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Sunday, September 29, 2024

Friends of Microsoft Teams - Week 39 - 2024 (September 23 - September 29)

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 39 of 2024, September 23 – September 29.

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 admin center: "WatermarkWithDisplayNameAndIP" retires in October 2024 from Teams meeting policy MC899939 Published Sep 28, 2024

We will retire the Microsoft PowerShell command value WatermarkWithDisplayNameAndIP for WatermarkForAnonymousUsers for the Microsoft Teams meeting policy on October 27, 2024. We will continue to support the values WatermarkWithDisplayName (the default value) and JoinWithAudioOnly.

 

Planned maintenance for all certified and supported Teams Android Devices to Company Portal version MC898390 Published Sep 26, 2024

If your organization does not use Teams Android Devices you can safely disregard this message.

Planned Maintenance: Automatic updates for all certified and supported Teams Android Devices to Company Portal version 5.0.6152.0.

Upcoming Microsoft Infrastructure changes will impact Teams Android Devices running older and out of support firmware and applications. Teams Android Devices (Teams Rooms on Android, Teams Phone, Teams Display, and Teams Panel devices) running Company Portal applications older than 5.0.6061.0 may sign out or be unstable starting July 1, 2025. We recommend ensuring your devices are on 5.0.6152.0 as soon as possible as that is the latest supported version to ensure stability.

Please review your existing Teams Android devices and ensure they are on the latest supported and available firmware and application versions. In Teams Admin Center > Teams Devices you can export your current device inventory using the Excel icon for each device type, this export includes a column for Company Portal version. If you find devices not on 5.0.6152.0, please update your Teams Android devices to the latest available firmware in Teams Admin Center, you can review manual and automatic update options as explained in this link.

Since this Company Portal update is critical to ensure your devices stability, Microsoft will begin accelerated automatic firmware and company portal app only updates to ensure latest release for devices not currently running the latest release.

These auto-updates will start rolling out mid-October 2024 and will continue until late December 2024.

 

Stay current with your OS to keep your Microsoft Teams desktop client supported MC898394 Published Sep 26, 2024

Microsoft Teams is governed by the Modern Lifecycle Policy, the Teams desktop client needs to be under a supported OS version. This is to ensure that users have the latest updates, capabilities, performance enhancements, security features, and service compatibility.

On new Teams, users on OS versions that are not supported will receive in-app notifications to encourage them to update their device to a supported OS version. A version that is too far out of date will become incompatible with the service and the Desktop client will be blocked until the OS is updated.

Windows OSes support dates and lifecycle policy are documented in Product and Service lifecycle page. For example, OSes such as Windows LTSC and OSes under Long Term Serving Channel (LTSC), are not supported as they follow the Fixed lifecycle policy.

MacOS typically receives support for three years following its release, with the end of support coinciding with the launch of the third subsequent major macOS version. For example, once macOS 15 is released, macOS 12 will no longer be supported.

This will be shown on the new Teams client starting on October 15th, 2024. Note, users on Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) deployments are currently excluded.

 

Microsoft Teams: New features to improve user app adoption MC898393 Published Sep 26, 2024

We are excited to announce two new features in the Teams Store that will help users discover and adopt apps in Microsoft Teams. These enhancements are designed to streamline how users find and engage with apps in Teams. This message applies to Teams on the web and Teams for Windows and Mac desktops.

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

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

 

Microsoft Teams: UDP Signaling Ports configuration change MC898392 Published Sep 26, 2024

Coming soon: To enhance the efficiency of Microsoft Teams, we will implement a significant update to the UDP signaling ports used for Calling and Meetings.

Before this rollout, Teams uses UDP Source Ports 49152-65535 for Calling and Meetings signaling API Calls. This includes functionality such as mute/unmute, hold, adding participants, and reactions.

After this rollout, Teams will transition UDP signaling from source ports 49152-65535 to 50070-50089, maintaining the destination UDP port 3478. This change aims to reduce the number of ports used and enable you to apply Quality of Service (QoS) DSCP markers to this traffic.

When this will happen: General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out early October 2024 and expect to complete by early October 2024.

 

Microsoft Teams: Performance improvements for meetings in Edge web browser for guests MC898391 Published Sep 26, 2024

Anonymous users (guests) who join Microsoft Teams meetings in the Microsoft Edge for Business web browser will soon experience performance improvements. They will be able to join meetings faster.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 401117.

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

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

General Availability (GCC, GCC High, and DoD): We will begin rolling out early January 2025 and expect to complete by late January 2025.

 

Microsoft Teams: Add location to your presence signal MC896703 Published Sep 24, 2024

In Microsoft Teams, you can add a location to your presence signal to indicate when you’re in the office or a particular office building using Microsoft Places building lookup.

