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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 21 of 2024, May 20 – May 26.
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What's New in Microsoft Teams (and Microsoft 365):
- What’s
New in Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Build 2024 Edition
- 90-Second Recap: Satya
Nadella's Keynote at Microsoft Build 2024
- Introducing
Copilot+ PCs
- Microsoft Build
- Book of News
Field Advisories:
- Preparing
your organization for AI: Insights from Microsoft’s roll-out of Copilot in
Viva Glint
- Safely
bring AI chat to all using Microsoft Copilot with commercial data
protection, plus new video
- Build
2024: Effective & intelligent communication for apps interacting with
Teams and WhatsApp
- Microsoft
Build 2024: Create custom copilots from SharePoint
- Trustworthy
AI: Copilot for Microsoft 365 data security and privacy commitments
Community:
- Microsoft CommUnity
Connection May 2024 - Queues App
- Goodbye
Microsoft Teams bar... Hello Productivity
M365 Message Center :
- Microsoft
Teams – new message center posts:
Microsoft Teams: Custom emojis and reactions
MC795750
Published May 24, 2024
In Microsoft Teams, users will be able to add
their own custom emojis and reactions by uploading an image or GIF file, and their
emojis and reactions will be accessible to all users in the tenant alongside
the standard Teams emojis and reactions. Up to 5,000 custom emojis can be added
per tenant.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365
Roadmap ID 80659.
Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out
late June 2024 and expect to complete by early July 2024.
Worldwide, GCC: We will begin rolling out early
July 2024 and expect to complete by late July 2024.
GCC High, DoD: We will begin rolling out early
August 2024 and expect to complete by late August 2024.
Microsoft Teams: Speaker recognition and
attribution for all Teams Rooms MC795749
Published May 24, 2024
In Microsoft Teams, you will be able to enhance
hybrid meeting experiences with Teams Rooms and Copilot. We are extending the
support of intelligent speaker to all certified microphones to enable Teams
rooms to use the advanced technology called speaker recognition to analyze the
distinct vocal characteristics of each speaker, such as pitch, tone, and
speaking style, to create a voiceprint for each participant, akin to a
fingerprint for their voice.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365
Roadmap ID 394668
General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin
rolling out by mid-June 2024 and expect to complete by late June 2024.
Microsoft Teams: Closed captions in the
Walkie Talkie app MC795746
Published May 24, 2024
Coming soon to Microsoft Teams: In a busy frontline
work environment, it can be challenging to hear Walkie Talkie transmissions. To
address this, we're launching live closed captions for any audible transmission
in the Walkie Talkie app in Teams. This message applies to Teams Mobile (iOS,
Android).
This message is associated with Microsoft 365
Roadmap ID 396558.
General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin
rolling out early June 2024 and expect to complete by late June 2024.
Microsoft Teams admin center: App centric
management for app installation and changes to app setup policies MC795355 Published May 23, 2024
Coming soon for Microsoft Teams: App centric
management for admin app installation introduces new admin settings to control
who in the tenant has specific Teams apps preinstalled. Similar to app centric
management for app availability, as communicated in MC688930 (Updated) Teams
admin center: App centric management and changes to app permission policies
(November 2023), admins will be able to install apps for users, groups, or
everyone in the organization.
After rollout, app centric management will
replace Installed apps in the Teams admin center and give admins the ability to
install apps individually. The Installed apps in your app setup policies will
be migrated to app centric management based on your current user and group
assignments for each policy. The rest of your settings in app setup policies
will remain unchanged and will continue to work based on app setup policies,
including Pinned apps. After this rollout, you can install Teams apps for
selected sets of users, groups, or all users in the organization, and Installed
apps in app setup policies will no longer be available.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365
Roadmap ID 394274.
App centric management will roll out in four
General Availability phases.
Phase 1 | General Availability (Worldwide): We will
begin rolling out mid-July 2024 and expect to complete late August 2024. This
phase applies to tenants who meet both conditions: 1) tenants with no Installed
apps in the Global app setup policy and 2) tenants with no custom app setup
policies created in the Teams admin center. After rollout, these tenants will
have app centric management enabled for their app installs. Admins may see the
Manage apps page in read-only mode for a short time.
