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Find below a list of public posts and updates on Microsoft Teams (and Microsoft 365) that have been published in Week 2 of 2024, January 8 - January 14.
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What's New in Microsoft Teams (and Microsoft 365):
Field Advisories:
- Explore
the Latest Innovations for your Retail Workers with Microsoft Teams
- Microsoft
365 Admin Monthly Digest – Jan 2024
- Azure
Communication Services January 2024 Feature Updates
- “Copilot,
help set my New Year’s goals”: Using Viva Goals + Microsoft Copilot to
make goals in 2024
- Manage shared
workspaces with bookable desks in Teams Rooms
- Save time with
low-friction deployment in Teams Rooms
- Shaping
the future of retail with AI and Dynamics 365
Community:
- Enhanced
Email Sharing Experience Coming Your Way!
- Microsoft
Launches Easy Message Forwarding in Teams
- Meeting
invitation improvements are coming to Microsoft Teams
- How to Set up a
Microsoft Teams Room using a One Time Passcode
- Classic
Teams users to be updated to new Teams after March 31
M365 Message Center :
- Teams :
Meeting "Recording and Transcription"
tab will be replaced by "Recap" tab MC704958
· Published Jan 8, 2024
Now, the “Recap” tab for scheduled meetings
will include access to the recording and transcript. For meetings that have a
“Recap” tab, the previous “Recording and Transcription” tab will be removed
since the “Recap” tab will replace it. For meetings that don’t have a “Recap”
tab, users can continue to access the recording and transcript from the
“Recording and Transcription” tab.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365
Roadmap ID 181918
Targeted release: We will begin rolling out
early February 2024 and expect to complete by early February 2024.
Standard Release: We will begin rolling out
late February 2024 and expect to complete by early March 2024.
(Updated) Immersive spaces available for
General Availability MC700933
· Published Dec 22, 2023 · Last updated Jan 12, 2024
Updated January 12, 2024: We have updated the
rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
We are making building relationships easier by
bringing the power of Mesh into the place where people work every day—Microsoft
Teams. With just one click, you can now easily transform your virtual meeting
into a fun 3D experience with immersive spaces in Microsoft Teams.
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Roadmap ID 161720
Preview: This rolled out in October 2023.
We will begin rolling out in late January 2024
and will be completed by late February 2024.
(Updated) Announcing External Access
Analytics for Microsoft Teams MC698123
· Published Dec 14, 2023 · Last updated Jan 12, 2024
Updated January 12, 2024: We have updated the
rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
We are excited to announce that we are rolling
out a new report in the Teams Admin Center that will provide basic analytics
for external access. This report will allow admins to view information about
external access.
The external access analytics report will be
available soon in the Teams Admin Center under Analytics & reports >
Usage reports. We hope that this report will provide admins with more
visibility and control over external access in their tenant and enable them to
make informed decisions about cross-tenant collaboration.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365
Roadmap ID 370565
Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out
late January 2024 and expect to complete by mid-February 2024.
Standard Release: We will begin rolling out
mid-February 2024 and expect to complete by late February 2024.
(Updated) Audio and video flyout and
settings in Teams meetings MC699715
· Published Dec 19, 2023 · Last updated Jan 12, 2024
Updated January 12, 2024: We have updated the
rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
Audio and Video flyouts in Teams enable users to
efficiently manage their audio and video settings during meetings. These
features are easily accessible, allowing users to control their devices and
adjust key audio and video features quickly and effortlessly, without needing
to navigate through multiple layers of settings.
Users can access this feature in 3 ways:
- During a meeting, you can access the audio flyout and video flyout
by clicking the split button with a downward arrow right next to 'camera'
and 'microphone' in the meeting toolbar.
- From both the audio and video flyouts, you can access audio
settings and video settings, which open as panels on the right side of the
calling window. You can access these settings by clicking 'more video
options' and 'more audio options' at the bottom of the flyout to open the
side panel.
