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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 4 of 2024, January 22 - January 28.
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What's New in Microsoft Teams (and Microsoft 365):
- Bring
virtual connections to life with Microsoft Mesh, now generally available
in Microsoft Teams
- New
Year, new meeting enhancements in Microsoft Teams
- What's
new in Viva Insights - January 2024
- Vodafone
and Microsoft sign 10-year strategic partnership to bring generative AI,
digital services and the cloud to more than 300 million businesses and
consumers
Field Advisories:
- Easily
control audio and video settings in Teams meetings
- Collaborate
using Loop components in OneNote
Community:
- Teams
Shared Voicemail for Basic Call Flows
- Copilot
for Teams Extracts Real Value from Meeting Transcripts
- How to join immersive
spaces
- How to explore
immersive spaces
M365 Message Center :
- Teams :
Content Camera on New Teams MC710415
· Published Jan 27, 2024
Content camera support will be available on the
new Teams app experience for Windows and MacOS. Content camera enables remote
attendees to get a clear view of physical objects like whiteboards, printed
documents, books, and more that are in a meeting room. Content camera
intelligently detects, crops and frames the in-room object and shares its
content with remote meeting participants. Even when a presenter moves in front
of it, for example the whiteboard, remote participants will be able to see the
content right through them.
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Roadmap ID 377670
Target release: We will begin rolling out in
early February 2024 and expect to complete roll out by mid-February 2024.
Standard Release and GCC: We will begin rolling
out in early-March 2024 and expect to complete rollout by mid-March 2024.
GCC-High: We will begin rolling out in
mid-April 2024 and expect to complete rollout by late April 2024.
DoD: We will begin rolling out in mid-May 2024
and expect to complete rollout by late May 2024.
Microsoft Teams: In form meeting option
updates for webinars and townhalls MC710212
· Published Jan 26, 2024
In Microsoft Teams, configuring meeting options
for events like webinars and townhalls required users to be taken to a web page
after the event had been created. In order to optimize the user experience, we
will now allow users to configure meeting options within the Teams app before
event creation. This will provide users with more flexibility.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365
Roadmap ID 373420
Targeted release: We will begin rolling out
early February 2024 and expect to complete by mid-February 2024.
Standard Release and GCC: We will begin rolling
out mid-February 2024 and expect to complete by late February 2024.
Microsoft Teams: Reordering registration
form questions for webinars MC710211
· Published Jan 26, 2024
Registration form questions are an integral
part of setting up a successful webinar. You can add predefined or custom
questions to ask your event registrants. Prior to this update, registration
form questions had to be added in the order in which you want them to appear on
the registration page. With this update, you can add any and all questions to
your registration form and then change the order of these questions.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365
Roadmap ID 376970
Standard Release: We will begin rolling out
late February 2024 and expect to complete by early March 2024.
Introducing the ability to duplicate an
existing town hall MC709987
· Published Jan 25, 2024
Currently with town hall, you are unable to
duplicate an event and create a new event based off an existing one. This can
be time consuming if organizers would like to schedule multiple events that are
similar to one another. To simplify event creation Microsoft Teams is introducing
the ability to create a new town hall by duplicating the information for an
existing scheduled one. Information includes a town hall's details, presenters,
theming, and more. The organizer can also choose to edit and update the
information as needed for their new town hall.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365
Roadmap ID 376853
Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out
mid-February 2024 and expect to complete by late February 2024.
Standard Release and GCC: We will begin rolling
out late February 2024 and expect to complete by early March 2024.
Microsoft SharePoint: Updated Lists in Team
Sites, Lists progressive web app (PWA), and Teams MC709979
· Published Jan 25, 2024
This update improves the overall performance of
Lists in Microsoft SharePoint and introduces new features, including the
ability to add ratings to any list, drag and/or paste images directly into a
list, see who is collaborating with you in real-time, switch views by clicking
tabs, and more.
This rollout is a continuation of MC600726
(Updated) Microsoft Lists User Experience Update (June 2023).
Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out
early February 2024 and expect to complete by late February.
Standard Release GCC, GCCHigh, DoD, USSec, and
USNat: We will begin rolling out late February and expect to complete by
late June 2024.
