Kressmark Unified Communications: March 2023

Sunday, March 26, 2023

Friends of Microsoft Teams - Week 12 - 2023 (March 20 - March 26)

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 12 of 2023, March 20 – March 26.

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

Announcement!

Next week, March 27-30, 2023, we have the Enterprise Connect conference coming up, be prepared for a lot of awesome announcements! Have fun all of you who will participate live (yes, I'm a bit jealous.) :-)

https://enterpriseconnect.com

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

Field Advisories:

Community:

M365 Message Center :

Teams :

Enable second video stream with "Teams Content Camera on Desktop" MC532608 · Published 24 Mar 2023

Users will be able to enable a second video stream to support both their Personal Video and Teams Content Camera on Desktop feature. When enabling the Teams Content Camera on Desktop feature, the Personal Video is expected to be maintained so long that the user selects a separate Camera to support the two video streams.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 118580

Preview: We will begin rolling out late March and expect to complete by early April.

Standard Release: We will begin rolling out late March and expect to complete by late April.

New Indicator “EA” on Profile Picture for Microsoft Teams Public Preview users MC532194 · Published 23 Mar 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. There are no program requirements or commitments. This is an opt-in channel controlled via IT admin policy.

Up until today, users who were enrolled in Public Preview had a “P” next to their profile picture, however, that will change to “EA” indicating users have Early Access to Teams features.

This feature is now available for Preview.

(Updated) Autosuggest location for Emergency location MC524208 · Published 7 Mar 2023 · Last updated 23 Mar 2023

Updated March 22, 2023: The rollout of this feature is in progress.

This feature would allow users to easily get location recommendations for emergency location. Confirming the location via the autosuggest will mark the location as an assist driving emergency call directly to PSAP. We will still allow manual location confirmations.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 94692

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

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Force Public Preview Setting MC509574 · Published 31 Jan 2023 · Last updated 23 Mar 2023

Updated March 22, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

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 late March (previously mid-March).

Task publishing: Teams activity feed items for all team members/owners when an urgent task is published to their team MC531736 · Published 22 Mar 2023

What's changing: In response to numerous customer requests, we're improving visibility when an urgent task is published to a Microsoft Teams Team. After this feature is rolled out, when an organization uses the task publishing feature to publish a task with a priority set to Urgent, each member or owner of the team that receives this task will receive a Teams activity feed informing them that an urgent task was published to their team. This will ensure greater visibility for the time-sensitive urgent tasks, such as product recalls that need to be acted upon at multiple locations as soon as possible. This will not affect when a user creates an urgent task in the Planner app for their own team. This change in notification activity is specific to the special task publishing functionality which must be enabled by an admin.

What is task publishing: The task publishing feature is designed for frontline organizations that need work to be completed across distinct locations (such as stores, clinics, factories, branches). Task publishing allows business leaders to centrally define a set of tasks to be completed and distribute a copy of those tasks to tens, hundreds, or thousands of teams across your organization. Frontline organizations can also monitor the status of the work during execution. Visit the task publishing documentation to see a video overview of the feature. You can also view the instructions to set up task publishing for more information.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID: 117573

We expect to roll out this feature beginning late March, and we expect to complete by mid-April.

Task publishing: Teams activity feed items for all team members/owners when an urgent task is published to their team MC531216 · Published 21 Mar 2023

What's changing: In response to numerous customer requests, we're improving visibility when an urgent task is published to a Microsoft team. After this feature is rolled out, when an organization uses the task publishing feature to publish a task with a priority set to Urgent, each member or owner of the team that receives this task will receive a Teams activity feed informing them that an urgent task was published to their team. This will ensure greater visibility for the time-sensitive urgent tasks, such as product recalls that need to be acted upon at multiple locations as soon as possible. This will not affect when a user creates an urgent task in the Tasks app for their own team. This change in notification activity is specific to the special task publishing functionality which must be enabled by an admin.

What is task publishing: The task publishing feature is designed for frontline organizations that need work to be completed across distinct locations (such as stores, clinics, factories, branches). Task publishing allows business leaders to centrally define a set of tasks to be completed and distribute a copy of those tasks to tens, hundreds, or thousands of teams across your organization. Frontline organizations can also monitor the status of the work during execution. Visit the task publishing documentation to see a video overview of the feature. You can also view the instructions to set up task publishing for more information.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID: 117573

We expect to roll out this feature beginning late March, and we expect to complete by mid-April.

