Microsoft Teams: Admins can pin message extensions

Admins can manage the pin order of messaging extensions in the compose experience.

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Microsoft Teams: Press to unmute

You can now stay muted to avoid unwanted background noise during a meeting and rapidly respond when called upon. You can now use a shortcut to unmute while holding down the keys Ctrl+Space (Windows) and Option+Space (macOS), then release keys to go back to muted state again. The feature is supported only on Teams Desktop.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 83419 and 83610.

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Microsoft Teams: Teams Advisor guidance for Phone system deployment

Teams administrators can use Deployment Advisor for tailored guidance on deploying Teams Telephony to their organizations.

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Microsoft Teams: Teams admin center – Sensitivity label support in Government clouds

Teams administrators can leverage existing sensitivity labels and assign them when creating new teams. Sensitivity labels assigned to teams help provide stricter
security and compliance controls.

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Microsoft Teams: AAD conditional access support for Teams rooms on Windows

Microsoft Teams rooms on Windows now support Azure Active directory conditional access support. Admins can configure Teams rooms device’s access to Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Exchange online services based on device compliance status. In addition, to make it simpler for our customers, Azure Active Directory Premium 1 license is added to the Room System Standard and Room System Premium and variations of these SKUs for education, government customers. Detailed documentation on how to configure Teams rooms on Windows to use AAD conditional access feature will be published to give IT admins head start for configuring it.

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Microsoft Teams: Calling app update for Teams Rooms on Windows

Teams Rooms on Windows are making an alignment for calling experience to Teams desktop replacing Dial pad control on the Teams room console with Call. Calling app provides users functionality to dial PSTN calls where available as well as enable entry point for P2P Teams calls, group Teams calls and P2P federated user calls. This change is only applicable if the Teams rooms is running in Microsoft Teams only or Microsoft Teams (default) and Skype for Business modes.
With this change, all P2P calling and group calling functionality that was previously under New meeting button is moved under Call. For customers that use SIP URI calling through Skype for Business, Enter SIP URI entry point is available in Microsoft Teams (default) and Skype for Business mode.

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Microsoft Teams: Meet now support for Teams Rooms on Windows

Teams Rooms on Windows are making an alignment for Meet now experience to Teams desktop replacing New meeting control on the Teams room console with Meet (aka Meet now). With Meet, users can start an ad-hoc meeting with a single tap and invite participants to it. This change is only applicable if the Teams rooms is running in Microsoft Teams only or Microsoft Teams (default) and Skype for Business modes. With this change, all P2P calling and group calling functionality is moved under calling application.

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Improved Teams Guest User Usability (previously posted as MC300029)

*This is a re-post of MC300029 as it expired prematurely on the incorrect date and may not be visible to admins anymore. 

We will be updating guest user functionality within the Microsoft Teams app.

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Microsoft Teams: Universal Actions and Refresh Support for User Sent Cards

Adaptive Cards v2 (ACv2) now known as Universal Actions for Adaptive Cards brings the bot as the common backend for handling actions and introduces a new action type, Action.Execute, which works across apps, such as Teams and Outlook. This lights up the following new capabilities on Teams:Universal ActionsUser Specific ViewsSequential Workflow supportUp to date views

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Manage Teams and channel connected team sites in SharePoint admin center

We are enhancing the Active site experience in SharePoint admin center to include channel sites that are provisioned when a special channel is added to a Team.

Enhancements included in this release:

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