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Find below a list of public posts and updates on Microsoft Teams (and Microsoft 365) that have been published in Week 30 of 2023, July 24 – July 30.
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What's New in Microsoft Teams (and Microsoft 365):
- Microsoft's
Fiscal Year 2023 and My Top 10 Highlights (Jeff Teper)
- The
future of business is here: How industries are unlocking AI innovation and
greater value with the Microsoft Cloud
Field Advisories:
- Feature
Deep Dive: Simplified Sharing Across Microsoft 365
- Get
live feedback during PowerPoint presentations with Microsoft Forms
- Updated
insight names in Meeting Effectiveness report template
Community:
- Offboarding
devices from Intune, Entra ID and Autopilot
- Microsoft Teams
Collaborative Meeting Notes Using Loop
- July
Community video briefings on Empowering.Cloud
- Quick start guide to
Microsoft Teams Phone - Internal/External calling, Text to speech
voicemail
- Supercharge
your meetings with the all-new Meet app on Microsoft Teams!
- Teams
Supports 1,000 Channels
M365 Message Center :
- Teams :
Microsoft Teams: Shared Device License on
Mobile App for Android MC662254
· Published Jul 28, 2023
We are pleased to announce that we will soon
support the Microsoft Teams Shared Device license on the Teams Android mobile application.
The Teams Shared Device license offers a shared identity-based , common area
phone experience, including basic and advanced calling, people search,
voicemail and walkie talkie.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365
Roadmap ID 126706
Preview: Rollout will be complete by early
August 2023.
Standard Release: Rollout will begin in late
August 2023 and is expected to be complete by early September 2023.
GCC: Rollout will begin in late August 2023 and
is expected to be complete by early September 2023.
(Updated) Video Closed Caption in PowerPoint
Live MC513049
· Published Feb 9, 2023 · Last updated Jul 28, 2023
Updated July 28, 2023: We have updated the
rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
Closed captions will soon be supported for
embedded videos in PowerPoint Live for Teams. Video closed captions in
PowerPoint Live will be rolling out across Microsoft Teams Desktop and Web and
will allow PowerPoint Live users to create accessible presentations that
include video.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365
Roadmap ID 114494
We will begin rolling out to PowerPoint Live
users in early-March and expect to complete rollout by mid-March.
GCC, GCC-High and DoD: We have begun rolling
out and will complete by late September 2023 (previously mid-July).
(Updated) Enable 2nd video stream for Teams
Content Camera on Desktop feature MC642270
· Published Jul 14, 2023 · Last updated Jul 28, 2023
Updated July 28, 2023: We have updated the
rollout timing below. Thank you for your patience.
Users will be able to enable a second video
stream to support both their Personal Video and Teams Content Camera on
Desktop.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365
Roadmap ID 118580
Standard Release: Rollout has begun and expect
to complete by mid-October 2023 (previously mid-August).
(Updated) Meet App on Microsoft Teams MC660610
· Published Jul 25, 2023 · Last updated Jul 28, 2023
Updated July 28, 2023: We have updated the
rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
Microsoft Teams users will soon have a
dedicated space to manage their meetings – “Meet”. The Meet app is a
centralized hub for all meeting activity and content.
The feature is rolling out exclusively on the
new Microsoft Teams across Desktop and Web, and will serve as the destination
for pre, during and after meeting insights, content, and action items. With the
Meet app, users can prepare for upcoming meetings, catch on something they
missed, and find meeting content, agenda, notes, chats, and recaps – all in one
place.
Standard Release: We will begin rolling out in
mid-October 2023 (previously mid-August) and expect to complete by
mid-November 2023 (previously mid-September).
(Updated) Admin Policy for Collaborative
Annotations MC579612
· Published Jun 9, 2023 · Last updated Jul 28, 2023
Updated July 28, 2023: We have updated the
rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
With privacy and security restrictions, we have
implemented a user-level IT admin policy for admins to choose whether some or
all users in the company can use Collaborative Annotations. Currently, there is
a way to turn Annotations ON or OFF through cmdlet
Set-SPOTenant-IsWBFluidEnabled, this will also influence Whiteboard.
This change is associated with Microsoft 365
Roadmap ID: 92502
We will begin rolling out in mid-August 2023
(previously mid-June) and expect to complete rollout by late August 2023
(previously late July).
Teams New Service Plan: Collaboration Security
for Microsoft Teams
MC661823
· Published Jul 28, 2023
Collaboration security capabilities for
Microsoft Teams will be generally available for all users of Microsoft Defender
for Office 365.
Your Microsoft Defender for Office 365
subscription is being updated with a new service plan: Collaboration security
capabilities for Microsoft Teams will be made generally available for all
users by late August 2023.
