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Sunday, August 13, 2023

Friends of Microsoft Teams - Week 32 - 2023 (August 7 - August 13)

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 32 of 2023, August 7 – August 13.

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

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

What's new in Microsoft Shifts Notifications

Field Advisories:

Community:

M365 Message Center :

Teams :

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: New Channels Experience MC550081 · Published May 3, 2023 · Last updated Aug 12, 2023

Updated August 12, 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 late August 2023 (previously early July).

Standard and GCC: We will begin rollout in mid-September 2023 (previously early August) and expect to complete rollout by late October 2023 (previously mid-August).

GCC-H: We will begin rollout in late October 2023 (previously mid-August) and expect to complete rollout by early November 2023 (previously mid-September).

DoD: We will begin rolling out in early November 2023 and expect to complete rollout by late November 2023.

Microsoft Teams: Group Policy Assignment Rank Assistance MC666964 · Published Aug 11, 2023

As an admin, you use policies to control Microsoft Teams features that are available to users in your organization. To easily manage different types of user needs, Teams provides group policy assignment, which lets you assign custom policies to user groups.

Effective policy for a user is determined by precedence rules. If a user isn't directly assigned a policy of a given type, the policy assigned to a group that the user is a member of takes precedence. If a user is a member of multiple groups, the policy that has the highest (group assignment ranking) for the given policy type takes precedence.

The Group policy assignment rank assistance feature will help admins by displaying key pieces of information such as group user count, recommendation to give rank 1, and precedence rules, so that admins can make better decisions while managing policies for their user groups.

We will begin rolling out in mid-August 2023 and expect to complete rollout by late August 2023.

(Updated) Collaborative Meeting Notes MC538385 · Published Apr 6, 2023 · Last updated Aug 9, 2023

Updated August 9, 2023: We have updated the content below with additional information. Thank you for your patience.

We will not be rolling this feature to customers in GCC at this time. We will communicate via Message center when we are ready to proceed. Thank you for your patience.

Teams across Microsoft are coming together to provide tools that help make meetings more effective. More specifically, we’re improving how you track what you want to discuss (Agenda), what you discussed/decided (Notes) and what you need to follow up on (Follow-up Tasks). These capabilities are now integrated into the end-to-end meeting experience in Teams, Loop, Planner, To Do, Office.com and OneDrive for Business.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 101509

Preview Release: We will begin rolling out late May (previously late April) and expect to complete by early June (previously mid-May).

Standard Release: We will begin rolling out mid-June (previously late May) and expect to complete by early August 2023 (previously mid-July).

Walkie Talkie AutoConnect Feature Update MC666173 · Published Aug 9, 2023

The purpose of Auto connect feature is to automatically connect the user to walkie talkie as soon as an intended channel to connect is determined, thereby reducing at-least 1 step in the process.

This feature is currently available.

(Updated) Dynamic Emergency Calling on Teams Web MC635983 · Published Jul 11, 2023 · Last updated Aug 8, 2023

Updated August 8, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

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. - Complete

Gov. Clouds: We began rolling out in early August and expect to complete by early September.

(Updated) Multi-Stream IntelliFrame for Teams Rooms on Windows Cameras MC649941 · Published Jul 19, 2023 · Last updated Aug 8, 2023

Updated August 8, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

IntelliFrame enables multi-stream video, face recognition of in-room participants, active speaker recognition, attributed voice-based transcription, and panoramic video on Front-of-room (180-degree view) and Center-of-room (360-degree view) cameras, taking Teams Rooms on Windows cameras to the next level of intelligence. IntelliFrame is available only with the Microsoft Teams Rooms Pro license.

The Teams Rooms on Windows app update (version 4.18) will include Hybrid meeting enhancements via the IntelliFrame camera technology including:

Multi-frame IntelliFrame
Conference room attendee “Recognition”
Active Speaker
Room View

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 133727

Standard Release: We will begin rollout in mid-August 2023 (previously early August) and expect to complete rollout by early September 2023 (previously late August).

GCC: We will begin rollout in mid-August 2023 and expect to complete rollout by mid-September 2023 (previously late August).

Preview: Device Management Changes for Microsoft Teams Android Devices MC665936 · Published Aug 8, 2023

Earlier this year, the new Microsoft device ecosystem platform built on the Android Open-Source Project (AOSP) was announced delivering state-of-the art security, reliability, and manageability with Microsoft Intune. Microsoft Teams Android devices will be migrating to this platform. The first step in the migration is a firmware update to Microsoft Teams Android devices in the first half of 2024 (1H CY2024). The firmware update will move devices from Android device administrator to Android AOSP management.

