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Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows: A Teams Room can be a Breakout Room participant
Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows will support participation in Breakout Rooms, allowing meeting organizers to manage them like individual participants. Rollout begins late August 2024, with no admin action required. Users should be informed of the change.
Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows will soon support Breakout Rooms as a participant. This will allow a Teams Rooms on Windows to be participate in Breakout Rooms if they are used by a meeting organizer. The room can be assigned to any particular Breakout Room and will respect any related settings or actions defined by the organizer, such as automatically being moved into a Breakout Room, permission to return to the main meeting, being reassigned to a different Breakout Room, or receiving announcements from the organizer. This release is applicable to Teams Rooms on Windows.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 95680.
When this will happen:
General Availability (Worldwide, GCC, GCC High): We will begin rolling out late August 2024 and expect to complete by mid-September 2024.
General Availability (GCC): We will begin rolling out mid-September 2024 and expect to complete by early October 2024.
General Availability (GCC High): We will begin rolling out early October 2024 and expect to complete by early November 2024.
How this will affect your organization:
Before this rollout: Teams Room did not support Breakout Rooms as a participant, and participants joining meetings through Teams Room on Windows were not able to participate in Breakout Rooms sessions.
After this rollout, meeting organizers using Breakout Rooms will be able to manage a Teams Room on Windows in the same way they manage individual participants. Participants joining a meeting using Breakout Rooms from a Teams Room on Windows will be able to participate in Breakout Rooms sessions. Note: A Teams Room cannot take on the organizer role for Breakout Rooms.
By default, this feature is on and accessible to all Teams Rooms for Windows users.
A Teams Room in the list of attendees to assign to Breakout Rooms:
A prompt that confirms the Teams Room is assigned to a Breakout Room:
What you need to do to prepare:
This rollout will happen automatically by the specified date with no admin action required before the rollout. You may want to notify your users about this change and update any relevant documentation.
Learn more: Use breakout rooms in Microsoft Teams meetings – Microsoft Support
Message ID: MC810407
