Microsoft Teams: Public Preview: Teams follow Office preview

Public Preview has provided IT admins with the ability to allow their users to receive preview features before they are released to the public. Coming up in June 2021, not only can users be opted-in to use Teams Public Preview, but IT admins can even configure Teams users preview state to follow Office preview state. All of this functionality will be accessible from the Teams Admin Center.

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Microsoft Teams: Operator Connect

Operator Connect is a new way for customers to simply and quickly enable PSTN calling for Teams, using services from non-Microsoft telephony operators. Administrators can select their desired operator in the Teams Admin Center, and provision phone numbers to their users in just hours, with no required hardware.

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Microsoft Teams: Pilot and deploy Teams for frontline with the FLW onboarding wizard

The frontline worker (FLW) onboarding wizard empowers IT admins to pilot and deploy Teams for frontline workers in just a few steps. This wizard allows admins to streamline team creation, license assignment, and policy package assignment in a few simple steps.

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Microsoft Teams: New default for Teams notification style for GCC High

Teams notification style will be defaulted to native notifications for new users. Currently the default style is Teams purple, with this change to native notifications the user will benefit from support for assist mode, action center, accessibility and more.

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Microsoft Teams: Better Together feature for Calls on Teams phones and displays

Better together allows Microsoft Teams devices to seamlessly integrate with your PC to bring a companion experience for cross-device interaction. With the new feature support, users can make and receive calls from either Teams device or PC client with a distributed calling experience across both devices.

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Microsoft Teams: Organize chats in mobile app

In the Teams mobile app, you will be able to pin chats and filter the Chat list.

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Microsoft Teams: Whiteboard integration with Assignments

Digital whiteboards give educators and students a canvas to spark creativity and collaboration. Now, educators can include a Whiteboard as reference material or the content type of a Teams assignment.

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Microsoft Teams: Interoperability with Azure Communication Services

Use Azure Communications Services to deliver a better customer experience by easily connecting users of a custom-built app with users on Microsoft Teams via voice, video, or chat.

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Microsoft Teams Rooms Managed Services: Action Driven Incidents

Action based organization of incidents to streamline IT workflow

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Microsoft Teams: Power Automate templates to be added to teams templates

Team
templates enable end users to create the right team with predefined channels
and preinstalled apps. Select Microsoft provided team templates will include a new
Power Automate tab. In the tab, you can find a variety of Power Automate flow
templates that support the template type.

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