For more information, see Set your work location in Microsoft Teams.

You can view the work location of other people in your organization from several places in Teams.

  • View location from a profile card.
  • View location from a one-on-one chat.
  • View location from a group chat and see who is also nearby.

For more information, see View other people's work location.

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

 

 

  • Microsoft Teams – updated message center posts:

 

 

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Users will exclusively control their voice and face data exports MC892049 Published Sep 17, 2024

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Enhanced discovery of apps and one-click app installation across Teams MC888049 Published Sep 11, 2024

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Refreshed view of all your teams and channels page MC887377 Published Sep 10, 2024

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

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Embed support for Teams town hall MC889534 Published Sep 13, 2024

(Updated) Co-organizer experience updates in Teams Webinars and Townhalls MC688109 Published Nov 8, 2023

(Updated) Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft Teams: Update on new Microsoft Lists rollout MC891238 Published Sep 16, 2024

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Streamlined process for installing Teams apps MC877316 Published Aug 29, 2024

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: External presenters can join on mobile MC862236 Published Aug 14, 2024

(Updated) Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows: New native Microsoft-defined camera controls in camera settings MC856755 Published Aug 9, 2024

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

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

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

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

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Describe it to design it in Teams Workflows MC718250 Published Feb 21, 2024

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Proximity Join via ultrasound MC808162 Published Jul 3, 2024

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Enhanced Chat contextual info and Search MC803293 Published Jun 19, 2024

(Updated) Teams: Latest meeting experiences with performance improvements on web for Safari and Firefox (for guests) MC705760 Published Jan 10, 2024

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Integrate Chat notification with Meeting RSVP status MC704035 Published Jan 5, 2024

 

 

  • Microsoft Viva – new message center posts:

 

 

Microsoft Viva Engage: Subscribe to notifications for followed topics MC899176 Published Sep 26, 2024

Coming soon to Microsoft Viva Engage: This feature will allow users to subscribe to receive notifications after following Viva Engage topics. Users will receive an Engage notification on the bell icon on the left side of Viva Engage when a new post is tagged with a topic they are subscribed to, or the topic is added to an existing post.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 395940.

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

 

 

  • Microsoft Viva – updated message center posts:

 

 

(Updated) Microsoft Viva: Design ideas in Viva Amplify MC884007 Published Sep 5, 2024

(Updated) Microsoft Viva: Pulse admins can share links to Pulse templates MC891237 Published Sep 16, 2024

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

 

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Kind Regards/Vriendelijke groeten/Med vänlig hälsning/Salutations,

Mattias Kressmark


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The content of this communication and its attachments (if any) is for general information purposes only and does not under any circumstance constitute a binding offer or acceptance of Microsoft Ireland Operations Limited, Microsoft NV/SA or any other Microsoft Group affiliate, unless this is expressly stated in a separate document executed by a person with sufficient powers to do so. The content shall not be considered to supplement or amend the terms of any existing agreement with Microsoft Ireland Operations Limited, Microsoft NV/SA or any other Microsoft Group affiliate. Furthermore you are reminded that the content is solely based on the limited information provided to us at the time of this communication and it will be subject to possible changes occurring hereafter.

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Sunday, September 22, 2024

Friends of Microsoft Teams - Week 38 - 2024 (September 16 - September 22)

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 38 of 2024, September 16 – September 22.

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: Performance improvements for meetings in Chrome web browser for guests MC894581 Published Sep 21, 2024

Anonymous users (guests) who join Microsoft Teams meetings in the Chrome web browser will soon experience performance improvements.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 401116.

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

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

General Availability (GCC, GCC High and DoD): We will begin rolling out early January 2025 and expect to complete by late January 2025.

 

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: New policy for voice and face enrollment defaulting to 'On' MC892646 Published Sep 19, 2024

Updated September 20, 2024: We have updated the content below for clarity. Thank you for your feedback.

We're introducing a new policy that gives IT admins enhanced flexibility with distinct settings for voice and face enrollment. This adjustment provides greater control over managing these features, allowing organizations to tailor to their needs. Voice and face biometric enrollment will be enabled by default, enabling voice isolation and speaker recognition in meeting rooms and enhancing intelligent meeting recaps and Microsoft Copilot for meetings.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 413708.

General Availability (Worldwide, GCC):

We will begin rolling out the new policy in early October 2024 and expect complete by mid-October 2024.

The policy will be enabled beginning in early January 2025 and expect to be complete by mid-January 2025.

