Microsoft Teams: Follow Office preview policy on Mac

Public Preview has provided IT admins with the ability to allow their users to receive preview features before they are released to the public.  The existing follow Office preview policy allows users to automatically be in the Public Preview Channel of Teams if they are in the Office Current Channel (Preview) on Windows. We are now expanding the “follow Office preview” policy to Mac users who are in the Office Current Channel (Preview).

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Microsoft Teams now follow Microsoft Office 365 preview users (Mac)

As previously messaged (MC264092), we rolled out a new Teams policy that allows users to automatically be in the Public Preview channel of Teams if they are in Current Channel (Preview) for the Office 365 Client on Windows. We are now expanding the policy roll out to Mac users who are also in Office Current Channel (Preview).

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

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Teams user/device usage report and Graph API data source change

We are making an improvement to the underlying data source that powers the Teams User usage report and Teams Device usage report in the Microsoft 365 Admin Center. We are also synchronizing this data source change to the similar reports that show up in Teams Admin Center.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 85542 and 83967.

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Music on Hold for 1:1 VoIP calls

Music on Hold for 1:1 VoIP calls will play music to callers while on hold, ensuring that the caller knows that the call is still active.

 Feature will apply to 1:1 call hold and consult then transfer hold for VOIP calls

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Search in Teams Admin Center (Preview)

Teams admin center is rolling out a new preview search experience that enables the administrators to find entities, settings and workflows from a search bar placed at the header of the teams admin center. Administrators will now be able to search for entities like Users, Teams and quickly find them. In addition to this, administrators can search for Settings, Pages and Teams Apps. 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 83671.

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Microsoft Teams: Text Predictions for Teams Mobile (Android)

Text predictions is coming to Teams for Android.

When you compose or reply to a message in Teams, Editor Text Predictions anticipates your writing and suggests a suitable word or phrase inline. This saves time and helps to reduce typos.

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Microsoft Teams: Casting from Teams desktop client to Microsoft Teams Rooms

For quick ad-hoc sessions that don’t require setting up a formal meeting, people can use Teams casting to wirelessly connect to a Teams Room and display content from the Teams desktop client (Windows and Mac). Users can share their screen and cast content stored locally on their computer or accessible via Office 365.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 88027.

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Microsoft Teams: Upload files to your approval request via Power Automate portal

Files that are uploaded within the Power Automate portal will now show within the view details window of an Approval request within Teams.

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Microsoft Teams: Live Captions for Anonymous (Guest) Users

Anonymous (Guest) Users are now able to view Live Captions in Teams Meetings on desktop.

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Microsoft Teams: Roaming bandwidth control

Roaming bandwidth control is a new capability that allows admins to set dynamic bandwidth policies which are based upon the geographic location of users’ Teams clients. This allows admins to set more limited bandwidth controls for when users travel to remote or bandwidth constrained locations, and then relax limitations when they travel to a location with higher bandwidth capacity.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 81350

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