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Sunday, February 5, 2023

Friends of Microsoft Teams - Week 5 - 2023 (January 30 - February 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 5 of 2023, January 30 – February 5.

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

Announcement!

In the blog post Delivering new webinar experiences with Microsoft Teams Microsoft announced an integration (plugin) for the Elgato Stream Deck and Microsoft Teams. There have been a lot of buzz around this news this week.

"With the new Elgato Stream Deck plugin integration with Teams, you can now easily manage and control functions directly in a Teams meeting and webinar with a touch of a button. By programming custom keys on the Elgato Stream Deck device for some of the most widely used, common features in Teams, you’ll be able to manage controls more seamlessly, ensure you never get stuck on mute again, and remember to leave the event once it’s done."

I got my own Stream Deck this week, but unfortunately the Teams plugin was removed from Elgatos store, hopefully it is just some minor bug fixing needed and I will be able to test this cool piece of hardware soon in a Teams meeting. Looks really promising anyhow!

 

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


Field Advisories:

 

Community:


M365 Message Center :

 

  • Teams :

Microsoft Teams: Walkie Talkie Transmission Usage Report on Teams Admin Center MC511153 · Published Feb 3, 2023

The Walkie Talkie usage and performance report in the Microsoft Teams admin center will give an overview of Walkie Talkie activity in your organization. The report provides information such as the number of push-to-talk (PTT) transmissions made and received, channel activity, transmission duration, and device and participant details. Click here for more information.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 96972

We will begin rollout in early February and expect rollout to be complete by mid-February.

 

(Updated) Export feature in Teams Admin Center MC337332 · Published Feb 28, 2022 · Last updated Feb 2, 2023

Updated February 2, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Teams admin center is adding support for downloading the data from the list pages like teams list page, members list page, channels list page and users list page. The downloaded data will be in the form of a CSV file. Admins can click on the “Export” icon placed on the table headers in these pages to generate the data and download the CSV from the downloads section in the header of the Teams admin center.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID: 85704

We will begin rolling this out in early March and expect to complete the rollout by late April (previously late January).

 

(Updated) The Room Remote feature for desktop MC499441 · Published Jan 20, 2023 · Last updated Feb 2, 2023

Updated February 2, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

The Room Remote feature enables touchless meetings by allowing users to control a nearby shared meeting room device from their Desktop/PC with Teams client.

This feature was first launched on Mobile and will now be available on your Desktop device formfactor.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 95482

Rollout is expected to start mid-January 2023 and will complete mid-February (previously late January).

 

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Busy-on-busy End User Setting MC509571 · Published Jan 31, 2023 · Last updated Feb 2, 2023

Updated February 2, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Manage how incoming calls are routed when you are busy in an existing call or meeting directly from your Calls settings in the Teams app or on the web. Choose from the option to allow calls to come through, play a busy signal, or to redirect the call based on your unanswered call routing preference.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 86991

Standard/GCC: will begin rolling out early March (previously late February) and complete by mid-March (previously early March)

GCC-H/DoD: will begin mid-March and expect to complete by late April.

 

(Updated) Quick Access Teams and Sharepoint Document Libraries in win32 backstage MC432475 · Published Sep 16, 2022 · Last updated Feb 2, 2023

Updated February 2, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Currently, users experience some frustration when using Office products because of all different routes that they must use to access all their content. The Quick Access feature will allow users to access shared libraries from both their SharePoint and Teams locations. When the user opens files from shared libraries, these libraries will show up in the form of a list which will encourage users to save and open files to these libraries with ease. This helps deliver a more consistent, coherent storage location experience across M365 apps. This new backstage experience won’t show up in Teams, SharePoint, or OneDrive but does include storage locations from OneDrive and Teams (sites/channels) which are stored on SharePoint.

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

Standard Release: We will begin rolling out late June and expect to complete by late July.

 

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Video Filters in Teams Meetings MC495330 · Published Jan 7, 2023 · Last updated Feb 2, 2023

Updated February 2, 2023: We have updated the timeline below. 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 March (previously early February) and expect to complete rollout in late May (previously late April).

 

Microsoft Teams support for Targeted Release MC510331 · Published Feb 2, 2023

Microsoft Teams will support Targeted Release for commercial cloud customers.

With this support, users opted-in to Targeted Release will be the first production users to see the latest Microsoft Teams features and help shape the product by providing early feedback.

Prior to this, Targeted Release provided early access to OneDrive for Business, SharePoint Online, Office for the web, Microsoft 365 admin center and some components of Exchange Online.

What is Targeted Release?

  • Targeted release allows early access to high quality feature releases across Microsoft 365 apps and services, which customers can opt-in to prepare for the upcoming changes before they roll out to the rest of the organization.
  • Customers can choose to have a select set of individuals, or the entire organization receives updates early via Targeted Release.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID: 117577

We will begin rolling out in late February and expect to complete by mid-March 2023.

