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Monday, July 15, 2024

Friends of Microsoft Teams - Week 28 - 2024 (July 8 - July 14)

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 28 of 2024, July 8 – July 14.

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 :

 

 

  • Microsoft Teams – new message center posts:

 

Microsoft Teams Rooms: Enhanced cross-platform meetings via SIP join MC810411 Published Jul 11, 2024

Coming soon: Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows will be enabled to join meetings like Google Meet, Zoom, Cisco Webex, Amazon Chime, RingCentral, and others from conferencing services that support SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) join.

You’ll experience the look and feel of a Teams Rooms meeting with access to some third-party platform in-meeting controls (depending on the platform being used). Features include up to 1080p video quality, dual screen support, different meeting layouts, and HDMI ingest. This capability requires a SIP calling plan from a Cloud Video Interop (CVI) partner; this plan is currently available through Pexip in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace.

This message applies to Teams Rooms customers with a Pro license.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 400703.

General Availability (Worldwide, GCC): We will begin rolling out late August 2024 and expect to complete by late September 2024

General Availability (GCC High): We will begin rolling out late September 2024 and expect to complete by mid-October 2024

 

Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows: A Teams Room can be a Breakout Room participant MC810407 Published Jul 11, 2024

Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows will soon support Breakout Rooms as a participant. This will allow a Teams Rooms on Windows to be participate in Breakout Rooms if they are used by a meeting organizer. The room can be assigned to any particular Breakout Room and will respect any related settings or actions defined by the organizer, such as automatically being moved into a Breakout Room, permission to return to the main meeting, being reassigned to a different Breakout Room, or receiving announcements from the organizer. This release is applicable to Teams Rooms on Windows.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 95680.

General Availability (Worldwide, GCC, GCC High): We will begin rolling out late August 2024 and expect to complete by mid-September 2024.

General Availability (GCC): We will begin rolling out mid-September 2024 and expect to complete by early October 2024.

General Availability (GCC High): We will begin rolling out early October 2024 and expect to complete by early November 2024.

 

Microsoft Teams: New administrative units (AUs) for Teams administration MC810173 Published Jul 10, 2024

Coming soon to Microsoft Teams: New administrative units (AUs) to simplify Teams administration in the Teams admin center. AUs are a way to delegate administration to a subset of users in your organization, based on attributes such as department, location, or business unit along with help of granular role-based access control (RBAC) roles. With the help of AUs, you can create more granular and flexible management scenarios for your Teams environment. This message applies to Teams for Desktop, mobile, and Mac.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 402186.

General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out early August 2024 and expect to complete by early September 2024.

 

Planned Maintenance: Automatic updates for Teams Rooms on Android and Teams Phones impacted by retirement of CNS Service MC810172 Published Jul 10, 2024

To help address the upcoming retirement of CNS Service API support, impacted devices will receive the automatic firmware and Teams app updates. These automatic updates will happen at a faster rate to ensure adherence to the retirement deadline.

Starting: July 10, 2024

Ending: August 15, 2024

 

Microsoft Teams: New skin tone settings and reactions MC809602 Published Jul 8, 2024

With skin tone settings and reactions in Microsoft Teams, users will be able to set a preferred skin tone for relevant emojis and reactions. Each user can change their own skin tone setting in the Teams app Settings > Appearance and accessibility menu or in the emoji/reaction menu on Desktop or web. The skin tone rollout will apply to emojis and reactions in chats, channels, and meetings on all Teams platforms (Teams for Desktop, Teams for web, Teams for Mac, and Teams Mobile).

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 323766.

Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out early August 2024 and expect to complete by mid-August 2024.

General availability (Worldwide, GCC): We will begin rolling out mid-August 2024 and expect to complete by late August 2024.

General availability (GCC High, DoD): We will begin rolling out mid-September 2024 and expect to complete by late September 2024.

 

 

  • Microsoft Teams – updated message center posts:

 

 

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Change background while recording on phone MC718553 Published Feb 23, 2024

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Pre-pin meeting apps for users MC748380 Published Mar 20, 2024

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Personalize group chats with avatars MC717970 Published Feb 20, 2024

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Apps now supported in group chats with external users MC779844 Published Apr 18, 2024

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Chat for organizers and presenters in Town Hall MC715693 Published Feb 14, 2024

Teams Rooms on Android and Teams Phones impacted by retirement of legacy notifications infrastructure: UPGRADE REQUIRED!  MC804766 Published Jun 24, 2024

 

 

  • Microsoft Viva – new message center posts:

 

 

Microsoft Viva Engage: Update on community muting for admins MC809600 Published Jul 8, 2024

Coming soon for Microsoft Viva Engage: The community muting feature for admins is changing. Before this rollout, when admins muted a community, only users who were not members of the community would no longer see conversations from this community appear in their Home Feed, weekly discovery email, or daily digest email.

After this rollout, members who were dynamically added into the community (as part of a Dynamic Group) will also no longer see conversations appear in their Home feed, weekly discovery email, or daily digest emails. Other users who have voluntarily joined the community will continue to see conversations appear normally in their Home Feed and digest emails as before.

General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out mid-July 2024 and expect to complete by mid-July 2024.

 

Microsoft Viva: Import navigational links from Microsoft SharePoint into Resources in Viva Connections MC809597 Published Jul 8, 2024

oming soon for Microsoft Viva Connections on desktop: Users with editing permissions will be able to import SharePoint links from their home site navigation and global navigation directly into the Resources section of Viva Connections. Users with editing permissions will be able to preview their updates in Resources before saving them.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 397890.

Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out early July 2024 and expect to complete by mid-July 2024.

General Availability (Worldwide, GCC, GCC High, DoD): We will begin rolling out mid-July 2024 and expect to complete by mid-July 2024.

 

Microsoft Viva: Choose custom images as icons for resources in Viva Connections MC809596 Published Jul 8, 2024

Coming soon to Microsoft Viva Connections: Users with editing permissions will be able to personalize Viva Connections by adding custom images as icons to links in the Resources section.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 402188.

Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out early July 2024 and expect to complete by mid-July 2024.

General Availability (Worldwide, GCC, GCC High, DoD): We will begin rolling out mid-July 2024 and expect to complete by mid-July 2024.

 

 

  • Microsoft Viva – updated message center posts:

 

 

(Updated) Microsoft Viva Learning: Learner Completion Record bulk export MC806522 Published Jun 28, 2024

(Updated) Microsoft Viva: Connections now available on the web MC791877 Published May 11, 2024

(Updated) Microsoft Viva Engage and Microsoft Yammer: update on web domain migration release date MC713420 Published Feb 7, 2024

 

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