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Sunday, July 16, 2023

Friends of Microsoft Teams - Week 28 - 2023 (July 10 - July 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 28 of 2023, July 10 – July 16.

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

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

Field Advisories:

Community:

M365 Message Center :

Teams :

People Recognition in Teams Rooms on Windows via Face Enrollment on the Desktop MC644077 · Published Jul 15, 2023

Microsoft Teams users can take advantage of people recognition in Teams Rooms on Windows. The desktop client offers enrollment to enable face recognition and video labels for the active speaker in the gallery and participant roster. This feature is available for Microsoft Teams Rooms Pro license customers. Admins will need to set Teams policies to enable the feature.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 133737

Preview is now available.

Standard Release: We will begin rollout the first week of August and complete by end of August.

GCC: We will begin rollout in mid-August and expect to complete rollout by late August.

Teams Cross Cloud Guest Access Public Preview MC644068 · Published Jul 15, 2023

Cross Cloud Guest Access (CCGA) extends existing Guest Access functionality allowing a user to participate in rich collaboration experiences in teams, channels, documents and Teams meetings between tenants across Microsoft clouds. Guests are able to participate in a full collaboration experience including audio/video, screen share, file share and both 1:1 and 1: many chats. These features are enabled through the Azure Active Directory B2B feature and the newly released Cross Tenant Access Settings. When combined tenants can enable trusts between tenants and between Microsoft clouds.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 145459.

Preview: This rollout is currently underway and is expected to complete by late July.

Teams Cross Cloud Authenticated Meetings MC644065 · Published Jul 14, 2023

Cross-cloud authenticated meeting join (CCM) delivers the ability for a Teams user to join a meeting hosted in another cloud while signed into their account in their home tenant. This feature provides the meeting host the ability to validate the identities of meeting participants without granting those participants any access to the host tenant.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 145460.

Preview: This rollout is currently underway and is expected to complete by late July.

Insight Report in Teams Rooms Pro Management MC644057 · Published Jul 14, 2023

We are pleased to announce that the Insight Report will be available in the Microsoft Teams Rooms Pro Management portal starting August 1, 2023. This report provides a detailed overview of all the activities completed by the service during a specific time range, including the types of actions performed such as detections, remediation, and updates. The report also highlights the value the service provides by keeping your rooms well maintained and shows estimates of the number of hours and money saved by taking prompt actions to resolves issues with the value calculator.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 122571

This feature will be available August 1, 2023, for commercial and GCC Teams Rooms Pro license customers.

Enable 2nd video stream for Teams Content Camera on Desktop feature MC642270 · Published Jul 14, 2023

Users will be able to enable a second video stream to support both their Personal Video and Teams Content Camera on Desktop.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 118580

Standard Release: Rollout has begun and expect to complete by mid-August.

Cloud IntelliFrame: A New Way to See People in Teams Rooms MC642265 · Published Jul 14, 2023

Cloud IntelliFrame is a new experience that allows online meeting attendees to see people in Teams Rooms more clearly, enhancing the hybrid meeting experience by creating smart video feeds of in-room participants. The smart video feed is created by zooming into their faces and eliminating distractions. You can see the expressions and gestures of the people in the room more easily, which will help improve collaboration in hybrid meetings. It creates equity in hybrid meetings as everyone can be seen and heard.

Cloud IntelliFrame will be rolling out across Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows with Pro license and can be viewed on Microsoft Teams Desktop (Windows & Mac) with any license.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 130219.

Standard Release: We will begin rolling out to commercial tenants in mid-August and expect to complete rollout by early September.

GCC and GCCH will begin rollout by mid-August.

This experience is not available for DoD.

(Updated) Admin Policy for Collaborative Annotations MC579612 · Published Jun 9, 2023 · Last updated Jul 14, 2023

Updated July 13, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

With privacy and security restrictions, we have implemented a user-level IT admin policy for admins to choose whether some or all users in the company can use Collaborative Annotations. Currently, there is a way to turn Annotations ON or OFF through cmdlet Set-SPOTenant-IsWBFluidEnabled, this will also influence Whiteboard.

We will begin rolling out in mid-June and expect to complete rollout by late July (previously late June).

(Updated) Graph API for Teams Meetings Transcripts MC400569 · Published Jul 14, 2022 · Last updated Jul 13, 2023

Updated July 13, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

New org-wide application permissions and RSC application permissions have been introduced to make sure that apps can access meeting transcripts for a specific meeting. Resource specific consent (RSC) permissions, specifically enables admins to authorize users to provide consent to apps, so they get specific access to a Teams meeting’s transcripts to which it is installed to, rather than providing them access across the entire tenant.

