Direct app purchases and invoice billing support in Teams Admin Center

Teams Admins will soon be able to purchase third-party app subscriptions worldwide directly in Teams Admin Center through the “Plans and pricing” feature. Payment methods include invoice billing and credit card purchases. Private plans will be available for purchase with privately-negotiated rates between ISVs and your organization.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 83144

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Microsoft Teams: Enable Teams users to purchase app subscriptions through the Teams app store

Updated September 07, 2021: We have updated the message to provide additional clarity. Thank you for your feedback.

At Build 2021 we announced the ability for Teams users to purchase third-party app subscriptions directly from the Teams app store. From within the store, users can view subscription plans offered and go through the checkout process to pay with a credit card.

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Microsoft Forms: Manage and organize your forms and quizzes now

This new Forms feature release will allow users to manage and group all forms and quizzes as desired and in their own way, to efficiently archive and categorize their forms into collections.

This is rolling out desktop, web and mobile.

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Microsoft Teams: Real time data for Teams Meetings in Teams Admin Center (Preview)

This new release (preview) of Real-time telemetry metrics for Admin will help you identify issues during a Teams meeting.

Note: This feature will be available for all customers as part of the Teams preview. Beginning in January, 2022 the Advanced Communications add-on license will be required.

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(Updated) Retiring Teams mobile support for devices running on iOS version 13 and below

Updated August 31, 2021: We have updated the timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

We will be retiring the Teams mobile support on iOS version 13 and below. Instead we recommend that users upgrade to newer iOS builds, 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 older than 1 year.

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Mirror my video in Microsoft Teams meetings

Now you will no longer have to see the text flipped. Imagine a scenario in which a primary school teacher has a small whiteboard in hand and is trying to teach school kids basic alphabets. Or imagine you have a virtual background with text in it. While the user on the other end of the meeting can see the text correctly, you the text flipped. By providing you the option to un-mirror, you will be able to see the text correctly.

This feature will be helpful at the following locations:

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Microsoft Teams: Mirror my video

Mirror my video feature provides the user the option to un-mirror their video and thereby have the same view as the other users(s) in the meeting. By un-mirroring their video, the user will see the text correctly. No more flipped text in backgrounds or while holding a small whiteboard while teaching primary school kids. This feature is helpful in gallery, large gallery, ppt-content only sharing, and ppt-live scenarios.

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Microsoft Teams: Detect Music Automatically

The previously released ML-based noise suppression is now enabled by default for most of our customers. ML-based noise suppression considers any non-speech signal picked up by the microphone as noise which
should be suppressed. To avoid suppressing music and to allow users to enable the new high-fidelity music mode, we have built an ML-based music detector which will inform the user whenever music is present through a notification. This will give the end user the choice whether music is indeed an
unwanted background noise, such as when calling into a meeting from a coffee shop, or if music is a desired signal, such as when participating in a music lesson.

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Microsoft Teams: Configure your activity feed notifications

Users will be able to change the type of notification that appear in their activity feed. Right click
on the feed item, and you will be able to turn on/off all reactions and select the apps you would like to get notifications from.

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Microsoft Teams: Configure your activity feed notifications

Users will be able to change the type of notification that appear in their activity feed. Right click
on the feed item, and you will be able to turn on/off all reactions and select the apps you would like to get notifications from.

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