(Updated) Microsoft Teams Panels Update MC602596
· Published Jun 22, 2023 · Last updated Jul 28, 2023
Updated July 27, 2023: We have updated the
rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
With this update, Teams Panels will support
reserving a room using a QR code. This feature lets Microsoft Teams users book
a room for meetings now, in the future, or add the room to an existing meeting
by scanning a QR code on the scheduling panel and using the Teams app on their
Android or iOS mobile phones.
All Teams Panels will have a QR code shown in
the top left of the home screen. Panels users can either schedule a new meeting
with the room pre-populated for them or easily see the room’s availability for
their meetings and book the room with one click.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365
Roadmap ID 129366
Rollout is expected to begin in late August
2023 (previously early August) and is expected to be complete by late
September 2023 (previously early September).
Microsoft Teams: On-Demand Recording Feature
in Webinars MC661825
· Published Jul 28, 2023
Organizers can soon publish the recording of
their webinars and automatically send an update to their attendees, in which
they will receive a link to watch the on-demand recording hosted on their event
page.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365
Roadmap ID 123052
We will begin rolling out in late August and expect
to complete rollout by late September.
(Updated) Visio Personal App in Teams MC509577
· Published Jan 31, 2023 · Last updated Jul 27, 2023
Updated July 27, 2023: We have updated the
rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
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
Standard and GCC: this has completed.
GCC-High and DoD: will begin in early August
2023 and expect to complete by late August 2023.
Deploy new Microsoft Teams with Microsoft 365
apps MC661241
· Published Jul 27, 2023
Starting in September 2023, we will begin including new
Microsoft Teams as part of the new and existing installations of Microsoft 365
apps for Windows depending on the schedule provided in this post. Currently,
users can install the new Teams by using the Try the new Teams toggle switch in
classic Teams or having administrators bulk deploy directly to the computers in
their organization. Read MC533687 and MC617066 for details for earlier
announcements for new Teams.
Administrators can exclude installing new Teams
from their Microsoft 365 apps deployment if they don't wish to have new Teams
included in the installation.
This announcement includes details about the
upcoming changes for rolling out the new Teams desktop app with Microsoft 365
apps and details on managing opt-outs. This change is beginning currently for
Microsoft 365 Apps for Windows.
We will begin by including the new Teams app as
part of new and existing Microsoft 365 app installations on Windows depending
on your office update channel and license Type. You will continue to have the
classic Teams app included in the installation as well.
Administrators will be able to manage opt-out
from this deployment if they do not wish to have new Teams included in the
installation. More details in the section below.
Join third-party meetings from Teams MC661228
· Published Jul 26, 2023
When a third-party meeting is created from
Outlook or OWA, participants of the meeting will now be able to Join the
meeting directly from Microsoft Teams. The participants will see
"Join" button on the Teams calendar events card and in the meeting
details page. On clicking on the Join button, the link will route the users to
the browser or the third-party application to join the meeting. This experience
will be available on both mobile and desktop.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365
Roadmap ID 138139
Preview: We will begin rolling out late August
2023 and expect to complete by early September 2023.
Channel meeting invitation | Allow organizer to
send a channel meeting invite to everyone in team MC661224
· Published Jul 26, 2023
Channel meeting invitations will now allow
channel meeting organizers the ability to share invites on personal calendars
of all channel members.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365
Roadmap ID 142405
Standard Release: We will begin rolling out in
early August, expected completion by mid-August.
(Updated) Cloud Video Interop New Release
Notes MC649045
· Published Jul 17, 2023 · Last updated Jul 25, 2023
Updated July 25, 2023: We have updated the
content below to show as intended. Thank you for your patience.
Microsoft will soon begin publishing release
notes for Cloud Video Interop (CVI).You can always get the latest from the public
documentation for CVIpublic documentation for CVI.
The first release notes will appear no later
than late July and will be updated when new features for Cloud Video
Interop are released by Microsoft and by certified CVI partners.
(Updated) Introducing "Microsoft
Default" setting to Teams Tag Management Settings MC591878
· Published Jun 16, 2023 · Last updated Jul 25, 2023
We are introducing a Microsoft Default setting
to Teams Tag Management settings in Teams Admin Center.
- If you have already explicitly made a selection to your Tag
Management settings your tenant will not be affected by this change.
- If you have not made changes to Tag Management settings, Microsoft
Default settings will apply for your tenant. Microsoft Default settings
currently map to "Team Owners" value but is subject to change in
the future.
- As Admin, please set tag management settings to reflect
tenant-level preference. Select “Team Owners” to keep tag management
limited to Team Owners, or select “Team owners and members” to allow all
team members to create and edit tags.
In Teams client, users will still see the same
options as they do today: "Team Owners" and "Team owners and
members".
This message is associated with Microsoft 365
Roadmap ID 88318
Preview: We will begin rolling out late June
2023 and expect to complete by late July 2023 (previously mid-July).
Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out
early July 2023 and expect to complete by early August 2023 (previously
mid-July).
Standard Release: We will begin rolling
out mid-July 2023 (previously early July) and expect to complete by early
August 2023 (previously mid-July).