(Updated) Teams update: Expanded view of the profile card in Teams MC494734 · Published 5 Jan 2023 · Last updated 21 Mar 2023

Updated March 21, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Beginning in March, users in your organization will be able to use expanded views of the profile card in Teams. The expanded view is already available in Outlook and includes more information, like an overview of the profile, contact information, organizational chart, and LinkedIn tab.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 109526.

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

Microsoft Teams: Change Call Queue and Auto Attendant Greetings and Announcements by Authorized Users MC527929 · Published 15 Mar 2023 · Last updated 21 Mar 2023

Updated March 21, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Changing business conditions often require adjustments to call queue/auto attendant greetings and announcements. However, it can be difficult to identify the right Teams admin to make these changes, and addressing high request volumes can be time-consuming for the responsible admins. With the introduction of user managed CQ/AA greetings for Teams Phone, authorized users (as identified by Teams tenant admins) can change greetings and announcements for their respective call queues and auto attendant directly from the user’s Teams settings, in the “Calls” settings. To implement this capability, tenant admins must select permissible greetings/announcement changes for a voice policy, and then authorize specific users in the Teams Admin Center.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 116739

Preview: We will begin rolling out in mid-April (previously late March) and expect to complete rollout by early May (previously early April).

Standard Release: We will begin rolling out in mid-May (previously mid-April) and expect to complete rollout by early June (previously late April).

Microsoft 365/Viva :

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Sunday, March 19, 2023

Friends of Microsoft Teams - Week 11 - 2023 (March 13 - March 19)

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 11 of 2023, March 13 – March 19.

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

Announcement!

Got a message from Elgato Technical Support this week that the issue with the Microsoft Teams Plugin has been resolved and it is now available on the Elgato plugin store again.

https://apps.elgato.com/plugins/com.microsoft.teams

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

Field Advisories:

Community:

M365 Message Center :

Teams :

Microsoft Teams: Green screen feature in Teams Meetings MC529415 · Published Mar 17, 2023

Microsoft Teams will soon be releasing a new green screen feature for users. The virtual background with a green screen will provide an enhanced virtual background effect.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 117941

Public Preview: We will complete rollout by late March.

Standard and GCC: We will begin rolling out in mid-April and expect to complete rollout by late April.

GCC-H: We will begin rolling out in early May and expect to complete rollout by mid-May.

DoD: We will begin rolling out in early June and expect to complete rollout by late June.

(Updated) Wiki retirement and the future of note taking in Teams Channels MC496248 · Published Jan 11, 2023 · Last updated Mar 17, 2023

Updated March 17, 2023: We have updated the timing of this change, below. Thank you for your patience.

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 late March (previously early March).

(Updated) Introducing OneNote viewer in Teams mobile apps MC469578 · Published Nov 22, 2022 · Last updated Mar 17, 2023

Updated March 16, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

We are excited to announce the OneNote viewer feature within Teams mobile apps.

Through this new feature, users will be able to open and view OneNote notebooks right within their Teams mobile apps. Users interested in editing the content will be directed to the standalone OneNote mobile app. The experience will be available as part of the Teams mobile apps on Android and iOS (including iPads) starting with English language users, followed by international languages.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 103097

Standard Release: We expect to begin rolling out the OneNote viewer starting early December 2022 and complete the rollout by late March (previously late February).

Microsoft Teams: New Files app in Teams MC528955 · Published Mar 16, 2023

Securely store, organize, and collaborate on all your files anytime, from anywhere and across all of your devices with the new files app experience in Teams. The new files app brings a modern experience to all of your content from your chats, channels or meetings including any location from OneDrive or SharePoint.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 97677

Preview: We will complete rollout by late March.

Standard Release: We will begin rolling out in early April and expect to complete rollout by mid-April.

GCC, GCC-H: We will begin rolling out in early May and expect to complete rollout by late May.

DoD: We will begin rolling out in early June and expect to complete rollout by late June.

(Updated) Enabling New Call Controls with Survivable Branch Appliance MC514979 · Published Feb 13, 2023 · Last updated Mar 16, 2023

Updated March 16, 2023: This functionality is now fully released. As part of the release users will have additional functionality during the survivability:

Users can not only use a dialpad to call but can now call them using profile card and by searching by their name.
Users can use call history to call a user with a PSTN.

Note: VOIP calls are only possible if Caller and Callee have PSTN numbers and proper policies in place.

