Microsoft Teams: Additional Filters in Approvals

Microsoft Teams approval list within the personal app will include additional filters to filter your approval list such as key word search and other options such as Approved.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 92486

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Additional API Capabilities for Tasks in Teams and Planner

We’re introducing new application permissions capabilities for the Microsoft Planner APIs. This includes two sets of enhancements that will make it easier to work with tasks in your organization.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 101153

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Microsoft Teams: 2×2 video in Gallery view for web meetings in Firefox

Gallery view now can show up to 4 participant videos during a meeting in Firefox browser.

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Microsoft Teams: Start Whiteboard from Teams meeting from Teams Rooms on Windows

Teams Rooms users can now start a Microsoft Whiteboard in a Teams meetings using the in-meeting share content function.
With the new patterns of work, whiteboarding is a key feature to enable collaboration between in room and remote users. When Whiteboard is started from the room, it is attributed to the meeting organizer so that they can manage access to the artifact.

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New praise compose experience in Teams and praise trends in Viva Insights

Praise in Microsoft Teams is designed to appreciate the effort that goes into the wide-ranging, collaborative work that Teams users do. Users can send praise to their colleagues through the messaging extension pinned to the Teams messaging bar or through the Microsoft Viva Insights app in Teams. For both, admins can use the Microsoft Teams admin center to enable/disable Praise.

The praise composer and praise card design will be updated for all Teams users. The praise composer – accessible through the messaging extension pinned to the Teams messaging bar or through the Viva Insights app in Teams – is being refreshed to replace praise badges with emojis, introduce the ability to select gradient backgrounds. Additionally, in the Viva Insights app in Teams, praise trends are being introduced, privately surfacing analytics such as counts of praise sent and received, your top fans and top praises received.

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Microsoft Teams: Sign Language View and always-on captions in meetings

Prioritize up to two other participants’ videos for sign language in meetings so they stay visible even while content is shared and set captions to stay on across all meetings.

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Reminder: Announcement of automatic deletion of inactive Microsoft Dataverse for Teams environments

As previously announced in MC415083 (August ’22), the Microsoft Power Platform is introducing a cleanup mechanism that will automatically remove inactive Dataverse for Teams environments from your tenant. Dataverse for Teams environments will be first disabled after being inactive for 90 days, the environment will then be deleted after 30 days of being disabled if no action is taken by the administrators. A disabled or deleted Dataverse for Teams environment will not affect any other Microsoft Teams assets (teams, channels, SharePoint sites, Teams-connected sites…etc.) and applies only to Dataverse integrations.

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Microsoft Teams: Support PSTN dial-in, dial-out, and call-me attendees in meetings to join Breakout Rooms

Enabling dial-in, dial-out and call-me PSTN participants to join breakout rooms and come back to the main room when breakout rooms end.

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New Teams Powered Encoder events

Create highly-polished events, featuring live streams, screen overlays, and more. The new RTMP-In encoder for Teams Live Events will also allow your Teams Live Events to have all the features and external encoder support that Microsoft Stream offered for Teams Live Events. In addition, we will support public events, in addition to organization-wide events 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 84960

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Microsoft Teams zero-install link unfurling

With zero-install link unfurling, any time an app link is shared in Teams, it can be anonymously unfurled to showcase its value and skills right in the flow of conversation to show upfront user value. Your users can use this information and choose to install and use the app right in the flow of conversation.

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