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Sunday, May 7, 2023

Friends of Microsoft Teams - Week 18 - 2023 (May 1 - May 7)

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 18 of 2023, May 1 – May 7.

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 :

 

Microsoft Teams: Together Mode Usability Improvements in Teams Meetings MC551019 · Published 5 maj 2023

We are bringing new usability improvements to Together Mode in Microsoft Teams. Participants in Together Mode will have name labels attached to their videos. Name labels will also support status icons that indicate microphone, active speaker, spotlight or pin within the meeting. Additionally, your own video in the gallery will now be removed while Together Mode is active to avoid duplication of the self-preview. Lastly, Together Mode will display raised hands and reactions within the view.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 122127

Targeted Release and Public Preview: We will begin rolling out in early May and expect to complete rollout by mid-May.

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

GCC-High and DoD: We will begin rolling out in mid-June and expect to complete rollout by late June.

 

New Lobby Policy for Webinar MC550804 · Published 5 maj 2023

Currently in Public webinars, you are unable to distinguish registered users in the lobby. This means that you cannot allow registered users to directly bypass your lobby and enter your webinar. With this new change, we will be offering two new lobby options that will allow you to better control security in your webinar. These new lobby options are:

A new 'Allow registered users to bypass' lobby policy that allows registered users to bypass the lobby in your webinar.

A new 'Reject users who cannot bypass the lobby' that rejects users who cannot bypass the lobby.

Both options are only available for Webinars.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 125881

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

 

GradeSync for Teams Assignments retirement MC550584 · Published 5 maj 2023

Effective May 31, 2023, Grade Sync feature of Microsoft Teams Assignments will no longer be available to new customers. Existing customers may continue to use it until June 30, 2023.

When this will happen: June 30, 2023

 

Signaling Epic when guest drops out from initial lobby. MC550530 · Published 4 maj 2023

With this update Microsoft EHR connector will be able to track each individual disconnect when a guest leaves the initial lobby after joining a Microsoft Teams EHR Connector virtual visit via Teams. Until now the disconnect signal was not being sent to Epic to show a guest has left the meeting from initial Lobby. This was only happening in v1.1 or v1.2 of the Microsoft Teams EHR Connector.

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

 

Change to the Teams Live Event Attendee experience for users with guest access MC550090 · Published 3 maj 2023

We have recently pushed new updates to the Teams Live Event Attendee experience to support the new RTMP-In scenario for Teams. We have identified an issue that will cause us to change how we currently support Teams Live Event Attendees that join using guest access via the Web. Starting in May, we will no longer support guest users joining on the Web as a Teams Live Event Attendee.

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

 

Microsoft Teams: New Channels Experience MC550081 · Published 3 maj 2023

A new channels experience in Microsoft Teams has been built with an intuitive design that allows teams to focus and stay on tasks, bring everyone up to speed, and actively engage in real-time. The following features will be rolling out:

  • The compose box and recent posts will appear at the top of the page. It'll now be much easier to start a new post, keep up with the latest conversations and participate - giving users the confidence that they’ve not missed anything. 
  • Every post is now a true conversation that users can focus on. Users can navigate to a conversation view that makes the discussion more engaging and synchronous, just like a chat. Users can also pop out the post, keep an eye on the discussion, while continuing to work on other topics.
  • A streamlined information pane will include all the important contextual information like channel’s members and pinned posts so new team members can quickly on-board and for all members to find the information they need, right in the channel.
  • Pin posts to make it easy for everyone to know what’s important in the channel and quickly reference it.
  • Simplified badging is making it easier for users to understand when there are new unread activities in teams. In addition, the simplified design helps users focus on the specific channels which requires the most attention, like channels in which the user was @mentioned.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 91683

Standard and GCC: We will begin rollout in early June and expect to complete rollout by mid-June.

GCC-H and DoD: We will begin rollout in mid-July and expect to complete rollout by late July.

 

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Enhancements to Search Experience on Teams App Store MC546446 · Published 25 apr. 2023 · Last updated 2 maj 2023

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

We're improving the search experience on the Teams App Store, designed to enhance app discoverability by extending search capabilities to include short and long descriptions, category names, and support for minor typing errors.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 122521

Rollout is expected to begin in early June (previously early May) and is expected to be complete by late July (previously late June).

