Meeting Join Custom Branding

This new release of meeting Join Custom Branding will allow tenant admins to upload their company logo to the Teams admin portal so it appears on the meeting pre-join and lobby screens for meetings organized by members of their tenant.

The logo will be seen by users joining on desktop, web, and mobile.

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New Microsoft Teams recommendations in Microsoft Secure Score

We are adding five new security recommendations for Microsoft Teams.

When this will happen

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Teams Call Quality Dashboard – Dimension Name Change

We’re making a change to Microsoft Teams Call Quality Dashboard (CQD).

On August 9, 2021, we’re renaming the Meeting Scenario dimension to Scheduling Source App. This is to better improve the user experience when creating custom queries by ensuring dimension names are easier to understand and will accommodate third-party applications in Microsoft Teams.

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Support for PSTN users to raise hand in meetings and for meeting organizers to manage PSTN audio capabilities.

Presenters and Organizers can now prevent public switched telephone network (PSTN) participants from unmuting. This change also allows PSTN participants to request to speak by raising their hand in a meeting via dial-pad command (press *5). This is rolling out on desktop, web and mobile.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 80262.

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Music Mode for Teams

This new feature release can be used to transmit high fidelity music. Users will be able to conduct online music lessons, transmit music performances, or other non-speech content.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 83520

When this will happen:

Standard: We will begin rolling this out in late July and expect to complete rollout late September.

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Microsoft Teams: Require app protection policy conditional access grant

This release of app protection policy based Conditional Access in Microsoft Teams will help protect your organizational data on devices your employees use by ensuring that only users with Intune app protection policy can access Microsoft 365 services from Teams.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 87773

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Dual-tone multi-frequency (DTMF) for Teams on VDI – Citrix Users

Dual-tone multi-frequency (DTMF) for Teams will soon be available for users on Citrix VDI.

Note: If your organization is not using Citrix VDI you can disregard this message.

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Speed Dial on Mobile devices

Speed Dial is coming to iOS and Android and users can now get into a call with their preferred contacts with greater efficiency than before.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 82960.

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Real-time Telemetry for End User

Call Health Panel now provides Teams end-users functionality that helps identify issues during a Teams meeting or a VOIP call. This empowers end-user with the diagnostics to investigate audio, video, content sharing or network related issues.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 70777

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Teams Follows Office Preview

We are rolling out a new Teams policy that will allow users to automatically be in the Public Preview channel of Teams if they are in Current Channel Preview for the Office 365 Client.

IT admins can modify this policy for end users such that if Office is getting updates from Current Channel (Preview), Teams will receive updates via Public Preview.

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