Microsoft Teams: Suggested Replies in chats

Suggested replies in Teams chat uses assistive AI to create short responses based on the context of the previous message. Suggested replies presents users with up to three recommended responses to choose from.

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Microsoft Teams: Isolated audio feed capabilities for GCC-High and DoD

When using NDI or hardware-out in Microsoft Teams, users will be able to get the isolated audio feed along with the isolated video feed from any Teams meeting.

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Office TLS Certificate Changes

Microsoft 365 is updating services powering messaging, meetings, telephony, voice, and video to use TLS certificates from a different set of Root Certificate Authorities (CAs) due to pending expiration of the Root CA.

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Microsoft Teams: Share computer audio on web

Users who share screen in Teams calling and meetings on web (Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome) will soon have the option to share their computer audio along with sharing their screen.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 84175.

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Microsoft Teams: Live Interpretation

Live 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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Microsoft Teams: Speaker Coach in Microsoft Teams Meetings

Speaker Coach provides private, personalized feedback on your speaking and presentation skills in both real-time as well as post-meeting in a summary.

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Microsoft Teams: Follow Office preview policy on Mac

Public Preview has provided IT admins with the ability to allow their users to receive preview features before they are released to the public.  The existing follow Office preview policy allows users to automatically be in the Public Preview Channel of Teams if they are in the Office Current Channel (Preview) on Windows. We are now expanding the “follow Office preview” policy to Mac users who are in the Office Current Channel (Preview).

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Microsoft Teams now follow Microsoft Office 365 preview users (Mac)

As previously messaged (MC264092), we rolled out a new Teams policy that allows users to automatically be in the Public Preview channel of Teams if they are in Current Channel (Preview) for the Office 365 Client on Windows. We are now expanding the policy roll out to Mac users who are also in Office Current Channel (Preview).

IT admins can modify this policy for end users so that if Office is getting updates from Current Channel (Preview), Teams will receive updates via Public Preview.

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Teams user/device usage report and Graph API data source change

We are making an improvement to the underlying data source that powers the Teams User usage report and Teams Device usage report in the Microsoft 365 Admin Center. We are also synchronizing this data source change to the similar reports that show up in Teams Admin Center.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 85542 and 83967.

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Music on Hold for 1:1 VoIP calls

Music on Hold for 1:1 VoIP calls will play music to callers while on hold, ensuring that the caller knows that the call is still active.

 Feature will apply to 1:1 call hold and consult then transfer hold for VOIP calls

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