(Updated) Webinar Email feature updates
-customize content and time to send reminders MC549348
· Published May 2, 2023 · Last updated Jan 24, 2024
Updated January 24, 2024: We have updated the
rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
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.
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.
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: rollout will start in
mid-July and expected to be completed by end of July.
GCC: rollout will start in mid-November 2023
(previously mid-October) and expected to be completed by late February 2024
(previously late January).
(Updated) Teams admin center (TAC) Header
Search now supports Emergency Addresses MC707655
· Published Jan 17, 2024 · Last updated Jan 24, 2024
Updated January 24, 2024: We have updated the
rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
We're excited to announce that the Header
Search feature in Teams admin center will now be supporting Emergency
Addresses.
The Header Search feature now supports a wide
range of entities, including Teams, Users, Policies, Settings, Documentation,
Emergency Addresses and more. This means you'll be able to quickly search for
relevant information across these entities within the Teams admin center.
We will begin rolling this out in early
February 2024 (previously mid-January) and expect to complete by
mid-February 2024 (previously late January).
(Updated) Collaborative Notes in Channel
Meetings MC690924
· Published Nov 17, 2023 · Last updated Jan 24, 2024
Updated January 24, 2024: We have updated the
rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
In parallel to legacy Wiki-based Meeting Notes
in channel meetings, 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)
in channel meetings. These capabilities are now integrated into the end-to-end
meeting experience in Teams, Loop, Planner, To Do, and OneDrive Commercial.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365
Roadmap ID 167330
Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out
mid-April 2024 (previously early February) and expect to complete by late
April 2024 (previously mid-February).
Standard Release: We will begin rolling out
late April 2024 (previously mid-February). and expect to complete by early
May 2024 (previously early March).
(Updated) Co-organizer experience updates in
Teams Webinars and Townhalls MC688109
· Published Nov 8, 2023 · Last updated Jan 24, 2024
Updated January 24, 2024: We have updated the
rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
Scheduling, setting up, and managing an event
is not a simple task. Which is why we allow co-organizer to be added to the
event so they can work alongside or on behalf of the organizer. So far
co-organizers were able to set up event theming, manage registration, meeting
options, view reports and more but were not able to edit event details like
title, date/time, description, event group; nor publish or cancel event. Now
they can! Co-organizer can edit event details, publish, and cancel the event
like the organizer can. So once the co-organizer is added they will have full
parity of experience as organizer and control/manage/edit event.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365
Roadmap ID 168524
Targeted release: We will begin rolling out
late March (previously early February) and expect to complete by early April
2024 (previously mid-February).
Standard release: We will begin rolling out
early April 2024 (previously early February) and expect to complete by
mid-April 2024 (previously late February).
Microsoft Purview | Information Protection:
Sensitivity labels to discover private teams and protect shared channels MC709659
· Published Jan 24, 2024 · Last updated Jan 24, 2024
Updated January 24, 2024: We have updated the
rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
In the Microsoft Purview Compliance portal,
under Information Protection, we are introducing two new controls in the
sensitivity label creation/edit process. These changes are designed to improve
the controls around private team discoverability in Teams and to provide
additional controls for the shared channels in Teams channels.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365
Roadmap IDs 165698
and 174575.
Public Preview: We will begin rolling out in
late January 2024 (previously early February) and expect to be complete by
early February 2024.
Standard Release: We will begin rolling out in
late February 2024 and expect to be complete by early March 2024.
Microsoft Teams: Latest meeting experiences
with performance improvements on web for Safari and Firefox (for guests) MC705760
· Published Jan 10, 2024 · Last updated Jan 24, 2024
Updated January 24, 2024: We have updated the
rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
The latest Teams meeting experiences will be
available for Teams on the web in Safari and Firefox browsers - including
performance improvements, refreshed pre-join, updated meeting stage, and the
updated meeting toolbar. (for anonymous join only)
This message is associated with Microsoft 365
Roadmap ID 329253
All Environments: We will begin rolling out
early April 2024 (previously early February) and expect to complete by early
May 2024 (previously late February).
