Microsoft Teams: Presenter window usability improvements in screen sharing

With the new Presenter window, controls are located at the top, making active speakers’ faces
clearly visible during screen sharing, and raise hand notifications are surfaced for improved awareness.

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Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Teams Premium

Microsoft Teams Premium makes Teams meetings more personalized, intelligent, and secure with branded meetings, intelligent recap and search, advanced meeting protection, and it provides advanced webinar and Virtual Appointments experiences, such as live captions and 2-way lobby chats. More info: https://aka.ms/TeamsPremiumBlog

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Reminder: Announcement of automatic deletion of inactive Microsoft Dataverse for Teams environments

As previously announced in MC447307 (October ’22), the Microsoft Power Platform is introducing a cleanup mechanism that will automatically remove inactive Dataverse for Teams environments from your tenant.

Dataverse for Teams environments will be first disabled after being inactive for 90 days, the environment will then be deleted after 30 days of being disabled if no action is taken by the administrators. A disabled or deleted Dataverse for Teams environment will not affect any other Microsoft Teams assets (teams, channels, SharePoint sites, Teams-connected sites…etc.) and applies only to Dataverse integrations.

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Microsoft Teams: Support for Tabs for anonymous users in meetings

Developers now have the ability to show tab experiences for anonymous users in Teams meetings.

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Microsoft Teams: Support for Co-organizer to manage Breakout Rooms

Co-organizers can create, manage and move between Breakout Rooms like meeting Organizers.

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Microsoft Teams: Meeting Toolbar Usability Improvements

The updated Microsoft Teams meeting toolbar makes navigating meetings and discovering new features and capabilities easier than ever, including the ability to seamlessly switch between views and menu options.

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Microsoft Teams: Hardware Occupancy Sensor Integration

With supported occupancy sensor hardware, a notification banner is displayed on the Teams panel if the room is occupied when it is available or if the room is not occupied when it is reserved. The room will also be auto checked in when the sensor detects occupancy if check in is enabled.

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Microsoft Teams: In-meeting notification improvement for Teams Rooms on Windows

This update delivers improvements to in-meeting notifications on Teams Rooms on Windows and aligns them with Desktop’s framework. All critical notifications that require a user action will be shown on console.

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Microsoft Teams: Virtual Appointments calendar level analytics

Individuals and departments can drive business outcomes and improve customer experience by focusing on key metrics, such as length of appointments, wait times, and number of attendees. The report includes trends over time and the ability to drill down into individual appointment data.

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Microsoft Teams: Add people to a group chat with @mention

Add new participants to the chat with @mention, removing the need to navigate to the add-dialog. When adding a new participant, you can control how much of the chat history to share.

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