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Sunday, June 15, 2025

Friends of Microsoft Teams - Week 24 - 2025 (June 9 - June 15)

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 24 of 2025, June 9 – June 15.

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: An enhanced agent experience in Chats and Channels MC1093236 Published Jun 12, 2025

Coming soon for Microsoft Teams: An enhanced agent engagement experience in Chats and Channels.

Some Teams users in your organization may see a new experience for engaging with agents in Chats and Channels. This new feature will be available to a randomized subset of Teams users as an experiment to collect data and feedback before a broader rollout.

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

Targeted Release (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out in early June 2025 and expect to complete in late June 2025.

We will communicate the plan for General Availability in a future post.

 

Microsoft Teams Premium: Branding will extend to town halls and webinars MC1092431 Published Jun 11, 2025

We’re expanding the availability of Microsoft Teams Premium branding to include town halls and webinars. This enhancement enables organizers to deliver polished, on-brand experiences across more event types—strengthening brand affinity and engagement from the moment attendees join.

This feature requires a Teams Premium license.

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

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

 

Microsoft Teams: New audit logs for Give control, Take control, and Screensharing MC1090698 Published Jun 9, 2025

With this rollout, admins will be able to access detailed audit logs for the Give control, Take control, and screensharing features in Microsoft Teams. These logs will provide comprehensive information, including the names and timestamps of the individuals involved in each action. The logs will indicate who initiated or received control of a screensharing session and who started the screensharing session, along with the corresponding timestamps. Further, the logs will indicate who took control, and gave control and the timestamps of these actions. This new feature ensures greater transparency and accountability for all control and screensharing activities.

This message applies to meetings, webinars, and town halls in Teams for Windows desktop, Teams for Mac desktop, Teams for the web, and Teams for iOS/Android. Note: Give and Take control are not supported in town-halls, webinars and Teams for iOS/Android.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 489224.

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: Teams Rooms Pro Management portal will be generally available (DoD) MC1090696 Published Jun 9, 2025

Coming soon for Microsoft Teams Rooms Pro: The Teams Pro Management service and portal will be generally available. You will be able to use the remote device management and analytics features of the solution while meeting high security and privacy standards.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 493323.

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

 

Microsoft Teams: Enhanced peripheral data in Pro Management portal reports for BYOD spaces MC1090689 Published Jun 9, 2025

We’re adding new peripheral health reporting capabilities to the Pro Management portal, enabling admins to proactively monitor device issues in bring your own device (BYOD) rooms and desks.

These reports help identify when peripherals are faulty, missing, moved, or undetectable by a PC—allowing admins to take action before users report problems. Reports for rooms require a Teams Shared Devices license. Desk reporting is currently in public preview.

This change is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID: 493319

General Availability (Worldwide and GCC): Rollout will begin in early July 2025 and is expected to complete by late July 2025.

 

Teams Town hall screen management privileges in Teams Rooms on Windows MC1090688 Published Jun 9, 2025

We're introducing enhanced presenter capabilities for Teams Rooms on Windows in Microsoft Teams Town Halls. When a Teams Room is assigned as a co-organizer or presenter, it can now start or end the event, manage what attendees see, and promote attendees to presenters. This update helps ensure a smoother, more organized event experience—especially in large-scale or hybrid meetings. This feature is available with Teams Rooms Pro.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 490050

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

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

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

 

 

  • Microsoft Teams – updated message center posts:

 

 

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Meeting participants can request collaborative annotation sessions MC1019312 Published Feb 28, 2025

(Updated) Microsoft Teams admin center: App centric management for app installation and changes to app setup policies MC795355 Published May 23, 2024

(Updated) Teams Meetings Copilot response can be shared to external apps (Word or Excel) MC1053653 Published Apr 11, 2025

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

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

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

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

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Meeting recap can be shared as a link MC966633 Published Dec 27, 2024

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

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: File open preferences will extend to more Microsoft 365 apps MC967240 Published Dec 27, 2024

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Customize the location of notifications in Teams for the web MC1013461 Published Feb 21, 2025

