Microsoft Teams: Compact chat list

A new chat density setting will enable users to condense their chat list and have more chats visible on the screen. This setting does so by hiding message previews.

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Microsoft Teams: New ‘Sync device buttons’ setting

The new Sync device buttons toggle available under your Teams Desktop client Settings (Devices tab) allows users to disable the syncing between their device controls and with Teams. The purpose of this feature is to offer an option for end users to disable the syncing of their connected Peripherals with the Teams Desktop client to allow for co-existence scenarios with other HID-enabled or speech-recognition apps.

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Creation of Default Notes tab in new standard channels in Teams

As communicated in MC496248 (January ’23) Microsoft Teams users will soon get a “Notes” tab, powered by OneNote, added by default on the tabs bar across the top on creation of new standard channels for note-taking capabilities. Earlier this capability was powered by Wiki, which is set to retire from Teams based on the announcement published in Feb.

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Microsoft Teams: Together Mode Usability Improvements in Teams Meetings

We are bringing new usability improvements to Together Mode in Microsoft Teams. Participants in Together Mode will have name labels attached to their videos. Name labels will also support status icons that indicate microphone, active speaker, spotlight or pin within the meeting. Additionally, your own video in the gallery will now be removed while Together Mode is active to avoid duplication of the self-preview. Lastly, Together Mode will display raised hands and reactions within the view.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 122127

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New Lobby Policy for Microsoft Teams Webinar

Currently in Public webinars, you are unable to distinguish registered users in the lobby. This means that you cannot allow registered users to directly bypass your lobby and enter your webinar. With this new change, we will be offering two new lobby options that will allow you to better control security in your webinar. These new lobby options are:

  • A new ‘Allow registered users to bypass’ lobby policy that allows registered users to bypass the lobby in your webinar.
  • A new ‘Reject users who cannot bypass the lobby’ that rejects users who cannot bypass the lobby.

Currently in Public webinars, you are unable to distinguish registered users in the lobby. This means that you cannot allow registered users to directly bypass your lobby and enter your webinar. With this new change, we will be offering two new lobby options that will allow you to better control security in your webinar. These new lobby options are:

  • A new ‘Allow registered users to bypass’ lobby policy that allows registered users to bypass the lobby in your webinar.
  • A new ‘Reject users who cannot bypass the lobby’ that rejects users who cannot bypass the lobby.

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GradeSync for Teams Assignments retirement

Effective May 31, 2023, Grade Sync feature of Microsoft Teams Assignments will no longer be available to new customers. Existing customers may continue to use it until June 30, 2023. 

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Signaling Epic when guest drops out from initial lobby

With this update Microsoft EHR connector will be able to track each individual disconnect when a guest leaves the initial lobby after joining a Microsoft Teams EHR Connector virtual visit via Teams. Until now the disconnect signal was not being sent to Epic to show a guest has left the meeting from initial Lobby. This was only happening in v1.1 or v1.2 of the Microsoft Teams EHR Connector.

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Change to the Teams Live Event Attendee experience for users with guest access

We have recently pushed new updates to the Teams Live Event Attendee experience to support the new RTMP-In scenario for Teams. We have identified an issue that will cause us to change how we currently support Teams Live Event Attendees that join using guest access via the Web. Starting in May, we will no longer support guest users joining on the Web as a Teams Live Event Attendee.

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Microsoft Teams: New Channels Experience

A new channels experience in Microsoft Teams has been built with an intuitive design that allows teams to focus and stay on tasks, bring everyone up to speed, and actively engage in real-time. The following features will be rolling out:

  • The compose box and recent posts will appear at the top of the page. It’ll now be much easier to start a new post, keep up with the latest conversations and participate – giving users the confidence that they’ve not missed anything.  
  • Every post is now a true conversation that users can focus on. Users can navigate to a conversation view that makes the discussion more engaging and synchronous, just like a chat. Users can also pop out the post, keep an eye on the discussion, while continuing to work on other topics. 
  • A streamlined information pane will include all the important contextual information like channel’s members and pinned posts so new team members can quickly on-board and for all members to find the information they need, right in the channel.
  • Pin posts to make it easy for everyone to know what’s important in the channel and quickly reference it. 
  • Simplified badging is making it easier for users to understand when there are new unread activities in teams. In addition, the simplified design helps users focus on the specific channels which requires the most attention, like channels in which the user was @mentioned. 

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Microsoft Teams: Reporting access and updated policy settings for Webinars in the Teams Admin Center

IT admins can access reports for webinars getting created within their tenant through the Teams Admin Center. There is a new policy setting to control the type of questions organizers can use in a registration form and an updated UX within the Teams Admin Center to configure event policy settings without Powershell.

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