Preview: Rollout will begin in early November 2023.

Microsoft Teams Android Devices will receive a firmware update in 1H 2024, which can be deferred for up to 90 days from first availability.

(Updated) Introducing "Microsoft Default" setting to Teams Tag Management Settings MC591878 · Published Jun 16, 2023 · Last updated Aug 7, 2023

Updated August 7, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

We are introducing a Microsoft Default setting to Teams Tag Management settings in Teams Admin Center.

If you have already explicitly made a selection to your Tag Management settings your tenant will not be affected by this change.
If you have not made changes to Tag Management settings, Microsoft Default settings will apply for your tenant. Microsoft Default settings currently map to "Team Owners" value but is subject to change in the future.
As Admin, please set tag management settings to reflect tenant-level preference. Select “Team Owners” to keep tag management limited to Team Owners, or select “Team owners and members” to allow all team members to create and edit tags.

In Teams client, users will still see the same options as they do today: "Team Owners" and "Team owners and members".

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 88318

Preview: We will begin rolling out late June 2023 and expect to complete by late July 2023 (previously mid-July).

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

Standard Release: We will begin rolling out mid-July 2023 (previously early July) and expect to complete by mid-August 2023 (previously early August).

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Explicit Recording Consent for Teams Meetings MC523053 · Published Mar 3, 2023 · Last updated Aug 7, 2023

Updated August 7, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Microsoft Teams is going to support an Explicit Recording Consent meeting policy. When the policy is applied, the Teams meeting window will request explicit consent of all participants to be recorded. Before a user gives consent, the user’s audio, video, and screenshare/consent-share won’t be captured in the meeting recording.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 107781

Standard and GCC: We will begin rolling out in late March and expect to complete rollout by mid-April. - Complete

GCC-High: We will begin rolling out in late May (previously late April) and expect to complete rollout by mid-June (previously early May). - Complete

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

(Updated) A new experience to search within chat and channels. MC554158 · Published May 12, 2023 · Last updated Aug 7, 2023

Updated August 7, 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 mid-September 2023 (previously late July) and expect to complete rollout by late September 2023 (previously early August)

GCC: We will begin rolling this out in late September 2023 (previously early August) and complete rollout by late October 2023 (previously late August).

GCC-H: We will begin rolling this out in late October 2023 (previously late August) and complete rollout by early November 2023 (previously early September).

DoD: We will begin rolling this out in mid-November 2023 (previously mid-September) and complete rollout by early December 2023 (previously early October).

(Updated) Microsoft Teams Compact Chat List MC609889 · Published Jun 27, 2023 · Last updated Aug 7, 2023

Updated August 7, 2023: We have updated the content below with additional information. Thank you for your patience.

Compact chat list is a feature addition that allows users to condense the view of their chat list and hide message previews. 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 will be the default chat list experience for compact mode users. Compact chat list will be rolling out across Microsoft Teams Desktop and Web and will provide a condensed view of the chat list.

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.

Microsoft 365/Viva :

Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals: Admin Option to Enable/Disable sharing to Microsoft Teams in Viva Goals MC666167 · Published Aug 9, 2023

Viva Goals will be giving users the ability to share links to goals as rich adaptive cards, including progress and status. Users get the context they need around goals they're working towards and can also update them in Microsoft Teams without losing focus or clicking away from the conversation. As part of this feature, Viva Goals will introduce a menu option to share goals content to Teams, under the “Share” menu in the application.

If your tenant does not support Microsoft Teams, you can disable this “Share -> Teams” option in Viva Goals. You can go to the Viva Goals admin portal and turn off the feature under Sharing permissions. Users will still be able to share using other options, such as “Copy link” and “Email”.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 117448

Rollout will begin in mid-August 2023 and is expected to be complete by late August 2023.

(Updated) New Viva Connections Analytics Experience Coming Soon MC598641 · Published Jun 20, 2023 · Last updated Aug 8, 2023

Updated August 8, 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 August 2023 (previously late July).

(Updated) Create a distinct experience in Viva Connections for different audiences in the Microsoft 365 admin center MC557823 · Published May 19, 2023 · Last updated Aug 8, 2023

Updated August 08, 2023: As we are completing the broad rollout of this feature, we wanted to share some additional information on the service plan availability.