Teams Auto-Install Approved Apps (AAA) Feature
Update MC660072
· Published Jul 24, 2023
Microsoft Teams Auto-Install Approved Apps
(AAA) uses activity from your users to install and surface apps that admins
have already allowed for the tenant. An admin can enable AAA to help users
naturally discover and use apps that are highly relevant to their needs within
Microsoft Teams. Specifically, when a user signs into specific SaaS apps using
Azure AD (e.g. in web browser), the app will be installed for that user on
Teams.
This feature is Generally Available as OFF by
default and can be turned ON by admins in Teams Admin Center.
This message is to inform about an update to
the feature: when Adobe Acrobat is auto installed by AAA, users who received
the auto install will also have their default PDF file handler in Teams changed
to open attached PDF files with the Teams Adobe Acrobat app. This experience
applies to both new and existing users who have Adobe Acrobat installed in
Teams through AAA, as it has been described in the feature documentation. Users
benefit from:
- Discovering Adobe Acrobat easily in Teams without manually
searching and installing it, since users are already using Adobe Acrobat
outside of Teams.
- Convenient access to the features they are using when opening a PDF
file with Adobe Acrobat.
We will begin rolling out in late July 2023 and
expect to complete rollout by early August 2023.
Microsoft Teams: Front Row AI (artificial
intelligence) enhancements for Teams Rooms on Windows MC660071
· Published Jul 24, 2023
The latest version of Teams Rooms on Windows
app 4.18 update includes Front Row AI enhancements including:
Front row gallery improvement – video
segmentation with a unified background
Spatial audio on the front row
This message is associated with Microsoft 365
Roadmap IDs 95267
and 122554
We will begin rolling out in mid-August and expect to complete rollout by late September.
- Microsoft
365/Viva :
Update Search Experience for Viva Connections MC662248
· Published Jul 28, 2023
We are making some changes to the search
experience in Viva Connections app to make it easier to search in Viva
Connections.
Standard Release: Rollout will begin in early
August and is expected to be complete by late September.
GCC: Rollout will begin in late September and
is expected to be complete by early October.
GCCH: Rollout will begin in early October and
is expected to be complete by late October.
(Updated) Update to the Free LinkedIn
Courses Available in Viva Learning MC630310
· Published Jul 7, 2023 · Last updated Jul 28, 2023
Updated July 28, 2023: We have updated the
rollout timing below. Thank you for your patience.
As part of the Viva Learning integration with
LinkedIn, Microsoft provides free content in Viva Learning that can be accessed
by any Viva Learning user without the need for a LinkedIn premium license. As
part of this partnership, we are increasing the set of free courses to the
Global Skilling Initiative catalog which consists of more than 300 courses.
This will replace the existing catalog of 125 free LinkedIn courses available
in Viva Learning.
You can find more details on the Global
Skilling Initiative program here.
We will begin rollout in early July 2023 and expect
rollout to be complete by late August 2023 (previously mid-July).
Microsoft Viva: Use of Viva Topics in Viva
Engage Grants Visibility of Topic Names MC661222
· Published Jul 26, 2023
In January, we announced the General
Availability of Viva Topics in Viva Engage (Yammer) to customers. As part of
the Viva Engage topics transition to Viva Topics, posts in Viva Engage
(conversations, questions, polls, announcements, storyline posts) will be
considered as Viva Topic resources. As a result, all users with access to posts
in Viva Engage will be able to see the topic names applied to those posts in
Engage as well as in other Viva Topics experiences in Microsoft 365 (e.g.,
Topic cards and pages).
Migrating Viva Engage to use Viva Topics
supports a consistent topics experience in Microsoft 365 and allows for
community-sourced knowledge to be accessible across an organization. For organizations
not using premium Viva Topics experiences, the use of topics in Viva Engage
will appear the same before and after topic migration. For organizations using
Viva Topics, you will gain the premium benefits, such as topic cards in Yammer
(Viva Engage), Viva topic pages, and centralized topic management.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365
Roadmap ID 148465
Rollout will begin in late August 2023 and will
continue to roll out to all Viva Engage networks by late September 2023.
For the latest information/updates you can always
check these resources :
- Microsoft Teams Channel on
YouTube
- Staying on top of Office 365
Updates
- What's new in Microsoft Teams
- What's new in Microsoft Teams devices
- Office Support
- Microsoft Teams Rooms (MTR)
- Release Notes
- Microsoft Teams content
updates
- TechCommunity Teams Blog
- Teams Community Blog
- TechCommunity Microsoft 365 Blog
- TechCommunity Viva Blog
- Microsoft Teams Public
Preview - Microsoft Tech Community
- https://aka.ms/TeamsFeedback
- Microsoft 365 Roadmap
- Microsoft 365 Message Center (M365 Admin rights)
- Stay on top of Microsoft 365 changes
- Track your message center tasks in Planner
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