Microsoft Teams: Choose preferred download location for files

Teams will now enable users to select the default download location where they would like to have their files downloaded. This is applicable only on the desktop client. Teams on the web will continue to honor the setting in the browser.

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Collaborative Annotations on Presenter Shared Screen

Collaborative Annotation helps you collaborate with others while screen sharing in Teams meetings. For example, if you want to ask for feedback on a design or if you’re working with a group on a project, Collaborative Annotation helps you get work done faster and with more voices included. 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 86732

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Microsoft Teams: Expanding up to 10,000 users in Distribution Lists for lobby policy in Teams meeting

Currently, if you change your lobby policy in a Teams Meeting to “Invited Users Only” and invite a Distribution List (DL), only the first 1,000 users of that DL will be recognized and let through the lobby. All other users a part of the DL will not be recognized and will be placed in the lobby. With this update, up to 10,000 users of that given DL will be recognized and let through the lobby if the lobby policy is set to “Invited Users Only.”

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Microsoft Teams: Bots in GCC-High

GCC-High customers will be able to build and deploy bots in their Microsoft Teams environment. This release supports custom, line-of-business bots.

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Microsoft Teams: Collaborative Annotation on presenter shared screen

Presenters are able to start collaborative annotation for all participants or just the presenter to annotate on shared screen content.

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Microsoft Teams: Channel owner/s can delete meeting chat messages within channel meetings for government clouds

An IT admin can turn on “owners can delete sent messages” and assign this messaging policy to a user or group of users. This policy must be applied before channel owner/s can see “owners can delete sent messages” option on Member Permissions through Manage Team – Settings. If this option is enabled, channel owner/s who were assigned the policy will be permitted to delete chat messages in the main window and meeting window.

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Microsoft Teams: Attendee restriction to remove another attendee from chat for government clouds

Attendee removal from chat is now restricted to organizers.

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Automatic groupings available in Teams for channel posts

A new Automatic Grouping will be available in Teams as a suggestion to use in channel posts. Users will be able to use “@Team Owners” in a channel posting and all Team Owners will be notified. This functionality will be available in both Web and Mobile. 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID: 94118

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Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Teams chat embedded within Dynamics 365

Microsoft Teams chat can be accessed directly from Dynamics 365 allowing users to continue existing chats or create new individual or group chats.

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Microsoft Teams: Improved login & logout experience for e-signature approvals

Users will only have to sign into their e-sign provider account once every 30 days.  They will also be able to logout of a particular e-sign provider account.

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