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Sunday, July 21, 2024

Friends of Microsoft Teams - Week 29 - 2024 (July 15 - July 21)

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 29 of 2024, July 15 – July 21.

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: External USB Webcams are now supported in Teams meetings MC822724 Published Jul 19, 2024

With the release of Apple iPadOS 17, Microsoft Teams will now support external webcams and cameras in meetings and calls on Apple iPads.  Simply connect your external webcam and camera to your Apple iPad.

General Availability (Worldwide, DoD): We will begin rolling out late June 2024 and expect to complete by early July 2024.

 

Microsoft Teams: Hide presenters, translators, moderators or staff from webinar event page MC822723 Published Jul 19, 2024

Before this rollout, all presenters added to a Microsoft Teams webinar were displayed on the event page. Coming soon to Teams: webinar organizers will be able to add individuals to the webinar and give them presenter privileges—to join the green room, manage what attendees see, turn their camera on or off, and moderate the event—without including the individuals on the event page as presenters. This feature will allow webinar organizers to support roles like live translators, event moderators, and staff who are not presenting. This message applies to Teams on Windows and the web.

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

 

Microsoft Teams: Multiple camera view for Teams Rooms on Windows MC818885 Published Jul 18, 2024

Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows will be soon able to send up to four single-stream USB camera feeds to render on the receiver side, so remote meeting participants can view all cameras simultaneously. This opt-in feature requires admins to first enable the multiple camera view and map cameras to the desired order that will be displayed on the receiver side. With multiple camera view enabled, remote meeting participants will be able to follow all the action in the room and manually switch to the desired room. This message applies to Teams for Desktop (Windows, Mac).

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 402517.

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

General Availability (GCC, GCCH, DoD): We will begin rolling out in mid-October 2024 and expect to complete by late October 2024.

 

Microsoft Teams: Bidirectional Support for Teams Live Interpretation MC816179 Published Jul 17, 2024

With bidirectional support in Teams Live Interpretation, interpreters can now switch the translation direction between two languages by clicking on the button of the language they want to interpret into at the bottom of the screen. The highlighted language button will be the language the interpreter is translating into and attendees hear.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 403103.

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 late September 2024 and expect to complete by early October 2024.

 

Microsoft Teams: Video tile re-sizing based on people count for Teams Rooms on Windows MC814587 Published Jul 16, 2024

In Gallery view for Microsoft Teams meetings, a room video is optimized and larger in size to increase visibility of participants that are in a Teams Room. With this update, the room video tile will dynamically re-size based on people count to ensure adequate and equitable space is allocated in Gallery view. If there is only one participant in the room, the video tile will be the same size as another remote participant tile. If there is more than one participant in the room, the room video tile will remain optimized, at 4x the size of a remote participant. To determine the people count in rooms, Cloud IntelliFrame must be enabled or there must be a room camera that is capable of sending people count via Accessory Signaling Protocol (ASP).

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 400706.

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

 

Microsoft Teams: Ability to rename General channel MC814583 Published Jul 16, 2024

Based on customer feedback, we are introducing the ability to provide a meaningful name to the General channel in a new or existing team. The General channel can be renamed by the team owners to show up in the teams' and channels' list of all members in alphabetical order.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 395931

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

General Availability

Worldwide: We will begin rolling out mid-August 2024 and expect to complete by late August 2024.

GCC: We will begin rolling out early September 2024 and expect to complete by mid-September 2024.

GCC High: We will begin rolling out mid-September 2024 and expect to complete by late September 2024.

DoD: We will begin rolling out mid-September 2024 and expect to complete by late September 2024.

 

Microsoft Teams: Roster grouping for in-room participants through Proximity Join for Teams Rooms on Windows MC814577 Published Jul 16, 2024

When joining a meeting in Teams Room on Windows with a companion device (laptop or mobile), in-room participants will be grouped under the room node. Participants must join through Proximity Join. This update includes additional UI elements to create visual clarity of the in-room participants who are together.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 400702

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

General Availability (GCC, GCC High, DoD): We will begin rolling out mid-September 2024 and expect to complete roll-out by end of September 2024.

