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Monday, May 29, 2023

Friends of Microsoft Teams - Week 21 - 2023 (May 22 - May 28)

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 21 of 2023, May 22 – May 28.

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

 

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Microsoft Teams: App Suggestions by Task in In-Context Stores MC561700 · Published 26 maj 2023

Users think about which tasks they need to complete, such as creating a survey, inside Microsoft Teams. Soon, app suggestions will be organized by tasks that the apps support as opposed to conventional categories (productivity, project management). As a result, the new categorization will reduce the amount of time users need to spend learning about these apps – helping them to work more effectively.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 122527

GA: Rollout will begin in early June 2023 and is expected to be complete by mid-June 2023.

GCC: Rollout will begin in mid-June 2023 and is expected to be complete by late June 2023.

GCCH: Rollout will begin in mid-July 2023 and is expected to be complete by late July 2023.

 

Microsoft Teams: Set your Work Hours and Location MC561188 · Published 26 maj 2023

Set your work location for the day in Microsoft Teams so your team can learn about your availability for in-office and remote collaboration.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 125375

Targeted Release and Preview: We have begun rollout and expect to complete rollout by late May.

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

 

Microsoft Teams: Block Meeting Chat Access in External, Non-Trusted Meeting Joins MC561186 · Published 26 maj 2023

Microsoft Teams IT Admins will soon be able to block internal users from accessing chats when these users join meetings organized on external non-trusted tenants, including cross-cloud join. This release of Microsoft Teams' new meeting chat setting will be rolling out across MS Teams Desktop, Mobile and Web and will provide a new way for tenants to manage users' chat access in meetings hosted on external non-trusted tenants.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 123975

Targeted Release: We will begin rollout in early July and expect to complete rollout by mid-July.

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

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

GCCH: We will begin rollout in mid-August and expect to complete rollout by late August.

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

 

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Easier Way to Join Teams Meetings for Cloud Video Interop (CVI) users MC546444 · Published 25 apr. 2023 · Last updated 25 maj 2023

Updated May 25, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

We will soon be releasing a feature for Microsoft Teams users that will allow your meeting participants to join from some non-Teams applications or devices, depending on your guest join settings when you send a Microsoft Teams meeting invite. These participants will join as guests and all of the guest settings applied by your organization will apply for these guest participants.

Your users, associates, and customers can join Teams meetings from non-Teams devices through certified CVI providers. If you allow guests to join your Teams meetings through a browser, your guests will also be able to join through supporting CVI providers.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 120855

We will began rolling out in May and expect rollout to be complete by late June (previously late May).

 

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Two-way lobby chat MC554156 · Published 12 maj 2023 · Last updated 25 maj 2023

Updated May 25, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

The Virtual Appointments app provides a central hub for all your virtual appointments needs in Microsoft Teams. The app enables a seamless end-to-end experience for business-to-customer engagements.

Queue view in Virtual Appointments app is a premium advanced virtual appointment feature that allows businesses to Empower employees to manage and service scheduled and on-demand virtual appointments in one location with advanced capabilities to track wait times, live status of a meeting, and more. Scheduling administrators and staff conducting virtual appointments can monitor incoming requests and process them appropriately.

Two-way lobby chat in queue view will provide a seamless client experience with an interactive waiting room that allows facilitators to send waiting room messages to customers prior to the meeting. For example, a client in the waiting room can receive messages from the facilitator or other staff schedulers such as, “Last appointment is running long. Be with you in 5 mins.” The client can respond directly in chat so they can stay connected and ask any questions as needed. Two-way lobby chat is currently supported only for meetings joined from a mobile browser. Desktop browser is currently not supported.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 122395

Standard Release: We will begin rolling in May 2023 and complete by July (previously June).

