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(Updated) Announcing Microsoft Teams Premium
MC445406
· Published Oct 12, 2022 · Last updated Jan 14, 2023
Updated January 14, 2022: We have updated the
content below to provide additional clarity. Thank you for your patience.
Today, we are excited to announce Microsoft
Teams Premium. Built on the familiar, all-in-one collaboration experience of
Microsoft Teams, this new offering makes every meeting from 1:1s to large
meetings, to virtual appointments to webinars more personalized, intelligent,
and protected. Unlike the disconnected experience and costs of multiple point
products or add-ons, with Teams Premium you get everything you need for just
one low price.
As part of the Teams Premium announcement,
these existing features will move to Teams Premium, and will be still open for
everyone for a grace period of time:
- Live translation of captions – available to all until 60 days after
Teams Premium General availability.
- Custom together mode scenes - available to all until 30 days after
Teams Premium General availability.
- Timeline markers in Teams meetings recordings (join/leave
meetings)- available to all until 30 days after Teams Premium General
availability.
- Virtual Appointments - available to all until 30 days after Teams
Premium General availability.
- SMS notifications
- Organizational analytics in Admin Center
- Scheduled queue view
Teams Premium will be generally available in
February.
Actionable Missed call Notification in Activity MC497317
· Published Jan 14, 2023
Users will have the option to call back on a
missed call directly from their activity feed. This will help users complete
the underlying task quickly and improve triaging of activities.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365
Roadmap ID 102236
Preview: We will begin rolling out mid-January
and expect to complete by late January.
Standard Release: We will begin rolling out
early February and expect to complete by mid-February.
Microsoft Teams: Federated Group Calling
MC496927
· Published Jan 12, 2023
We are releasing the capability for users to
easily start a group Teams call with federated colleagues outside of the
organization, including video and screensharing, all over an internet
connection without any PSTN usage charges.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365
Roadmap ID 103042
Rollout will begin in early January 2023 and is
expected to be complete by mid-January 2023.
(Updated) My Activity retirement in
Teams desktop and web clients MC450203
· Published Oct 26, 2022 · Last updated Jan 12, 2023
Updated January 12, 2023: We have updated the
timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
As announced in MC411679 (August '22) we are
retiring "My Activity" feature within the Activity app from Microsoft
Teams desktop and web clients.
Activity will now support only activities
directed to you (the option to view activities initiated by you will be retired),
where we will continue to invest our development resources.
We will begin rolling this out late February
(previously mid-November) and expect to complete by mid-March
(previously early December).
(Updated) Virtual Appointment as a new Teams
Meeting Template MC488588
· Published Dec 20, 2022 · Last updated Jan 12, 2023
Updated January 12, 2023: We have updated the
message to show as intended. Thank you for your patience.
A new Teams Meeting Template, Virtual
Appointment, will be added as a new template type accessible from the 'New
meeting' dropdown menu in the Teams Calendar. This is an included experience
that brings enhanced business-to-consumer meeting features into the lightweight
and familiar Teams scheduling experience. When meeting with someone from
outside of your organization, the Virtual Appointment meeting can be used to
ensure the person you are meeting with has a seamless experience with the
meeting from start to finish - all without having to learn new tools or leave
the standard scheduling flow.
Users can use the Virtual Appointment template
instead of a standard Teams meeting for meetings with external users. They can
select the meeting type, fill out the tailored scheduling form, including
external guests and meeting details, and then send the meeting. The external
guests invited will receive a customized meeting invitation that includes key
appointment details and a quick-join button, which allows users to join the
meeting from anywhere - without downloading Teams - and enter a pre-appointment
waiting room before the meeting begins. This provides a familiar experience to
internal users and makes external user join a seamless experience.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365
Roadmap ID 100705
We will begin rolling out early February 2023
and expect to complete by late February 2023.
(Updated) Suggested Replies in Teams Desktop
MC379024
· Published May 12, 2022 · Last updated Jan 12, 2023
Updated January 12, 2023: We have updated the
rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
Suggested Replies present users with an option
of three responses to choose from for selected messages and is now available to
your users in Teams Desktop.
