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Sunday, April 6, 2025

Friends of Microsoft Teams - Week 14 - 2025 (March 31 - April 6)

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 14 of 2025, March 31 – April 6.

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:

 

 

Provide a meaningful name to the first channel of the team MC1048628 Published Apr 4, 2025

Provide a meaningful name to first channel of the team, with no restrictions on the name. The first channel, if named "General" (in English), will follow the behavior as General in any other teams.

Targeted Release (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out mid-April 2025 and expect to complete by late April 2025.

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

 

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Speaker recognition and attribution in Teams Rooms on Android MC1045226 Published Mar 31, 2025

Updated April 4, 2025: We have updated the timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

You can now use speaker recognition, transcript attribution, and AI capabilities in Teams Rooms on Android. Intelligent speaker functionalities are brought to existing speakers via the cloud. This feature identifies and attributes people in live transcripts, utilizing a unique voice profile for each participant enabling intelligent recaps and maximum value from Microsoft 365 Copilot and Teams Premium in meetings. Users can easily and securely enroll voices via Teams Settings. This feature requires a Teams Rooms Pro license.

Users can enroll voices in the Teams Desktop. Learn more: Set up your digital voice profile

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 480715.

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

 

Update: Ensuring Security and Compliance - Keep you Microsoft Teams desktop clients up to date MC1047923 Published Apr 4, 2025

Versions of the new Teams client that were released more than 90 days ago will be blocked. An in-app warning banner will show up 60 days before the app is blocked (30 days for VDI).

  • Users will see blocking page
    • Starting April 11th, 2025, for users using the Windows desktop app
    • Starting May 6th, 2025, for users using the Teams app in VDI environment
    • Starting May 15th, 2025, for users using the Mac desktop app
  • Users will see warning banner starting 60 days before they are blocked (for VDI environments only, users will see it 30 days before they are blocked)

 

Microsoft Teams: Sensitivity labels on collaborative meeting notes and Microsoft Loop components MC1047250 Published Apr 3, 2025

Coming soon: New security features for Microsoft Loop in Microsoft Teams for organizations that have enabled sensitivity labels (also known as Microsoft Information Protection or MIP).

Before this rollout, Microsoft Loop supports users or admins adding file-level sensitivity labels on all .loop files (including Loop components, Loop pages, and Microsoft Copilot Pages) in the Loop app (on the web and for iOS/Android) and new Microsoft Outlook for Windows and Outlook for the web, classic Outlook for Windows, Outlook for Mac, Outlook on Android and iOS.

Copilot Pages is included in Microsoft 365 licenses.

After this rollout, we will support file-level sensitivity labels in Loop components and collaborative meeting notes in Teams for Windows desktop, Teams for Mac desktop, Teams for the web, and Teams for iOS/Android.

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

 

Microsoft Teams: New town hall event access policy MC1047244 Published Apr 3, 2025

Before this rollout, Microsoft Teams has one admin policy to control event access for webinars and town halls. After this rollout, admins can control who can attend town halls in their organization with the new policy setting TownhallEventAccessType.

This message applies to Teams for Windows desktop, Teams for Mac desktop, Teams for the web, and Teams for iOS/Android.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 483250.

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

 

Ability to Stop Copilot while it is generating a response MC1045222 Published Mar 31, 2025

Users will have the ability to 'Stop generating' a Copilot response.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 325948

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

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

 

Microsoft Teams: New user setting to view incoming calls in a small window MC1045221 Published Mar 31, 2025

Coming soon for Microsoft Teams: A new setting that allows users to view incoming calls in a small window in Teams to prevent disruptions. Users will be able to take a call in the small window and continue to see what they were working on before the call.

This message applies to Teams on Windows desktop, Teams on Mac desktop, Teams for the web, and Teams for iOS/Android.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 482747.

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

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

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

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

 

Microsoft Teams: Room Recommender MC1045219 Published Mar 31, 2025

With this rollout, if no room is booked for the meeting, an AI-generated room suggestion will be sent in the meeting chat an hour before the meeting start time when two or more attendees are co-located in the same building, making in-person collaboration easier. The room suggestion will consider location of participants, room availability, and capacity to find the best space. You can reserve the suggested room with just one click and update the invite for everyone. The organizer must have a Teams premium license for this experience to occur, which is on Teams mobile on iOS. 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 482191

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

 

 

  • Microsoft Teams – updated message center posts:

 

 

(Updated) Microsoft Teams admin center: Deploy frontline teams with flexible membership MC883199 Published Sep 4, 2024

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

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

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

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Performance improvements for meetings in Chrome web browser for guests MC894581 Published Sep 21, 2024