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Create new channels faster from the "New items" menu at top of the list of chats and channels MC1053645 Published Apr 11, 2025

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Change background while recording on phone MC718553 Published Feb 23, 2024

Microsoft Teams: Town hall concurrent attendee to increase to 100,000 for organizers with a Teams Premium license MC1061726 Published Apr 24, 2025

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

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

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Live chat for small businesses MC974364 Published Jan 8, 2025

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

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Send messages to attendees in the meeting lobby with Lobby chat MC1069555 Published May 7, 2025

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: In channels, the "Shared" tab (formerly the "Files" tab) will have new capabilities MC1025217 Published Mar 7, 2025

(Updated) Transitioning from user's OneDrive to SharePoint for Whiteboards created in Teams Channels MC1024395 Published Mar 5, 2025

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Pop out your core apps into a new window. MC1084035 Published May 27, 2025

Updated: Microsoft Teams: Introducing the Network Strength Indicator MC1077865 Published May 19, 2025

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

 

 

  • Microsoft Viva – new message center posts:

 

 

Microsoft Viva Insights: New prompt categories in the Microsoft Copilot Dashboard MC1092459 Published Jun 11, 2025

Prompt categories will be available in Microsoft Copilot Dashboard in Microsoft Viva Insights on the web to help you understand key Copilot use cases for your organization. In Microsoft Copilot Chat (work), which is grounded in work data, these prompt categories will include Ask and find, Catch up, Draft and brainstorm, and Other. These metrics will be added to the metrics library in the advanced insights app.

Learn more about Copilot Dashboard licensing requirements in Connect to the Microsoft Copilot Dashboard for Microsoft 365 customers | Microsoft Learn

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 486698.

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

 

Microsoft Viva Engage: Manage GDPR requests through the Engage admin center MC1092456 Published Jun 11, 2025

We’re making it easier for admins to manage GDPR data subject requests in Microsoft Viva Engage.

The Remove User feature—previously available in the legacy Microsoft Yammer admin center—is being renamed and relocated to the Microsoft Engage admin center. After this rollout, the feature will be called Manage GDPR data subject requests and will continue to support GDPR compliance by allowing verified admins and network admins to fulfill data subject requests directly from the new location.

This change applies to Engage on the web and Engage in Microsoft Teams (on Windows desktop, on Mac desktop, and on the web)

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

 

Microsoft Viva Goals: New Data export feature MC1092430 Published Jun 11, 2025

We’re introducing a new data export capability in Microsoft Viva Goals that enables organizational and team admins to export goal-related data. This feature enhances data portability and supports deeper analysis and reporting. Admins will be able to extract and analyze goal data more efficiently, supporting compliance, reporting, and integration with other tools.

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

 

Microsoft Viva Engage: Copilot adoption community now available to all tenants MC1090697 Published Jun 9, 2025

We’re excited to announce that the Copilot adoption community is now available to all customer tenants, no Copilot license required. Previously, this community template was only available to networks with at least one Copilot license. This update removes that barrier, enabling more organizations to prepare for and support Copilot adoption.

What is the Microsoft Viva Engage adoption community for M365 Copilot? Since GA in August 2024, this community has helped organizations facilitate the rollout and adoption of Copilot. It enables employees to ask questions, share best practices, and learn from curated content and peer support, all in one place.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 392100

General Availability (Worldwide): Available now.

 

Admin Toggle to enable/disable "Mark Complete" feature in Viva Learning MC1090694 Published Jun 9, 2025

We’re introducing a new setting in Viva Learning that allows learners to manually mark a course as completed when the content provider does not send completion signals. Admins will now have the ability to enable or disable this “Mark complete” feature from the Viva Learning admin settings page.

This feature will be generally available in production environment in the second week of June 2025.

 

 

  • Microsoft Viva – updated message center posts:

 

(Updated) Microsoft Viva Pulse: New Delegation feature MC1053652 Published Apr 11, 2025

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

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

(Updated) Microsoft Viva Engage: External Networks are being modernized MC1036575 Published Mar 19, 2025

 

 

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