- Users can also access 'audio settings' and 'video effects and
settings' by clicking the 'more' menu in the meeting toolbar:
- Audio settings: “More” menu > Audio settings
- Video effects and settings: “More” menu > “Video effects and settings”
This message is associated with Microsoft 365
Roadmap ID 187098
Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out
late January 2024 and expect to complete by mid-February 2024.
Standard Release: We will begin rolling out
mid-February 2024 and expect to complete by late February 2024.
(Updated) Microsoft Teams - Configure
Maintenance window on Teams admin center for Android-based Teams devices MC695747
· Published Dec 6, 2023 · Last updated Jan 12, 2024
Updated January 12, 2024: We have updated the
rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
With this feature, Teams device administrators
will be able to configure maintenance windows for their Android-based Teams
devices. This includes Teams Phones, Displays, Panels, and Teams Rooms on
Android. This maintenance window will be used to carry out any automatic operation
on the device including automatic updates.
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Roadmap ID 163600
Standard Release: We will begin rolling out in
late January 2024 (previously early January) and complete the rollout by
late February 2024 (previously late January).
(Updated) New Shared display mode for BYOD
meeting rooms MC690920
· Published Nov 17, 2023 · Last updated Jan 12, 2024
Updated January 12, 2024: We have updated the
rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
The new Shared display mode provides users the
ability to extend their Teams meeting via a pop-out view-only version of the
stage onto the TV screen in BYOD meeting rooms. This mode ensures the meeting
content is always extended to the front of the room for others to see. This
gives the host of the room the peace of mind their desktop is for their viewing
only, giving them the flexibility to multi-task or work privately on their host
desktop.
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Roadmap ID 184363
Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out
late January 2024 and expect to complete by late February 2024.
Standard Release: We will begin rolling out
late February 2024 and expect to complete by early March 2024.
(Updated) Specific People Link Support for
Collaborative Notes MC694130
· Published Nov 29, 2023 · Last updated Jan 12, 2024
Updated January 12, 2024: We have updated the
rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
With the launch of Collaborative Notes, we’re
also improving the shareable link type that is created by Collaborative Notes
to help make meetings more effective and secure. The new Collaborative Notes
file will now support a Specific people link which offers more controlled
access than People in your organization link. This change will automatically
align the Collaborative Notes file link type with customer's
default setup. Customers who previously had Collaborative Notes disabled
due to lack of People in your organization link support can now enable and use
the feature.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365
Roadmap ID 167328
Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out
late January 2024 and expect to complete rollout by late February 2024.
Standard Release: We will begin rolling out
late February 2024 and expect to complete rollout by late March 2024.
(Updated) Tasks in my area or department (a
mobile Planner in Teams feature) MC695495
· Published Dec 4, 2023 · Last updated Jan 12, 2024
Updated January 12, 2024: We have updated the
rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
In the Tasks by Planner and To Do app in
Microsoft Teams, buckets are a common way to organize tasks into different
areas of work.
The mobile experience for the Tasks app in
Teams will soon be updated to make it easier to filter to a specific bucket or
set of buckets so that you can focus on the tasks in your area. We expect this
simple user experience change to provide greater focus and greater
productivity, while maintaining the familiar look and feel throughout the Tasks
app.
Note: This change is specific to the Tasks by
Planner and To Do app in Teams mobile.
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Roadmap ID 135561
We will begin rollout in early December 2023
and complete by mid-February 2024 (previously late December).
(Updated) Promote channel creation MC697808
· Published Dec 13, 2023 · Last updated Jan 12, 2024
Updated January 12, 2024: We have updated the
rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
Today, our experience focusses on letting users
create team at the top level, with channel creation as a per team level option.
Looking at the user behavior here, users end up creating more teams, where it
could have been channels within teams, leading to team proliferation and
difficulty in managing teams. To address this, we are looking to promote
channel creation.
For users to collaborate effectively, they need
to set-up the right collaboration space. Channels being the main hub of
collaboration, we made it easier for users to create channels. With the channel
creation option elevated to the top, users can now create the appropriate
collab space by picking between team or channel. They will be able to host the
channel into a team of their choosing.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365
Roadmap ID: 163363
Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out early
January 2024 and expect to complete by mid-January 2024.