This message is specifically associated with post-meeting transcripts access for apps - Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID: 95788 that allows authorized apps to access Teams Meetings transcripts once the meeting is over.

We will begin rolling this out in mid-August (previously mid-June) and expect to complete early September.

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: New Channels Experience MC550081 · Published May 3, 2023 · Last updated Jul 13, 2023

Updated July 13, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

A new channels experience in Microsoft Teams has been built with an intuitive design that allows teams to focus and stay on tasks, bring everyone up to speed, and actively engage in real-time. The following features will be rolling out:

The compose box and recent posts will appear at the top of the page. It'll now be much easier to start a new post, keep up with the latest conversations and participate - giving users the confidence that they’ve not missed anything.
Every post is now a true conversation that users can focus on. Users can navigate to a conversation view that makes the discussion more engaging and synchronous, just like a chat. Users can also pop out the post, keep an eye on the discussion, while continuing to work on other topics.
A streamlined information pane will include all the important contextual information like channel’s members and pinned posts so new team members can quickly on-board and for all members to find the information they need, right in the channel.
Pin posts to make it easy for everyone to know what’s important in the channel and quickly reference it.
Simplified badging is making it easier for users to understand when there are new unread activities in teams. In addition, the simplified design helps users focus on the specific channels which requires the most attention, like channels in which the user was @mentioned.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 91683

Targeted Release: Started rolling out in May and is expected to complete in early July.

Standard and GCC: We will begin rollout in early August (previously late July) and expect to complete rollout by mid-August (previously early August).

GCC-H and DoD: We will begin rollout in mid-August (previously early August) and expect to complete rollout by mid-September (previously late August.

(Updated) New Graph APIs for accessing Teams Meeting Recording MC600733 · Published Jun 21, 2023 · Last updated Jul 13, 2023

Updated July 13, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

New org-wide application permissions and RSC application permissions have been introduced to allow apps to access meeting recordings for a specific meeting. Resource specific consent (RSC) permissions, specifically enables admins to authorize users to provide consent to apps, so they get specific access to a Teams meeting’s recordings to which it is installed to, rather than providing them access across the entire tenant.

This message is specifically associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 95787

Graph Beta We will begin rolling out in late July (previously early July) and expect to complete by early August (previously mid-July).

Standard Release: We will begin rollout in late August and expect to complete by mid-September.

(Updated) Microsoft Teams for Mobile: Chat Details Update MC537952 · Published Apr 6, 2023 · Last updated Jul 13, 2023

Updated July 13, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

We are updating the chat details experience for Teams Mobile Group Chats, One on One Chats, and Self Chats.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID: 114938

Targeted Release and Preview: We will begin rolling out in late July (previously mid-June) and expect to complete rollout by early August (previously late June).

Standard Release: We will begin rolling out in early August (previously late June) and expect to complete rollout by early September (previously early July).

GCC, GCC-H, DoD: We will begin rolling out in early September (previously early July) and expect to complete rollout by late September (previously late July).

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Updating the Bookings app to the Virtual Appointments app MC560731 · Published May 24, 2023 · Last updated Jul 12, 2023

Updated July 12, 2023: We have updated the content below with additional information. Thank you for your patience..

Bookings is supported across multiple entry points spanning Web, Teams and Outlook, however there is lack of parity in the feature set across these entry points leading to an inconsistent user experience. This fragmented experience has resulted in high DSAT for customers that has provided feedback to Microsoft to unify and provide feature parity in Bookings across all entry points.

The Bookings experience in Teams will soon be updated to match the web version on https://book.ms, ensuring consistent features across all endpoints. However, certain features like Forms, Queuing & scheduler-initiated SMS reminders for appointments will be available only on the new Virtual Appointments app on Teams.

With the Virtual Appointments app, we are introducing an end-to-end B2C meetings solution that leverages Bookings as the scheduling engine and includes advanced meetings features such as real time meeting state update, chat with attendees in waiting room lobby via Queue view, rich analytics to shows virtual appointment usage trends to drive business outcomes such as no-shows.

With this change, the updated Bookings Teams app will have feature parity and consistent user experience as Bookings web app. Virtual Appointments app will be a superset of the current Bookings Teams app experience embedded within the new app and will include advanced virtual appointments features.

This feature is associated with Microsoft Roadmap ID 120420

Rollout will begin in mid-July (previously late June) and is expected to be complete by late July (previously early July).