 

(Updated) Avatars for Microsoft Teams MC533652 · Published 27 mars 2023 · Last updated 2 maj 2023

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

Avatars for Microsoft Teams gives you that much-needed camera break, while still allowing you to collaborate effectively. You can add a new layer of choice to your meetings and represent yourself the way you want with customizable avatars and reactions.

Represent yourself the way you want with customizable avatars and reactions. Save up to three avatars for different meeting types, such as casual, professional, and day to day. Note that Avatars for Microsoft Teams is designed for users 18+.

This release is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID: 107969

Targeted Release (Public Preview): We expect to begin rolling out late March and expect to be complete by early-April.

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

 

(Updated) Teams Video Clip Auto-Generated Captions MC534735 · Published 29 mars 2023 · Last updated 2 maj 2023

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

Teams Video Clip was released last November, we are updating the feature with auto-generated captions support.

Targeted Release and Preview: We will begin rolling out early May (previously late April) and expect to complete by late May.

Standard Release: We are working hard to begin rolling this out in July and will communicate any changes via Message Center

 

(Updated) Collaborative Meeting Notes MC538385 · Published 6 apr. 2023 · Last updated 2 maj 2023

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

We will not be rolling this feature to customers in GCC at this time. We will communicate via Message center when we are ready to proceed. Thank you for your patience.

Teams across Microsoft are coming together to provide tools that help make meetings more effective. More specifically, we’re improving how you track what you want to discuss (Agenda), what you discussed/decided (Notes) and what you need to follow up on (Follow-up Tasks). These capabilities are now integrated into the end-to-end meeting experience in Teams, Loop, Planner, To Do, Office.com and OneDrive for Business.   

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 101509

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

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

 

Webinar Email feature updates -customize content and time to send reminders MC549348 · Published 2 maj 2023

Emails for Webinars are critical to engage with registrants and often organizers feel the need to customize the content. To enable this, we are rolling out two features.

  1. The content of the emails (i.e. all webinar related attendee emails) can be edited by the event organizers. This is reserved for Teams Premium licensed organizers.
  2. Time to send reminder emails can be configured by the event organizers. This is reserved for Teams Premium licensed organizers.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 119391

Standard Release: We will begin rolling out mid-June and complete late June.

 

Improved Connect/Disconnect Tracking in Group Visits MC549345 · Published 2 maj 2023

We’ve enhanced the ability to discretely track each individual Connect & Disconnect when multiple Organizers or multiple Guests join a Microsoft Teams EHR Connector visit via Teams.

Preview: We will begin rolling out in early May and complete by mid-May.

Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out in mid-May and complete by late May.

Standard Release: We will begin rolling out in late May and complete by early June.

 

Breakout Rooms participant shuffle MC549343 · Published 2 maj 2023

Breakout Rooms Participant Shuffle delivers a new capability to randomly assign participants to rooms also after rooms are created.

Participants can be randomly reassigned both prior to the meeting or during the live meeting.

Shuffling can be applied to all participants or only to unassigned participants, re-distributing them evenly to existing rooms.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 116532

Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out mid-May and expect to complete by late May.

Public Preview: We will begin rolling out mid-May and expect to complete by late May.

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

GCC-High and DoD: We will begin rolling out in early July and expect to complete rollout by mid-August.

 

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Viva Connections Dashboard Customization MC549347 · Published 2 maj 2023

We are excited to announce that dashboard customization is now available on Viva Connections Mobile! This feature allows your employees to personalize their mobile dashboard with the information that is most relevant to their work.

We want to inform you that this feature is enabled by default for all your employees. However, we understand that every organization is different, and you may have specific requirements or preferences. Therefore, we want to let you know that as a tenant admin or site operator, you can turn off the feature if necessary. The toggle turn OFF will be available in the dashboard details with the heading "Allow users to rearrange and hide dashboard cards"

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 117428

Standard Release: We will begin rolling out the admin settings to turn OFF the feature by early May and it will be available for all tenants by end of May.

For end users, we will enable this feature only when the settings get rolled out to all the tenants i.e., by end of May/early June.

 

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