Standard Release: We will begin rolling out
mid-February 2024 and expect to complete by late February 2024.
(Updated) Simplified team creation MC697434
· Published Dec 12, 2023 · Last updated Jan 12, 2024
Updated January 12, 2024: We have updated the
rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
Today, users go through multiple steps,
selecting between options while creating teams. However, most users are
inclined towards setting up their team from scratch and as private. Hence, we
defaulted to a simpler experience, yet giving users the rich options of
creating a team from a template or group and selecting privacy/sensitivity of
the team. It is a simple by default, power on demand experience.
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Roadmap ID: 163364
Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out
early January 2024 and expect to complete by mid-January 2024.
Standard Release: We will begin rolling out
mid-February 2024 and expect to complete by late February 2024.
GCC High and DoD: We will begin rolling out
late March 2024 and expect to complete by early April 2024.
(Updated) Affected Teams behavior in Chrome
due to privacy sandboxing MC697433
· Published Dec 12, 2023 · Last updated Jan 12, 2024
Updated January 12, 2024: We have updated the
content with additional information.
Starting in January, Chrome will begin
gradually rolling out privacy sandboxing in the web to 1% of their users, with
general rollout happening in late 2024. This will impact some Teams experiences
in Chrome. The recommendation is to use the Teams desktop client if you are
part of the rollout cohort.
Starting in January 2024 and continuing
through the remainder of 2024.
(Updated) Microsoft Teams Connect chat -
Extended Directory MC704952
· Published Jan 8, 2024 · Last updated Jan 12, 2024
Updated January 12, 2024: We have updated the
content below to show as intended. Thank you for your patience.
Microsoft Teams is now introducing enhancements
on top of Teams Connect for chats. With the Teams Connect chat extended
directory, IT admins can create an external directory of known external
collaborators using their phone numbers. Once created, it will be easier for
users in the tenant to:
- Search external users by name and establish 1:1 or group chats with
them.
- View a company curated profile that includes information like a
user's location, job role, or business unit and even assign an
organization manager for these external partners.
In addition to these end user improvements, IT
admins can continue to use all compliance and security features available with
Teams Connect chat along with enhancements like restricting external chat to
the list of users added via phone numbers.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365
Roadmap ID 119789
Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out in
early February 2024 and expect to complete by mid-February 2024.
Standard Release: We will begin rolling out
mid-February 2024 and expect to complete by late February 2024.
Classic Teams users to be updated to new Teams
after March 31, 2024
MC706396
· Published Jan 12, 2024
As communicated in MC686187 (October ’23),
after March 31, 2024, any classic Teams users that haven't updated to
new Teams, will be automatically
updated to new Teams.
With March 31 being less than three months
away, we advise you to update users in your organization to new Teams as
quickly as you can.
New Teams now has over 90M monthly active
users, and the figures are increasing by millions daily. It only takes one
click to update to new Teams. You can easily pick up and resume exactly where
you left off in classic Teams and your chat messages, Teams and channels, and
apps will appear in new Teams.
Microsoft Teams: Meeting participants time
zone MC706177
· Published Jan 12, 2024
Currently the scheduling form in Microsoft
Teams does not show the time zone or work hours of the attendees, which can
make it difficult for users to find a common time to schedule a meeting. A new
feature will address this issue by allowing meeting organizers to see the time
zone for all meeting attendees in the scheduling form of the scheduling
assistant.
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Roadmap ID 123963
Standard Release: We will begin rolling out
early February 2024 and expect to complete by late April 2024.
Microsoft Teams: Meeting invite improvements
MC706174
· Published Jan 12, 2024
Meeting invite is the first thing that the user
invited to the meeting sees before joining. We are making some design
improvements to make sure we have the most important information there and it's
better grouped.
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Roadmap ID 366447
Standard Release: We will begin rolling out
mid-February 2024 and expect to complete by mid-March 2024.