 

Microsoft Teams: Legal hold and eDiscovery support for webinars and town halls MC814576 Published Jul 16, 2024

Before this rollout, compliance admins can place Microsoft Purview eDiscovery legal holds on Microsoft Teams webinar and town hall data using Team's ability to target SharePoint locations where Teams content is housed. Due to heightened security requirements and the need for specialized compliance support, we are moving legal holds in Teams from the SharePoint integration to a more direct integration with Purview.

The more direct integration of Teams legal holds with Purview will begin July 31, 2024. Legal holds through SharePoint will not apply to any new Teams webinars or town hall meetings created after July 31, 2024, because newly created Teams town hall and webinar data will not reside in SharePoint. Legal holds on events created before July 31, 2024 will continue to work through SharePoint. Full support for Purview eDiscovery legal holds is anticipated by early 2025. Purview eDiscovery will continue to work for all events, even after July 31, 2025. Only eDiscovery legal hold will be affected by this integration.

 

 

  • Microsoft Teams – updated message center posts:

 

 

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  • Microsoft Viva – new message center posts:

 

 

Changes to Topics in Viva Engage MC823308 Published Jul 19, 2024

In February 2024 the retirement of Viva Topics (Changes coming to Topics) was announced. As part of that change, Viva Engage will return to a simplified topics model, called Engage topics, and the integration with Viva Topics will be retired.

The following premium Viva Topics experiences and lightweight topics management experiences will no longer be available in Viva Engage, including:

  • Viewing Viva Topics card when hovering on a topic
  • Viewing or using AI-discovered Viva Topics
  • Links to Viva Topics pages
  • Topic management via Viva Topics or lightweight topics management
  • Featuring of topics in Answers

Using Engage topics, users will continue to be able to create topics, add topics to posts, follow topics, edit topics they created, and increase the relevance of their feeds by following topics. Topic creators will gain the ability to delete topics they created. Applicable admins will continue to be able to edit topics and will gain the ability to delete topics within Viva Engage.

Organizations using Answers in Viva (Answers in Viva: Introduction) will continue to see additional topic capabilities including bulk topic deletion for admins, AI suggested topics for questions, topics promoted for following, and topic browse experiences. The described topic experiences will be available to Viva Engage tenants that have been migrated to Engage topics.

Rollout will begin August 2024 and will complete for all tenants migrated to use Viva Topics in Viva Engage by April 2025. Tenants using legacy topics in Viva Engage will begin migrations in September 2024 and migrations will continue until all Native mode networks have been completed.

 

Headspace will no longer be available through Viva Insights MC823285 Published Jul 19, 2024

The Headspace experience is currently not functioning in Viva Insights. Headspace and all of its content will be removed from Viva Insights. All Headspace entry points and experiences within Viva Insights Home, Virtual Commute, Focus Mode, and Wellbeing Tabs will no longer be accessible and removed effective July 25th, 2024. 

Viva Insights will remove all Headspace content within Viva Insights to users starting July 25th, 2024. 

 

Microsoft Viva Pulse: Updates to Privacy controls MC816195 Published Jul 17, 2024

Before this rollout, Microsoft Viva Pulse admins can configure the Minimum number of responses required to see feedback in the Viva Pulse app under the Manage tab. This control is used to determine the minimum number of recipients a Pulse author needs to send their request to and how many responses must be received for a report to be created and provided to the author.

Coming soon: A new Minimum number of recipients control will allow admins to separately manage the minimum number of recipients and minimum number of responses required, for more granular control. Both are required, and the minimum number of recipients must always be equal to or greater than the minimum number of responses required.

General Availability: We will begin rolling out mid-August 2024 and expect to complete by late August 2024.

 

  • Microsoft Viva – updated message center posts:

 

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