Microsoft Teams: Breakout rooms support and Select Together Mode for everyone on Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows

  • Breakout room support
  • Choose your Together Mode scene and select it for everyone

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 95680, 126105

When this will happen:

How this will affect your organization:

Breakout room support:

Teams Rooms on Windows can participate in a breakout room and be moved in and out of the main meeting, depending on a meeting organizer’s control. Breakout room organization is not intended experience for Teams rooms and is not offered.

   1) Join a breakout room 

  • When an organizer turns ON the ‘Automatically move people to rooms’ setting, room users see the ‘We’ll move you to your assigned room in 10 seconds’ notification. 
  • When an organizer turns OFF ‘Automatically move people to rooms’ setting

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   2) Return to the main meeting

Choose your Together Mode scene and select it for everyone:

What you need to do to prepare:

Kindly notify your users about this new experience and update your training and documentation as appropriate. 

  • When an organizer turns ON ‘Automatically move people to rooms’ setting, room users see the ‘We’ll move you back to the main meeting in 10 seconds’ notification.
  • When an organizer turns ON ‘Automatically move people to rooms’ setting: 

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  • Teams Rooms on Windows can now choose a Together Mode scene that fits your meeting type, using the view switcher on console.
  • When your Teams Rooms on Windows is an organizer or presenter, you can have all of the participants see the same scene by clicking the ‘Select for everyone’ checkbox and ‘Apply’ button.

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Message ID: MC564198


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