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Sunday, January 5, 2025

Friends of Microsoft Teams - Week 1 - 2025 (December 30 - January 5)

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 1 of 2025, December 30 – January 5.

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: SMS for calling plans MC971033 Published Jan 3, 2025

Coming soon for Microsoft Teams: We will roll out SMS chat in calling plans for customers in the United States and Canada. This capability would enable customers to send and receive SMS natively in Teams. This message applies to Teams for Windows desktop, Teams for Mac desktop, and Teams for iOS/Android.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 470999.

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

 

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

Coming soon to Microsoft Teams: New admin policies in the Teams admin center and Microsoft PowerShell that govern the recording behavior for town halls and webinars. Before this rollout, the same policies control the recording behavior for town halls, webinars, and meetings. After this rollout, separate recording policies for town halls and webinars will be available to more finely control event behavior. This message applies to Teams for Windows desktop, Teams for the web, and Teams for iOS/Android.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 473887.

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

 

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

Before this rollout, for a Microsoft Teams town hall or webinar, the transcription behavior respects the current Teams meeting transcription policies. After this rollout, new transcription policies will be available for town halls and webinars to allow finer control over transcriptions. The policies may be changed in the Teams admin center or with Microsoft PowerShell commands. This message applies to Teams for Windows desktop, Teams for the web, and Teams for iOS/Android.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 473886.

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

 

Microsoft Teams: Viva Engage storyline will be integrated in Teams MC969448 Published Dec 31, 2024

Employee communications are often scattered across multiple places, leading to frustration, delays, and overload. To address this, we will bring Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Viva Engage closer together, making it easier for users to stay connected and collaborate in Teams. The first step on this journey is the integration of Viva Engage storyline in Teams. Storyline enables leaders to communicate directly with their organizations, delivering personalized updates to amplify, clarify, and humanize leadership communication. Employees can share their perspectives, celebrate achievements, propose innovative ideas, and engage in meaningful conversations with colleagues across their organizations. By bringing storyline into Teams, we are simplifying how employees and leaders connect, collaborate, and share their voices—all in the flow of work. This message applies to Teams for Windows, Teams for Mac desktops, and Teams for iOS/Android.

Tenants must have a license for Teams and Viva Engage to use this feature. Premium features are available for users with a license for Viva Engage Premium, which is included with Viva Suite and Viva Employee Communications and Communities licenses.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 472914.

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

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

 

 

  • Microsoft Teams – updated message center posts:

 

 

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Edge links on MacOS will seamlessly open MC910981 Published Oct 14, 2024

 

 

  • Microsoft Viva – new message center posts:

 

 

Microsoft Viva Engage: New features for Microsoft 365 Copilot adoption community MC971030 Published Jan 3, 2025

Coming soon to the Microsoft Viva Engage adoption community for Microsoft 365 Copilot, users will receive recommendations of similar questions and answers when composing a question, leveraging the collective knowledge of the Copilot topic across all of Engage to help them find what they're looking for faster. Additionally, admins will have the ability to remove adoption features from the existing community and apply them to a new or different community.

Since general availability in August 2024 (referenced in MC7841560), network admins and corporate communicators can enable a new type of community specifically built to facilitate the rollout and adoption of Copilot in their organizations. This community can bring employees together in a community of practice where employees can ask questions, seek support from both their peers and IT admins, share best practices, and learn more from articles and quick tips on how best to use Copilot.

General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out early January 2025 and expect to complete by early February 2025.

 

 

  • Microsoft Viva – updated message center posts:

 

 

Microsoft Viva Engage: Private unlisted groups in external networks will retire and be deleted in January 2025 MC867664 Published Aug 20, 2024

 

 

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

 

 

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If others are interested to receive these “Friends of” messages directly from me, they can always share their contact details with me.