We apologize for not informing you about this
change prior to it being released. We continue to work to ensure we are being
proactive in our communications. Thank you for your patience.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365
Roadmap ID 92674
Standard: Complete
GCC: mid-May through early June - Complete
GCC-High: late July (previously early June)
through mid-January (previously late October) - Complete
DoD: mid-January through late February
(previously mid-November)
(Updated) PowerPoint Live in Teams: Magnify
Slide MC452198
· Published Oct 28, 2022 · Last updated Jan 12, 2023
January 12, 2023: We have updated the rollout
timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
When a deck is presented via PowerPoint Live in
a Microsoft Teams meeting, all meeting attendees can use the Magnify Slide
feature to privately zoom into the presentation while maintaining full fidelity
of the slide content. When a meeting attendee magnifies a slide, it doesn’t change
how the presenter or the other meeting attendees view the slides. The “Sync to
presenter” button will also appear, which allows the meeting attendee to resume
following the presenter. When the meeting presenter uses the Magnify Slide
feature, the zoomed in presentation content is displayed to all meeting
attendees to see and follow along. The initial roll out of Magnify slide in
PowerPoint Live will only be available for Microsoft Teams Desktop.
There are multiple ways to use this feature in
a Teams Meeting using PPT Live:
- Use the +/- buttons in the (…) menu
- Use Plus or Minus keys or Shift + Plus or Shift + Minus key on the
keyboard (Ensure keyboard focus is on the PowerPoint Live slideshow area)
- Pinch or stretch on the track pad while hovering over the slide
- Pinch or stretch on the slide using a touch screen enabled device
- Use Ctrl + mouse wheel scroll while hovering over the slide
This message is associated with Microsoft 365
Roadmap ID 96758
This feature will reach GA by February
(previously early January).
Wiki retirement and the future of note taking
in Teams Channels MC496248
· Published Jan 11, 2023
We are announcing that Wiki's will be retired
from Teams. We are offering note taking capabilities through Teams Channels
powered by OneNote.
The following change will be rolled out
starting mid-February
Retirement of apps based on selected templates MC496251
· Published Jan 11, 2023
We will be retiring the apps based on the
following Teams App Templates - Poll, Survey, Checklist, Quiz and Training.
Check the app store for alternate options.
Note: If your organization is not using Teams
App Templates you can safely disregard this message.
The applications will be active until 10th
February. Users will be able to retrieve any data until 10th March. On 10th
March the applications will be fully retired.
Notification Granularity for Teams Mobile through
Intune MC496241
· Published Jan 11, 2023
Customers in fields like finance, healthcare,
and law have been asking for a more granular control of what Teams Mobile shows
and hides in a notification preview. In response, we are introducing an
optional way for admins to control how much detail a user sees in a lock screen
notification.
Note: This feature is only available to
customers with Intune. If you organization does not use Intune you can safely
disregard.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365
Roadmap ID 102651
We began rolling this out in mid-December and
expect to complete by late January.
(Updated) General availability - Receive all
chats messages in all scopes MC485096 · Published Dec 14, 2022 · Last
updated Jan 11, 2023
Updated January 10, 2023: We have updated the
timeline and content below. Thank you for your patience.
The resource-specific consent (RSC) permissions
model for receiving all message, originally developed for Microsoft Teams Graph
APIs, is being extended to bot scenarios. This feature was available for the
channel scope and now is being extended to chat scope. With RSC,
conversation owners can consent for a bot to receive all user messages in standard
channels and chats without being @mentioned.
This change is related to Microsoft 365 Roadmap
ID: 100883
Will begin rolling out early January and expect
to complete by late January.
(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Video Filters in
Teams Meetings MC495330
· Published Jan 7, 2023 · Last updated Jan 10, 2023
Updated January 10, 2023: We have updated the
content below to show as intended. Thank you for your patience.
Video Filters are a new feature in Microsoft
Teams meetings that will allow participants to augment their video stream with
visual effects, such as frames and styles. These filters are built on the Teams
Platform infrastructure and provided by Microsoft first- and third-party
partners as apps and displayed as a collection of filters.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365
Roadmap ID 86811
Public Preview: We will complete rollout in
late January 2023.
Standard Release and GCC: We will begin rolling
out in early February 2023 and expect to complete rollout in late April 2023.
