Microsoft Teams: The new Microsoft Teams app

The new Teams has been reimagined from the ground up, delivering up to two times faster performance while using 50 percent less memory. It enables users to collaborate with people across organizational boundaries by seamlessly using Teams across multiple tenants or accounts.

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New Microsoft Teams rollout schedule, new controls, and direct deployment

Since March 2023, we have continued to add features such as third-party, line-of-business (LOB) applications, breakout rooms, and new scenarios such as multi-tenant organization (MTO) to the new Teams experience. Read MC533687 for details for our March announcement. Check The new Microsoft Teams (Preview) for details on upcoming features and support for Government Clouds and platforms such as Mac, VDI, and Web.

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Microsoft Teams: 1000 channels per team

Users can now create up to 1000 channels per team, which allow you to have the channels you need organized in one team.

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Microsoft Teams: Face enrollment on Teams Desktop to support recognition in Teams Rooms on Windows

To support face recognition in Teams Rooms on Windows, the desktop client offers enrollment to enable face recognition and video labels.  This feature is available for Microsoft Teams Rooms Pro license customers.  Admins will need to set Teams policies to enable the feature.

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Microsoft Teams: Walkie Talkie Favorite Channels

Walkie Talkie, a push-to-talk experience that enables clear and secure voice communication over the cloud, enables teams to communicate instantly on a channel. Through this new functionality, users can now pin up to 5 favorite channels on the walkie talkie home screen, enabling users to quickly switch between these preselected channels to listen to incoming transmission or initiate PTT transmissions.

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Microsoft Teams: EHR Connector Virtual Appointment usage report for user access

Organizations which have enabled Microsoft Teams EHR Connector can view the usage information of EHR scheduled appointments through EHR Connector Virtual Appointment usage report. Tenant with EHR connector enabled users who are not designated as admins, now have access to the EHR Connector Virtual Appointment usage report through the Virtual Appointments App in Microsoft Teams. 

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Click Through Collaborative Annotations Layer in Teams Meetings

We are rolling out an enhancement to the current Collaborative Annotations experience whereby screen sharers can click through the annotations layer and interact with underlying content without stopping the existing annotation session. After a sharer initiates annotations from their presenter toolbar, sharers will be able to interact with their background to edit their content by default.

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Make calls through speed dial and call history on Apple CarPlay

Users can now easily call their speed dial contacts and get back to their recent calls on Apple CarPlay with Teams after connecting iPhone to vehicles that support Apple CarPlay.

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Microsoft Defender for Office empowers end users to report suspicious messages in Microsoft Teams (follow-up)

This is a follow up of Message Center post MC567478.

Starting July 10th ability for Microsoft Teams users to report messages within Teams as security risk will be turned on by default. Security risk messages could include ones that contain phishing or spam or malicious content, such as phishing URL or malware file, spam content. To learn how end users can report, see User reported message settings in Microsoft Teams.

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Microsoft Teams: Deploy Teams at Scale for frontline with dynamic teams

Deploy teams at scale for your frontline workers using dynamic teams in the Teams Admin Center. Dynamic teams will automate member management to ensure your teams are always up to date.

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