Or if you/they no longer want to receive these “Friends of” emails, just reply per email and I will remove you from this “Friends of” DL

 

Kind Regards/Vriendelijke groeten/Med vänlig hälsning/Salutations,

Mattias Kressmark


Disclaimer :

The content of this communication and its attachments (if any) is for general information purposes only and does not under any circumstance constitute a binding offer or acceptance of Microsoft Ireland Operations Limited, Microsoft NV/SA or any other Microsoft Group affiliate, unless this is expressly stated in a separate document executed by a person with sufficient powers to do so. The content shall not be considered to supplement or amend the terms of any existing agreement with Microsoft Ireland Operations Limited, Microsoft NV/SA or any other Microsoft Group affiliate. Furthermore you are reminded that the content is solely based on the limited information provided to us at the time of this communication and it will be subject to possible changes occurring hereafter.

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Sunday, December 29, 2024

Friends of Microsoft Teams - Week 52 - 2024 (December 23 - December 29)

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 52 of 2024, December 23 – December 29.

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

 

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

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Field Advisories:

Community:

 


M365 Message Center :

 

 

  • Microsoft Teams – new message center posts:

 

 

Microsoft Teams: File open preferences will extend to more Microsoft 365 apps MC967240 Published Dec 27, 2024

Coming soon to Microsoft Teams: Users will be able to set their preference for how their cloud-hosted Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint files should open when they select links for these files from Teams. The new setting (open in a browser, desktop app, or directly in Teams) will extend to links selected in other Microsoft365 apps, starting with classic Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, for greater consistency across apps.

This message applies to Teams for Windows desktop.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 471000.

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

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

 

Microsoft Teams: Meeting recap can be shared as a link MC966633 Published Dec 27, 2024

Coming soon to Microsoft Teams: Meeting participants will be able to share a link to the Meeting recap from the meeting thumbnail in chat and the Recap tab, making it easier to reference and share Meeting recap insights with others. Meeting participants can share the meeting recap link with anyone in their organization. Users who don't have access to the recording or transcript must request access before they can access the Meeting recap.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 471430.

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

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

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

General Availability (GCC High): We will begin rolling out late March 2025 and expect to complete late March 2025.

 

Microsoft Teams: Using Copilot agents in group chats MC966631 Published Dec 27, 2024

Coming soon to Microsoft Teams: Users can find and add Microsoft 365 Copilot agents to group chats and use the agents to help increase productivity in collaborative scenarios. Users do not require a Copilot license to use this feature. This message applies to Teams on Windows desktop, Mac desktop, and on the web.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 464988.

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

 

 

 

  • Microsoft Teams – updated message center posts:

 

 

(Updated) Microsoft Teams admin center: Deploy frontline teams with flexible membership MC883199 Published Sep 4, 2024

Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Teams: Unified management of Teams apps in Teams, Outlook, and the Microsoft 365 app MC796790 Published May 29, 2024

 

 

  • Microsoft Viva – new message center posts:

 

 

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  • Microsoft Viva – updated message center posts:


Viva Learning: AI and Copilot Resources Provider visibility MC962529 Published Dec 20, 2024

(Updated) Microsoft Viva Engage: Results in Workplace Search MC797471 Published May 31, 2024

 

 

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

 

 

Disclaimer :

If others are interested to receive these “Friends of” messages directly from me, they can always share their contact details with me.

Or if you/they no longer want to receive these “Friends of” emails, just reply per email and I will remove you from this “Friends of” DL

 

Kind Regards/Vriendelijke groeten/Med vänlig hälsning/Salutations,

Mattias Kressmark


Disclaimer :

The content of this communication and its attachments (if any) is for general information purposes only and does not under any circumstance constitute a binding offer or acceptance of Microsoft Ireland Operations Limited, Microsoft NV/SA or any other Microsoft Group affiliate, unless this is expressly stated in a separate document executed by a person with sufficient powers to do so. The content shall not be considered to supplement or amend the terms of any existing agreement with Microsoft Ireland Operations Limited, Microsoft NV/SA or any other Microsoft Group affiliate. Furthermore you are reminded that the content is solely based on the limited information provided to us at the time of this communication and it will be subject to possible changes occurring hereafter.

