Friends of Microsoft Teams - Week 36 - 2024 (September 2 - September 8)

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 36 of 2024, September 2 – September 8.

Feel free to share with your partners, customers, colleagues, and peers.

 

What's New in Microsoft Teams (and Microsoft 365):

• The Total Economic Impact Of Microsoft Teams Rooms
• What’s new in Forms for EDU – Sep 2024
• An update on our approach to tackling intimate image abuse

Field Advisories:

 

• Large, Multi-Tenant Organizations find value with cross-tenant communications support in Viva Engage
• SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop: August 2024
• Using Copilot to Demo Copilot
• Now available: Transparency Note for Copilot for Microsoft 365
• Work Smarter: Copilot Productivity Tips
• Microsoft Graph APIs for Teams town hall now generally available

Community:

• Impress with Microsoft Copilot in Teams
• My Demo 365: Teams Phone- Shared Calling – Direct Routing Edition
• Teams Rooms Configuration Profiles | Mo Mondays Ep.43

 

 

M365 Message Center :

 

 

• Microsoft Teams – new message center posts:

 

 

Microsoft Teams: Start/stop recording on Teams Rooms on Windows MC884009 Published Sep 5, 2024

Coming soon to Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows: Users can start or stop recording meetings directly from a Teams Rooms on Windows device. This feature requires a Teams Rooms Pro license and Teams Rooms on Windows app version 5.2.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 412072.

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

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

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

 

Microsoft Teams admin center: Deploy frontline teams with flexible membership MC883199 Published Sep 4, 2024

Note: If you are not using frontline worker functionality, you can ignore this message.

Coming soon in the Microsoft Teams admin center: Admins will be able to deploy location-based frontline teams where team membership is automatically managed, and team owners can also add frontline workers or remove them from teams. This rollout will allow admins to take advantage of dynamic rules to keep teams updated as members join and leave the organization and also give team owners the autonomy to manage membership at the team level.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 410774.

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 mid-November 2024.

 

 

• Microsoft Teams – updated message center posts:

 

 

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Ability to purchase third-party app subscriptions from Teams Admin Center and Teams app store MC794545 Published May 20, 2024

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: View attachments to invitations created in Microsoft Outlook MC801585 Published Jun 13, 2024

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Ask to join a shared channel with a channel link MC792603 Published May 13, 2024

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

 

 

• Microsoft Viva – new message center posts:

 

 

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

Coming soon for Microsoft Viva Amplify: Authors editing sections in the Amplify main draft or the Amplify distribution channel for Microsoft SharePoint can now use Design ideas to rearrange and reformat their image, text sections, and the banner webpart. The selected designs for these sections are displayed in Outlook and Teams according to the channel specific render capabilities.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 412943.

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

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

 

Microsoft Viva Pulse: New Pulse templates, Conversations in Pulse reports, eDiscovery and Microsoft 365 Audit support MC883193 Published Sep 4, 2024

Coming soon to Microsoft Viva Pulse:

• New Pulse templates
• Conversations in Pulse reports
• eDiscovery and Microsoft 365 Audit support for Viva Pulse

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 381744.

These features apply to Pulse on Windows and Mac desktop, on the web, and on iOS/Android.

Public Preview: Available now.

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

 

 

• Microsoft Viva – updated message center posts:

 

 

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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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