The message details an update to Microsoft Teams, respecting Cloud Policy settings for the ‘Auto-create Loop workspaces for Teams meetings’ feature, now allowing control through Microsoft 365 Cloud Policy. It is available now, and organizations are advised to review their configurations.
The Teams admin center will soon include a ‘Best Practice Configurations’ dashboard to help monitor and align tenant settings with Microsoft’s recommended best practices for optimal collaboration in Teams. This feature will roll out from early December 2024 to mid-January 2025. Admins will be notified of non-conformance in key areas. No preparation is needed from administrators.
New check-in options for Microsoft Teams and Places will be available mid-November 2024, allowing users to check in via Teams Chat and email. Existing check-in methods will continue, and the features will be on by default. No admin action is required before the rollout.
Microsoft Teams will soon allow users to create hyperlinks in chats by pasting a URL over selected text, similar to Outlook and Loop. This feature will be available on Teams for Windows and Mac, with rollouts beginning in early December 2024 for Targeted Release and mid-December 2024 for General Availability. No admin action is needed.
For Microsoft 365 E5 and Teams Premium customers, we are making it easier to leverage sensitivity labels from Microsoft Purview Information Protection to help set the right protection settings to meetings. Admins can now set a label inheritance policy for meeting, so that when an attendee shares a file that has a higher sensitivity than the meeting itself in meeting chat or via Live share, the meeting’s sensitivity can be updated either automatically or via a recommendation to the organizer, to match with the sensitivity of the shared file.
Now users can discover and add Copilot agents to group chats in Teams to extend Microsoft Copilot to their flow of work.
Now users can discover and add Copilot agents to group chats in Teams to extend Microsoft Copilot to their flow of work.
This update now enables users to install and update the Network Device Interface (NDI) automatically in Microsoft Teams without any manual process. This allows organizations to broadcast audio and video streams from Teams instances to a user’s local network. It is currently only available on Windows devices.
Organizers of town hall instances can now reach wider audiences in a single event with an expansion to a maximum of 50,000 simultaneous attendees. This increase serves as a significant jump from the previous attendee cap of 20,000 for organizers with a Teams Premium license. The quality and stability of town halls up to this new limit will remain constant, providing high-quality and reliable content to participants. For events with more than 20,000 concurrent attendees, some interactivity features are disabled for all attendees. Organizations can get support for audiences up to 50,000 concurrent attendees by reaching out to the Microsoft 365 Live Event Assistance Program (LEAP) for assistance (Microsoft 365 Live Event Assistance Program – Microsoft Adoption). This feature is available for town hall organizers that have an active Teams Premium license.
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