Microsoft Teams: Pin / Favorite Channels on Teams Walkie Talkie MC638138 · Published Jul 12, 2023

Teams Walkie is enabling users to pin/favorite up to five channels on the Microsoft Teams Walkie Talkie Home Page. Users can easily switch in between the favorited channels with a single tap going forward.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 99943

Preview: We will begin rolling out in mid-July and expect to complete rollout by early August.

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

Standard release: We will begin rolling out in early August and expect to complete rollout by late August.

Limiting public webinar attendee joins to three concurrent devices MC638135 · Published Jul 12, 2023

Currently in public webinars, an attendee can use their registration link to join and be present in a webinar with any number of devices. For public webinars, there is also a possibility for that attendee to forward their registration link to others who have not registered and have them join with the registered attendee’s join link. With this new update, only 3 concurrent join instances can be present in a webinar using the same registration join link. This means that attendees can now use only up to three devices to participate in a webinar.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 147098.

Standard Release: We will begin rolling out early August and expect to complete by mid-August.

Microsoft Teams: Capture Request to Use Shared Channels for External Collaboration MC635987 · Published Jul 11, 2023

Microsoft Teams admins will soon be able to capture and redirect requests for external collaboration in shared channels. This update of Microsoft Teams will be rolling out on Teams admin center, Microsoft Teams Desktop and Web, and will provide a way for organizations to capture and redirect requests for external collaboration when users attempt to add an external member to a shared channel where B2B direct connect cross-tenant trust has not been mutually configured between the two organizations.

We will begin rollout to commercial tenants in early August and expect to complete rollout by mid-August.

Dynamic Emergency Calling on Teams Web MC635983 · Published Jul 11, 2023

We will be enabling Dynamic Emergency calling support for Teams Web. This will allow users to manually add an address on the web client before dialing the 911 call. Since this is critical functionality, we will be releasing this functionality as soon as possible.

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

Gov. Clouds: We will begin rolling out in August.

Microsoft 365/Viva :

(Updated) Microsoft Viva: Auto-Categorization Coming to Meeting Category Insights in Viva Insights MC546939 · Published Apr 26, 2023 · Last updated Jul 13, 2023

Updated July 13, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Meeting category insights in the Viva Insights app helps Viva Insights licensed users understand how they are allocating their time across meeting categories. Today, the feature uses the categories manually assigned by users in Outlook and Teams. In an upcoming update, meeting category insights will begin automatically categorizing meetings for users based on meeting size, cadence, and number of people in the meetings. Categories include:

Long meetings – More than 1 hour long and 0-8 invitees
Large meetings – At least 9 invitees and at most 1 hour long
Large and long meetings – At least 9 invitees and more than 1 hour long
Recurring meetings – Meeting series with multiple instances
1:1 meetings – Include 1 other participant

These categories can help users identify meetings that are expensive in terms of time spent, participants included, or both. Using these insights, users can assess whether meetings that fall under this category are a valuable use of time and resources as a step towards doing more with less.

Categorizations will show up in Viva Insights only and will not reflect in Outlook or Teams calendar.

With this update, users who are not currently categorizing in Outlook or Teams will be able to access meeting category insights and begin developing an understanding of how their meeting time is being spent. Users who are already categorizing will receive additional insights about their meeting time allocation according to well-known meeting attributes.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 117396

We will begin rolling out in mid-August (previously early July) and complete rollout by mid-September (previously late July).

(Updated) New Viva Connections Analytics Experience Coming Soon MC598641 · Published Jun 20, 2023 · Last updated Jul 13, 2023

Updated July 13, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

We are pleased to announce the next set of features for Viva Connections usage analytics. The analytics experience now includes a full page dashboard view that will help organizations better understand user engagement by being able to visualize the metrics. The analytics dashboard will be available through both the Viva Connections desktop experience in Teams and through a SharePoint home site if your organization has one. Additionally, this release also includes engagement metrics for individual dashboard cards which will enable a more in-depth view of popular cards and those with less engagement.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 124918

Rollout will begin in mid-July (previously late June) and is expected to be complete by late July (previously mid-July).

Feature Access Management in Viva Learning for Admin features MC640227 · Published Jul 13, 2023

We are introducing feature access management in Viva Learning for admin features. Global Admin and Knowledge Admin can delegate admin feature access to non-admin users via M365 groups.

Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out mid-July to existing Viva Learning EAP customers.

Standard Release: We will begin rolling out late July.

Planned Maintenance: Viva Goals MC638123 · Published Jul 12, 2023

We have maintenance planned for Viva Goals:

Starting July 13, 2023 5:30 UTC.

