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Sunday, February 16, 2025

Friends of Microsoft Teams - Week 7 - 2025 (February 10 - February 16)

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 7 of 2025, February 10 – February 16.

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: Access chats while sharing a screen MC1006624 Published Feb 15, 2025

Coming soon to Microsoft Teams: We will add a control to the meeting presenter toolbar so presenters can more easily access the meeting chat while sharing a window or a screen.

This message applies to Teams for Windows desktop and Teams for Mac desktop.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 467445.

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

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


Microsoft Teams: Wired headset support for the Walkie Talkie app for iOS MC1006623 Published Feb 15, 2025

If your organization does not support iOS, you can safely ignore this message.

Coming soon for Microsoft Teams: We will introduce support for wired headsets in the Walkie Talkie app for iOS, enhancing communication flexibility and convenience. After this rollout, users can use generic wired headsets with a play/pause button in toggle-to-talk mode, for hands-free operation with one tap. Also, specialized push-to-talk (PTT) headsets will be supported in conventional push-to-talk mode.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 476734.

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

Microsoft Teams: Custom meeting branding - support multiple meeting themes per customization policy MC1005517 Published Feb 14, 2025

Support for multiple brand themes (an extension to Microsoft Teams Premium branding capability) provides organizations greater flexibility to express their unique visual brand identity across different types of meetings while maintaining consistency with branding standards.

Admins can now create and assign multiple brands to a customization policy in the Teams admin center. This will allow meeting organizers who are assigned a customization policy to select from different meeting brand options when scheduling their meeting.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 468868.

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

 

Microsoft Teams Customer Office Hours: Get help from the product team on deploying Teams for your frontline workers MC1002406 Published Feb 11, 2025

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

We are pleased to announce new weekly Microsoft Teams Frontline Customer Office Hours: A dedicated time for you to engage directly with the product team to support Teams deployments for your frontline workers.

Objective: This initiative aims to enhance live customer engagement and satisfaction by:

Addressing deployment-related questions in real time

Providing direct support to ensure smooth and successful rollouts

Gathering customer feedback to improve frontline worker deployment features

When are Customer Office Hours

The Teams Frontline Customer Office Hours takes place every Wednesday from 9:00-9:30am PT.

What Do Office Hours Cover?

Customer Q&A: Get answers to questions about deploying teams at scale for your frontline workers and overall deployment best practices.

Follow-ups: We will capture unresolved issues and address them after the meeting.

Feedback collection: Share your thoughts on recently released deployment features.

Launch Timeline: Teams Frontline Customer Office hours launched on January 22, 2025.

How to join: Join the Teams meeting with https://aka.ms/TeamsFrontlineCustomerOfficeHours

 

Microsoft Teams: New Search feature in channel posts MC1002405 Published Feb 11, 2025

Coming soon for Microsoft Teams: A new experience to search within Channel Posts. This message applies to Teams for Windows desktop, Mac desktop, and web.

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

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

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

 

 

  • Microsoft Teams – updated message center posts:

 

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

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Queues app to add Monitor, Whisper, Barge, and Takeover MC999443 Published Feb 7, 2025

(Updated) Microsoft Teams admin center: App Management Unification Impact report MC982569 Published Jan 18, 2025

(Updated) Co-organizer experience updates in Teams Webinars and Townhalls MC688109 Published Nov 8, 2023

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: BYOD mode will activate cameras on meeting room audio devices MC952881 Published Dec 10, 2024

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Forward messages with app cards MC956699 Published Dec 13, 2024

Microsoft Teams: Additional work information in people search results MC985484 Published Jan 22, 2025

(Updated) Large Events: End Session for Attendees and Return Presenters to Green Room MC978932 Published Jan 14, 2025

 

 

  • Microsoft Viva – new message center posts:

 

 

Microsoft Viva Learning: New Spell check feature MC1005516 Published Feb 14, 2025

Microsoft Viva Learning Search will soon detect and correct spelling errors in user queries, using the corrected query to perform searches and return relevant results. Users can choose to override Spell check and search with their original query.

This feature is available in all languages that Viva Learning supports and is available to customers with licenses for Viva Learning or Viva Learning Premium.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 162943.

General Availability (Worldwide): We began rolling out late January 2025 and expect to complete by late February 2025.

 

Microsoft Viva: Feature Access Management will support the AI admin role MC1005508 Published Feb 14, 2025

Coming soon for Microsoft Viva: Feature Access Management for Copilot features will support the AI administrator role. As communicated in MC985479 Microsoft 365 admin center: AI administrator role authorization to manage Copilot settings (published January 22, 2025), the AI administrator role is a newly introduced role for AI and Microsoft 365 Copilot administration that enables admins to manage Microsoft Copilot efficiently without requiring extensive Global admin permissions.

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

 

SharePoint Online: Enhancements to the Text web part MC1004412 Published Feb 12, 2025

The Text web part in SharePoint Online allows users to add normal text, tables, and paragraphs to a SharePoint site page. It provides various formatting options such as bullets, styles, indentations, links, and highlighting. To use the Text web part, go to edit mode, select the circled plus (+) icon, choose Text from the web part toolbox, and enter your desired text in the Text field.

In the updated Text web part, similar themed features are grouped together for better customer experience and usability.

The updated text web part will be available in SharePoint and Viva Amplify.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 394278.

General Availability (Worldwide, GCC, GCC High, DoD): This feature update rolled out early February 2025.

 

Microsoft Viva Glint: Use Feature Access Management in Viva for Microsoft 365 Copilot in Glint MC1004409 Published Feb 12, 2025

We are excited to announce that we will add the Microsoft 365 Copilot in Viva Glint feature to Feature Access Management in Viva. This will allow global admins and AI admins to control the rollout and availability of Copilot in Viva Glint.

Copilot in Viva Glint is enabled for all users in Viva Feature Access Management by default. If users have access at the Feature Access Management in Viva level, you will also need to grant access in the Viva Glint product as it is disabled for all users by default in Viva Glint.

Subscription plans of Viva suite or Viva Glint are required for using Microsoft Viva Glint.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 478655.

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

 

 

  • Microsoft Viva – updated message center posts:

 

 

(Updated) New Service in your Microsoft 365 subscription: Org Explorer MC939925 Published Nov 22, 2024

(Updated) Microsoft Viva Insights: Users can request delegate access MC922625 Published Oct 31, 2024

(Updated) Microsoft Viva Engage: Multi-pin Conversations Carousel is now available MC973512 Published Jan 7, 2025

 

 

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