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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 29 of 2024, July 15 – July 21.
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What's New in Microsoft Teams (and Microsoft 365):
Field Advisories:
- Prompt
Like a Pro: 8 Tips and tricks for working with Copilot in Teams
- Introducing
Coauthoring for SharePoint Pages and News
- New
ways to get creative with Microsoft Designer, powered by AI
- Copilot
features in the Viva Insights advanced app
- Dynamics 365 Contact
Center 2024 Release Wave 2 Release Highlights
Community:
- Call
Record Insights Update - Add User Principal Name to Records
- Team
Owners Can Rename the General Channel
- Copilot for Microsoft
365 Made Easy - Prompts, Bookmarks, Automation
M365 Message Center :
- Microsoft
Teams – new message center posts:
Microsoft Teams: External USB Webcams are
now supported in Teams meetings MC822724
Published Jul 19, 2024
With the release of Apple iPadOS 17, Microsoft
Teams will now support external webcams and cameras in meetings and calls on Apple
iPads. Simply connect your external webcam and camera to your Apple iPad.
General Availability (Worldwide, DoD): We will
begin rolling out late June 2024 and expect to complete by early July 2024.
Microsoft Teams: Hide presenters,
translators, moderators or staff from webinar event page MC822723
Published Jul 19, 2024
Before this rollout, all presenters added to a
Microsoft Teams webinar were displayed on the event page. Coming soon to Teams:
webinar organizers will be able to add individuals to the webinar and give them
presenter privileges—to join the green room, manage what attendees see, turn
their camera on or off, and moderate the event—without including the
individuals on the event page as presenters. This feature will allow webinar
organizers to support roles like live translators, event moderators, and staff
who are not presenting. This message applies to Teams on Windows and the web.
General Availability (Worldwide, GCC): We will
begin rolling out early August 2024 and expect to complete by early
September 2024.
Microsoft Teams: Multiple camera view for
Teams Rooms on Windows MC818885
Published Jul 18, 2024
Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows will be soon
able to send up to four single-stream USB camera feeds to render on the
receiver side, so remote meeting participants can view all cameras simultaneously.
This opt-in feature requires admins to first enable the multiple camera view
and map cameras to the desired order that will be displayed on the receiver
side. With multiple camera view enabled, remote meeting participants will be
able to follow all the action in the room and manually switch to the desired
room. This message applies to Teams for Desktop (Windows, Mac).
This message is associated with Microsoft 365
Roadmap ID 402517.
General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin
rolling out mid-September 2024 and expect to complete by late September
2024.
General Availability (GCC, GCCH, DoD): We will
begin rolling out in mid-October 2024 and expect to complete by late October
2024.
Microsoft Teams: Bidirectional Support for
Teams Live Interpretation MC816179
Published Jul 17, 2024
With bidirectional support in Teams Live
Interpretation, interpreters can now switch the translation direction between
two languages by clicking on the button of the language they want to interpret
into at the bottom of the screen. The highlighted language button will be the
language the interpreter is translating into and attendees hear.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365
Roadmap ID 403103.
Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out
early August 2024 and expect to complete by mid-August 2024.
General Availability (Worldwide, GCC): We will
begin rolling out mid-August 2024 and expect to complete by late August
2024.
General Availability (GCC High, DoD): We will
begin rolling out late September 2024 and expect to complete by early
October 2024.
Microsoft Teams: Video tile re-sizing based
on people count for Teams Rooms on Windows MC814587
Published Jul 16, 2024
In Gallery view for Microsoft Teams meetings, a
room video is optimized and larger in size to increase visibility of
participants that are in a Teams Room. With this update, the room video tile
will dynamically re-size based on people count to ensure adequate and equitable
space is allocated in Gallery view. If there is only one participant in the
room, the video tile will be the same size as another remote participant tile.
If there is more than one participant in the room, the room video tile will
remain optimized, at 4x the size of a remote participant. To determine the
people count in rooms, Cloud IntelliFrame must be enabled or there must be a
room camera that is capable of sending people count via Accessory Signaling
Protocol (ASP).
This message is associated with Microsoft 365
Roadmap ID 400706.
General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin
rolling out mid-August 2024 and expect to complete by end of August 2024.
Microsoft Teams: Ability to rename General
channel MC814583
Published Jul 16, 2024
Based on customer feedback, we are introducing
the ability to provide a meaningful name to the General channel in a new or
existing team. The General channel can be renamed by the team owners to show up
in the teams' and channels' list of all members in alphabetical order.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365
Roadmap ID 395931
Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out
early August 2024 and expect to complete by mid-August 2024.
General Availability
Worldwide: We will begin rolling out mid-August
2024 and expect to complete by late August 2024.
GCC: We will begin rolling out early September
2024 and expect to complete by mid-September 2024.
GCC High: We will begin rolling out
mid-September 2024 and expect to complete by late September 2024.