Ending July 13, 2023 6:00 UTC.

Lightweight management of manually created topics outside the Viva Topics license MC635992 · Published Jul 11, 2023

Viva Topics provides a central knowledge base for manually created topics and definitions inside apps like Viva Engage. These topics don't use Viva Topics' AI, topic cards, or pages, but can be selected to classify conversations and posts in Viva Engage.

With this release, we are providing a way for Viva Engage admins to edit, create, and delete these "simple" topics without Viva licensing as a way to make knowledge management more accessible to more users. Please visit the 'Manage topics' page via the URL below:

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 118672.

Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out early July and expect to complete by mid-July 2023.

Standard Release: We will begin rolling out mid-July and expect to complete by late July 2023.

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Sunday, July 9, 2023

Friends of Microsoft Teams - Week 27 - 2023 (July 3 - July 9)

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 27 of 2023, July 3 – July 9.

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

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

Field Advisories:

Community:

M365 Message Center :

Teams :

(Updated) Quick Access Teams and Sharepoint Document Libraries in win32 backstage MC432475 · Published Sep 16, 2022 · Last updated Jul 6, 2023

Updated July 5, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Currently, users experience some frustration when using Office products because of all different routes that they must use to access all their content. The Quick Access feature will allow users to access shared libraries from both their SharePoint and Teams locations. When the user opens files from shared libraries, these libraries will show up in the form of a list which will encourage users to save and open files to these libraries with ease. This helps deliver a more consistent, coherent storage location experience across M365 apps. This new backstage experience won’t show up in Teams, SharePoint, or OneDrive but does include storage locations from OneDrive and Teams (sites/channels) which are stored on SharePoint.

Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out late June (previously late April) and expect to complete by late July (previously late May).

Standard Release: We will begin rolling out mid-July (previously late June) and expect to complete by mid-August (previously late July).

(Updated) Microsoft Teams for Mobile: Chat Details Update MC537952 · Published Apr 6, 2023 · Last updated Jul 6, 2023

Updated July 5, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

We are updating the chat details experience for Teams Mobile Group Chats, One on One Chats, and Self Chats.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID: 114938

Targeted Release and Preview: We will begin rolling out in late July (previously mid-June) and expect to complete rollout by late August (previously late June).

Standard Release: We will begin rolling out in late August (previously late June) and expect to complete rollout by early September (previously early July).

GCC, GCC-H, DoD: We will begin rolling out in early September (previously early July) and expect to complete rollout by late September (previously late July).

(Updated) Introducing Dark Mode in Teams Admin Center MC567496 · Published Jun 2, 2023 · Last updated Jul 6, 2023

Updated July 5, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

We're excited to announce the addition of Dark Mode for Teams Admin Center. This highly anticipated feature will offer a visually appealing interface while reducing eye strain.

We will begin rolling this out in early June 2023 and expect to complete rollout by late July (previously late June).

Microsoft 365/Viva :

Update to the Free LinkedIn Courses Available in Viva Learning MC630310 · Published Jul 7, 2023

As part of the Viva Learning integration with LinkedIn, Microsoft provides free content in Viva Learning that can be accessed by any Viva Learning user without the need for a LinkedIn premium license. As part of this partnership, we are increasing the set of free courses to the Global Skilling Initiative catalog which consists of more than 300 courses. This will replace the existing catalog of 125 free LinkedIn courses available in Viva Learning.

You can find more details on the Global Skilling Initiative program here.

We will begin rollout in early July 2023 and expect rollout to be complete by mid-July 2023.

(Updated) Microsoft Viva: Auto-Categorization Coming to Meeting Category Insights in Viva Insights MC546939 · Published Apr 26, 2023 · Last updated Jul 6, 2023

Updated July 5, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Long meetings – More than 1 hour long and 0-8 invitees
Large meetings – At least 9 invitees and at most 1 hour long
Large and long meetings – At least 9 invitees and more than 1 hour long
Recurring meetings – Meeting series with multiple instances
1:1 meetings – Include 1 other participant

Categorizations will show up in Viva Insights only and will not reflect in Outlook or Teams calendar.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 117396

We will begin rolling out in early July (previously late June) and complete rollout by late July (previously mid-July).

For the latest information/updates you can always check these resources :

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If others are interested to receive these “Friends of” messages directly from me, they can always share their contact details with me.

Or if you/they no longer want to receive these “Friends of” emails, just reply per email and I will remove you from this “Friends of” DL

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

Mattias Kressmark

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Sunday, July 2, 2023

Friends of Microsoft Teams - Week 26 - 2023 (June 26 - July 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 26 of 2023, June 26 – July 2.