 

(Updated) A new experience to search within chat and channels. MC554158 · Published 12 maj 2023 · Last updated 25 maj 2023

Updated May 25, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

We are excited to introduce a new and improved experience to search within chats and channels. 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 122550

Standard: We will begin rolling this out in early June 2023 and expect to complete rollout by early July (previously mid-June)

GCC: We will begin rolling this out in mid-July (previously late June)

GCC-H: We will begin rolling this out in late July (previously early July)

DoD: We will begin rolling this out in mid-August (previously late July)

 

(Updated) A new experience to search within chat and channels. MC554158 · Published 12 maj 2023 · Last updated 25 maj 2023

Updated May 25, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

We are excited to introduce a new and improved experience to search within chats and channels. 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 122550

Standard: We will begin rolling this out in early June 2023 and expect to complete rollout by early July (previously mid-June)

GCC: We will begin rolling this out in mid-July (previously late June)

GCC-H: We will begin rolling this out in late July (previously early July)

DoD: We will begin rolling this out in mid-August (previously late July)

 

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Explicit Recording Consent for Teams Meetings MC523053 · Published 3 mars 2023 · Last updated 25 maj 2023

Updated May 25, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Microsoft Teams is going to support an Explicit Recording Consent meeting policy. When the policy is applied, the Teams meeting window will request explicit consent of all participants to be recorded. Before a user gives consent, the user’s audio, video, and screenshare/consent-share won’t be captured in the meeting recording.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 107781

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

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

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

 

IT Admin Webinar Usage Report in TAC with Updates MC560732 · Published 24 maj 2023

Webinar usage reports will be available for IT admins to view all webinars created by users in your tenant who are able to create webinars (AllowWebinar set to ON). In addition to this new reports we are enhancing IT admin experience with following updates:

Teams Admin Center UX to configure event policy settings without using PowerShell

New event policy setting called AllowedQuestionTypesInRegistrationForm to allow control of which registration form question types can be used by the webinar users to add to webinar registration page

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 124764

Standard Rollout: Rollout will begin in mid-July 2023 and is expected to be complete by late July 2023.

GCC: Rollout will begin in late July 2023 and is expected to be complete by early August 2023.

 

Microsoft Teams: Updating the Bookings app to the Virtual Appointments app MC560731 · Published 24 maj 2023

Bookings is supported across multiple entry points spanning Web, Teams and Outlook, however there is lack of parity in the feature set across these entry points leading to an inconsistent user experience. This fragmented experience has resulted in high DSAT for customers that has provided feedback to Microsoft to unify and provide feature parity in Bookings across all entry points. 

The Bookings experience in Teams will soon be updated to match the web version on https://book.ms, ensuring consistent features across all endpoints. However, certain features like Forms, Queuing & scheduler-initiated SMS reminders for appointments will be available only on the new Virtual Appointments app on Teams.

With the Virtual Appointments app, we are introducing an end-to-end B2C meetings solution that leverages Bookings as the scheduling engine and includes advanced meetings features such as real time meeting state update, chat with attendees in waiting room lobby via Queue view, rich analytics to shows virtual appointment usage trends to drive business outcomes such as no-shows.

With this change, the updated Bookings Teams app will have feature parity and consistent user experience as Bookings web app. Virtual Appointments app will be a superset of the current Bookings Teams app experience embedded within the new app and will include advanced virtual appointments features.

This feature is associated with Microsoft Roadmap ID 120420

Rollout will begin in late June 2023 and is expected to be complete by early July 2023.

 

(Updated) Viva Topics app in Teams MC546937 · Published 26 apr. 2023 · Last updated 23 maj 2023

Updated May 23, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

The official Viva Topics app in Teams is rolling out to external customers.

Previously, we had built a Topics app for Teams as a script that Teams admins could upload. Now, the Topics app is available as a first party "Microsoft-built" app. This means the app is available in the app store for your tenant already, no upload or script-downloading required. Users in your tenant can either easily 'add' the app, like other Microsoft-built or Viva apps, or the Teams admins can select to have the Topics app pre-installed for users.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 118592

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

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

 

(Updated) Microsoft Teams support for Targeted Release MC510331 · Published 2 feb. 2023 · Last updated 23 maj 2023

Updated May 23, 2023: We have decided not to proceed with the “EA”, to indicate Early Adoption, on the profile picture change and it will be rolled back for the initial users who received it. Thank you for your patience.