As announced in our blog post Introducing Multiple Viva Connections Experiences for Your Organization, a single Viva Connections experience is included in Microsoft 365 plans with SharePoint Online. To use two or more experiences, you will need either Microsoft Viva Suite or Microsoft Viva Employee Communications and Communities license for all your Connections users. Starting September 2023, admins will be able to see Viva Connections Premium service plan under these two licenses in Microsoft 365 admin center.

For customers who already have either Microsoft Viva Suite or Viva Employee Communities & Connections licenses:

Users who already have one of the above licenses will be pre-provisioned with the Viva Connections premium service plan. However, admins should cross-verify to ensure the correct set of users are entitled for this feature, and as needed, should unassign the licenses from specific users using this guidance. Please review the documentation to understand how license checks are performed for this feature.

A new feature will be available soon for Viva Connections that enables you to create and manage multiple Connections experiences and home sites that are targeted to specific audiences for your organization through the Microsoft 365 admin center. This feature is ideal for subsidiaries and conglomerates that want to provide distinct, audience targeted experiences with relevant and personalized information, resources, and apps to their employees.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 99916, 117421

Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out this feature by mid-June 2023. - Complete

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

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Sunday, August 6, 2023

Friends of Microsoft Teams - Week 31 - 2023 (July 31 - August 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 31 of 2023, July 31 – August 6.

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) New Lobby Policy for Webinar MC550804 · Published May 5, 2023 · Last updated Aug 2, 2023

Updated August 2, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Currently in Public webinars, you are unable to distinguish registered users in the lobby. This means that you cannot allow registered users to directly bypass your lobby and enter your webinar. With this new change, we will be offering two new lobby options that will allow you to better control security in your webinar. These new lobby options are:

A new 'Allow registered users to bypass' lobby policy that allows registered users to bypass the lobby in your webinar.

A new 'Reject users who cannot bypass the lobby' that rejects users who cannot bypass the lobby.

Both options are only available for Webinars.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 125881

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

(Updated) New Graph APIs for accessing Teams Meeting Recording MC600733 · Published Jun 21, 2023 · Last updated Aug 2, 2023

Updated August 2, 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 August 2023 (previously late July) and expect to complete by mid-September 2023 (previously early August).

Standard Release: We will begin rollout in late September 203 (previously late August) and expect to complete by mid-October (previously mid-September).

(Updated) Tasks in Microsoft Loop Components Will Start Syncing with Planner and To Do MC572515 · Published Jun 5, 2023 · Last updated Aug 2, 2023

Updated August 2, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Tasks created via Microsoft Loop components will sync across Microsoft 365 apps like Microsoft To Do, Microsoft Planner, and Tasks app in Teams.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 124928

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

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: App Suggestions by Task in In-Context Stores MC561700 · Published May 26, 2023 · Last updated Aug 2, 2023

Updated August 2, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Users think about which tasks they need to complete, such as creating a survey, inside Microsoft Teams. Soon, app suggestions will be organized by tasks that the apps support as opposed to conventional categories (productivity, project management). As a result, the new categorization will reduce the amount of time users need to spend learning about these apps – helping them to work more effectively.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 122527

GA: Rollout will begin in mid-August 2023 (previously late July) and is expected to be complete by early August 2023 (previously mid-June).

GCC: Rollout will begin in late August 2023 (previously early August) and is expected to be complete by late September 2023 (previously late August).

GCCH: Rollout will begin in early August 2023 (previously mid-July) and is expected to be complete by late August 2023 (previously late July).

(Updated) Microsoft Teams: On-Demand Recording Feature in Webinars MC661825 · Published Jul 28, 2023 · Last updated Aug 2, 2023

Updated August 2, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Organizers can soon publish the recording of their webinars and automatically send an update to their attendees, in which they will receive a link to watch the on-demand recording hosted on their event page.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 123052

We will begin rolling out in late September 2023 (previously late August) and expect to complete rollout by late October (previously late September).

(Updated) Changes in Normalization MC536885 · Published Apr 4, 2023 · Last updated Aug 2, 2023

Updated August 2, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Stopping normalization on number that starts with plus sign (+)

Normalization in Microsoft Teams was not designed to do normalization when the phone number starts with plus sign (+) as documented, but we've never enforced this in the Teams desktop or Web client. We are planning to enforce this in the future but for now we recommend avoiding this pattern.

We are making this change to align with our Calling Service, other Teams services, Azure Communication Services SDKs, and other Microsoft services. Numbers that start with a plus sign (+) will not pass through any normalization rules.

Translated numbers that do not start with a plus sign (+), will pass through normalization rules more than once. Please see Create and manage dial plans for more information.