Phase 2 | More details coming soon as a follow up MC
post. This phase applies to tenants who meet both conditions: 1) tenants with
apps added to Installed apps in the Global app setup policy and 2) tenants with
no custom app setup policies created in the Teams admin center. This phase will
migrate apps installed in the Global app setup policy to app centric
management.
Phase 3 | More details coming soon as a follow up MC
post. This phase applies to tenants with both the Global app setup policy and
custom app setup policies. This phase will migrate apps installed for users and
groups through Installed apps in app setup policies to app centric management.
Phase 4 | More details coming soon as a follow up MC
post. This phase applies to all remaining tenants.
Microsoft Teams: New meeting option to
control permissions for admitting participants from lobby MC795085 Published May 22, 2024
Microsoft Teams: Currently, the capability to
admit attendees from lobby and the capability to present are combined into one
meeting role: Presenter. This frequently results in situations where meeting
participants, who are not in charge of meeting management, are able to admit
people from the lobby to enter the meeting, and the meeting organizer has no
way to control it.
With this feature update, we are addressing
this gap by introducing a meeting option for meeting organizers to be in
control of who can admit people from the lobby:
The new option Who can admit from lobby will
have two choices:
1. Only the organizer and co-organizers can
admit from the lobby: This is the more secure option to be used for meetings
where only organizers and co-organizers should be able to admit participants
from the lobby.
2. The organizer, co-organizers, and presenters
can admit from the lobby (default option): This mimics the current system
behavior that presenters also get the right to admit participants from the
lobby.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365
Roadmap ID 392836
General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin
rolling out early July 2024 and expect to complete by mid-July 2024.
General Availability (GCC): We will begin
rolling out mid-July 2024 and expect to complete by late July 2024.
Microsoft Teams: Organizers can manage
access to meeting transcripts, recordings, AI-generated recap, and Copilot MC795083 Published May 22, 2024
Microsoft Teams meeting organizers can now
manage who gets access to a meeting recording, transcript, AI recap, and
Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365
Roadmap ID 394688
Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out in
early June 2024 and expect to complete by mid-June 2024.
General Availability: We will begin rolling out
mid-June 2024 and expect to complete by late June 2024.
Microsoft Teams: Explicit Consent policy for
Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 MC794819 Published May 21, 2024
Microsoft Teams will now support an Explicit
Consent policy for processing all types of user generated content, such as
audio and video, as part of the Explicit Recording policy. When the Explicit
Consent policy is applied, the Teams meeting window will request explicit
consent from all participants to have Teams use their audio and video for
transcription, recording, or Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365. Before a user
gives consent, the user cannot unmute, turn on their camera, or share content.
This is the same as the current experience in Explicit Recording consent, but
the Explicit Recording policy will now support transcription and Copilot for
Microsoft 365.
General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin
rolling out mid-June 2024 and expect to complete by late June 2024.
Keep your Microsoft Teams desktop client
compliant by updating it MC794736 Published May 21, 2024
Since Microsoft Teams is governed by the Modern
Lifecycle Policy, the Teams desktop client needs to be up to date. Users who
are on old versions of classic Teams app will receive in-app notifications to
encourage them to update to the latest version of Teams. This is to ensure that
users have the latest capabilities, performance enhancements, security
features, and service reliability.
This in-app notification will not apply to
users on machine wide (non-persistent setup) Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
(VDI) deployments. Admins will need to regularly update those users to remain
supported on Teams.
Per MC298823 (November '21), a version that is
too far out of date will become incompatible with the service until it’s
updated. Also see MC783985 for Classic Teams Timelines regarding end of support
and end of availability.
This will be enforced on June 19th, 2024.