 

Microsoft Teams: Auto-detect and pre-select room audio in BYOD meeting rooms MC892647 Published Sep 19, 2024

Coming soon to Microsoft Teams: When users connect their laptop to a room's shared peripheral through USB, Teams will automatically detect the room's audio and recommend the room audio option on the pre-join screen to help streamline a user's entry into a bring your own device (BYOD) meeting room. If a room's audio peripherals are recognized as shared or they are on Microsoft's known BYOD peripherals list, the room audio option will be suggested to users. After users connect the peripheral to their laptop and join a meeting, users will automatically transition to the room's audio if a room's audio peripherals are recognized as shared and are on Microsoft's known BYOD peripherals list* or if the room's audio peripheral is associated** to a room via the Microsoft Teams Pro management portal. A shared peripheral is one that is being used by multiple users, which distinguishes it from a personal peripheral. This message applies to Teams on Windows desktops and Mac desktops.

*Use shared display mode in meeting rooms - Microsoft Support (will be updated with a list of known BYOD peripherals before rollout)

**Bring Your Own Device Rooms in Teams Pro Management portal (will be updated before rollout)

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 413710.

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

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

 

Microsoft Teams: FAQs about town halls and Teams Live Events MC892643 Published Sep 18, 2024

This informational message addresses several frequently asked questions regarding Microsoft Teams town halls and Teams Live Events (TLE).

First, as a reminder, TLE will not be retiring this calendar year, as announced in Updates for Town Hall in Microsoft Teams and Teams Live Events - Microsoft Community Hub and communicated in MC678003 (Updated) Microsoft Teams Live Event Retirement (updated May 2024).

We have not set a new retirement date for TLE, which we will continue to maintain while we work on closing the remaining major feature gaps between TLE and Teams town hall. Also, the full retirement of classic Teams as described in End of availability for classic Teams client - Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Learn will not affect TLE scheduling, even though TLE scheduling currently uses classic Teams. We will move TLE scheduling from classic Teams on the web and rebuild it natively in Teams 2.1. We expect to complete this work by early December 2024. As a reminder, even with the extended life of TLE, all major feature updates will be reserved for Teams town hall. We still encourage customers to move to town hall as soon are you are unblocked in terms of feature parity.

As the timelines for the features become clear, we will also update the Microsoft 365 Roadmap with timelines for each gap-closing feature we plan to release. Please keep an eye on the roadmap for updates on these features.

 

Microsoft Teams: Participant roster grouping in Teams BYOD meeting rooms MC892055 Published Sep 17, 2024

Coming soon for Microsoft Teams: When users join a Teams meeting with their laptop in bring your own device (BYOD) meeting rooms, they will appear in the In-room participant section of the roster, which enables individual identification and meeting intelligence capabilities. As communicated in MC814577 (Updated) Microsoft Teams: Roster grouping for in-room participants through Proximity Join for Teams Rooms on Windows (July 2024), we will launch this same experience in September 2024 for joining a nearby meeting with a Microsoft Teams Room and a companion device.

Unique to BYOD meeting rooms, the roster group will be displayed as Meeting space if the connected device is NOT identified in the Teams Pro Management Portal (PMP). If the device is identified in the PMP, the roster group will display the configured meeting room name.

This message applies to Teams for Windows and Mac desktops.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 413711.

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

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

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

 

Microsoft Teams: Enhanced query suggestions when searching for people MC892054 Published Sep 17, 2024

Coming soon to Microsoft Teams: Write search queries quickly and efficiently with enhanced people query suggestions. This message applies to Teams on Windows and Mac desktops.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 413112.

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

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

 

Microsoft Teams: Users will exclusively control their voice and face data exports MC892049 Published Sep 17, 2024

We are excited to announce an important update designed to enhance the privacy and security of your organization. Before this rollout, admins had the capability to download voice and face data for their users who have opted in to enroll their voice and/or face on the Recognition tab in Microsoft Teams. With this rollout, to better protect user data, we are shifting this capability to users. This change will ensure that users have more control over their own voice and face data, aligning with our commitment to privacy and security. This change reduces the risk of unauthorized access or sharing, as users will handle their own data export requests and admins will not have access to this data. This message applies to Teams for Windows desktop and Teams for Mac desktop.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 413709.

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

 

Microsoft Teams: Voice isolation will be available for macOS desktops MC891240 Published Sep 16, 2024

With voice isolation in Microsoft Teams, you can enjoy clear and uninterrupted calls or meetings, no matter where you are. Voice isolation is an AI-based advanced noise suppression feature that eliminates unwanted background noise, including other human voices. The technology recognizes your voice profile and ensures only your voice is transmitted. Voice isolation can be enabled for calls and meetings. With this rollout, voice isolation will be available on Teams for macOS desktops.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 412359.

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

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

 

Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft Teams: Update on new Microsoft Lists rollout MC891238 Published Sep 16, 2024

Coming soon to Microsoft SharePoint and Lists in Microsoft Teams: An updated Microsoft Lists. This rollout introduces new features to users, 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 is an update to MC600726: (Updated) Microsoft Lists User Experience Update (updated October 2023) and MC709979 (Updated) Microsoft SharePoint: Updated Lists in Team Sites, Lists progressive web app (PWA), and Teams (January 2024).