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

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

Field Advisories:

Community:

M365 Message Center :

Teams :

(Preview) Monitoring Notifications for meeting quality using Real-time telemetry MC617083 · Published Jun 30, 2023

Real-Time telemetry available in Teams admin center lets IT admins look at their users’ meetings and see audio, video, content sharing, and network-related issues. As an admin, you can use this telemetry to investigate meeting experience quality issues while the meeting is in-progress. Today, the troubleshooting workflow available for admins is manual & require constant admin intervention (Communication admin/engineer must search a user, go to his call history, find out an in-progress meeting or live event he’s part of and then look for the desired information).

In most cases, admin expects to be proactively notified when participants are experiencing network quality issues during their in-progress meetings/events.

With Monitoring notifications for In-Progress meetings, admins can scale and monitor multiple meetings at same time for multiple users. With this functionality, admins can monitor audio, video and app-sharing related experiences based on multiple monitoring parameters and get informed if there’s an issue with the meeting experience of user.

Until now, these monitoring notifications were available to a limited set of organizations as part of a limited preview. We are expanding this limited preview to more organizations (including yours) to benefit from these monitoring capabilities.

Preview: We will begin rolling out in early July'23

Standard release: Tentatively by August’23

New Microsoft Teams rollout schedule, new controls, and direct deployment MC617066 · Published Jun 30, 2023

Since March 2023, we have continued to add features such as third-party, line-of-business (LOB) applications, breakout rooms, and new scenarios such as multi-tenant organization (MTO) to the new Teams experience. Read MC533687 for details for our March announcement. Check The new Microsoft Teams (Preview) for details on upcoming features and support for Government Clouds and platforms such as Mac, VDI, and Web.

This announcement includes three upcoming changes for rolling out the new Microsoft Teams app:

Note: We will continue to honor the admin setting for UseNewTeamsClient under Teams update policies, where admins have already deployed the policy. This is to ensure administrators are fully empowered to manage the rollout of new Teams in a manner that’s right for them.

We will begin displaying Try the new Teams toggle within the classic Microsoft Teams client where the admin policy setting of UseNewTeamsClient is set to Microsoft default value (Microsoft controlled in the Teams Admin Center (TAC) or Microsoft choice in PowerShell) based on our schedule details below.
Administrators will be able to directly deploy the new Teams client to PCs in their organization.
We will begin making new Teams as the default app for classic Teams users where the admin policy is set to Microsoft default (Microsoft controlled in TAC or Microsoft choice in PowerShell) based on our schedule details below. Administrators will be able to manage setting new Teams as the default app for their users.

Starting mid-to late July 2023:

Microsoft will begin displaying the Try the new Teams toggle within the classic Microsoft Teams client starting in late July 2023. The planned rollout will be:

Business plans (for example, Business Basic, Business Standard, Business Premium, and Teams Essentials (AAD), etc.): late July-early August 2023
Enterprise plans (for example, E3, E5, F3, etc.): The new Microsoft Teams desktop client

Note: Admins who have already deployed the policy to display the toggle or hide the toggle for their organizations will not see any change.

Administrators can deploy the new Teams client directly to PCs in their organization starting mid-July 2023.
Administrators can deploy a new setting value to make new Teams the default app for their users starting late July 2023

Starting September 2023:

Microsoft will start making the new Teams the default app starting in late September 2023. The planned rollout will be:

Business plans (for example, Business Basic, Business Standard, Business Premium, and Teams Essentials (AAD), etc.): late September 2023
Enterprise plans (for example, E3, E5, F3, etc.): The new Microsoft Teams desktop client

(Updated) Net Promoter Score survey coming to Teams Rooms on Windows MC579613 · Published Jun 9, 2023 · Last updated Jun 30, 2023

Updated June 30, 2023: We have updated the content below with additional information. Thank you for your patience.

In a continuous effort to gather feedback from our Teams Rooms on Windows customers, a new Net Promotor Score survey will appear at the end of some meetings in your conference rooms starting at the end of June.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 121117.

Standard Release: We will begin rolling out in late June and is expected to complete by early August.

(Updated) Teams Rooms: Windows 11 support for Teams Rooms on Windows devices MC537412 · Published Apr 5, 2023 · Last updated Jun 30, 2023

Updated June 30, 2023: We have updated the timing outlined below. Thank you for your patience.