Organizers can select up to six languages for
attendees to choose from for live translated captions during a town hall MC705765
· Published Jan 10, 2024
Currently in a town hall, an organizer is
unable to select which auto-translated captions they would like their attendees
to see. Attendees can select from a pre-selected list of translated languages
for their captions. With this new update, organizers can now pick up to 6
translated languages from a list of over 40 languages to be shown to the
attendees for captions during a town hall.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365
Roadmap ID 371308
Targeted Release: We will begin rolling out
early February 2024 and expect to complete by mid-February 2024.
Standard Release: We will begin rolling out mid
February 2024 and expect to complete by late February 2024.
Keep your Microsoft Teams desktop client
compliant by updating regularly MC705764
· Published Jan 10, 2024
Since Microsoft Teams is governed by the Modern
Lifecycle Policy, the Teams desktop client needs to be up to date. Users
who are on old versions of Classic Teams app will receive in-app notifications
to encourage them to update to the latest version of Teams. This is to ensure
that users have the latest capabilities, performance enhancements, security
features, and service reliability.
Note: This in-app notification will not apply
to users on machine wide (non-persistent setup) Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
(VDI) deployments. Admins will need to regularly update those users to remain
supported on Teams.
Per MC298823 (Nov '21), a version that is too
far out of date will become incompatible with the service until it’s updated.
This will be enforced on January 22, 2024.
Sensitivity Labels enabled in Teams Mobile
Meetings MC705762
· Published Jan 10, 2024
Users can collaborate in a way that meets
compliance standards in meetings on a mobile device by picking sensitivity
labels on Teams calendar. Users will see any default label if applied by the
admin. When clicking on the Sensitivity label field in the meeting creation
form, users will also see the list of specific labels allotted to them by the
admin and choose the relevant label. According to the settings of the label,
the meeting will become labeled and the content will be considered sensitive
accordingly.
Channel meetings inherit the label that is used
in Teams by default and cannot be changed.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365
Roadmap ID 178013
Preview: We will begin rolling out mid-February
2024 and expect to complete by late February 2024.
Standard Release: We will begin rolling out
late February 2024 and expect to complete by early March 2024.
Admins can select the domain to use for Teams
Email Service MC705761
· Published Jan 10, 2024
Admins will now have the functionality to
select the domain to use to send emails to their users via Teams Email Service.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365
Roadmap ID 375694
Standard Release: We will begin rolling out
mid-February 2024 and expect to complete by late February 2024.
GCC High and DoD: We will begin rolling out
early May 2024 and expect to complete by mid-May 2024.
Microsoft Teams: Latest meeting experiences
with performance improvements on web for Safari and Firefox (for guests) MC705760
· Published Jan 10, 2024
The latest Teams meeting experiences will be
available for Teams on the web in Safari and Firefox browsers - including
performance improvements, refreshed pre-join, updated meeting stage, and the
updated meeting toolbar. (for anonymous join only)
This message is associated with Microsoft 365
Roadmap ID 329253
Standard Release: We will begin rolling out
early February 2024 and expect to complete by late February 2024.
(Updated) Microsoft Teams: Improved View
Switcher for Teams Rooms on Android MC687848
· Published Nov 7, 2023 · Last updated Jan 10, 2024
Updated January 10, 2024: We have updated the
rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
The latest version of Teams Rooms on Android
Update 3 (2023) includes improved view switcher and front of room display
controls.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365
Roadmap ID 159128
Standard Release: We will begin rolling out in
early February 2024 (previously early January) and expect to complete
rollout by mid-February 2024 (previously mid-January).
Deploy your Frontline Operational hierarchy in
the Teams Admin Center MC705350
· Published Jan 9, 2024
Operational hierarchy will enable admins to map
their organization’s structure of frontline teams/locations to a hierarchy in
the Teams Admin Center. Admins can define metadata that ranges from department
information to brand information metadata for each team/location. The
operational hierarchy coupled with this metadata will enable numerous frontline
apps and experiences in the future like task publishing and others that are
forthcoming.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365
Roadmap ID 138480
Standard Release: The rollout of this feature
will be completed in February 2024 in the Teams Admin Center.
