Microsoft Teams will introduce a feature to disable social sharing for public webinar attendees. Organizers can turn off the option in Event Access settings. The rollout begins in June 2024 and completes in July 2024, with no admin action required. Roadmap ID: 393225.
Microsoft Teams’ Walkie Talkie feature on iOS will integrate with Apple’s Push-to-Talk, enabling audio transmission from the lock screen and optimizing performance. Rollout begins late April 2024, requiring iOS 16 or later, with no action needed from admins or users.
Starting in May 2024, the Microsoft Teams application for Windows will be renamed to “Microsoft Teams,” and the personal version on Windows 11 will be called “Microsoft Teams – personal.” This is in anticipation of an update allowing access to work, school, or personal accounts from a single app. Rollouts will begin in early May and finish by early June 2024. Tenant admins should inform their users and update documentation accordingly.
Outlook and Teams are introducing a new meeting response called ‘Follow’ for attendees who can’t attend but want to stay informed. It’s rolling out from late April 2024 to early July 2024, initially in the new Outlook for Windows and the web, not on Mac or mobile. Organizers will be notified of ‘Follow’ responses, and users will be marked as free but kept in the loop.
App centric management for app deployment will introduce a new admin setting to control who in the tenant has specific Teams apps preinstalled. Similar to app assignments, admins will be able to select from three options: ‘Deployed to all users’, ‘Deployed to specific users and groups’, or ‘Deployed to no users’. This feature replaces the existing Installed apps section of app setup policies and provides admins with the ability to manage app deployment individually. The Installed apps section of app setup policies for existing customers will be migrated to maintain existing admin settings in the tenant.
Auto Attendant will be integrated with the main Address Book search in Microsoft products, aligning search results and being affected by tenant Address Book settings in Exchange. Rollout begins late May 2024, completing by late June 2024, with no admin action required before the rollout.
Microsoft Teams is introducing new slash commands for composing messages and navigating Teams, with a rollout starting mid-May 2024 for Targeted Release and mid-June 2024 for General Availability. No admin action is required, but informing users is recommended.
We are updating the Settings menu for “Help & Feedback” and the in-app “Give Feedback/Suggest a Feature” experience for Teams Desktop & Web clients. Teams Desktop and Web clients will no longer use Microsoft Teams feedback policies for the in-app “Give Feedback/Suggest a Feature” experience, and instead use the Cloud Policy service for Microsoft 365.
We’re introducing a setting that allows Teams Phone Mobile users to opt-out of your presence automatically transitioning to Do Not Disturb when presenting or screen sharing. When this setting is enabled, users will be able to continue to receive call notifications when presenting, without having to manually adjust their presence status.
Introducing the ability for presenters to freely drag Presenter Toolbar appearing on top of screen while screensharing.
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