Microsoft Teams: Town Halls

Set up and host large scale events across an organization with the familiar Teams app you use for webinars and meetings. Town hall capabilities include a new meeting template, capacity for up to 10K attendees, third-party eCDN support, green room, manage what attendees see, moderated Q&A, RTMP-in, live translated captions, and more.

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Microsoft Teams: Teams Panels recognized and visible in Teams Rooms Pro Management

Microsoft Teams Rooms Pro Management will now support Teams Panels. Teams Panels will appear under Inventory and Rooms. If a Panel is sharing a resource account with a Teams Room or Surface Hub, the Panel will appear in the Inventory list for the room. The Admin capabilities for panels include viewing the health status, app version, firmware version, and serial number of the device. Admins can also record an issue, remotely restart, apply config profiles, create groups, and add rooms with Teams panels.

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Microsoft Teams: Management of BYOD (Bring your own device) meeting spaces with Teams Rooms Pro Management

The BYOD (bring your own device) rooms in the Pro Management Portal provides IT admins with a comprehensive overview of their BYOD rooms’ utilization and activities.

With this new addition, IT admins will gain valuable insights into how these spaces are being utilized, enabling them to make data driven decisions.

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Microsoft Teams: Scheduling improvements in Shifts app

In the Shifts app, people count, and full names, will show in the calendar view. The most recent
filter settings will be saved automatically. Managers will be able to add inline notes in the day view, and notes can also be added using the Graph API.

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Microsoft Teams: Town halls (Premium)

Set up and host large scale events across an organization with the familiar Teams app you use for webinars and meetings. Advanced town hall capabilities as a part of Teams Premium includes capabilities available in town hall plus capacity for up to 20K attendees, first-party eCDN support, additional language support for live translated captions, email customization, and more.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection – Exact Data Match adding support for role-based access control (RBAC) for EDM upload authorization

Customers will be able to choose to leverage RBAC to authorize users for uploading data to the Exact Data Match (EDM) service instead of leveraging the EDM_DataUploaders security group for authorization.

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Microsoft Teams: One Time Passcode (OTP) for simplified setup of Teams Rooms on Windows

This feature introduces a new and simplified way to setup Teams Room on Windows. During the first boot experience, the user will be presented with an option to enter an OTP to automatically fetch the resource account credentials and sign into Teams Rooms. The users will need a pro license to utilize this feature and provision the OTPs on the Teams Rooms Pro Management Portal.

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OneDrive: Files On-Demand for Web

The Files On-Demand options of “Always keep on this device” and “Free up space” will soon be made available on OneDrive for Web for your synced files. You will be able to select files and folders to be always available offline on your device directly from within the browser without having to navigate away to File Explore or Finder to perform this action.

OneDrive will download these, and they’ll take up space on your computer. You will also be able to “Free up space” by selecting a file or folder that you previously marked as “Always keep on this device”, and they will no longer take up local storage space.

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Microsoft Teams: Require background blur when no background is selected (Premium)

When enabled, if a user does not have a background image applied their video background will be blurred.

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Microsoft Viva: Create up to 50 Viva Connections experiences within a tenant

Customers with Viva suite or Viva Communications and Communities license can create up to 50 distinct Connections experiences for their audience groups. This is currently limited to only 10 experiences.

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