Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows store application 4.14 update

Updated September 2, 2022: We have updated the content below with additional details. Thank you for your patience.

Teams Rooms on Windows application version 4.14 includes key new features and improvements to existing functionality as follows:

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Microsoft Teams: Activate team from inside the Microsoft Teams Classes LTI app within your Learning Management System (LMS)

Now educators can activate a class from the Microsoft Teams Classes LTI app within a LMS and no longer need to leave the LMS to activate a class. The new activation option is intuitive and easy
to discover, with a notification banner for classes that need to be activated.

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Microsoft Teams: Activate team from inside the LTI app within LMS itself

Now teachers will be able to activate a class from the Class LTI app within LMS itself. They need not go outside LMS anymore to activate a class. The new activation option is quite intuitive and easy to discover. A notification banner is shown for all the classes that need to be activated.

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Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Teams: Updated companion mode for Android users

For a better hybrid meeting experience, Teams users on their Android phone can use a single tap to join a meeting on both their device and Microsoft Teams Room. Audio on their device will be automatically turned off to ensure echo doesn’t happen. Furthermore, the landing experience on Android will be optimized for engagement activities to make it easier to raise hand or react, chat, see all participants, and more.

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Microsoft Teams: Teams Platform Apps in Instant Meetings

All the familiar functionalities of meeting apps – tabs, bots, in-meeting dialogue, and meeting stage – will be supported in Teams Instant Meetings that are started from the Calendar. Users of your apps will enjoy the same familiar app experience as seen in Teams Meetings, in their instant meetings.

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Microsoft Teams: Background Blur and Effects for VMware

Microsoft Teams users on virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) for VMware will be able to blur their background in a video meeting or call, or replace it entirely with the images provided.

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Microsoft Teams: Viewing the Full Chat conversation thread after clicking on search message results

When users search for a chat message in Teams and click on a message result, they are taken to a view that contains only the selected message, rather than the entire chat thread. This fix will now land the users on the full chat thread once the message search result is clicked, thereby providing full context of the conversation around the message result.

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Microsoft Teams: Background Blur and Effects for Citrix

Microsoft Teams users on virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) for Citrix will be able to blur their background in a video meeting or call, or replace it entirely with the images provided.

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Microsoft Teams: HID Support for VMware

This feature supports the use of Human Interface Devices (HID) in Microsoft Teams on virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) for VMware.

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Microsoft Teams: RTMP-In for Teams Live Events

Produce your Teams Live Events using an external encoder and leverage RTMP-in (Real Time Messaging Protocol-In) to broadcast to your Teams Live Event Attendees.

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