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Sunday, June 8, 2025

Friends of Microsoft Teams - Week 23 - 2025 (June 2 - June 8)

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 23 of 2025, June 2 – June 8.

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: Support for making a silent test call MC1089323 Published Jun 6, 2025

Coming soon: IT administrators will be able to run silent, synthetic Microsoft Teams call simulations to specific subnets—enabling proactive network readiness checks and early detection of issues before they affect users. This will ensure high-quality, seamless communication experiences across the organization.

This feature requires a Teams Premium license on your user's devices.

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

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 490055.

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

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

 

Microsoft Teams: Important updates for Android-based Teams devices – Authentication changes coming soon MC1088732 Published Jun 5, 2025

If your organization does not manage one or more certified Microsoft Teams Android devices, you can safely ignore this message.

Your organization manages one or more certified Microsoft Teams Android devices, such as Teams Phone devices, Teams Panels, Teams Displays, and Teams Rooms on Android (MTRA). To enhance security capabilities such as Continuous Access Evaluation and IP-based conditional access enforcement, Microsoft is transitioning these devices to modern, secure authentication using Entra ID (AAD) based tokens.

These changes will impact how devices authenticate to Teams services. This update provides key dates, required versions, and important cautions—especially for tenants using Teams Displays.

How this will affect your organization:

Once your devices are updated to the app versions listed below, end users will see no change in their Teams experience, while admins will have enhanced security capabilities such as Continuous Access Evaluation and IP-based conditional access enforcement. These updates are required to maintain connectivity and support secure authentication.

Minimum required app versions for modern authentication:

  • Teams Phones: 1449/1.0.94.2025020301
  • Teams Rooms on Android (MTRA): 1449/1.0.96.2025020302
  • Teams Panels: 1449/1.0.97.2025020502
  • Teams Displays: To be released

July 31, 2025: Devices on supported app versions will automatically switch to modern authentication. Devices on unsupported app versions will continue to work with legacy authentication. NOTE: Teams Displays will be excluded from this milestone.

September 30, 2025: All MTR-A devices on minimum app versions will be leveraging modern authentication. Admins should ensure updating their apps to suggested versions by this date.

December 31, 2025: All authenticated traffic must use modern authentication. Ensure all Teams Android devices are updated to the versions listed above as soon as they are available and before December 31, 2025, to avoid service disruption.

 

Microsoft Teams: Inclusive meeting enhancements for sign language users MC1088725 Published Jun 5, 2025

As hybrid and remote collaboration continues to evolve, we’re seeing growing disparities in how people are seen, heard, and engaged during meetings. These challenges are particularly noticeable for participants joining remotely, using assistive technologies, or communicating through different modalities.

Before this rollout, sign language users face several challenges during meetings, including difficulty locating and identifying their interpreters, as well as ensuring proper positioning of interpreter video feeds. Furthermore, active speaker detection prioritizes audio, resulting in participants who communicate through sign language often receiving less visual prominence than verbal speakers. These challenges make it more difficult for Deaf and hard-of-hearing participants to remain fully engaged during meetings.

In Microsoft Teams, we are committed to addressing these gaps, with a particular focus on enhancing the meeting experience for Deaf and hard-of-hearing participants who communicate using sign language. As part of our initial efforts, we are introducing Sign Language Mode. When enabled, Sign language users will benefit from an enhanced meeting experience. Interpreters will be clearly identified in the participant roster and visually distinguished throughout meetings. Deaf and hard-of-hearing participants who use sign language will be automatically detected and elevated to active speaker status, ensuring equal prominence with spoken audio participants. This will help create a more equitable and collaborative environment for everyone.

NOTE: Teams for Windows desktop and Teams for Mac desktop are required for sign language detection. Support for Teams for web will come later this year. Sign language detection will not work on mobile devices. Signer promotion to the primary meeting view will work in 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 494843.

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

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

 

Microsoft Teams Rooms Pro: New AI assistant for admins in the Teams Rooms Pro Management portal MC1088177 Published Jun 4, 2025

Coming soon for Microsoft Teams Rooms Pro: As an admin, you will be able to save time and effort by using the new AI-powered assistant in the Teams Rooms Pro Management portal that can answer data retrieval questions specific to your organization's inventory. This new chatbot can also answer "how to" product questions related to Teams meetings spaces and management solutions.

Important note: This LLM chatbot provides information and cannot perform actions. The chatbot is not part of Microsoft 365 Copilot and a Microsoft 365 Copilot license is not required. A Teams Room Pro license is required to access this AI assistant.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 489821.

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

 

Microsoft Teams: New threaded conversation layout option for channels MC1088172 Published Jun 4, 2025

Coming soon to Microsoft Teams channels: A new threaded layout similar to group chats. Before this rollout, channels have a Post reply layout option only.

After this rollout, the threaded layout will encourage immediate back-and-forth communication in channels. In threaded layout channels, users can reply to specific messages and start a thread in the side pane. Threads allow users to have side conversations while keeping the main conversation without cluttering the main conversation.

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 488300.

