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 7 of 2025, February 10 – February 16.
Feel free to share with your partners,
customers, colleagues, and peers.
What's New in Microsoft Teams (and Microsoft 365):
- Streamline
call quality and reliability operations with Teams best practice
configurations dashboard
Field Advisories:
- Research
Drop: Understanding and Encouraging Effective Manager Behaviors
- Azure
Communication Services Technical Documentation Table of Contents Update
- Discover
the Total Economic Impact of Microsoft 365 E3
- Microsoft
365 Copilot for Stock Technical Analysis
- Increase
Your Productivity with Copilot on OneNote Web and OneNote in Teams
- Try
the new flow for Together mode in Teams meetings
Community:
- Whats new in Teams Calling Meetings
Devices
- Whats new in Microsoft 365 Copilot
- Comparing
File Collaboration and Search Features: SharePoint vs. Microsoft Teams
Coming Events:
- Microsoft
Teams Devices Partner Showcase - Cisco, Tue, Feb 18, 5:00 PM - 5:30 PM
GMT+1, Online event
- Teams
Phone CommUnity Connection - February 20, 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM GMT+1,
Online event
- Smart
workplace: Teams Phone
M365 Message Center :
- Microsoft
Teams – new message center posts:
Microsoft Teams: Access chats while sharing
a screen MC1006624
Published Feb 15, 2025
Coming soon to Microsoft Teams: We will add a
control to the meeting presenter toolbar so presenters can more easily access
the meeting chat while sharing a window or a screen.
This message applies to Teams for Windows
desktop and Teams for Mac desktop.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365
Roadmap ID 467445.
Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out
mid-March 2025 and expect to complete by late March 2025.
General Availability (Worldwide, GCC, GCC High,
DoD): We will begin rolling out mid-April 2025 and expect to complete by
late May 2025.
Microsoft Teams: Wired headset support for the Walkie Talkie app for iOS
MC1006623
Published Feb 15, 2025
If your organization does not support iOS, you
can safely ignore this message.
Coming soon for Microsoft Teams: We will
introduce support for wired headsets in the Walkie Talkie app for iOS,
enhancing communication flexibility and convenience. After this rollout, users
can use generic wired headsets with a play/pause button in toggle-to-talk mode,
for hands-free operation with one tap. Also, specialized push-to-talk (PTT)
headsets will be supported in conventional push-to-talk mode.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365
Roadmap ID 476734.
General
Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out early March 2025 and expect
to complete by mid-March 2025.
Microsoft Teams: Custom meeting branding -
support multiple meeting themes per customization policy MC1005517
Published Feb 14, 2025
Support for multiple brand themes (an extension
to Microsoft Teams Premium branding capability) provides organizations greater
flexibility to express their unique visual brand identity across different
types of meetings while maintaining consistency with branding standards.
Admins can now create and assign multiple
brands to a customization policy in the Teams admin center. This will allow
meeting organizers who are assigned a customization policy to select from
different meeting brand options when scheduling their meeting.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365
Roadmap ID 468868.
General Availability (Worldwide, GCC, GCC High,
DoD): We will begin rolling out mid-March 2025 and expect to complete by
mid-April 2025.
Microsoft Teams Customer Office Hours: Get help
from the product team on deploying Teams for your frontline workers MC1002406
Published Feb 11, 2025
Note: If you are not using frontline worker
functionality, you can safely ignore this message.
We are pleased to announce new weekly Microsoft
Teams Frontline Customer Office Hours: A dedicated time for you to engage
directly with the product team to support Teams deployments for your frontline
workers.
Objective: This initiative aims to enhance live
customer engagement and satisfaction by:
Addressing deployment-related questions in real
time
Providing direct support to ensure smooth and
successful rollouts
Gathering customer feedback to improve
frontline worker deployment features
When are Customer Office Hours
The Teams Frontline Customer Office Hours takes
place every Wednesday from 9:00-9:30am PT.
What Do Office Hours Cover?
Customer Q&A: Get answers to questions
about deploying teams at scale for your frontline workers and overall
deployment best practices.
Follow-ups: We will capture unresolved issues
and address them after the meeting.
Feedback collection: Share your thoughts on
recently released deployment features.
Launch Timeline: Teams Frontline Customer
Office hours launched on January 22, 2025.
