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Sunday, November 17, 2024

Friends of Microsoft Teams - Week 46 - 2024 (November 11 - November 17)

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 46 of 2024, November 11 – November 17.

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:

 

 

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: New DVR capabilities for town halls (desktop and web) MC932488 Published Nov 13, 2024

Updated November 15, 2024: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Coming soon for Microsoft Teams: New DVR (digital video recording) functionality for all town halls. This new feature will allow town hall attendees on Windows desktop or the web to interact with a live streaming town hall in the same way they would interact with recorded content. DVR functionality in the town hall enables event attendees to pause and move forward or back in a town hall, navigate to any previous timestamp, and other abilities, making it more convenient to interact with a town hall more and easier to digest the content being presented. This feature is available for Teams town halls from all organizers, regardless of the license assigned to the organizer.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 422804.

Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out early January 2025 (previously early December) and expect to complete by mid-January 2025 (previously mid-December).

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 early February 2025 (previously late January).

 

Microsoft Teams: File Interactive Previews MC934727 Published Nov 15, 2024

Now users can quickly review files in Microsoft Teams chat and channel conversations using the file preview option. Using preview, users will be able to consume the file within the flow of work, minimizing the context switch and potentially enhancing the efficiency for the users.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 421188.

Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out early January 2025 and expect to complete by late January 2025.

General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out early February 2025 and expect to complete by late February 2025.

General Availability (GCC): We will begin rolling out mid-March 2025 and expect to complete by mid-Apr 2025.

General Availability (GCC High): We will begin rolling out late March 2025 and expect to complete by late April 2025.

General Availability (DoD): We will begin rolling out early April 2025 and expect to complete by early May 2025.

 

Microsoft Mesh: Support for audio when sharing screens in Microsoft Teams immersive events MC932489 Published Nov 13, 2024

Coming soon: We're adding support when sharing screens with Microsoft Mesh in Microsoft Teams immersive events. Presenters will now be able to choose whether they'd like to include system audio when starting a screen share in an immersive event. This feature is available for presenters in Mesh with a Teams Premium license. This message applies to Mesh on Windows desktops.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 423475.

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

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

 

Microsoft Teams: Town hall concurrent attendee limit will increase to 50,000 MC932473 Published Nov 13, 2024

Coming soon to Microsoft Teams town halls: For organizers with a Teams Premium license, we are expanding the limit from 20,000 maximum concurrent attendees to 50,000 maximum. The quality and stability of town halls up to this new limit will remain constant, providing high-quality and reliable content for participants. For events with more than 20,000 concurrent attendees, some interactivity features such as chat and reactions will be disabled for all attendees. This message applies to Teams town halls on Windows desktop, on the web, and on iOS/Android. This feature is available for town hall organizers with an active Teams Premium license.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 429538.

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

 

Ensuring Security and Compliance: Keep your Microsoft Teams desktop clients up to date MC931401 Published Nov 12, 2024

In today’s security climate, our work across the company and greater industry to keep this critical ecosystem secure is more important than ever. And while we also ship bug fixes and other new features via continuous innovation, in the end security is job one.

Keeping Microsoft Teams up to date is critical to ensure your devices are secure and compliant. By default, and as designed, Teams updates automatically which successfully updates most clients in the world without additional overhead for customers.

Microsoft Teams is governed by the Modern Lifecycle Policy which requires that the Teams desktop client be kept up to date. This is not a new policy, for instance in MC298823 (November 2021), a version that is far out of date will become incompatible with the service until it’s updated. As documented, when a client falls out of date, the user will see:

  • Recurring in-app alerts, if the app is between 30d-90d out of date.
  • A blocking page in Teams, if the app is greater than 90 days out of date. At this point, the app will show options to update, to contact their IT administrator, or continue to Teams on the web.

As an example, if the Teams app is hypothetically on a version released on January 1 and the next update is fully available on January 15, an in-app alert would be shown on February 14th (30 days after the January 15th update).

For reference, link to the Teams app's version's release dates. Also, The Microsoft Teams desktop client usage report gives you an overview of the Teams desktop clients in use within your organization.

Classic Teams is not in scope for this post; see MC783985 for Classic Teams Timelines regarding end of support and end of availability.

The existing policy enforcement will be visible beginning November 12th, 2024.

   

 

  • Microsoft Teams – updated message center posts:

 

 

Microsoft Teams admin center: Admins can disable the ability to send messages in meeting chat before and after a meeting MC920298 Published Oct 28, 2024

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Easily insert hyperlinks in messages MC926877 Published Nov 6, 2024

(Updated) Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Outlook: Name pronunciation on the profile card MC917748 Published Oct 24, 2024

(Updated) Contact Unification across Outlook and Teams MC695487 Published Dec 4, 2023

(Updated) Teams admin center: App centric management and changes to app permission policies MC688930 Published Nov 11, 2023

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

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

(Updated) Mute with Windows Taskbar available in the new Microsoft Teams on Windows MC709270 Published Jan 23, 2024

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Increase in meeting passcodes length for added security MC889520 Published Sep 13, 2024

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Hiding inactive channels MC804771 Published Jun 24, 2024

 

 

  • Microsoft Viva – new message center posts:

 

 

Microsoft Viva Amplify and Microsoft SharePoint: New required footers will be automatically applied to email MC933529 Published Nov 13, 2024

Email sent from Microsoft Viva Amplify and from Microsoft SharePoint when SharePoint News posts are shared will contain a new required footer. Effective immediately, we will add this footer to all email sent from these products.

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

 

Updates in computation of network metrics and cross-collaboration metrics in Viva Insights MC931379 Published Nov 11, 2024

Viva insights network metrics computation logic has been updated to better identify connections licensed employees have with unlicensed employees. Moreover, cross-collaboration query compute has been updated to improve protection of the data of end-users who have opted out of Viva Insights.

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

 

 

  • Microsoft Viva – updated message center posts:

 

 

(Updated) Microsoft Viva Engage: Unregistered users in an external network will not receive community emails MC928016 Published Nov 8, 2024

 

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