While our rollout plans have not changed, based on feedback from customers who need some additional time to test Windows 11, we are offering a temporary hold on Windows 11 upgrade to customers until November 20, 2023. Customers who want to utilize this option MUST follow these instructions before mid-June 2023 (before 4.17 app update) to delay upgrade to Windows 11.

Instructions:

Set this registry key to put the Windows 11 upgrade on an MTR on hold.

Path: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\PPI\SkypeSettings

Key: CBU11

Data: 1 (as a dword)

Delete the registry key to resume the upgrade.

Important: If you do not set this registry key prior to 4.17 app update (releasing in mid-June), eligible devices will automatically upgrade to Windows 11. Please also note that this only applies to existing in market/ in channel devices not on application version 4.17, and that OEMs have already moved to Windows 11 based images (due to end of sales for Windows 10 IoT Enterprise in Oct 2023, and lead time needed for OEMs to create media).

Teams Rooms on Windows devices that are eligible for Windows 11 upgrade will receive the Windows 11 22H2 release in June 2023 (previously May). This will be offered and installed on their devices with 4.17 dot release. Devices that are not eligible due to an incompatible processor will continue to use Windows 10 per Windows hardware support policy. These devices will be offered Windows 10 22H2 release.

Devices that cannot upgrade to Windows 11 will continue to be supported until the end of Windows 10 End of servicing for General Availability Channel or hardware support from OEM, whichever comes first. Windows 10 releases information atWindows 10 release information. Please note, not all Windows releases are supported for Teams Rooms, to find supported version, see Microsoft Teams Rooms app version support.

In addition, Teams Rooms on Windows OEMs will shift their manufacturing to Windows 11 IoT Enterprise as Windows 10 IoT Enterprise end of license sales is fast approaching (10/14/2023). OEMs with existing Windows 10 licenses inventory (or to support recovery media for existing Windows 10 based devices) may continue to provide Windows 10 based images for some time that should automatically update to Windows 11 post setup. All OEMs are expected to move to Windows 11 IoT Enterprise based images in future. Customers should ensure all new hardware purchases check for Windows 11 compatibility to future proof their device investment.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 122148

Standard Release: We will begin rolling out late June (previously early May) and expect to complete by late July (previously late May).

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Two-way lobby chat MC554156 · Published May 12, 2023 · Last updated Jun 30, 2023

Updated June 30, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

The Virtual Appointments app provides a central hub for all your virtual appointments needs in Microsoft Teams. The app enables a seamless end-to-end experience for business-to-customer engagements.

Queue view in Virtual Appointments app is a premium advanced virtual appointment feature that allows businesses to Empower employees to manage and service scheduled and on-demand virtual appointments in one location with advanced capabilities to track wait times, live status of a meeting, and more. Scheduling administrators and staff conducting virtual appointments can monitor incoming requests and process them appropriately.

Two-way lobby chat in queue view will provide a seamless client experience with an interactive waiting room that allows facilitators to send waiting room messages to customers prior to the meeting. For example, a client in the waiting room can receive messages from the facilitator or other staff schedulers such as, “Last appointment is running long. Be with you in 5 mins.” The client can respond directly in chat so they can stay connected and ask any questions as needed. Two-way lobby chat is currently supported only for meetings joined from a mobile browser. Desktop browser is currently not supported.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 122395

Standard Release: We will begin rolling in October (previously July) and complete by December (previously September).

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Collaborative Stageview MC556150 · Published May 16, 2023 · Last updated Jun 30, 2023

Updated June 30, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Users can now open app content in a separate Teams window that’s been built for collaboration.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 93769

Standard Release: We will begin rolling out mid-July (previously mid-June) and expect to complete by late August (previously late June).

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Select Together Mode for everyone on Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows MC564198 · Published May 31, 2023 · Last updated Jun 30, 2023

Updated June 30, 2023: Breakout room support (95680) will not be rolling out at this time, and we will communicate via Message center when we are ready to proceed. Thank you for your patience.

The latest version of Teams Rooms on Windows app 4.17 update includes new in-meeting experiences including:

Choose your Together Mode scene and select it for everyone.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 126105

We will begin rolling out in late June (previously mid-June) and expect to complete rollout by late July.

(Updated) A new experience to search within chat and channels. MC554158 · Published May 12, 2023 · Last updated Jun 30, 2023

Updated June 30, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

We are excited to introduce a new and improved experience to search within chats and channels.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 122550

Standard: We will begin rolling this out in late July (previously mid-June) and expect to complete rollout by early August (previously early July)

GCC: We will begin rolling this out in early August (previously mid-July) and complete rollout by late August (previously early August).

