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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

 

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