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Sunday, January 15, 2023

Friends of Microsoft Teams - Week 2 - 2023 (January 9 - January 15)

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 2 of 2023, January 9 – January 15.

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 :

 

  • Teams :


(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.

 

  • Microsoft 365/Viva :

 

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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