DoD: We will begin rolling out mid-September
2024 and expect to complete by late September 2024.
Microsoft Teams: Roster grouping for in-room
participants through Proximity Join for Teams Rooms on Windows MC814577 Published Jul 16, 2024
When joining a meeting in Teams Room on Windows
with a companion device (laptop or mobile), in-room participants will be
grouped under the room node. Participants must join through Proximity Join.
This update includes additional UI elements to create visual clarity of the
in-room participants who are together.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365
Roadmap ID 400702
General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin
rolling out mid-August 2024 and expect to complete by end of August 2024.
General Availability (GCC, GCC High, DoD): We
will begin rolling out mid-September 2024 and expect to complete roll-out by
end of September 2024.
Microsoft Teams: Legal hold and eDiscovery
support for webinars and town halls MC814576
Published Jul 16, 2024
Before this rollout, compliance admins can
place Microsoft Purview eDiscovery legal holds on Microsoft Teams webinar and
town hall data using Team's ability to target SharePoint locations where Teams
content is housed. Due to heightened security requirements and the need for
specialized compliance support, we are moving legal holds in Teams from the
SharePoint integration to a more direct integration with Purview.
The more direct integration of Teams legal
holds with Purview will begin July 31, 2024. Legal holds through
SharePoint will not apply to any new Teams webinars or town hall meetings
created after July 31, 2024, because newly created Teams town hall and webinar
data will not reside in SharePoint. Legal holds on events created before July
31, 2024 will continue to work through SharePoint. Full support for Purview
eDiscovery legal holds is anticipated by early 2025. Purview eDiscovery will
continue to work for all events, even after July 31, 2025. Only eDiscovery
legal hold will be affected by this integration.
- Microsoft
Teams – updated message center posts:
n/a
- Microsoft
Viva – new message center posts:
Changes to Topics in Viva Engage MC823308 Published Jul 19, 2024
In February 2024 the retirement of Viva Topics
(Changes coming to Topics) was announced. As part of that
change, Viva Engage will return to a simplified topics model, called Engage
topics, and the integration with Viva Topics will be retired.
The following premium Viva Topics experiences
and lightweight topics management experiences will no longer be available in
Viva Engage, including:
- Viewing Viva Topics card when hovering on a topic
- Viewing or using AI-discovered Viva Topics
- Links to Viva Topics pages
- Topic management via Viva Topics or lightweight topics management
- Featuring of topics in Answers
Using Engage topics, users will continue to be
able to create topics, add topics to posts, follow topics, edit topics they
created, and increase the relevance of their feeds by following topics. Topic
creators will gain the ability to delete topics they created. Applicable admins
will continue to be able to edit topics and will gain the ability to delete
topics within Viva Engage.
Organizations using Answers in Viva (Answers in Viva: Introduction) will continue to see additional
topic capabilities including bulk topic deletion for admins, AI suggested topics
for questions, topics promoted for following, and topic browse experiences. The
described topic experiences will be available to Viva Engage tenants that have
been migrated to Engage topics.
Rollout will begin August 2024 and will
complete for all tenants migrated to use Viva Topics in Viva Engage by April
2025. Tenants using legacy topics in Viva Engage will begin migrations in
September 2024 and migrations will continue until all Native mode networks have
been completed.
Headspace will no longer be available through
Viva Insights MC823285 Published Jul 19, 2024
The Headspace experience is currently not
functioning in Viva Insights. Headspace and all of its content will be removed
from Viva Insights. All Headspace entry points and experiences within Viva
Insights Home, Virtual Commute, Focus Mode, and Wellbeing Tabs will no longer
be accessible and removed effective July 25th, 2024.
Viva Insights will remove all Headspace content
within Viva Insights to users starting July 25th, 2024.
Microsoft Viva Pulse: Updates to Privacy
controls MC816195 Published Jul 17, 2024
Before this rollout, Microsoft Viva Pulse
admins can configure the Minimum number of responses required to see feedback
in the Viva Pulse app under the Manage tab. This control is used to determine
the minimum number of recipients a Pulse author needs to send their request to
and how many responses must be received for a report to be created and provided
to the author.
Coming soon: A new Minimum number of recipients
control will allow admins to separately manage the minimum number of recipients
and minimum number of responses required, for more granular control. Both are
required, and the minimum number of recipients must always be equal to or
greater than the minimum number of responses required.
General Availability: We will begin rolling out mid-August 2024 and expect to complete by late August 2024.
- Microsoft
Viva – updated message center posts:
n/a
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- Microsoft Teams Rooms (MTR)
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- TechCommunity Teams Blog
- Teams Community Blog
- TechCommunity Microsoft 365 Blog
- TechCommunity Viva Blog
- Microsoft Teams Public
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- https://aka.ms/TeamsFeedback
- Microsoft 365 Roadmap
- Microsoft 365 Message Center (M365 Admin rights)
- Stay on top of Microsoft 365 changes
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