(Updated) Announcing External Access
Analytics for Microsoft Teams MC698123
· Published Dec 14, 2023 · Last updated Jan 23, 2024
Updated January 12, 2024: We have updated the
rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
We are excited to announce that we are rolling
out a new report in the Teams Admin Center that will provide basic analytics
for external access. This report will allow admins to view information about
external access.
The external access analytics report will be
available soon in the Teams Admin Center under Analytics & reports >
Usage reports. We hope that this report will provide admins with more
visibility and control over external access in their tenant and enable them to
make informed decisions about cross-tenant collaboration.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365
Roadmap ID 370565
Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out
late January 2024 and expect to complete by mid-February 2024.
Standard Release: We will begin rolling out
mid-February 2024 and expect to complete by late February 2024.
Microsoft Teams: Allow meeting participants
to create Collaborative notes MC708499
· Published Jan 20, 2024
Currently, only Microsoft Teams meeting
organizers can create Collaborative notes before and after meetings. We are
rolling out enhanced Collaborative notes that allow any meeting invitee to
create notes before, during, and after the meeting. This enhancement helps to
improve collaboration and efficiency and provides a seamless teamwork
experience.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365
Roadmap ID 374515.
Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out
early February 2024 and expect to complete by mid-February 2024.
Standard Release: We will begin rolling out
mid-February 2024 and expect to complete by late February 2024.
Walkie Talkie: Generic Headset Support on
Android MC709266
· Published Jan 23, 2024
Use any generic wired (USB-C and 3.5mm) headset
for instant team communication on Android.
Frontline workers often need to instantly
communicate with each other even when their phones are locked. We integrated
Walkie Talkie in Teams with audio accessories partners to make this experience
possible with the dedicated push-to-talk (PTT) button on headsets, which
instantly brings up walkie talkie for clear and secure voice communication. In
addition to select specialized headsets, we are excited to announce that Walkie
Talkie in Teams will now work with any generic wired (USB-C and 3.5mm) headsets
on Android devices.
As long as the generic headset has a control to
play/pause media or to accept/decline calls, frontline workers can use that
control to start and stop transmissions on walkie talkie. Frontline
organizations will be able to easily start using walkie talkie with these
lower-cost generic headsets.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365
Roadmap ID 369470
Standard and GCC: We will begin rolling out
early February 2024 and expect to complete by late February 2024.
Mute On Air available in the new Microsoft
Teams on Windows MC709270
· Published Jan 23, 2024
The Mute On Air feature is now available. This
feature, available in the new Teams experience on Windows, enables you to mute
and unmute your audio by clicking the mic icon in Windows taskbar.
To control your call mic from the taskbar, do
the following:
Select the mic icon on your taskbar or press
Windows logo key + Alt + K to mute or unmute your microphone while using a
calling app.
-OR- Click the volume icon in the hardware
indicator for volume in Windows taskbar.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365
Roadmap ID 191528
Targeted release: We will begin rolling out
mid-February 2024 and expect to complete by late February 2024.
Standard Release: We will begin rolling out
early March 2024 and expect to complete by mid-April 2024.
Changes in file open behavior in classic Teams. MC709269
· Published Jan 23, 2024
We are making changes to the file open
experience in Teams that will affect users in select scenarios. These changes
are part of our ongoing security enhancements and optimizations to provide you
with the best possible collaboration platform.
Beginning in early February 2024 and completing
by early March 2024, on classic Teams version >1.6.00.34970
Introducing the ability to duplicate an
existing webinar MC709268
· Published Jan 23, 2024
Currently with webinars, you are unable to
duplicate a webinar and create a new webinar based off an existing one. This
can be time consuming if organizers would like to schedule multiple events that
are similar to one another. To simplify event creation Microsoft Teams is
introducing the ability to create a new webinar by duplicating the information
for an existing scheduled one. Information includes a webinar's details,
presenters, theming, and more. The organizer can also choose to edit and update
the information as needed for their new webinar.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365
Roadmap ID 375177
Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out
late February 2024 and expect to complete by early March 2024.
Standard Release and GCC: We will begin rolling
out early March 2024 and expect to complete by late March 2024.
