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Sunday, February 2, 2025

Friends of Microsoft Teams - Week 5 - 2025 (January 27 - February 2)

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 5 of 2025, January 27 – February 2.

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

 

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

Field Advisories:

Community:

Coming Events:

 

M365 Message Center :

 

 

  • Microsoft Teams – new message center posts:

 

 

Microsoft Teams: Microsoft PowerShell cmdlet to allow federation with specific trial tenant domains MC994289 Published Jan 31, 2025

Coming soon: We will introduce a new Microsoft Teams PowerShell setting in Tenant Federation Configuration to enable you to customize your federation posture. Tenant administrators will be able to define a list of external trial tenants to be whitelisted for federation, while maintaining the default block on overall federation with trial-only tenants.

General Availability (Worldwide): The new setting is available now in Teams PowerShell. If populated, the allowed trial tenant domains list will start to take effect in mid-February 2025.

 

Microsoft Teams: Native Bluetooth call controls using hands-free protocol for multiple peripheral devices MC993227 Published Jan 31, 2025

Coming soon for Microsoft Teams: When you have several peripheral devices connected to Teams, the one you use to answer a call will temporarily become the main device that will sync with Teams when using the device's buttons. After the call, the original device selected in Teams settings will take over again as the main device. After this rollout, users can use multiple native Bluetooth devices can be confident that call controls will function correctly with all of them.

This message applies to Teams for Windows desktop.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 475853.

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

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

 

Microsoft Teams: New location sharing settings for emergency calls and other features MC993226 Published Jan 31, 2025

Microsoft Teams will soon have a new location sharing setting that will allow users to grant location access to specific features. This change will affect emergency dynamic policy and the network bandwidth policy.

This message applies to Teams for Windows desktop (version 24H2 or greater) and Teams for Mac desktop. VDI clients will not be supported at this time. When this will happen:

Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out early February 2025 and expect to complete by mid-February 2025.

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

 

Microsoft Teams: Third-party chat and meeting keyboard shortcut support MC992216 Published Jan 30, 2025

Users familiar with keyboard shortcuts from third-party chat and meeting applications can use those same shortcuts in Microsoft Teams. To enable this, go to the Settings and more button in the upper right, access the keyboard shortcuts dialog, and select a communication or meeting layout. This allows users to apply the shortcuts they are used to from other applications.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 472913.

Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out mid-March 2025 and expect to complete by late March 2025.

General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out early April 2025 and expect to complete by mid-April 2025.

 

Microsoft Teams: New microphone volume indicator for users MC989974 Published Jan 28, 2025

Coming soon for Microsoft Teams: A new Mic volume indicator on the user bar in Teams meetings. This feature will provide users with real-time visual feedback on their audio levels in the meeting, eliminating the need to ask, “Can you hear me?” This feature is designed to minimize interruptions as well as enhance user confidence and meeting effectiveness.

This feature applies to Teams on Windows desktop and Mac desktop.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 468274.

Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out in early March 2025 and expect to complete by mid-March 2025.

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

General Availability (GCC High): We will begin rolling out in mid-May 2025 and expect to complete by mid-June 2025.

General Availability (DoD): We will begin rolling out in late June 2025 and expect to complete by early August 2025.

 

Microsoft Teams: Policy to disable in-product messages relating to periodic What's New and Conferences updates MC989968 Published Jan 28, 2025

Some in-product messages in Microsoft Teams can now be controlled with the New-CsTeamsUpdateManagementPolicy command. Using this control, tenant admins can limit in-product messages relating to periodic What's New and Conferences updates.

General Availability (Worldwide, GCC): This update is available now.

 

 

  • Microsoft Teams – updated message center posts:

 

 

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: New policy for voice and face enrollment will default to "On" (configure now) MC912707 Published Oct 17, 2024

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

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Email OTP verification for external participants to join meetings MC953756 Published Dec 10, 2024

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Live Event scheduling is now available in the new Teams client MC979511 Published Jan 14, 2025

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

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

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Manage Teams Premium from a single place in the Teams admin center MC981630 Published Jan 16, 2025

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Live transcription for Teams Rooms on Windows MC960809 Published Dec 19, 2024

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: New Cross-location shifts in the Shifts app MC800503 Published Jun 10, 2024

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

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Shifts Graph APIs in beta moved to production (v1.0) MC916866 Published Oct 23, 2024

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Best practices configuration dashboard in Teams admin center MC929034 Published Nov 8, 2024

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

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

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Admin email support for "Report a problem" on Teams Rooms on Android MC907108 Published Oct 8, 2024

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Net Promoter Score survey on Teams Rooms on Android MC906501 Published Oct 7, 2024

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Swap screens on Teams Rooms on Android MC908117 Published Oct 10, 2024

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Access Workflows from the three-dot menu on shared file MC750668 Published Mar 21, 2024

 

 

  • Microsoft Viva – new message center posts:

 

 

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  • Microsoft Viva – updated message center posts:

 

 

(Updated) Viva Learning: AI and Copilot Resources Provider visibility MC962529 Published Dec 20, 2024

(Updated) Microsoft Viva: Leaders can use Microsoft 365 Copilot in Viva Insights MC960821 Published Dec 19, 2024

(Updated) Microsoft Viva Connections on the SharePoint app bar MC952886 Published Dec 10, 2024

(Updated) Microsoft Viva Engage: Community analytics update MC938647 Published Nov 20, 2024

 

 

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

Mattias Kressmark


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