In the event of a network outage, users will soon have access to new call controls with Survivable Branch Appliance. Users will be able to use contact search, dial by name, and initiate a call from their call history. When connected to the same SBA and network, VoIP calls to peers will be routed through PSTN if the call recipient has an associated phone number.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 111421

Rollout will begin in mid-February and is expected to be complete by late February.

Invoke Content Camera on Desktop feature MC528358 · Published Mar 15, 2023

Currently, users must turn on sharing from a content camera in Microsoft Teams via the Share tray on the Teams Meeting stage.

Moving forward, users will be able to start and stop sharing content directly from a certified Teams device. This feature enables presenters to share a Whiteboard, document, or video more quickly during a meeting.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 118587

Preview: This is now available in preview.

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

Microsoft Teams: Change Call Queue and Auto Attendant Greetings and Announcements by Authorized Users MC527929 · Published Mar 15, 2023

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 116739

Preview: We will begin rolling out in late March and expect to complete rollout by early April.

Standard Release: We will begin rolling out in mid-April and expect to complete rollout by late April.

Teams Meeting Add-in Log Files Location Change MC527924 · Published Mar 15, 2023

We're making some changes to the location of Teams meeting add-in log files.

We will begin rolling out to Standard tenants in mid-March and expect to complete rollout by mid-April.

GCC, GCCH, and DoD will begin rollout in mid-April and expect to complete by mid-May.

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Users ability to delete chats MC466199 · Published Nov 12, 2022 · Last updated Mar 14, 2023

Updated March 14, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Due to an issue with admin controls in TAC that we are actively working on fixing, please refer to the PowerShell documentation to control the setting for enabling or disabling delete chat capability. Link: Set-CsTeamsMessagingPolicy

Users will be able to delete 1:1 chats, group chats, and meeting chats if they are a participant in Microsoft Teams. This permanently deletes the chat only for the user, other people in the chat and conversation history are not impacted.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 90723

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

(Updated) Suggested Files in 1:1 Chats MC513664 · Published Feb 10, 2023 · Last updated Mar 14, 2023

Updated March 14, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

As an extension of Suggested Replies in 1:1 chats, you can now easily save time when you need to send a file in a chat by tapping on a "Share file" suggestion.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 95065

Standard Release: We will begin rolling this out early April (previously early March)

GCC: We will begin rolling this out early April (previously early March).

GCC-High: We will begin rolling this out early May (previously early April).

DoD: We will begin rolling this out early June (previously early May).

Microsoft 365/Viva :

Meeting Category Trends and Details in the Viva Insights App in Teams and Meeting Category Insights Card in Digest Email MC434658 · Published Sep 19, 2022 · Last updated Mar 16, 2023

Updated March 16, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Categories in Outlook and Teams allow users to easily tag, label, and group calendar events. In the Viva Insights app in Teams, using meeting category insights in the Effective meetings tab, users can see a percentage breakdown of how they are distributing their time across their categories.

An upcoming update to this feature will allow users to:

See how their meeting time distribution has changed over the last 3 months, the last 4 weeks, and the next 4 weeks under meeting trends
View the list of meetings in each category, with details including meeting name, total time spent, duration of each instance, and cadence, under meeting details

We are also releasing a new card in the Digest email from Microsoft Viva that summarizes their meeting category insights. In this card, users will be able to see up to 3 categories in which they have spent the most time over the last 4 weeks. This card will show the percentage of time each category contributed to the user’s total meeting time in the last 4 weeks, as well as how that percentage has changed from the previous 4 weeks. The explore more button provides an easy way to navigate to meeting category insights in the Viva Insights app, where users can explore percentage breakdown, trends, and details.

These features will be available for users who have a Viva Insights subscription.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 98164

We will begin rolling out in early November (previously mid-October) and expect to complete rollout by early April (previously late February).

Project for the Web Integration in Viva Goals MC528361 · Published Mar 15, 2023

Integrations in Viva Goals help save time and energy by automatically updating your key results and projects through connections to other applications from Microsoft and third parties. These integrations allow data to flow from the connected applications into Viva Goals so that results and initiatives are up to date. Viva Goals is launching a new integration for Microsoft Project for the Web which will enable users to automatically update Initiatives and Key Results in Viva Goals based on progress in Project for the Web.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 117462

We will begin rolling out in mid-April and expect to complete rollout by early May.