Microsoft Teams: Federated Group Calling

We are releasing the capability for users to easily start a group Teams call with federated colleagues outside of the organization, including video and screensharing, all over an internet connection without any PSTN usage charges.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 103042

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Microsoft Teams: Targeted In-meeting notification

Send in-meeting notifications to specific people in a meeting via a bot.

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Retirement of apps based on selected templates

We will be retiring the apps based on the following Teams App Templates – Poll, Survey, Checklist, Quiz and Training. Check the app store for alternate options.

Note: If your organization is not using Teams App Templates you can safely disregard this message.

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Wiki retirement and the future of note taking in Teams Channels

We announcing that Wiki’s will be retired from Teams. We are offering note taking capabilities through Teams Channels powered by OneNote.are

When this will happen:

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Notification Granularity for Teams Mobile through Intune

Customers in fields like finance, healthcare, and law have been asking for a more granular control of what Teams Mobile shows and hides in a notification preview. In response, we are introducing an optional way for admins to control how much detail a user sees in a lock screen notification.

Note: This feature is only available to customers with Intune. If you organization does not use Intune you can safely disregard.

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Teams admin center – Teams Devices: Update Phases for Firmware auto-updates

We’re making some changes to the way firmware auto-updates are managed for Android-based Teams devices.

You are receiving this message because our reporting indicates one or more users in your organization are using Teams devices. Administrators using Teams admin center to manage these devices will see some changes for Phones, panels, displays, and Teams Rooms on Android devices.

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Microsoft Teams: Video Filters in Teams Meetings

Video Filters are a new feature in Microsoft Teams meetings that will allow participants to augment their video stream with visual effects, such as frames and styles. These filters are built on the Teams Platform infrastructure and provided by Microsoft first- and third-party partners as apps and displayed as a collection of filters. 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 86811

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Known Issue: Admins may not be able to update certain Teams devices to the latest available firmware

We are temporarily pausing updates (previously announced via Message center) to the latest available firmware for Microsoft Teams Rooms on Android devices, Phones, Displays, and Panels from Teams admin center.

How this will affect your organization:

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Retiring Teams Mobile Support for Devices Running on iOS 14

We will be retiring the Teams mobile support on iOS version 14. We recommend that users upgrade to newer iOS builds i.e., iOS 15 and above, which is where we will continue to invest our development resources. We will also begin encouraging users to update to the newest version of Teams if they’re running builds that are older than one year.

The deprecation of iOS 14 will start on March 1, 2023, and complete by March 7, 2023.

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Microsoft Teams Flyout Enhancements

App flyouts are contextual menus found throughout the Microsoft Teams experience that enable users to launch installed apps and to discover and install new apps within the specific context the user is in. For example, when a user opens the Message Extension (ME) app flyout from a group chat, they are shown all of their ME-enabled installed apps which can be used within that group chat. Engaging with apps via the flyout allows users to remain in their flow of work and reduces confusion regarding the app capabilities within that context.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 110710

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