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

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

 

Microsoft Teams: Interactive agents for meetings and calls MC1087634 Published Jun 3, 2025

Introducing a new feature that will bring interactive agents into Microsoft Teams meetings and 1-on-1 calls. Users will be able to engage with agents as a group or privately, with zero-state prompts and history support for seamless interactions. Before this rollout, only agents built on Microsoft Copilot can support sessions, which means they can remember the context of previous interactions in the same session, for more relevant responses. Custom agents do not yet have session support.

After this rollout, all agents from Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat and Microsoft Copilot Studio will be available for users in their meetings and calls. This feature will allow developers to invite colleagues to give feedback and securely test agents, without affecting sensitive data or production channels.

A Microsoft 365 Copilot license or a Microsoft 365 license is required to use this feature. As part of the Microsoft 365 SKUs, if users have access to declarative agents in Microsoft Copilot Chat, agents are available in their meetings and calls. No license is required for custom engine agents.

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 490564.

Targeted Release: We began rolling out early June 2025 and expect to complete by mid-June 2025.

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

 

Microsoft Teams: LEAP will transition to Microsoft Unified MC1087565 Published Jun 3, 2025

On July 1, 2025, the Microsoft 365 Live Event Assistance Program (LEAP) will transition from a complimentary preview offer to a paid service provided by Microsoft Unified that will be known as Teams Events Hosting Assistance.

We are also pleased to inform you that we will be expanding our services to include Microsoft Teams Events Advanced Production Services, which will provide production and broadcasting services for town halls, webinars, and events.

To learn more and benefit from these services, please contact your account management team. We are committed to ensuring that your transition is smooth and successful.

 

Microsoft Teams: Remote log collection in Teams admin center MC1087099 Published Jun 2, 2025

We're introducing a new capability in the Teams Admin Center that allows Teams administrators to remotely collect diagnostic logs from users' Teams clients on Windows and Mac devices. This feature helps streamline troubleshooting by enabling secure, admin-initiated log collection without requiring user action or causing disruption.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap IDs 491439

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

 

 

  • Microsoft Teams – updated message center posts:

 

 

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: CVI coordinates enables presenters to join Town hall via VTC devices MC1070182 Published May 8, 2025

(Update) Microsoft Teams: Meeting option suggestions in classic Microsoft Outlook for Windows MC1059668 Published Apr 21, 2025

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

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: The "Code snippets" feature for chats and channels will retire MC1055554 Published Apr 15, 2025

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Client health dashboards in Teams admin center MC1015900 Published Feb 25, 2025

(Updated) Microsoft Teams for iOS/Android: New location sharing settings for emergency calls and more MC1041451 Published Mar 26, 2025

Microsoft Teams: Expanded and enhanced peripheral auto-association support for Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) spaces MC1059673 Published Apr 21, 2025

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Automatically set work location by connecting to a Wi-Fi network MC1081568 Published May 23, 2025

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Edit your display name in meetings MC974361 Published Jan 8, 2025

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

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

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Viva Engage storyline will be integrated in Teams MC969448 Published Dec 31, 2024

(Updated) Teams: Latest meeting experiences with performance improvements on web for Safari and Firefox (for guests) MC705760 Published Jan 10, 2024

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Usage reports will include all town hall usage data in your tenant MC1053648 Published Apr 11, 2025

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: town hall organizers, co-organizers, presenters can join the event to preview as attendee MC1056269 Published Apr 15, 2025

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Preview changes before making them visible to attendees with "Manage what attendees see" MC1058259 Published Apr 18, 2025

 

 

  • Microsoft Viva – new message center posts:

 

 

Autoplay videos in Engage (Muted) MC1088730 Published Jun 5, 2025

To enhance the viewing experience in Engage, videos in the feed will now autoplay on mute with captions enabled by default. Users can enable sound with a single click, making video content more accessible and engaging.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 494686

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

 

Microsoft Viva Pulse: New question types including skip logic in surveys MC1087633 Published Jun 3, 2025

Before this rollout, we do not support skip logic in Microsoft Viva Pulse surveys. We currently support rating scale questions, multiple choice questions, matrix, and ranking order questions in Pulse surveys.

After this rollout, users can add skip logic to single-select multiple choice and rating scale questions (without follow-ups) in Viva Pulse. With skip logic, a respondent’s answer can determine which question they see next, for more tailored and dynamic surveys.

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

Viva Pulse is available for users with a license for Microsoft Viva Suite, Viva Workplace Analytics and Employee Feedback, or for tenants who are using a Pulse admin-led trial. Users with a Microsoft 365 Copilot license may also be able to access Viva Pulse, if admins have enabled access using their Copilot subscription.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 407640.

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

 

 

  • Microsoft Viva – updated message center posts:

 

 

(Updated) Microsoft Viva Insights: Microsoft Copilot Studio agents report (Preview) for the advanced insights app MC1034590 Published Mar 18, 2025

(Updated) Microsoft Viva Engage: New Communications Dashboard MC1041122 Published Mar 25, 2025

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

(Updated) Microsoft 365 Copilot: People Skills will be available starting in May MC1060842 Published Apr 23, 2025

(Updated) Microsoft Viva Connections: New Engage card in Connections dashboard MC1052164 Published Apr 10, 2025

 

 

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