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Find below a list of public posts and updates on Microsoft Teams (and Microsoft 365) that have been published in Week 46 of 2024, November 11 – November 17.
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What's New in Microsoft Teams (and Microsoft 365):
- The
Microsoft 365 Insider Guide to Microsoft Ignite 2024
- Microsoft
365 Copilot | Microsoft Ignite 2024 Event Guide
- Using
the Microsoft 365 Roadmap
- MC932491 - Microsoft
Teams Voice-enabled channels will retire in June 2025, recommend move to
Queues app
Field Advisories:
- Flexible
billing for Microsoft 365 Copilot, Pricing updates for annual
subscriptions & Teams Phone
- Announcing
mandatory multifactor authentication for the Microsoft 365 admin center
- Control
volume ratio setting when using language interpretation in Teams meetings
- How
real-world businesses are transforming with AI
- IDC’s
2024 AI opportunity study: Top five AI trends to watch
- 3
Steps to Build Psychological Safety on Your Team
- Loop
governance, lifecycle, manageability for IT Admins – Nov 2024
- Workers
in all kinds of roles and industries count on Copilot to do more — in less
time
Community:
- Get
Missed Call Notifications for Teams Call Queues (Free Community Solution)
- Copilot
in Teams – New Features, Agents & More
- How
Important is Cloud Calling in the Age of Full-Fledged Collaboration
Suites?
- Microsoft
Teams is getting a new chat and channels experience
M365 Message Center :
- Microsoft
Teams – new message center posts:
(Updated) Microsoft Teams: New DVR
capabilities for town halls (desktop and web) MC932488
Published Nov 13, 2024
Updated November 15, 2024: We have updated the
rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
Coming soon for Microsoft Teams: New DVR
(digital video recording) functionality for all town halls. This new feature
will allow town hall attendees on Windows desktop or the web to interact with a
live streaming town hall in the same way they would interact with recorded
content. DVR functionality in the town hall enables event attendees to pause
and move forward or back in a town hall, navigate to any previous timestamp,
and other abilities, making it more convenient to interact with a town hall
more and easier to digest the content being presented. This feature is
available for Teams town halls from all organizers, regardless of the license
assigned to the organizer.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365
Roadmap ID 422804.
Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out early
January 2025 (previously early December) and expect to complete by
mid-January 2025 (previously mid-December).
General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin
rolling out mid-January 2025 and expect to complete by late January 2025.
General Availability (GCC): We will begin
rolling out late January 2025 and expect to complete by early February 2025
(previously late January).
Microsoft Teams: File Interactive Previews
MC934727
Published Nov 15, 2024
Now users can quickly review files in Microsoft
Teams chat and channel conversations using the file preview option. Using preview,
users will be able to consume the file within the flow of work, minimizing the
context switch and potentially enhancing the efficiency for the users.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365
Roadmap ID 421188.
Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out
early January 2025 and expect to complete by late January 2025.
General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin
rolling out early February 2025 and expect to complete by late February
2025.
General Availability (GCC): We will begin
rolling out mid-March 2025 and expect to complete by mid-Apr 2025.
General Availability (GCC High): We will begin
rolling out late March 2025 and expect to complete by late April 2025.
General Availability (DoD): We will begin
rolling out early April 2025 and expect to complete by early May 2025.
Microsoft Mesh: Support for audio when sharing
screens in Microsoft Teams immersive events MC932489
Published Nov 13, 2024
Coming soon: We're adding support when sharing
screens with Microsoft Mesh in Microsoft Teams immersive events. Presenters
will now be able to choose whether they'd like to include system audio when
starting a screen share in an immersive event. This feature is available for
presenters in Mesh with a Teams Premium license. This message applies to Mesh
on Windows desktops.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365
Roadmap ID 423475.
Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out
early December 2024 and expect to complete by early December 2024.
General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin
rolling out mid-December 2024 and expect to complete by mid-December 2024.