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Sunday, December 22, 2024

Friends of Microsoft Teams - Week 51 - 2024 (December 16 - December 22)

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 51 of 2024, December 16 – December 22.

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: Share Recap Notes to Outlook MC962523 Published Dec 20, 2024

The new Share Recap Notes to Outlook feature offers a simple way to send AI generated meeting notes and follow-up tasks to external attendees through Microsoft Outlook. From the new Share button on the Recap tab, users can quickly generate an email in Outlook web that pre-populates meeting invitees, a subject, and the AI generated notes and tasks from recap. Share Recap Notes to Outlook is currently a Premium feature. This ability will only be available to users that have valid Microsoft Teams Premium or Microsoft 365 Copilot licenses.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 423477.

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

 

Microsoft Teams: Enhanced captions for Teams Rooms on Windows MC960811 Published Dec 19, 2024

Coming soon to Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows: We are excited to announce that captions will soon support additional languages and translation capabilities. This enhancement aims to improve meeting accessibility and inclusivity for non-English speaking users using Teams Rooms on Windows.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 423089.

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

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

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

 

Microsoft Teams: Live transcription for Teams Rooms on Windows MC960809 Published Dec 19, 2024

Coming soon to Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows: We are excited to announce that users can soon start and stop transcription as well as view the meeting transcript directly from Teams Rooms on Windows devices. This feature requires a Teams Rooms Pro license.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 423088.

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

General Availability (GCC High): We will begin rolling out mid-March 2025 and expect to complete by late March 2025

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

 

 

  • Microsoft Teams – updated message center posts:

 

 

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: New policy for voice and face enrollment will default to "On" (configure now) MC912707 Published Oct 17, 2024

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Tenant-wide policy for permission to download meeting transcription MC781595 Published Apr 19, 2024

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: View, download, and delete Microsoft OneDrive transcript files MC726122 Published Mar 6, 2024

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Change background while recording on phone MC718553 Published Feb 23, 2024

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

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Shifts Graph APIs in beta moved to production (v1.0) MC916866 Published Oct 23, 2024

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Town hall concurrent attendee limit will increase to 50,000 MC932473 Published Nov 13, 2024

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

Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Teams: Unified management of Teams apps in Teams, Outlook, and the Microsoft 365 app MC796790 Published May 29, 2024

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: BYOD mode will activate cameras on meeting room audio devices MC952881 Published Dec 10, 2024

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Best practices configuration dashboard in Teams admin center MC929034 Published Nov 8, 2024

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Email OTP verification for external participants to join meetings MC953756 Published Dec 10, 2024

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

(Updated) Ensuring Security and Compliance: Keep your Microsoft Teams desktop clients up to date MC931401 Published Nov 12, 2024

(Updated) Device Management Changes for Microsoft Teams Android Devices MC665936 Published Aug 8, 2023

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Custom emojis and reactions MC795750 Published May 24, 2024

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Watermark for anonymous meeting join MC918575 Published Oct 25, 2024

Microsoft Teams: Seamlessly share apps and Microsoft 365 Copilot agents MC949004 Published Dec 5, 2024

 

  • Microsoft Viva – new message center posts:

 

 

Viva Learning: AI and Copilot Resources Provider visibility MC962529 Published Dec 20, 2024

The AI and Copilot Resources Provider that powers the out-of-box (OOB) Microsoft Copilot Academy will be visible by default to users who have Copilot licenses. Admins will be able to enable, disable, and apply permissions to the content of this provider.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 412064.

General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out in late December 2024 and expect to complete by early January 2025.

 

SharePoint Drag and Drop Experience Updates MC962525 Published Dec 20, 2024

Authors can utilize drag and drop functionality to place content from the content pane onto their pages. The content pane serves as a convenient hub for various panes that support authoring in crafting their publications. There are new updates to the drag and drop experience on the SharePoint canvas. This update also applies to the Amplify canvas.