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 have decided not to proceed with this change and will be rolling it back for those users who may have received it.

 

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Spatial audio in Teams meetings MC540153 · Published 11 apr. 2023 · Last updated 23 maj 2023

Updated May 23, 2023: We have updated the content below with additional information. Thank you for your patience.

Microsoft Teams is pleased to announce an upgraded audio experience in meetings: Spatial audio. Spatial audio brings a next-generation immersive soundscape to Teams meetings when using either a wired stereo headset or built-in stereo speakers. This new audio experience spatializes the voices of attendees across the visual meeting stage in the Gallery view. This helps make conversations more natural, increasing the sense of audio presence, and making the conversation easier to follow when multiple people are speaking together. 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 107783

Targeted release: We will begin rolling out in late April and expect to complete rollout by early May.

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

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

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

 

(Updated) Upgrade to Microsoft Defender for Endpoints Plan 2 for Teams Rooms Pro customers MC557824 · Published 19 maj 2023 · Last updated 22 maj 2023

Updated May 22, 2023: We have updated the content to show as intended. Thank you for your patience.

The latest version of Teams Rooms on Windows, 10.0.19044.2846, includes an upgrade to Microsoft Defender for Endpoints Plan 2 for Teams Rooms Pro customers.

Standard release will begin June 1.

GCC and GCC-High: rollout will begin July 1.

 

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Enable Integrations for all Viva Goals Organizations MC560719 · Published 24 maj 2023

Soon, any viva Goals integration(s) that would be enabled by Tenant or Viva Goals Administrators, would be made available to all Viva Goals Organization users without the need for the Viva Goals Organization administrators to enable the new integration(s) for their respective Viva Goals Organizations

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

 

Microsoft Viva Connections News Notifications MC559932 · Published 24 maj 2023

Viva Connections is introducing mobile push notifications for SharePoint news.

Notifications will be delivered to users via the Teams app when Viva Connections is installed and when:

News is published to a SharePoint site a user follows or visits frequently.

·       Someone comments on a News post the user authored.

·       Someone has ‘Liked’ a News post the user authored.

·       The user is @ mentioned in a comment on a news post.

·       When opened, notifications will take users directly to the news content in the Viva Connections app.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 98112

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

 

Updates to Viva Connections desktop experience MC559930 · Published 23 maj 2023

To improve the experience for users, we are making an update to the layout of the Viva Connections desktop experience. This change applies to all customers using the default experience.

Rollout will begin in late May 2023 and will be complete by early June 2023.

 

(Updated) Viva Topics app in Teams MC546937 · Published 26 apr. 2023 · Last updated 23 maj 2023

Updated May 23, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

The official Viva Topics app in Teams is rolling out to external customers.

Previously, we had built a Topics app for Teams as a script that Teams admins could upload. Now, the Topics app is available as a first party "Microsoft-built" app. This means the app is available in the app store for your tenant already, no upload or script-downloading required. Users in your tenant can either easily 'add' the app, like other Microsoft-built or Viva apps, or the Teams admins can select to have the Topics app pre-installed for users.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 118592

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

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

 

Create a distinct experience in Viva Connections for different audiences in the Microsoft 365 admin center MC557823 · Published 19 maj 2023

A new feature will be available soon for Viva Connections that enables you to create and manage multiple Connections experiences and home sites that are targeted to specific audiences for your organization through the Microsoft 365 admin center. This feature is ideal for subsidiaries and conglomerates that want to provide distinct, audience targeted experiences with relevant and personalized information, resources, and apps to their employees.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 99916, 117421

Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out this feature by mid-June 2023.

Standard Release: We will complete rolling out in late June 2023.

 

 

 

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