Support for PSTN users to raise hand in meetings and for meeting organizers to manage PSTN audio capabilities.

Presenters and Organizers can now prevent public switched telephone network (PSTN) participants from unmuting. This change also allows PSTN participants to request to speak by raising their hand in a meeting via dial-pad command (press *5). This is rolling out on desktop, web and mobile.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 80262.

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Music Mode for Teams

This new feature release can be used to transmit high fidelity music. Users will be able to conduct online music lessons, transmit music performances, or other non-speech content.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 83520

When this will happen:

Standard: We will begin rolling this out in late July and expect to complete rollout late September.

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Microsoft Teams: Require app protection policy conditional access grant

This release of app protection policy based Conditional Access in Microsoft Teams will help protect your organizational data on devices your employees use by ensuring that only users with Intune app protection policy can access Microsoft 365 services from Teams.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 87773

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Dual-tone multi-frequency (DTMF) for Teams on VDI – Citrix Users

Dual-tone multi-frequency (DTMF) for Teams will soon be available for users on Citrix VDI.

Note: If your organization is not using Citrix VDI you can disregard this message.

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Speed Dial on Mobile devices

Speed Dial is coming to iOS and Android and users can now get into a call with their preferred contacts with greater efficiency than before.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 82960.

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Real-time Telemetry for End User

Call Health Panel now provides Teams end-users functionality that helps identify issues during a Teams meeting or a VOIP call. This empowers end-user with the diagnostics to investigate audio, video, content sharing or network related issues.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 70777

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Teams Follows Office Preview

We are rolling out a new Teams policy that will allow users to automatically be in the Public Preview channel of Teams if they are in Current Channel Preview for the Office 365 Client.

IT admins can modify this policy for end users such that if Office is getting updates from Current Channel (Preview), Teams will receive updates via Public Preview.

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Teams Guest Access Setting Behavior Update

We’re making some changes to Guest Access in Microsoft Teams settings. Currently, Microsoft Teams prevents guest collaboration in the guest tenant once the Allow Guest Access in Teams setting is set to OFF in the M365 Admin Center.

Beginning in late July, Microsoft Teams will no longer prevent existing guest collaboration in the guest tenant when the Allow Guest Access in Teams setting is set to OFF.

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Microsoft Teams: New assignment experience in modal window for Breakout Rooms

We are releasing an enhanced user experience for manual participant assignment.

Participant assignment is now moved from the Breakout Rooms’ right panel to a separate window that pops up when selecting Assign Participants. The enhanced interface allows you to sort by participants or rooms. You can also select multiple participants and assign them to rooms by using the check boxes next to the participants’ names. This helps you quickly find your participant or room and speeds up the assignment process.

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Teams Meeting Auto Recording

This Microsoft Teams release will allow meetings to start recording automatically when they are set to auto-record in meeting options. This will benefit users who forget to hit the record button for crucial meetings. This is rolling out on desktop, mobile and web.

This feature will be available in meetings if:

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