Microsoft Teams: RTMP Streaming Support for GCC-High and DoD

Enables support for your users to stream their Teams meetings to large audiences through Real Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP), including endpoints outside your organization.

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Adding a restore option to the Manage Tags Tab

In the near future, we will be adding a restore option on the Manage Tags tab (Manage Team > Manage Tags). This update will make it so that when tags are deleted, they will be kept in a deleted section in the Tags tab and can be restored for up to 30 days from the date of deletion.

Note: This is similar to the lifecycle management for Teams Channels.

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Customer Lockbox for Microsoft Teams

Customer Lockbox is available today for Exchange Online, SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business. With this update, we are enabling Customer Lockbox for Microsoft Teams as well.

Note: If you are already using Customer Lockbox today, no extra steps are needed to take advantage of this update.

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Microsoft Teams: Restore “Present” button on Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows

The “Present” button moves back to the Teams Rooms console home screen and will be named Share. Cortana push-to-talk button is moved to the bottom of the home screen, allowing users to continue using Cortana seamlessly while presenting HDMI content from Teams Rooms device console. The Cortana design change is available in Teams Rooms with the Cortana voice assistance policy enabled.

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Microsoft Teams: Exchange Contacts available in Calling pickers

Exchange contacts with associated phone numbers will be available as part of the drop down selection in all Calling people pickers, such as the Dialer or call transfer, for customers that have PSTN enabled.

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Microsoft Teams: Blue Yonder connector for Shifts

Connect the Blue Yonder Workforce Management system to Shifts and empower your frontline workers to manage schedules more effectively in one place, while staying compliant with business and labor rules. The connector can be configured using the Microsoft Admin Center and PowerShell commandlets.

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Create DocuSign requests using the compose extension

DocuSign users will now be able to create a request within a Chat or a Channel using the compose extension.An adaptive card will display the request details once the request has been created and will be updated with the progress of the request at it is signed by the recipients.

Notifications will be displayed to recipients & creators when a DocuSign request is created, signed/declined, cancelled, deleted or completed enabling users to know what’s happening with a request when it happens.

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Microsoft Teams: Presenter mode: Controls to move and resize presenter video

Presenter mode video controls enable presenters to move and resize presenter video feed and automatically adjusts content size accordingly. This can be applied to all modes on Desktop or Window sharing including standout, side-by-side, and reporter.

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Introducing Real-time Call Analytics (RTA) for “Meet Now” (Ad Hoc meeting)

When we shipped in September 2021, Real-time Call Analytics (RTA) was only available for “scheduled” meetings. We are happy to announce that the RTA Dashboard will also show “Meet Now” data. “Meet Now” is a Microsoft Teams feature which allow a user to start an impromptu meeting in fast and easy manner. In addition, Teams’ user can just click on the “Meet Now” button (which generates the meeting URL) to invite people who don’t have the Microsoft Teams app. 

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Microsoft Teams: Language Interpretation

Language interpretation will allow language interpreters to translate what the speaker says into another language in real time without disrupting the original flow of delivery of the speaker. This will allow more inclusive meetings, where participants who may not speak the same language can fully collaborate with each other.

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