Microsoft Teams: Roaming bandwidth control

Admins will now be able to set a bandwidth control policy to disable video calls when users are working in bandwidth constrained areas – this protects the reliability of the connection, automatically just based on where the users are located.  Once users return to a location with better bandwidth, their video calling is restored. Initially two settings from the Teams Meeting Policy will be included – AllowIPVideo, and MediaBitRateKb.

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Microsoft Teams: Redesigned Teams Store

With the redesigned Teams Store, you’ll find a landing page optimized for ease of discoverability with rotating banners at the top that spotlight interesting apps and scenarios. You’ll also get intelligent recommendations – like featured apps and those popular amongst your colleagues. And editorial articles that surface collections of apps that address common scenarios from apps to get you started in Teams to those best for educators.  Updated app categories to make it easier to find the apps you’re searching for – from those built by your org and colleagues to those built for certain functions and industries.

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Redesigned Microsoft Teams Store Experience

With the newly redesigned Teams Store, you’ll find a landing page optimized for ease of discoverability with rotating banners at the top that spotlights interesting apps and scenarios. You’ll also see intelligent recommendations for apps that are popular amongst your colleagues and across all users on Teams. We’ve also added new curated surfaces that showcase collections of apps that address common scenarios from apps to get you started in Teams. We have also updated app categories to make it easier to find the apps you’re searching for – from those built by your org and colleagues to those built for certain functions and industries.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 86186.

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Meeting Activities in Teams Audit Log

This update to the Microsoft Teams audit log adds Meeting Activities to further help organizations effectively respond to security events, forensic investigations, internal investigations, and compliance obligations.

When this will happen:

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View Only Attendee Guidance Update

Microsoft Teams provides several different ways to deliver meeting experiences. Selecting the right option depends on factors like expected attendance numbers and required capabilities. To follow up on an earlier communication (MC282774 -Sept), Microsoft would like to clarify the guidance around which experiences to use for meetings and events above 1,000 users.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 65952

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Microsoft Teams: Share specific parts of the App to meeting stage

We have introduced new API’s within the Teams Client SDK that will provide developers the ability to share specific content within their app to the meeting stage from the app side panel experience.

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Microsoft Teams: Switch between multiple video cameras in Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows

Ability
for participants in a Microsoft Teams Room to switch between multiple video
cameras during a Teams meeting.

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Microsoft Teams: Integrated CART captioning in meetings on Web

Users will now be able to view captions coming from a CART provider (real-time captioning) within the Microsoft Teams meeting on Chrome and Edge. Meeting organizers and participants will be able to ask their captioning providers to stream captions to Microsoft Teams.

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Anonymous join policy

Administrators will be able to control the ability for anonymous users to join a Microsoft Teams meeting using a new per-organizer policy.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 87503.

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Microsoft Teams: Enriching the App detailed page with more descriptive App information In Teams admin center

The app detail page will provide greater description for each app, including images and product videos.

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