collaboration data MC904541 Published Oct 4, 2024

Coming soon: A new Glint and organizational insights Power BI report in the Microsoft Viva advanced insights app and in the Microsoft Viva Glint dashboard that integrates Microsoft Viva Insights data with Viva Glint.

In the advanced insights app, analysts can use the Power BI report template to connect sentiment data from Viva Glint with collaboration data from Viva Insights. This will empower analysts to better understand which behaviors might drive employee sentiment outcomes and take actions to help improve employee sentiment and behavioral metrics.

On the Viva Glint dashboard, HR users can use collaboration data from Viva Insights to filter and analyze Glint engagement survey results. This will allow HR users to see how different workplace patterns may impact employee engagement, so they can help leaders identify impactful opportunities to improve the employee experience.

This integration will allow HR users and analysts to combine sentiment and collaboration data in the advanced insights app as well as Viva Glint into the rhythm of their business, to better understand their employees' full work experience. Integrating Viva Glint employee survey scores with Viva Insights data helps identify opportunities and strengths to meet organizational goals.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 416075.

Public Preview: Available now.

General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out mid-November 2024 and expect to complete by mid-November 2024.

Microsoft Viva Insights: Business Leader role removal MC903633 Published Oct 2, 2024

Microsoft Viva Insights leader experiences will stop supporting the Business Leader role in January 2025.

Removing support for the Business Leader role within Viva Insights allows for clearer deployment of roles and admin management of roles. Manager, Analyst, and Delegate roles will remain in their current state.

Learn more about roles in Viva Insights.

The Viva Insights Business Leader role removal will occur throughout January 2025.

Feature update: Remove live event conversations from the community feed MC903630 Published Oct 2, 2024

Currently all conversations (questions & discussions) posted in a community live event feed are automatically posted in the community feed.

With this feature update, conversations will remain restricted to the event feed only.

General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out this feature in early October 2024 and expect to complete by early November 2024

Microsoft Viva – updated message center posts:

(Update) Microsoft Viva: Updates to Connections on the web MC855689 Published Aug 8, 2024

(Updated) Microsoft Viva: Viva Amplify - Copy a publication within a campaign MC868912 Published Aug 22, 2024

Microsoft Viva Engage: Subscribe to notifications for followed topics MC899176 Published Sep 26, 2024