How to join: Join the Teams meeting with https://aka.ms/TeamsFrontlineCustomerOfficeHours
Microsoft Teams: New Search feature in
channel posts MC1002405
Published Feb 11, 2025
Coming soon for Microsoft Teams: A new
experience to search within Channel Posts. This message applies to Teams for
Windows desktop, Mac desktop, and web.
Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out
mid-February 2025 and expect to complete by late February 2025.
General Availability (Worldwide, GCC, GCC
High): We will begin rolling out early March 2025 and expect to complete by
mid-March 2025.
General Availability (DoD): We will begin
rolling out mid-March 2025 and expect to complete by late March 2025.
- Microsoft
Teams – updated message center posts:
(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Hiding inactive
channels MC804771
Published Jun 24, 2024
(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Queues app to add
Monitor, Whisper, Barge, and Takeover MC999443
Published Feb 7, 2025
(Updated) Microsoft Teams admin center: App
Management Unification Impact report MC982569
Published Jan 18, 2025
(Updated) Co-organizer experience updates in
Teams Webinars and Townhalls MC688109
Published Nov 8, 2023
(Updated) Microsoft Teams: BYOD mode will
activate cameras on meeting room audio devices MC952881
Published Dec 10, 2024
(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Forward messages
with app cards MC956699
Published Dec 13, 2024
Microsoft Teams: Additional work information in
people search results MC985484
Published Jan 22, 2025
(Updated) Large Events: End Session for
Attendees and Return Presenters to Green Room MC978932
Published Jan 14, 2025
- Microsoft
Viva – new message center posts:
Microsoft Viva Learning: New Spell check
feature MC1005516
Published Feb 14, 2025
Microsoft Viva Learning Search will soon detect
and correct spelling errors in user queries, using the corrected query to
perform searches and return relevant results. Users can choose to override
Spell check and search with their original query.
This feature is available in all languages that
Viva Learning supports and is available to customers with licenses for Viva
Learning or Viva Learning Premium.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365
Roadmap ID 162943.
General Availability (Worldwide): We began
rolling out late January 2025 and expect to complete by late February 2025.
Microsoft Viva: Feature Access Management
will support the AI admin role MC1005508
Published Feb 14, 2025
Coming soon for Microsoft Viva: Feature Access
Management for Copilot features will support the AI administrator role. As
communicated in MC985479 Microsoft 365 admin center: AI administrator role
authorization to manage Copilot settings (published January 22, 2025), the AI
administrator role is a newly introduced role for AI and Microsoft 365 Copilot
administration that enables admins to manage Microsoft Copilot efficiently
without requiring extensive Global admin permissions.
General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin
rolling out mid-February 2025 and expect to complete by late February 2025.
SharePoint Online: Enhancements to the Text web
part MC1004412
Published Feb 12, 2025
The Text web part in SharePoint Online allows
users to add normal text, tables, and paragraphs to a SharePoint site page. It
provides various formatting options such as bullets, styles, indentations,
links, and highlighting. To use the Text web part, go to edit mode, select the
circled plus (+) icon, choose Text from the web part toolbox, and enter your
desired text in the Text field.
In the updated Text web part, similar themed
features are grouped together for better customer experience and usability.
The updated text web part will be available in
SharePoint and Viva Amplify.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365
Roadmap ID 394278.
General Availability (Worldwide, GCC, GCC High,
DoD): This feature update rolled out early February 2025.
Microsoft Viva Glint: Use Feature Access
Management in Viva for Microsoft 365 Copilot in Glint MC1004409
Published Feb 12, 2025
We are excited to announce that we will add the
Microsoft 365 Copilot in Viva Glint feature to Feature Access Management in
Viva. This will allow global admins and AI admins to control the rollout and
availability of Copilot in Viva Glint.
Copilot in Viva Glint is enabled for all users
in Viva Feature Access Management by default. If users have access at the
Feature Access Management in Viva level, you will also need to grant access in
the Viva Glint product as it is disabled for all users by default in Viva
Glint.
Subscription plans of Viva suite or Viva Glint
are required for using Microsoft Viva Glint.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365
Roadmap ID 478655.
General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin
rolling late February 2025 and expect to complete by late March 2025.
- Microsoft
Viva – updated message center posts:
(Updated) New Service in your Microsoft 365
subscription: Org Explorer MC939925
Published Nov 22, 2024
(Updated) Microsoft Viva Insights: Users can
request delegate access MC922625
Published Oct 31, 2024
(Updated) Microsoft Viva Engage: Multi-pin
Conversations Carousel is now available MC973512
Published Jan 7, 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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