Standard Release: We will begin rolling out mid-October 2023 (previously mid-July) and expect to complete by late October 2023 (previously late August).

(Updated) Teams New Service Plan: Collaboration Security for Microsoft Teams MC661823 · Published Jul 28, 2023 · Last updated Jul 31, 2023

Updated July 31, 2023: We have updated the content below to show as intended. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Collaboration security capabilities for Microsoft Teams will be available in expanded preview for all users of Microsoft Defender for Office 365.

Collaboration security capabilities for Microsoft Teams will be made available in expanded preview for all users by late August 2023.

Microsoft 365/Viva :

Microsoft Viva: Share an Update (Broadcast) Feature for Viva Goals MC664865 · Published Aug 3, 2023

With the new "Share an Update" feature, leaders can share updates of their team goals to the members of their organization directly from Viva Goals. Updates are sent to users via email.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 148471

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

(Updated) Feature Access Management in Viva Learning for Admin features MC640227 · Published Jul 13, 2023 · Last updated Aug 2, 2023

Updated August 2, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

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 Microsoft 365 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 2023 and complete by late August 2023.

(Updated) Viva Topics app in Teams MC546937 · Published Apr 26, 2023 · Last updated Aug 2, 2023

Updated August 2, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

The official Viva Topics app in Teams is rolling out to external customers.

Previously, we had built a Topics app for Teams as a script that Teams admins could upload. Now, the Topics app is available as a first party "Microsoft-built" app. This means the app is available in the app store for your tenant already, no upload or script-downloading required. Users in your tenant can either easily 'add' the app, like other Microsoft-built or Viva apps, or the Teams admins can select to have the Topics app pre-installed for users.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 118592

Preview: We will begin rolling out late April and expect to complete by late April.

Standard Release: We will begin rolling out late April and expect to complete by mid-August 2023 (previously early July).

Announcements in Viva Connections MC663637 · Published Aug 1, 2023

Announcements allows you to create and share time-sensitive messages in Viva Connections. You can set up, manage, and schedule announcements from your organization’s SharePoint home site or the Viva Connections app in Teams desktop.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 152481

Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out in late August and expect to complete by mid-September 2023.

Standard Release: We will begin rolling out in late September and expect to complete by end of October 2023.

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Sunday, July 30, 2023

Friends of Microsoft Teams - Week 30 - 2023 (July 24 - July 30)

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 30 of 2023, July 24 – July 30.

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 :

Microsoft Teams: Shared Device License on Mobile App for Android MC662254 · Published Jul 28, 2023

We are pleased to announce that we will soon support the Microsoft Teams Shared Device license on the Teams Android mobile application. The Teams Shared Device license offers a shared identity-based , common area phone experience, including basic and advanced calling, people search, voicemail and walkie talkie.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 126706

Preview: Rollout will be complete by early August 2023.

Standard Release: Rollout will begin in late August 2023 and is expected to be complete by early September 2023.

GCC: Rollout will begin in late August 2023 and is expected to be complete by early September 2023.

(Updated) Video Closed Caption in PowerPoint Live MC513049 · Published Feb 9, 2023 · Last updated Jul 28, 2023

Updated July 28, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Closed captions will soon be supported for embedded videos in PowerPoint Live for Teams. Video closed captions in PowerPoint Live will be rolling out across Microsoft Teams Desktop and Web and will allow PowerPoint Live users to create accessible presentations that include video.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 114494

We will begin rolling out to PowerPoint Live users in early-March and expect to complete rollout by mid-March.

GCC, GCC-High and DoD: We have begun rolling out and will complete by late September 2023 (previously mid-July).

(Updated) Enable 2nd video stream for Teams Content Camera on Desktop feature MC642270 · Published Jul 14, 2023 · Last updated Jul 28, 2023

Updated July 28, 2023: We have updated the rollout timing below. Thank you for your patience.

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-October 2023 (previously mid-August).

(Updated) Meet App on Microsoft Teams MC660610 · Published Jul 25, 2023 · Last updated Jul 28, 2023

Updated July 28, 2023: We have updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Microsoft Teams users will soon have a dedicated space to manage their meetings – “Meet”. The Meet app is a centralized hub for all meeting activity and content.

The feature is rolling out exclusively on the new Microsoft Teams across Desktop and Web, and will serve as the destination for pre, during and after meeting insights, content, and action items. With the Meet app, users can prepare for upcoming meetings, catch on something they missed, and find meeting content, agenda, notes, chats, and recaps – all in one place.