 

Delete or rename files in a channel and in your OneDrive folder in Teams MC510326 · Published Feb 2, 2023

This is a follow up to MC455193 (November '22). We had to delay the rollout and are now ready to proceed. Thank you for your patience.

To rename or delete a file in a channel, go to the files tab and find the file you want. Then select More options (the three dots) on the file.

To rename or delete a file from your OneDrive, select More at the bottom of the app, then select Files. Once you find the file you want, select the three dots and choose to rename or delete it.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 98073, 98074

We began rolling out early November 2022 and expect to complete by mid-February.

 

(Updated) 2x2 Video in Gallery View for Web Meetings in Firefox MC455187 · Published Nov 2, 2022 · Last updated Feb 1, 2023

Updated February 1, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Gallery view now can show up to 4 participant videos during a meeting in Firefox browser. Users can also start streaming their own video for the rest of the meeting participants.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 100983

We will begin rolling out early December and expect to complete by late February (previously mid-December).

 

(Updated) General availability - Receive all chats messages in all scopes MC485096 · Published Dec 14, 2022 · Last updated Jan 31, 2023

Updated January 31, 2023: We have updated the timeline and content below. Thank you for your patience.

The resource-specific consent (RSC) permissions model for receiving all messages, 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

We will begin rolling out in early March (previously early January) and expect to complete by late March (previously late January). This is intended to give developers more time to check that their apps handle the new behavior correctly, and make changes if needed.

 

(Updated) View the Full Chat conversation thread after clicking on search message results MC428512 · Published Sep 9, 2022 · Last updated Jan 31, 2023

Updated January 31, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

When users search for a chat message in Teams and click on a message result, they are taken to a view that contains only the selected message, rather than the entire chat thread. This fix will now land the users on the full chat thread once the message search result is clicked, thereby providing full context of the conversation around the message result.

The feature will be rolling out for Teams Desktop and Web clients and is applicable to message results on the SERP page and the contextual search surfaces.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 97510

Standard: We will begin rolling this out in early October and complete late October 2022. - Complete

GCC-H: We will begin rolling this out in late October and complete mid-November 2022. - Complete

GCC: We will begin rolling this out in mid-February and complete end of February.

DoD: We will begin rolling this out in mid-February and complete end of February.

 

Visio Personal App in Teams MC509577 · Published Jan 31, 2023

Visio will be available soon as a Teams Personal App. There are no changes to the existing file open behavior, however there are new abilities that the Visio Personal App can provide. Additionally, this change comes with a number of UX improvements to the Office ribbon in Teams to provide a decluttered experience consistent with Office for the Web.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 109596

App rollout has begun and is expected to be completed by mid-April 2023.

 

New Direct Routing SIP endpoints MC509575 · Published Jan 31, 2023

We're making some changes to Direct Routing.

On/Starting January 30, 2023, we're introducing new signaling IPs to Teams Direct Routing SIP endpoints.

 

Microsoft Teams: Force Public Preview Setting MC509574 · Published Jan 31, 2023

Microsoft Teams Public Preview provides early access to pre-release features for product quality, internal planning, adoption & training readiness before they roll out to the rest of their company.

Public preview is enabled on a per-user basis, and the option to turn on Public Preview is controlled via Teams admin policy as described here: Microsoft Teams Public Preview

Today, when admins enable this policy for an end user, that user needs to opt-in via Teams app to get into Public Preview. We are adding a new value named ‘Forced’ for this policy that will allow IT admins to move users to Public Preview without having users to opt-in to Public Preview via Teams app.

We will begin rolling out early March and expect to complete by the mid-March 2023

 

  • Microsoft 365/Viva :

Schedule Send Suggestions Available in Microsoft Teams Chat MC510792 · Published Feb 3, 2023

When composing a 1:1 message in Teams chat after-hours, users will see schedule send suggestions that enable postponing message delivery until the start of the chat recipient’s working hours. Schedule send suggestions will be available as default on.

With schedule send suggestions for chat turned on, users with Viva Insights subscriptions can get an unlimited number of scheduling suggestions for postponing message delivery to their coworkers.

With schedule send suggestions for chat turned off, users will not get any schedule send suggestions.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 98159

We will begin rolling out in late February and expect to complete by late March.

 

(Updated) Introduction of organization insights in Microsoft Viva digest email MC496249 · Published Jan 11, 2023 · Last updated Feb 2, 2023

Updated February 2, 2023: We are making additional changes prior to rolling out this feature. We will update the message with a new timeline. Thank you for your patience.

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.

We will communicate the new timeline in the near future.

 

“Projects” in Viva Goals is changing to “Initiatives” MC510329 · Published Feb 2, 2023

To align deeper with the OKR methodology, “Projects” in Viva Goals is renamed to “Initiatives”. In addition to changing the default terminology to Initiatives, Viva Goals will also be introducing the ability for organization admins to customize the term to a term of your choosing. 

Standard Release: We will begin rolling out mid-February 2023 and expect to complete by late February 2023.

 

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