Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) – Copilot in Microsoft Teams chat and channels to summarize content over a specified period of time

You can now ask Copilot in chat and channels to respond to questions regarding a conversation in a specific time period, for example: last month.

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Microsoft Teams: The “Notify when available” feature is now live in the new Teams app

The “Notify when available” feature in Microsoft Teams notifies users when a colleague is available. It can be activated via the chat list or the “People” section in settings. Rollout begins mid-May 2024 for Targeted Release and late May 2024 for General Availability, with no admin action required. Users can manage or unsubscribe from notifications in settings.

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Microsoft Teams: Enhanced sound notification controls

You can change the sound of your notifications to help you stay focused, prioritize quickly and avoid distractions. You can as well make urgent notifications and priority contact notifications more prominent. You can also mute notification sounds when you are busy or in a meeting.

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Microsoft Teams: Channel cards

Channel cards will provide you quick overview of key information about what is happening within the channel, including who is in the channel and the purpose of the channel.

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Microsoft Teams: Custom emojis and reactions

Microsoft Teams will introduce custom emojis and reactions, allowing users to upload images or GIFs. Each tenant can add up to 5,000 custom emojis. The feature will be available by default, with rollout starting late June 2024. Admins can manage this feature through the Teams Admin Center.

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Microsoft Teams: Closed captions in the Walkie Talkie app

Microsoft Teams is introducing live closed captions for the Walkie Talkie app, aiding frontline workers in noisy environments. This feature will be available in June 2024, with real-time voice-to-text captions in selected languages, displayed on the Walkie Talkie app’s home screen. Admins cannot disable this feature. Users should be informed to prepare for this update.

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Microsoft Teams: Speaker recognition and attribution for all Teams Rooms

Microsoft Teams is enhancing hybrid meetings with speaker recognition technology for all Teams Rooms, using voiceprints to identify participants. This feature will roll out worldwide by late June 2024, and organizations can prepare by setting up voice profiles and enabling the feature for supported hardware.

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Microsoft Teams admin center: App centric management for app installation and changes to app setup policies

The message details the upcoming rollout of app centric management for Microsoft Teams, which will allow admins to control app installations for users, groups, or the entire organization. It will replace ‘Installed apps’ in the Teams admin center and will be implemented in four phases starting mid-July 2024. The message also includes a link to the Microsoft 365 Roadmap and instructions for preparation.

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Microsoft Teams: Town halls in Government Community Cloud (GCC)

Set up and host large scale events across a GCC organization with the familiar Teams app you use for webinars and meetings using Town hall. Town hall capabilities include a new meeting template, capacity for up to 10k attendees, third-party eCDN support, green room, manage what attendees see, moderated Q&A, RTMP-in, live translated captions and more.

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Microsoft Teams: Town halls in Government Community Cloud (GCC) (Premium)

Set up and host large scale events across a GCC organization with the familiar Teams app you use for webinars and meetings using Town hall. Town hall capabilities include a new meeting template, capacity for up to 20k attendees, third-party eCDN support, green room, manage what attendees see, moderated Q&A, RTMP-in, live translated captions and more.

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