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

General Availability (Production, GCC, GCC High, DOD): We will begin rolling out mid-February 2025 and expect to complete by late February 2025.

 

Microsoft Viva: Leaders can use Microsoft 365 Copilot in Viva Insights MC960821 Published Dec 19, 2024

Coming soon for the Microsoft Viva Insights app: Leaders can explore organizational and behavioral data using Microsoft 365 Copilot in Viva Insights. After this rollout, leaders can ask questions about their organization in chat and explore new reports.

  • New query capabilities: Leaders and their delegates will be able to ask Copilot in Viva Insights questions about their organization’s composition, team collaboration, hybrid work patterns, geographic distributions, and more.
  • New Copilot in Viva Insights-driven reports: Leaders and their delegates can also view reports on organizational composition information that include a list of employees and other uploaded attribute information like Function, Manager, and location information like Country or City.
  • New Viva Insights app home page: The home page will suggest queries that leaders can use in Copilot in Viva Insights. Previously existing leader reports and personal insights features will continue to be accessible through the Organizational behavior reports and Personal insights sections of the new home page.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 415452.

A Viva Insights premium license is required to access most of the features described in this message. A Microsoft 365 Copilot license is not needed to access the features described in this message.

This message applies to Viva Insights on the web and in the Viva Insights app in Teams for Windows desktop, Teams for the web, and Teams for iOS/Android.

Public Preview: We began rolling out early December 2024 and expect to complete by late December 2024.

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

 

Viva Engage: Enhanced keyword monitoring email notifications MC958892 Published Dec 16, 2024

We are releasing an enhanced user experience in Viva Engage for email notifications that admins receive while monitoring network keywords. This enhanced experience addresses security upgrades and offers additional context about the monitored keywords and the associated conversations.

The enhancements and upgrades are summarized below.

  • Only Entra ID-backed email addresses within your tenant will be supported as email recipients. Consumer email addresses (e.g. Google Gmail) will no longer be supported. Unsupported email addresses will receive a prompt to change to a compatible email address.
  • Private messages between individuals will no longer be detected by the keyword alert system. These messages are confidential and must be discovered through appropriate compliance solutions (e.g. Microsoft e-discovery) when necessary.
  • Email subjects will provide more context on the detected keyword and the associated community or storyline conversation.
  • Email bodies will include the detected keyword and an inline view of the conversation for public communities. For private community conversations, a link to the detected conversation/message will be provided. Recipients must have access to the community to view the conversation.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 470303.

General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out mid-December 2024 and expect to complete by late January 2025.

 

 

  • Microsoft Viva – updated message center posts:

 

 

(Updated) Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals - Enhanced goal sharing experience MC705348 Published Jan 9, 2024

(Updated) Microsoft Viva: Microsoft 365 Copilot now available to Viva Insights analysts MC943558 Published Nov 27, 2024

(Updated) Microsoft Viva: Updates to the admin experience MC947830 Published Dec 3, 2024

(Updated) Microsoft Viva Insights: Users can request delegate access MC922625 Published Oct 31, 2024

 

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

 

 

Disclaimer :

If others are interested to receive these “Friends of” messages directly from me, they can always share their contact details with me.

Or if you/they no longer want to receive these “Friends of” emails, just reply per email and I will remove you from this “Friends of” DL

 

Kind Regards/Vriendelijke groeten/Med vänlig hälsning/Salutations,

Mattias Kressmark


Disclaimer :

The content of this communication and its attachments (if any) is for general information purposes only and does not under any circumstance constitute a binding offer or acceptance of Microsoft Ireland Operations Limited, Microsoft NV/SA or any other Microsoft Group affiliate, unless this is expressly stated in a separate document executed by a person with sufficient powers to do so. The content shall not be considered to supplement or amend the terms of any existing agreement with Microsoft Ireland Operations Limited, Microsoft NV/SA or any other Microsoft Group affiliate. Furthermore you are reminded that the content is solely based on the limited information provided to us at the time of this communication and it will be subject to possible changes occurring hereafter.

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