Microsoft Teams: Meeting ID and passcode to join on Teams Rooms on Windows

IT Admins can configure and require a meeting ID and passcode to join a meeting on Teams Rooms on Windows to ensure higher levels of security and privacy. This feature is available for Teams Rooms Pro customers.

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Microsoft Teams: Animated Backgrounds in Teams Meetings

The dynamic background feature in Teams Meetings allows users to replace their existing background with a dynamic animation for a more immersive virtual environment. It offers various options to enhance meeting experience with creativity and personalization according to their preferences.

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Microsoft Teams: USB camera support for Teams Rooms on Android

Enables Android-based USB cameras to be used in Microsoft Teams Rooms as additional or primary cameras. IT admins can set the default primary camera using device settings and users can switch between multiple cameras in a meeting. This feature is available for all Teams Rooms
licenses.

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Microsoft Teams: Intelligent Meeting Recap (Premium)

As part of Teams Premium, Intelligent Meeting Recap is a comprehensive AI-powered meeting recap experience that helps users catch-up, recall, and follow-up on hour-long meetings in minutes by providing recording and transcription playback with AI assistance. This allows users to browse the recording by speakers and topics, as well as access AI-generated meeting notes,
action Items, and @mentions.

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Microsoft Teams: Custom wallpaper enhancements for Teams Rooms on Windows

Admins can upload up to 3 images specifying which goes to the left or right room display and console.  Higher resolution images (minimum of 1280×800 on console and 1920×1080 on displays) in PNG, JPG, JPEG, and BMP formats are supported.

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Profanity filtering on/off control for Live Captions in Teams meetings

With the newly introduced toggle for turn on/off profanity filtering in Live Captions, users will now be able to control whether they want to continue to leverage the profanity filtering capability provided out of the box, or if they want to see every word as-is.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 113412.

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Teams Rooms: Windows 11 support for Teams Rooms on Windows devices

Teams Rooms on Windows devices that are eligible for Windows 11 upgrade will receive the Windows 11 22H2 release in May 2023. This will be offered and installed on their devices with 4.16 dot release (a newer release than 4.16.40.0 currently available). Devices that are not eligible due to an incompatible processor will continue to use Windows 10 per Windows hardware support policy. These devices will be offered Windows 10 22H2 release.

Devices that cannot upgrade to Windows 11 will continue to be supported until the end of Windows 10 End of servicing for General Availability Channel or hardware support from OEM, whichever comes first. Windows 10 releases information at https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/release-health/release-information. Please note, not all Windows releases are supported for Teams Rooms, to find supported version, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/rooms/rooms-lifecycle-support#windows-10-release-support.

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Microsoft Teams: Default meeting layout controls for Microsoft Teams Rooms on Android

IT admins can choose the default meeting layout selecting Content only and Content+Gallery when content sharing begins.
Standard, Premium, and Pro customers can also choose Front Row as the default layout.

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Microsoft Teams: Smart camera controls in Teams Rooms Pro on Android

Smart camera controls allow in-room users to adjust framing of the room camera in a meeting, selecting between a view that automatically centers everyone in the frame or one that zooms in on each person in the room and combines everyone in a single frame. IT Admins can control the default behavior in the device settings. Available in Teams Rooms Pro only.

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Microsoft Teams: Mark all as read for activity feed

Users can triage their activity feed more efficiently using the new ‘mark all as read’ feature. With just one click, users can mark all unread activities as read.

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