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Find below a list of public posts and updates on Microsoft Teams (and Microsoft 365) that have been published in Week 47 of 2024, November 18 – November 24. We can call this one the “Ignite edition”.
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What's New in Microsoft Teams (and Microsoft 365):
- What’s
New in Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Ignite 2024
- Ignite 2024
Book of news
- Ignite
2024 - What's new for Microsoft 365 and Copilot admins
- Ignite
2024: Agents in SharePoint now in general availability
- Introducing
Copilot Actions, new agents, and tools to empower IT teams
- AI
agents — what they are, and how they’ll change the way we work
- Introducing
new agents in Microsoft 365
- Introducing
Copilot Analytics to measure AI impact on your business
- Bell
expands Microsoft collaboration to launch Microsoft Teams Phone Mobile for
Canadian businesses
- What’s
New on Cisco Devices for Microsoft Teams Rooms – Fall 2024
- Enhance
meeting security with Teams Premium’s email verification for external
meeting participants
- What’s
new in Viva Engage – Ignite Edition
- What’s
new in Viva Amplify – Ignite Edition
- What’s
new in Viva for Communicators at Microsoft Ignite
- Ignite
2024: Bidirectional real-time audio streaming with Azure Communication
Services
- Microsoft
Ignite 2024 | Microsoft 365 Copilot Innovation in Your Go-To Apps
- Security
and governance innovations for Microsoft 365 Copilot from Ignite 2024
- What’s
new in Microsoft 365 Copilot in Word at Ignite 2024
- What’s
new in Microsoft 365 Copilot in PowerPoint at Ignite 2024
- What’s new in Microsoft 365 Copilot in OneNote at Ignite
Field Advisories:
- Teams
Premium enhances scheduling in Microsoft Bookings
- New
Copilot Prompt Gallery helps you discover, save, and share your favorite
prompts
- Announcing
general availability of organizational messages in the Microsoft 365 admin
center
- Viva
Glint and Insights Integration Now Generally Available
- Introducing
Copilot Analytics to measure AI impact on your business
- Introducing
the AI-Powered Workplace: Technology solutions for flexible work
- Ignite
2024: New innovation for the AI-powered workforce
- Ignite
2024: Why nearly 70% of the Fortune 500 now use Microsoft 365 Copilot
- Introducing
the Employee Self-Service Agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot
- ICYMI
| Microsoft Partner Blog: How agents in Microsoft 365 Copilot help
customers and partners drive business results
- Extending
Copilot: New Features for End Users, Admins, Developers, and ISVs
- You
just got Microsoft 365 Copilot, now what?
- Security
Related Updates in Exchange Online
- Storyline in Microsoft
Teams
Community:
- Microsoft
Teams @ Ignite 2024
- Microsoft 365 Copilot:
Top Announcements from Ignite!
- Teams
callback feature is now available in GUI
- Microsoft
Teams Users Can Soon Use Voice Cloning Technology
- Microsoft
Places will be rolled out soon
- Receive
SMS messages in Microsoft Teams
M365 Message Center :
- Microsoft
Teams – new message center posts:
Microsoft Teams: Improved Microsoft Lists
links in Teams chats and channels MC939930
Published Nov 22, 2024
Coming soon to Microsoft Teams: Links to
Microsoft Lists, Lists items, and Lists forms will display richer details such
as title and path when shared in Teams chats and channels. This new feature
will enhance collaboration by making it easier for users to recognize specific
List link types, in addition to viewing the title and path. This message
applies to Teams for Windows and Mac desktops.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365
Roadmap ID 419812.
Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out
early January 2025 and expect to complete by mid-January 2025.
General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin
rolling out mid-January 2025 and expect to complete by early February 2025.
Microsoft Teams admin center: Manage external
access policies for users in your organization MC938541
Published Nov 20, 2024
Coming soon: Manage External access policies
for users in your organization using Microsoft Teams admin center.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365
Roadmap ID 423476.
The new external access policy management page
allows admins to easily view, add, edit, and remove external access policies
for users within their organization, all through the Teams admin center UI.
Previously, these actions could only be performed using PowerShell commands,
but now they are also accessible directly in the Teams admin center.
General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin
rolling out mid-January 2025 and expect to complete by late January 2025.
General Availability (GCC): We will begin
rolling out late January 2025 and expect to complete by late January 2025.
General Availability (GCC High): We will begin
rolling out early February 2025 and expect to complete by early February
2025.
General Availability (DoD): We will begin
rolling out mid-February 2025 and expect to complete by mid-February 2025.
Microsoft Teams: Updated Planner tab
experience MC937952
Published Nov 20, 2024
Before this rollout, users with a Microsoft 365
license can use the Planner tab in Microsoft Teams to create and add existing
basic plans and lists to standard
channels in Teams. With this update, these users will be able to use
built-in templates in the Planner tab in Teams to create plans. If users have
licenses for Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Project, they can also create and add
existing premium plans to Planner tabs. Plans added to Teams channels with the
existing Planner tab will continue to work after the rollout and will not be
affected by the rollout. This message applies to Teams for Windows desktop,
Teams for Mac desktop, and Teams for the web.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365
Roadmap ID 464175.
General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin
rolling out early December 2024 and expect to complete by mid-December 2024.
Microsoft Teams: Additional report fields in
the time clock export for improved reporting in the Shifts app MC937925
Published Nov 19, 2024
If your organization does not have frontline
workers, you can ignore this message.