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

 

 

  • Microsoft Teams – updated message center posts:

 

 

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Volume ratio setting for meeting participants using language interpretation MC889529 Published Sep 13, 2024

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: New expanded gallery view option for minimized meeting window MC800496 Published Jun 10, 2024

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Presenter window enhancements while screensharing MC767481 Published Apr 3, 2024

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

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

(Updated) Simplified Compose Experience for Teams MC686919 Published Nov 3, 2023

Microsoft Teams: Streamlined process for installing Teams apps MC877316 Published Aug 29, 2024

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Shorter meeting URLs MC772556 Published Apr 8, 2024

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: External presenters can join on mobile MC862236 Published Aug 14, 2024

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

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Automatic location updates on bookable desks MC808158 Published Jul 3, 2024

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Voting and archiving questions in Teams Q&A MC844923 Published Aug 1, 2024

 

 

  • Microsoft Viva – new message center posts:

 

 

Microsoft Viva: A new reactions design in Viva Engage MC892641 Published Sep 18, 2024

Customers will see a new design for reactions in conversation cards across Microsoft Viva Engage web, Microsoft Teams and Outlook apps, and interactive emails in Outlook Web app and new Outlook for Windows.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 416644.

General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out early October 2024 and expect to complete by late December 2024.

 

Microsoft Viva: Pulse admins can manage Pulse notifications MC892053 Published Sep 17, 2024

Coming soon to Microsoft Viva: Pulse admins can adjust Viva Pulse notification settings for users in their tenant by setting the notification delivery methods where users receive Pulses. For example, admins can turn off the capability for Pulse notifications to be delivered through the Microsoft Teams Activity feed, which means that users will only receive Pulse survey notifications in email and Teams Chat. This rollout applies to Viva Pulse on the web and to the Viva app in Microsoft Teams.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 408163.

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

 

Microsoft Viva: Pulse admins can share links to Pulse templates MC891237 Published Sep 16, 2024

Coming soon to Microsoft Viva: Pulse admins will be able to copy and share links to Pulse templates from the template management page or from the template. For example, as a Pulse admin, I can copy a link for a template I’ve created and share it to all users in my company so they can also use or edit a template to create and send a Pulse.

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

 

Microsoft Viva: Changes to Viva Insights metrics and default report pages for leaders MC891236 Published Sep 16, 2024

Coming soon to Microsoft Viva Insights: To enhance reliability and performance, we are transitioning to a more agile, high-performing API. This change will ensure a more consistent and robust user experience. Users will retain access to all reports but will see some design and content changes.

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

 

Microsoft Viva Engage: Create posts, communities, etc. with the new centralized "Create new" button MC891234 Published Sep 16, 2024

Before this rollout, Microsoft Viva Engage users go to different locations in the application for different creation types such as a post, a community, and more.

After this rollout, a Viva Engage user will be able to create the different types of content they are licensed for with one Create new button. This new button eases the process of creation and helps users quickly discover the various creation options they are licensed to use. This feature is available in Viva Engage for Windows desktop, Viva Engage for the web, as well as the Viva Engage app in Microsoft Outlook for Windows desktop and iOS/Android and Microsoft Teams for Windows desktop and iOS/Android.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 416449.

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

 

 

  • Microsoft Viva – updated message center posts:

 

 

(Updated) Microsoft Viva Engage: Viva Engage question post update MC714521 Published Feb 10, 2024

(Updated) Microsoft Viva: Design ideas in Viva Amplify MC884007 Published Sep 5, 2024

 

For the latest information/updates you can always check these resources :

 

 

Disclaimer :

If others are interested to receive these “Friends of” messages directly from me, they can always share their contact details with me.

Or if you/they no longer want to receive these “Friends of” emails, just reply per email and I will remove you from this “Friends of” DL

 

Kind Regards/Vriendelijke groeten/Med vänlig hälsning/Salutations,

Mattias Kressmark


Disclaimer :

The content of this communication and its attachments (if any) is for general information purposes only and does not under any circumstance constitute a binding offer or acceptance of Microsoft Ireland Operations Limited, Microsoft NV/SA or any other Microsoft Group affiliate, unless this is expressly stated in a separate document executed by a person with sufficient powers to do so. The content shall not be considered to supplement or amend the terms of any existing agreement with Microsoft Ireland Operations Limited, Microsoft NV/SA or any other Microsoft Group affiliate. Furthermore you are reminded that the content is solely based on the limited information provided to us at the time of this communication and it will be subject to possible changes occurring hereafter.

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