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Performance improvements for meetings in Edge web browser for guests MC898391 Published Sep 26, 2024

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Resize Teams windows MC947051 Published Dec 2, 2024

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Stream Custom Agent and Bot Responses MC918562 Published Oct 25, 2024

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Tenant-wide policy for permission to download meeting transcription MC781595 Published Apr 19, 2024

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: View, download, and delete Microsoft OneDrive transcript files MC726122 Published Mar 6, 2024

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

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

(Updated) Simplify UX flow to enable Together Mode MC973513 Published Jan 7, 2025

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Updates to the Teams system tray icon and menu MC1011152 Published Feb 20, 2025

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Watermark for anonymous meeting join MC918575 Published Oct 25, 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 Rooms on Windows: Native PTZ controls MC856756 Published Aug 9, 2024

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: New transcription policies for town halls and webinars MC971031 Published Jan 3, 2025

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: New recording policies for town halls and webinars MC971032 Published Jan 3, 2025

Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Teams: Unified management of Teams apps in Teams, Outlook, and the Microsoft 365 app MC796790 Published May 29, 2024

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Facilitator agent real-time notes in meetings MC1017117 Published Feb 26, 2025

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Access chats while sharing a screen MC1006624 Published Feb 15, 2025

Microsoft Teams Premium or Microsoft 365 Copilot: New translated recap after multilingual meetings MC1041461 Published Mar 26, 2025

Microsoft Teams Premium or Microsoft 365 Copilot: Meeting transcription supports multiple spoken languages MC1041460 Published Mar 26, 2025

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Users can report security concerns involving external collaborators MC1037768 Published Mar 20, 2025

 

 

  • Microsoft Viva – new message center posts:

 

 

Advanced Insights - Copilot Headlines Report MC1048622 Published Apr 4, 2025

A new report for analysts in Advanced Insights will automatically scan for groups with unexpected or changing Copilot usage, as well as changes to collaboration. 

This change is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID: 408543

Public Preview: We will begin rolling out mid-April 2024 and expect to complete by April 2025.

 

Microsoft Viva Engage app for iOS/Android will have a shorter name in app stores MC1047929 Published Apr 4, 2025

Coming soon for the Microsoft Viva Engage app for iOS and Android: We will shorten the name for this app from "Viva Engage" to "Engage." The change will display in the Apple App Store and Google Play Store and in the installed app.

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

 

Microsoft Viva Pulse: Generate a summary for Pulse reports using Microsoft 365 Copilot MC1047239 Published Apr 3, 2025

Microsoft Viva Pulse authors will be able to view a summary generated with Microsoft 365 Copilot to gain a quick understanding of their Pulse reports. The Copilot-generated summary will also be included in the notifications to Pulse authors, who can draft an author's note and share the Copilot summary and Pulse report with team members.

This message applies to Pulse for Windows desktop, Pulse for Mac desktop, Pulse on the web, and Pulse for iOS/Android.

A Microsoft 365 Copilot license or a Viva Pulse license is required to use this feature. Learn more about Viva Pulse Licensing requirements | Microsoft Learn.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 407863.

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

 

Microsoft Viva Engage: Update on deletion of private unlisted communities in external networks MC1046150 Published Apr 2, 2025

As previously communicated in MC867664 (Updated) Microsoft Viva Engage: Private unlisted groups in external networks will retire and be deleted in January 2025 (published August 20, 2024, updated February 2025), Microsoft Viva Engage is no longer supporting private unlisted communities (sometimes called "secret groups"). Retirement of these private unlisted communities is in progress. Users can no longer:

  • Create private unlisted communities in external networks
  • Participate in private unlisted communities in external networks

 

Microsoft Viva Connections cards in SharePoint agents MC1045227 Published Mar 31, 2025

Microsoft SharePoint agents will now bring Viva Connections cards to conversations. When a card is relevant for a specific topic, it will surface in the conversation chat, allowing users to interact with it directly from SharePoint agents without interrupting their flow.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 412621.

Public Preview: We will begin rolling out on late March 2025 and expect to complete by late June 2025.

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

 

Microsoft Viva Engage: Private content mode will retire as of June 30th, 2025 MC1045211 Published Mar 31, 2025

In alignment with Microsoft 365 core workload administration best practices private content mode will be retired as of June 30th, 2025. This feature has been utilized for specific use cases related to Viva Engage administration and management, and we have outlined alternative solutions for these scenarios in the communication below. This applies to Engage on web, Engage on Teams and Engage on outlook.

(Worldwide) The feature will be completely retired by June 30th, 2025

 

 

  • Microsoft Viva – updated message center posts:

 

SharePoint Online: Table toolbar MC1034592 Published Mar 18, 2025

 

 

 

 

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