Microsoft Teams: Explicit Recording Consent for Teams meetings

Teams now supports 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.

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Microsoft Teams: Simplified App Update Experience

Microsoft Teams now maintains an index of all of the apps (and the corresponding versions) a user has consented to. Using this index, an app is automatically updated in real time everywhere it is installed for the user. After the user updates the app in any one context, the updated version is available in all other installed contexts, without any other user action.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 95676

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Microsoft Teams: Insights about people in profile cards now coming to Microsoft Teams

Profile cards in Microsoft Teams will now surface insights and information such as birthdays, career changes, or pending meeting invites.
More info: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/notifications-and-insights-about-people-in-microsoft-apps-196cdd26-e5da-44ca-96f7-f33465633f4a

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Microsoft Teams: Autosuggest location for Emergency location

Easily set your emergency location on Teams with location recommendations.

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Additional Filters in Approvals update

We are providing this message as an update to MC449930 (October ’22). 

Microsoft Teams approval list within the personal app will include additional filters to filter your approval list. You can search for keywords in the Approval title or filter by Requested or Custom approvals. 

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Teams in-context Stores

The in-context stores are found in menus throughout the Teams experience that let users discover and install apps that support the specific context the user is in. For example, when a user opens the Message extension (ME) in-context store they are shown a selection of apps that have the ME capability. Discovering apps in the in-context Store keeps users in their flows and avoids unnecessary context switching.

When this will happen:

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Microsoft Teams: Automatic lowering of a user’s Raised Hand after speaking

Teams will soon have a feature that will alert attendees in meetings that have raised their hands and already had their questions addressed to automatically lower their hand. This will allow meeting organizers the opportunity to focus on unanswered questions.

This release will be rolling out only to Microsoft Teams Desktop users.

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The Room Remote feature for desktop

The Room Remote feature enables touchless meetings by allowing users to control a nearby shared meeting room device from their Desktop/PC with Teams client.

This feature was first launched on Mobile and will now be available on your Desktop device formfactor. 

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Microsoft Teams: New Class & Lecture Meeting Templates

Class and Lecture Meeting Templates help Educators easily set-up highly secure meetings for their classes and lectures!

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Actionable Missed call Notification in Activity

Users will have the option to call back on a missed call directly from their activity feed. This will help users complete the underlying task quickly and improve triaging of activities.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 102236

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