GCC-H: We will begin rolling this out in late August (previously late July) and complete rollout by early September (previously mid-August).

DoD: We will begin rolling this out in mid-September (previously mid-August) and complete rollout by early October (previously early September).

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Attach Cloud Files in Chat and Channel from Teams Mobile MC579610 · Published Jun 9, 2023 · Last updated Jun 30, 2023

Updated June 30, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

We are introducing the capability to upload files from OneDrive from Teams Mobile chat and channel for iOS and Android. Additionally, users will be able to view Recent files and attach the most used files upfront from the Recent section.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap IDs 98321 and 98327

We will begin rolling out in late June 2023 and expect rollout to be complete by mid-August (previously mid-July).

(Updated) GradeSync for Teams Assignments retirement MC550584 · Published May 5, 2023 · Last updated Jun 30, 2023

Updated June 29, 2023: This is a reminder that Grade Sync feature of Microsoft Teams Assignments will no longer be available to customers starting June 30, 2023. After June 30 2023, Grade Sync will no longer sync Assignments and grades from Microsoft Teams Assignments and the student information system (SIS). After this change, teachers will need to manually create assignments and update the grades from Teams Assignments into the SIS.

Effective May 31, 2023, Grade Sync feature of Microsoft Teams Assignments will no longer be available to new customers. Existing customers may continue to use it until June 30, 2023.

June 30, 2023

Click Through Collaborative Annotations Layer in Teams Meetings MC611685 · Published Jun 27, 2023

We are rolling out an enhancement to the current Collaborative Annotations experience whereby screen sharers can click through the annotations layer and interact with underlying content without stopping the existing annotation session. After a sharer initiates annotations from their presenter toolbar, sharers will be able to interact with their background to edit their content by default.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 127900.

Standard Release: We will begin rolling out late July and expect to complete by mid-August.

GCC-High and DoD: We will begin rolling out early August and expect to complete by mid-August.

Microsoft Teams: EHR Connector Virtual Appointment usage report for user access MC611684 · Published Jun 27, 2023

Organizations which have enabled Microsoft Teams EHR Connector can view the usage information of EHR scheduled appointments through EHR Connector Virtual Appointment usage report. Tenant with EHR connector enabled users who are not designated as admins, now have access to the EHR Connector Virtual Appointment usage report through the Virtual Appointments App in Microsoft Teams.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 138229

We will begin rolling out mid-July and expect to complete by late July.

Make calls through speed dial and call history on Apple CarPlay MC611680 · Published Jun 27, 2023

Users can now easily call their speed dial contacts and get back to their recent calls on Apple CarPlay with Teams after connecting iPhone to vehicles that support Apple CarPlay.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 125556

Production and GCC: We will begin rollout in mid-July and expect to complete rollout by early August.

GCC-High and DoD: We will begin rollout in early September and expect to complete by early October.

Microsoft Defender for Office empowers end users to report suspicious messages in Microsoft Teams (follow-up) MC611677 · Published Jun 27, 2023

This is a follow up of Message Center post MC567478.

Starting July 10th ability for Microsoft Teams users to report messages within Teams as security risk will be turned on by default. Security risk messages could include ones that contain phishing or spam or malicious content, such as phishing URL or malware file, spam content. To learn how end users can report, see User reported message settings in Microsoft Teams.

NOTE: This only applies to Microsoft for Defender Plan 2 customers or Microsoft E5/ Office E5 customers.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 100160

This change will go into effect starting July 10th and be completed for all tenants by mid-July 2023, if the tenant hasn't opted out.

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: A new default home screen and enhanced custom background feature for Teams Rooms on Windows MC556772 · Published May 17, 2023 · Last updated Jun 27, 2023

Updated June 27, 2023: We have updated the content below with additional information. Thank you for your patience.

The latest version of Teams Rooms on Windows app 4.17 update includes new and improved home screen features, including:

New default home screen experience with modern UI update

Enhanced custom background feature for Teams Rooms Pro users.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 124774

Roll out begins late-June and is expected to be completed by late July.

Microsoft Teams Compact Chat List MC609889 · Published Jun 27, 2023

Compact chat list is a feature addition that is coming to compact mode. Users in compact mode will now have hidden message previews in their chat list. This new design will enable users to keep messages more private, view more chats in their chat list and navigate the chat list more easily. This feature addition to the existing compact mode will be rolling out across Microsoft Teams Desktop and Web and will provide a condensed view of the chat list for compact mode users.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID: 126428

Standard Release: We will begin rolling out to commercial tenants in early June and expect to complete rollout by late June.