Join meetings and make calls via Teams Mobile
on Android Auto MC705349
· Published Jan 9, 2024
Users can now join meetings via the calendar
view, easily call speed dial contacts, and get back to recent calls on Teams on
Android Auto with Android phones.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365
Roadmap ID 375701
Standard Release: We will begin rolling out
late February 2024 and expect to complete by early March 2024
Deploy Shifts to your Frontline teams at scale. MC705347
· Published Jan 9, 2024
Admins will be empowered to deploy Shifts
across their frontline dynamic teams through the Teams Admin Center. They will
have the ability to uniformly configure the Shifts app settings, identify
schedule owners, and create schedule groups for the Microsoft Teams Shifts app
on their frontline teams. This will enable frontline managers to start managing
their frontline teams through Shifts with minimal friction.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365
Roadmap ID 138479
Standard Release: The rollout of this feature will
be completed in February 2024 in the Teams Admin Center.
Now get Real Time Calendar Notifications in
Teams MC704955
· Published Jan 8, 2024
You can now get the Calendar Notifications in
Teams from the Activity Feed.
- You will get calendar notifications in the Activity Feed for the
below scenarios:
- Meeting invite (including channel meetings you are explicitly
invited to)
- Meeting updates
- Meeting cancellations
- Meeting forwards (as an organizer)
- When you get a calendar notification, you will see an unread
notification in the Activity Feed pane or at the bell icon.
- When you click on a notification, you will see the details of the
meeting/event in the right pane.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365
Roadmap ID 314355
Standard Release: We will begin rolling out
mid-February 2024 and expect to complete by late February 2024.
New Policy: Turn Off Teams Meeting Feedback
Surveys for Unauthenticated Users MC703705
· Published Jan 4, 2024
We will be introducing the existing Teams
Meetings feedback surveys (such as Net Promoter Score (NPS)) to unauthenticated
users that join Teams Meetings. When an unauthenticated user joins a meeting
originating from your organization, they may be eligible to receive a prompt to
complete a feedback survey on their Microsoft Teams experience. We will be
introducing a new Teams Meeting Configuration policy setting that will allow
tenant admins to disable all Teams Meeting feedback surveys for unauthenticated
users if needed.
Standard Release: We will begin rolling out
late February 2024 and expect to complete by late February 2024.
- Microsoft
365/Viva :
(Updated) Automatic Transcription for Video
Uploads to SharePoint Online, Yammer, and Office.com MC635989
· Published Jul 11, 2023 · Last updated Jan 12, 2024
Updated January 12, 2024: We have updated the
rollout timeline below. We apologize for the delay and thank you for your
patience.
Videos uploaded to SharePoint Online, Yammer,
and Office.com will have transcriptions automatically generated shortly after
upload. This feature will not be available for A1 and trial tenancies.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365
Roadmap ID 124932
Standard Release: We will begin rolling out in
late July and expect to complete rollout by late January 2024
(previously early December).
(Updated) Community Campaigns in Viva Engage
MC694119
· Published Nov 29, 2023 · Last updated Jan 12, 2024
Updated January 12, 2024: We have updated the
rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.
Introducing community campaigns to boost
engagement within your community. Now, community admins can easily create
campaigns directly within the community. Simply locate the campaign's right
rail, click the plus button, and fill in campaign details like #hashtag,
description, and default publisher in the pop-up.
Campaigns start as drafts, allowing admins to
upload cover photos, set goals, and pin links before hitting the publish
button. Admins and regular users can view all community campaigns by clicking
"View all campaigns" in the right rail.
Community members are automatically followers
of the campaign, and using the community campaign hashtag in posts will display
them in the campaign's feed. Conveniently, when typing "#" in the
community, a dropdown suggests relevant community campaigns.
We expect to begin rolling out in mid-January
2024 (previously early January) and expect to complete by early February
2024 (previously late January).
Microsoft Viva: Viva Goals - Enhanced goal
sharing experience MC705348
· Published Jan 9, 2024
Microsoft Viva will offer an enhanced
experience to facilitate effortless sharing of goals and goals progress with
the introduction of a new share modal in Viva Goals.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365
Roadmap ID 375220
Standard Release: We will begin rolling out
mid-February 2024 and expect to complete by mid-March 2024.
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