Microsoft Teams: Ability to purchase
third-party app subscriptions from Teams Admin Center and Teams app store MC794545 Published May 20, 2024
We will soon enable enhanced purchase
experience in both the Teams Admin Center and the Teams app store. This
improvement will empower administrators and end-users to seamlessly assess the
plans offered by an app and secure third-party app subscriptions that optimally
meet their needs. The aim of this overhauled experience is to simplify and
expedite the subscription purchase journey, from choosing a plan to finalizing
and reviewing the billing details.
Our goal in refreshing our purchase user
experience with new designs and structures is to offer a more recognizable user
interface. This will enable users to comfortably identify the most suitable
plan for their needs without being inundated by choices and facilitate a smooth
plan purchase.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365
Roadmap ID 179897
Public Preview: We will begin rolling out late
June 2024 and expect to complete by late July 2024.
General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin
rolling out late June 2024 and expect to complete by late July 2024.
- Microsoft
Teams – updated message center posts:
(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Changes to in-app
feedback experience and feedback policy (Teams Desktop and Teams for web) MC790791
Published May 6, 2024
(Updated) Microsoft Teams | Report a Problem
integration with Pro Management portal MC746323
Published Mar 19, 2024
(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Meeting Chat shown
by default in Gallery View with Teams Room MC752516
Published Mar 22, 2024
(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Meeting ID and
passcode required to join on Teams Rooms on Android MC716389
Published Feb 16, 2024
Microsoft Teams: Meeting ID and passcode
required to join Teams Rooms on Windows MC715423
Published Feb 13, 2024
(Updated) Microsoft Teams device store MC707657
Published Jan 17, 2024
(Updated) Workflows within Microsoft Teams
chats menu MC683929
Published Oct 25, 2023
(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Emojis, GIFs and
Stickers Unified in One Picker MC674737
Published Sep 11, 2023
(Updated) Admins can select the domain to use
for Teams Email Service MC705761
Published Jan 10, 2024
Microsoft Teams: Ability to change language in
Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows MC734279
Published Mar 12, 2024
(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Walkie Talkie will
be integrated with Apple’s iOS Push-to-Talk feature MC787359
Published Apr 26, 2024
(Updated) Microsoft Teams: New Admin control
for setting default storage app for file uploads MC746332
Published Mar 19, 2024
(Updated) Now get Real Time Calendar
Notifications in Teams MC704955
Published Jan 8, 2024
(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Create avatars from
photo MC789315
Published Apr 30, 2024
(Updated) Quick Access Teams and Sharepoint
Document Libraries in win32 backstage MC432475
Published Sep 16, 2022
(Updated) Contact Unification across Outlook
and Teams MC695487 Published Dec 4, 2023
(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Create avatars from
photo MC789315 Published Apr 30, 2024
(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Explicit consent for
recording data in audit logs MC791598 Published May 9, 2024
(Updated) Teams Multitenant Org (MTO) in GCC,
GCC High, and DoD clouds MC711026 Published Jan 29, 2024
(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Approvals Graph APIs
public preview MC789878 Published May 2, 2024
(Updated) Microsoft Teams: In-meeting Error
Messaging MC683928 Published Oct 25, 2023
(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Limit Presenter Role
Permissions MC715431 Published Feb 13, 2024
(Updated) Introducing the ability to duplicate
an existing webinar MC709268 Published Jan 23, 2024
- Microsoft
Viva – new message center posts:
n/a
- Microsoft Viva – updated message center posts:
(Updated) Microsoft Viva: Onedrive Files Card
on Viva Connections dashboard MC793655
Published May 16, 2024
(Updated) Microsoft Viva: Analytics for
multiple Connections experiences MC738642
Published Mar 14, 2024
(Updated)
Microsoft Viva: Meeting cost and quality insights will be available in Viva
Insights MC790789 Published May 6, 2024
(Updated)
Microsoft Viva Engage: Viva Engage question post update MC714521 Published Feb 10, 2024
(Updated)
Microsoft Viva Learning: Disable LinkedIn Learning premium content MC740508 Published Mar 15, 2024
(Updated)
Answers in Viva content in Microsoft Search MC715700 Published Feb 14, 2024
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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