Review and update your Microsoft Teams update
policy MC709264
· Published Jan 23, 2024
As communicated in MC686187 (October 2023) and
MC706396 (January 2024), after March 31, 2024, any classic Microsoft Teams
users that have not updated to the new Microsoft Teams will be automatically
updated to new Teams.
New Teams now has over 100M+ monthly active
users and is increasing by millions daily. All new and innovative features,
capabilities, and enhancements to existing features are available exclusively
on new Teams.
With March 31, 2024, being less than three
months away, we observe that you have currently blocked new Teams by setting
the Teams update policy to Not enabled. Alternatively, you may also have the
Teams update policy set to Classic Teams as default or User choice, which only
allows users to opt-in to using new Teams.
This message center post is to strongly
encourage admins to modify the existing Teams update policy to enable users to
update to new Teams.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365
Roadmap ID 122540
Standard Release: As stated above, we will complete
the rollout in late March 2024.
- Microsoft
365/Viva :
Microsoft Copilot Dashboard for Viva Insights
licensed customers MC709985
· Published Jan 25, 2024
Additional insights that combine Microsoft
Copilot usage metrics with collaboration and sentiment data will be available
to Viva Insights licensed organizations in the Copilot Dashboard. These
additional insights provide more granular views of Copilot adoption, usage
patterns, user sentiment, and return on investment across teams, functional
roles, and more. Viva Insights analysts can create custom reports based on
these metrics as well.
We will begin rolling out for preview in early
February 2024 and expand into general availability by mid-February 2024.
(Updated) REMINDER: Upcoming Changes to
Customization Controls in Viva Pulse In-App Experience MC671812
· Published Aug 29, 2023 · Last updated Jan 24, 2024
Updated January 24, 2024: We have updated the
rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
Currently, there are two customization controls
in the Viva Pulse In-App Admin Experience. The ‘Stock Questions’ control allows
employees to edit stock questions. The ‘New questions’ control allows employees
to create their own questions. In the upcoming release, we will be merging the
two controls into one customization control.
This one control, when turned ON, will allow
employees to edit stock questions and add their own questions in the Pulse
survey. All customization capabilities will be turned ON when this control is
ON, and all customization capabilities will be turned OFF when this control is
OFF.
Rollout will begin in mid-September 2023 and is
expected to be fully rolled out by late January 2024 (previously
mid-January).
(Updated) Send Viva Goals email
notifications from your own domain MC696864
· Published Dec 8, 2023 · Last updated Jan 24, 2024
Updated January 24, 2024: We have updated the
rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
Email notifications from within Microsoft 365
are sent to users in various ways. Today, Viva Goals sends email notifications
such as digest emails and sharing notifications from msft-viva-noreply@microsoft.com.
Over the coming months, changes are coming for email senders. When users share
goals from Viva Goals, these emails will be sent from the user. Emails such as
digest emails that are generated by Viva Goals will support being sent from
your domain if you have opted in to send email notifications from your domain
in the Microsoft 365 admin center.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365
Roadmap IDs 148471,
117479
Support for this will be added in phases.
Standard Release: We will begin rolling out
late January 2024 (previously mid-January) and expect to complete by late
April 2024 (previously late March).
(Updated) Viva Engage: Answers in
Communities MC700929
· Published Dec 22, 2023 · Last updated Jan 24, 2024
Updated January 24, 2024: We have updated the
rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
Answers in Microsoft Viva lets people learn
from each other by asking and answering questions. Now, if you have a premium
license, you can use Answers in your Viva Engage communities. This new feature
lets you:
See related questions to avoid duplicates and
save time.
Ask questions with separate title and details
for easy scanning.
Earn badges for answering questions in
communities.
Track question activity in communities with
Answers Analytics and Global Answers Analytics.
Reach more people with your questions through
Answers feeds and digests.
Note: If you organization is not using Viva
Engage you can safely disregard this message.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365
Roadmap ID 152480
Standard Release: This feature will start
rolling out in late January 2024 (previously mid-January) and is expected to
complete in early April 2024 (previously late March).
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- 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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