Coming soon for the Shifts app in Microsoft
Teams, we will expand the functionality of the time clock export report by
adding additional fields from Shifts. This enhancement provides you with a more
comprehensive and detailed view of your scheduling data, making it easier to
analyze and manage workforce activities. This message applies to Teams for web,
Windows, and Mac desktops.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365
Roadmap ID 422812.
General Availability (Worldwide, GCC): We will
begin rolling out early December 2024 and expect to complete by mid-December
2024.
Microsoft Teams: Creating an avatar from a
photo will soon be GA MC937922
Published Nov 19, 2024
In Microsoft Teams, users will soon be able to
customize their digital avatar by uploading a photo. After the photo avatar is
set up, this avatar can be used in Teams meetings and Mesh immersive spaces.
General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin
rolling out mid-November 2024 and expect to complete by late November 2024.
Microsoft Teams: Explicit Consent for
recording and transcription in group calls and Meet Now MC93791
Published Nov 19, 2024
The Microsoft Teams Explicit Consent meeting
policy is expanding to support group calls and Meet Now. When applied to a
user, this policy will ensure that any recording/transcription initiated by
that user in a group call or Meet Now will prompt all participants to provide
consent for their media to be included in the recording and transcription.
Participants cannot share audio, video, or screenshare/content-share until
consent is given.
General Availability (Worldwide, GCC): We will
begin rolling out mid-November 2024 and expect to complete by late November
2024.
- Microsoft
Teams – updated message center posts:
(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Watermark for
anonymous meeting join MC918575
Published Oct 25, 2024
(Updated) Microsoft Mesh: Support for audio
when sharing screens in Microsoft Teams immersive events MC932489
Published Nov 13, 2024
Microsoft Teams: Automatic location updates
with building details for BYOD rooms and bookable desks MC921116
Published Oct 29, 2024
(Updated) Microsoft Teams: New policy for voice
and face enrollment defaulting to 'On' MC892646
Published Sep 19, 2024
(Updated) Improved search for content around
people MC918573
Published Oct 25, 2024
(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Block a user for
your organization MC888879
Published Sep 12, 2024
(Updated) Microsoft Teams: External presenters
can join on mobile MC862236
Published Aug 14, 2024
(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Bidirectional
Support for Teams Live Interpretation MC816179
Published Jul 17, 2024
(Updated) Microsoft Teams admin center: App
centric management for app installation and changes to app setup policies MC795355
Published May 23, 2024
(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Users can take
control during screensharing on the web MC915486
Published Oct 21, 2024
- Microsoft
Viva – new message center posts:
Microsoft Viva: New support documentation
structure for Workday and Microsoft Viva Learning MC939929
Published Nov 22, 2024
Note: If your organization is not using the
Workday and Microsoft Viva Learning integration, you can safely ignore this
message.
Coming soon for Microsoft Viva: We will update
the structure of the setup support documentation for Workday and Microsoft Viva
Learning. The documentation will be divided into modules for better
readability. We are not changing the content.
General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin
rolling out early December 2024 and expect to complete by early December
2024.
New Service in your Microsoft 365 subscription:
Org Explorer MC939925
Published Nov 22, 2024
Your Microsoft 365 subscription is being
updated with a new service in your Outlook: Org Explorer. This organization
chart helps your visualize your company's internal structure and discover
connections, roles, and responsibilities among you and other people across
teams.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365
Roadmap ID 421191.
General Availability (Worldwide) for new
Outlook for Windows, Outlook for Web, and Outlook for Mac: We will begin
rolling out mid-January 2025 and expect to complete by late February 2025.
General Availability (Worldwide) for classic
Outlook: We will begin rolling out mid-January 2025 and expect to complete
by early April 2025.
Note: The access to Org Explorer will depend on
which Outlook service platform the user is using. Therefore, we recommend you
switch to the new Outlook for Windows or Outlook for web to have early access
to this new feature. EDU tenants are not included in this rollout until further
notice.
Microsoft Viva Engage: Community analytics
update MC938647
Published Nov 20, 2024
Coming soon: Updates to community analytics
features for Microsoft Viva Engage. After this rollout, users will be able to
keep up with their community's activities in real time. We have added
additional data ranges to support periods of 7 days, 28 days, 90 days, and 365
days. We have also added a new top conversations table that displays the
conversations with the most engagement in the community and new Q&A
engagement metrics, including an overview of most popular questions.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365
Roadmap ID 168626.
General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin
rolling out mid-December 2024 and expect to complete by mid-January 2025.
Microsoft Viva Insights: Data export for Viva
Glint and Viva Insights data MC937159
Published Nov 19, 2024
We are pleased to announce the general
availability of data export for Microsoft Viva Glint and Microsoft Viva
Insights within the Microsoft
Advanced Insights application. Analysts can now use the existing Glint and
organizational insights Power BI template to run queries, and, with this new
functionality, results can be downloaded as a CSV file. The existing feature
allows users to view results as an embedded Power BI.
Please note that CSV downloads will only be
available for surveys with raw data export enabled by the Glint admin during
the survey setup. For more details, please see this information
about confidentiality.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365
Roadmap ID 423485.
General Availability (Worldwide): This
feature will roll out at the end of December 2024.
- Microsoft
Viva – updated message center posts:
n/a
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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