Standard Release: We will begin rolling out in mid-October 2023 (previously mid-August) and expect to complete by mid-November 2023 (previously mid-September).

(Updated) Admin Policy for Collaborative Annotations MC579612 · Published Jun 9, 2023 · Last updated Jul 28, 2023

Updated July 28, 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.

This change is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID: 92502

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

Teams New Service Plan: Collaboration Security for Microsoft Teams MC661823 · Published Jul 28, 2023

Collaboration security capabilities for Microsoft Teams will be generally available for all users of Microsoft Defender for Office 365.

Your Microsoft Defender for Office 365 subscription is being updated with a new service plan: Collaboration security capabilities for Microsoft Teams will be made generally available for all users by late August 2023.

(Updated) Microsoft Teams Panels Update MC602596 · Published Jun 22, 2023 · Last updated Jul 28, 2023

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

With this update, Teams Panels will support reserving a room using a QR code. This feature lets Microsoft Teams users book a room for meetings now, in the future, or add the room to an existing meeting by scanning a QR code on the scheduling panel and using the Teams app on their Android or iOS mobile phones.

All Teams Panels will have a QR code shown in the top left of the home screen. Panels users can either schedule a new meeting with the room pre-populated for them or easily see the room’s availability for their meetings and book the room with one click.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 129366

Rollout is expected to begin in late August 2023 (previously early August) and is expected to be complete by late September 2023 (previously early September).

Microsoft Teams: On-Demand Recording Feature in Webinars MC661825 · Published Jul 28, 2023

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 123052

We will begin rolling out in late August and expect to complete rollout by late September.

(Updated) Visio Personal App in Teams MC509577 · Published Jan 31, 2023 · Last updated Jul 27, 2023

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

Visio will be available soon as a Teams Personal App. There are no changes to the existing file open behavior, however there are new abilities that the Visio Personal App can provide. Additionally, this change comes with a number of UX improvements to the Office ribbon in Teams to provide a decluttered experience consistent with Office for the Web.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 109596

Standard and GCC: this has completed.

GCC-High and DoD: will begin in early August 2023 and expect to complete by late August 2023.

Deploy new Microsoft Teams with Microsoft 365 apps MC661241 · Published Jul 27, 2023

Starting in September 2023, we will begin including new Microsoft Teams as part of the new and existing installations of Microsoft 365 apps for Windows depending on the schedule provided in this post. Currently, users can install the new Teams by using the Try the new Teams toggle switch in classic Teams or having administrators bulk deploy directly to the computers in their organization. Read MC533687 and MC617066 for details for earlier announcements for new Teams.

Administrators can exclude installing new Teams from their Microsoft 365 apps deployment if they don't wish to have new Teams included in the installation.

This announcement includes details about the upcoming changes for rolling out the new Teams desktop app with Microsoft 365 apps and details on managing opt-outs. This change is beginning currently for Microsoft 365 Apps for Windows.

We will begin by including the new Teams app as part of new and existing Microsoft 365 app installations on Windows depending on your office update channel and license Type. You will continue to have the classic Teams app included in the installation as well.

Administrators will be able to manage opt-out from this deployment if they do not wish to have new Teams included in the installation. More details in the section below.

Join third-party meetings from Teams MC661228 · Published Jul 26, 2023

When a third-party meeting is created from Outlook or OWA, participants of the meeting will now be able to Join the meeting directly from Microsoft Teams. The participants will see "Join" button on the Teams calendar events card and in the meeting details page. On clicking on the Join button, the link will route the users to the browser or the third-party application to join the meeting. This experience will be available on both mobile and desktop.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 138139

Preview: We will begin rolling out late August 2023 and expect to complete by early September 2023.

Channel meeting invitation | Allow organizer to send a channel meeting invite to everyone in team MC661224 · Published Jul 26, 2023

Channel meeting invitations will now allow channel meeting organizers the ability to share invites on personal calendars of all channel members.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 142405

Standard Release: We will begin rolling out in early August, expected completion by mid-August.

(Updated) Cloud Video Interop New Release Notes MC649045 · Published Jul 17, 2023 · Last updated Jul 25, 2023

Updated July 25, 2023: We have updated the content below to show as intended. Thank you for your patience.

Microsoft will soon begin publishing release notes for Cloud Video Interop (CVI).You can always get the latest from the public documentation for CVIpublic documentation for CVI.