GCC: We will begin rolling out in July.

GCCH: We will begin rolling out in August.

DoD: We will begin rolling out in September.

This feature addition will be available in the new Teams desktop experience later this calendar year.

(Updated) Avatars for Microsoft Teams MC533652 · Published Mar 27, 2023 · Last updated Jun 26, 2023

Updated June 26, 2023: We are expanding the licensing for avatars for Teams to be available to additional Teams commercial customers, so more users have the flexibility on how they represent themselves in meetings. Avatars for Teams will be available for Teams Essentials, Business Basic, Business Standard, Business Premium, Microsoft 365 E3/E5, and Office 365 E1/E3/E5. A day of hybrid meetings can be exhausting, and we believe more users having access to avatars for Teams will give you that much-needed camera break, while still allowing you to collaborate effectively.

Note: If you are using any other SKU, you will not be able to use Avatars in meetings, even if you have previously installed the Avatars app. To avoid confusion and potential errors, we recommend that Teams admins block the Avatars app for users who are not in the supported SKUs. You can do this by following the instructions here: Set up avatars for Microsoft Teams - Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Learn. If you do not have a supported SKU for Avatars, you will still be able to see the Avatar feeds of other users who do have supported SKUs, but you will not be able to create your own Avatar or use it in a meeting.

Avatars for Microsoft Teams gives you that much-needed camera break, while still allowing you to collaborate effectively. You can add a new layer of choice to your meetings and represent yourself the way you want with customizable avatars and reactions.

Represent yourself the way you want with customizable avatars and reactions. Save up to three avatars for different meeting types, such as casual, professional, and day to day. Note that Avatars for Microsoft Teams is designed for users 18+.

This release is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID: 107969

Targeted Release (Public Preview): We expect to begin rolling out late March and expect to be complete by early-April.

Standard Release: We will begin rolling out on June 29th and continue through the end of July.

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Viva Pulse - New Viva Suite application available on July 20th MC613509 · Published Jun 28, 2023

Viva Pulse is a new employee feedback experience that is available for use with your Viva Suite subscription. Viva Pulse empowers managers and project team leaders to request and receive feedback from their teams at any time. Managers and project leads can choose from research-based templates to quickly create a survey and send it to select inpiduals or groups. They can also track feedback to understand team sentiment over time and show teams they’re being heard by working together to take clear steps to address needs. Viva Pulse General Availability will be on July 20th, 2023.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID: 117393

What Viva Suite users will see leading up to our General Availability on July 20th:

The Viva Pulse application will be immediately visible to all end users with a license assignment to the Viva Suite; however, the application will be inaccessible until our General Availability in July. If end users try to access Viva Pulse before the General Availability, then they will see a ‘No Access’ page, unless the user is a part of our Public Preview.

Viva Pulse will be accessible from the following surfaces:

Office.com apps list
Viva Home / Connections
Navigation in Microsoft Teams' Viva apps
Microsoft Teams App Store

What Viva Suite users can access on and after our General Availability on July 20th:

After the General Availability in July, any user in your tenant with an active license assignment to the Viva Suite who tries to access Viva Pulse will have the Viva Pulse service plan and be able to use the app.

Viva Pulse will be accessible via both a Microsoft Teams app and a web experience, which can be accessed by visiting Viva Pulse.

Microsoft Viva: Topic card expanded view shows more details about a topic MC611679 · Published Jun 27, 2023

We are rolling out the expanded view of the topic card for Viva Topics tenants that brings more information on the topic to users. Users can click on the topic name to view the expanded view of the card and learn more about the topic.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 118590

Standard Release: We will begin rolling out early July and expect to complete by early July 2023.

(Updated) Viva Connections Dashboard Customization MC549347 · Published May 2, 2023 · Last updated Jun 27, 2023

Updated June 27, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

We are excited to announce that dashboard customization is now available on Viva Connections Mobile! This feature allows your employees to personalize their mobile dashboard with the information that is most relevant to their work.

We want to inform you that this feature is enabled by default for all your employees. However, we understand that every organization is different, and you may have specific requirements or preferences. Therefore, we want to let you know that as a tenant admin or site operator, you can turn off the feature if necessary. The toggle turn OFF will be available in the dashboard details with the heading "Allow users to rearrange and hide dashboard cards"

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 117428

Standard Release: We will begin rolling out the admin settings to turn OFF the feature by early May and it will be available for all tenants by early July (previously late June).

For end users, we will enable this feature only when the settings get rolled out to all the tenants.

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