Microsoft Teams: Town hall concurrent
attendee limit will increase to 50,000 MC932473
Published Nov 13, 2024
Coming soon to Microsoft Teams town halls: For
organizers with a Teams Premium license, we are expanding the limit from 20,000
maximum concurrent attendees to 50,000 maximum. The quality and stability of
town halls up to this new limit will remain constant, providing high-quality
and reliable content for participants. For events with more than 20,000
concurrent attendees, some interactivity features such as chat and reactions
will be disabled for all attendees. This message applies to Teams town halls on
Windows desktop, on the web, and on iOS/Android. This feature is available for
town hall organizers with an active Teams Premium license.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365
Roadmap ID 429538.
General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin
rolling out mid-December 2024 and expect to complete by late December 2024.
Ensuring Security and Compliance: Keep your
Microsoft Teams desktop clients up to date MC931401
Published Nov 12, 2024
In today’s security climate, our work across
the company and greater industry to keep this critical ecosystem secure is more
important than ever. And while we also ship bug fixes and other new features
via continuous innovation, in the end security is job one.
Keeping Microsoft Teams up to date is critical
to ensure your devices are secure and compliant. By default, and as designed,
Teams updates automatically which successfully updates most clients in the
world without additional overhead for customers.
Microsoft Teams is governed by the Modern
Lifecycle Policy which requires that the Teams desktop client be kept up to
date. This is not a new policy, for instance in MC298823 (November 2021), a
version that is far out of date will become incompatible with the service until
it’s updated. As documented,
when a client falls out of date, the user will see:
- Recurring in-app alerts, if the app is between 30d-90d out of date.
- A blocking page in Teams, if the app is greater than 90 days out of
date. At this point, the app will show options to update, to contact their
IT administrator, or continue to Teams on the web.
As an example, if the Teams app is
hypothetically on a version released on January 1 and the next update is fully
available on January 15, an in-app alert would be shown on February 14th (30
days after the January 15th update).
For reference, link to the Teams app's version's
release dates. Also, The
Microsoft Teams desktop client usage report gives you an overview of the
Teams desktop clients in use within your organization.
Classic Teams is not in scope for this post;
see MC783985 for Classic Teams Timelines regarding end of support and end of
availability.
The existing policy enforcement will be visible
beginning November 12th, 2024.
- Microsoft
Teams – updated message center posts:
Microsoft Teams admin center: Admins can
disable the ability to send messages in meeting chat before and after a meeting
MC920298
Published Oct 28, 2024
(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Easily insert
hyperlinks in messages MC926877
Published Nov 6, 2024
(Updated) Microsoft Teams and Microsoft
Outlook: Name pronunciation on the profile card MC917748
Published Oct 24, 2024
(Updated) Contact Unification across Outlook
and Teams MC695487
Published Dec 4, 2023
(Updated) Teams admin center: App centric
management and changes to app permission policies MC688930
Published Nov 11, 2023
(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Ask to join a shared
channel with a channel link MC792603
Published May 13, 2024
(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Describe it to
design it in Teams Workflows MC718250
Published Feb 21, 2024
(Updated) Mute with Windows Taskbar available
in the new Microsoft Teams on Windows MC709270
Published Jan 23, 2024
(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Increase in meeting
passcodes length for added security MC889520
Published Sep 13, 2024
(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Hiding inactive
channels MC804771
Published Jun 24, 2024
- Microsoft
Viva – new message center posts:
Microsoft Viva Amplify and Microsoft
SharePoint: New required footers will be automatically applied to email MC933529
Published Nov 13, 2024
Email sent from Microsoft Viva Amplify and from
Microsoft SharePoint when SharePoint News posts are shared will contain a new
required footer. Effective immediately, we will add this footer to all email
sent from these products.
General Availability (Worldwide): We began
rolling out early November 2024 and expect to complete by mid-November 2024.
Updates in computation of network metrics and
cross-collaboration metrics in Viva Insights MC931379
Published Nov 11, 2024
Viva insights network metrics computation logic
has been updated to better identify connections licensed employees have with
unlicensed employees. Moreover, cross-collaboration query compute has been
updated to improve protection of the data of end-users who have opted out of
Viva Insights.
General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin
rolling out this change in mid-November 2024 and expect to complete by late
November 2024.
- Microsoft
Viva – updated message center posts:
(Updated) Microsoft Viva
Engage: Unregistered users in an external network will not receive community
emails MC928016
Published Nov 8, 2024
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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