Introduction of organization insights in
Microsoft Viva digest email MC496249
· Published Jan 11, 2023
The biweekly digest email will carry premium
organizational insights for qualifying managers. Initially, these insights will
include three rotating areas of focus: after-hour
collaboration, meeting
culture, and manager
1:1 time. Eventually, this pipeline of insights will grow.
Users can navigate directly to the Viva
Insights app in Teams for a more detailed view.
These changes will start rolling out in
mid-January 2023 and will be available worldwide by end of Feb 2023.
New Integration Management Settings for Global
Admins in Viva Goals
MC496243
· Published Jan 11, 2023
Viva Goals supports integrations with Microsoft
and third-party apps and platforms so that the OKR implementation process is as
simple, effective, and seamless as possible. Effective immediately, global
administrators can manage which integrations are available to Viva Goals
organizations in your tenant. Additionally, Microsoft Planner and Excel
integrations with Viva Goals will be available by default.
This capability is currently available. Rollout
is complete.
(Updated) New home experience for Viva
Connections desktop MC447338
· Published Oct 17, 2022 · Last updated Jan 10, 2023
Updated January 10, 2023: The New home
experiences for Viva Connections desktop will begin rolling out to production
tenants from January 17, 2023 and continue through Q1 of this calendar year.
As a reminder, customers that already have an
existing home site can choose to keep their existing desktop experience using
our new PowerShell command that is already available to all customers since
mid-November. More information about the PowerShell command is captured in this
doc Get
more details in the customization guidance.
Customers with existing home sites can choose
to keep their existing desktop experience using our new PowerShell command that
is already available to all customers since mid-November. More information
about the PowerShell command is captured in this doc: Customize
and edit the Viva Connections home experience.
A new desktop experience is being released for
Viva Connections that’s easier and faster to set up and optimizes content to
deliver a modern employee experience. The new Viva Connections desktop design
serves as a new home experience option that centers essential job tasks,
personalized content, easy access to other Viva experiences, and better aligns
with the mobile experience.
It uses existing assets from your
organization’s home site and Viva Connection’s Dashboard, Feed, and Resources.
If your organization already has Viva Connections set up, you’ll have the
option to choose to keep the existing desktop experiences that features the
home site or to use the new home experience. Learn more about the new
Viva Connections home experience.
Key points:
- If you’ve already set up Viva Connections, existing content will
pre-populate the new home experience.
- If you haven’t set up Viva Connections yet, the default experience
includes starter cards on the Dashboard but otherwise doesn’t impact the
current mobile experience.
- There will be an option to select the default landing experience if
your organization already has a home site. This option will become
available to all customer by mid-November in the form of a PowerShell
command. More information about the PowerShell command will be in the
customization guidance.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365
Roadmap ID 99917
The new home experience will become available
to Targeted release customers soon. More details about the release
schedule will be shared in a MC post in the near future.
The new home experience will become generally
available in 2023.
Get ready for Answers badges in Microsoft Viva. MC495890
· Published Jan 10, 2023
Answers badges are coming to Viva Engage!
People can get recognized by their colleagues through the Answers feature based
on the upvotes their questions or answers have earned, or if their answers were
marked as the best answer.
These are the 5 different badges that can be
earned:
- Best Answer: your answer is marked as the best answer
- Seeker level 1: your question receives 3 upvotes
- Seeker level 2: your question receives 10 upvotes
- Scholar level 1: your answer receives 3 upvotes
- Scholar level 2: your answer receives 10 upvotes
Each user will have an Achievements and awards
section where they can collect all their badges and check other people's badges
in their profiles as well.
They can access it from the right rail located
in Answers or on their profile page.
This announcement blog shows more about the Answers
badges experience.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365
Roadmap ID 72188
We will begin rolling out early February 2023
and expect to complete by early March 2023.
New Experiences coming to Viva Engage MC495879
· Published Jan 10, 2023
Next month, new experiences will be available
within Viva Engage for Microsoft Viva customers.
Admins will see new capabilities and service
plans in the Admin Center and new experiences in the Viva Engage app in
Microsoft Teams, and on Yammer.com. For an overview of these experiences, check
out this
blog.
We will begin rolling out February 2023 and
expect to complete by end of March 2023.
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