The first release notes will appear no later than late July and will be updated when new features for Cloud Video Interop are released by Microsoft and by certified CVI partners.

(Updated) Introducing "Microsoft Default" setting to Teams Tag Management Settings MC591878 · Published Jun 16, 2023 · Last updated Jul 25, 2023

We are introducing a Microsoft Default setting to Teams Tag Management settings in Teams Admin Center.

If you have already explicitly made a selection to your Tag Management settings your tenant will not be affected by this change.
If you have not made changes to Tag Management settings, Microsoft Default settings will apply for your tenant. Microsoft Default settings currently map to "Team Owners" value but is subject to change in the future.
As Admin, please set tag management settings to reflect tenant-level preference. Select “Team Owners” to keep tag management limited to Team Owners, or select “Team owners and members” to allow all team members to create and edit tags.

In Teams client, users will still see the same options as they do today: "Team Owners" and "Team owners and members".

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 88318

Preview: We will begin rolling out late June 2023 and expect to complete by late July 2023 (previously mid-July).

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

Standard Release: We will begin rolling out mid-July 2023 (previously early July) and expect to complete by early August 2023 (previously mid-July).

Teams Auto-Install Approved Apps (AAA) Feature Update MC660072 · Published Jul 24, 2023

Microsoft Teams Auto-Install Approved Apps (AAA) uses activity from your users to install and surface apps that admins have already allowed for the tenant. An admin can enable AAA to help users naturally discover and use apps that are highly relevant to their needs within Microsoft Teams. Specifically, when a user signs into specific SaaS apps using Azure AD (e.g. in web browser), the app will be installed for that user on Teams.

This feature is Generally Available as OFF by default and can be turned ON by admins in Teams Admin Center.

This message is to inform about an update to the feature: when Adobe Acrobat is auto installed by AAA, users who received the auto install will also have their default PDF file handler in Teams changed to open attached PDF files with the Teams Adobe Acrobat app. This experience applies to both new and existing users who have Adobe Acrobat installed in Teams through AAA, as it has been described in the feature documentation. Users benefit from:

Discovering Adobe Acrobat easily in Teams without manually searching and installing it, since users are already using Adobe Acrobat outside of Teams.
Convenient access to the features they are using when opening a PDF file with Adobe Acrobat.

We will begin rolling out in late July 2023 and expect to complete rollout by early August 2023.

Microsoft Teams: Front Row AI (artificial intelligence) enhancements for Teams Rooms on Windows MC660071 · Published Jul 24, 2023

The latest version of Teams Rooms on Windows app 4.18 update includes Front Row AI enhancements including:

Front row gallery improvement – video segmentation with a unified background

Spatial audio on the front row

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap IDs 95267 and 122554

We will begin rolling out in mid-August and expect to complete rollout by late September.

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Update Search Experience for Viva Connections MC662248 · Published Jul 28, 2023

We are making some changes to the search experience in Viva Connections app to make it easier to search in Viva Connections.

Standard Release: Rollout will begin in early August and is expected to be complete by late September.

GCC: Rollout will begin in late September and is expected to be complete by early October.

GCCH: Rollout will begin in early October and is expected to be complete by late October.

(Updated) Update to the Free LinkedIn Courses Available in Viva Learning MC630310 · Published Jul 7, 2023 · Last updated Jul 28, 2023

Updated July 28, 2023: We have updated the rollout timing below. Thank you for your patience.

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 late August 2023 (previously mid-July).

Microsoft Viva: Use of Viva Topics in Viva Engage Grants Visibility of Topic Names MC661222 · Published Jul 26, 2023

In January, we announced the General Availability of Viva Topics in Viva Engage (Yammer) to customers. As part of the Viva Engage topics transition to Viva Topics, posts in Viva Engage (conversations, questions, polls, announcements, storyline posts) will be considered as Viva Topic resources. As a result, all users with access to posts in Viva Engage will be able to see the topic names applied to those posts in Engage as well as in other Viva Topics experiences in Microsoft 365 (e.g., Topic cards and pages).

Migrating Viva Engage to use Viva Topics supports a consistent topics experience in Microsoft 365 and allows for community-sourced knowledge to be accessible across an organization. For organizations not using premium Viva Topics experiences, the use of topics in Viva Engage will appear the same before and after topic migration. For organizations using Viva Topics, you will gain the premium benefits, such as topic cards in Yammer (Viva Engage), Viva topic pages, and centralized topic management.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 148465

Rollout will begin in late August 2023 and will continue to roll out to all Viva Engage networks by late September 2023.

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