Microsoft Teams: Latest meeting experiences with performance improvements on web for Safari and Firefox (for guests)

The latest Teams meeting experiences will be available for Teams on the web in Safari and Firefox browsers – including performance improvements, refreshed pre-join, updated meeting stage, and the updated meeting toolbar. (for anonymous join only) 

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Microsoft Teams: External call routing settings

End users will now be able to change their external call routing settings directly from the Teams app, allowing them to decide how incoming PSTN calls are routed. Calls can be redirected based on existing unanswered call settings or sent to voicemail. This new capability provides more flexibility for handling customer communications.

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Join meetings and make calls via Teams Mobile on Android Auto

Users can now join meetings via the calendar view, easily call speed dial contacts, and get back to recent calls on Teams on Android Auto with Android phones.

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Deploy your Frontline Operational hierarchy in the Teams Admin Center

Operational hierarchy will enable admins to map their organization’s structure of frontline teams/locations to a hierarchy in the Teams Admin Center. Admins can define metadata that ranges from department information to brand information metadata for each team/location. The operational hierarchy coupled with this metadata will enable numerous frontline apps and experiences in the future like task publishing and others that are forthcoming.

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Deploy Shifts to your Frontline teams at scale

Admins will be empowered to deploy Shifts across their frontline dynamic teams through the Teams Admin Center. They will have the ability to uniformly configure the Shifts app settings, identify schedule owners, and create schedule groups for the Microsoft Teams Shifts app on their frontline teams. This will enable frontline managers to start managing their frontline teams through Shifts with minimal friction.

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Microsoft Teams: Meeting Recording

Now, the “Recap” tab for scheduled meetings will include access to the recording and transcript. For meetings that have a “Recap” tab, the previous “Recording & Transcription” tab will be removed since the “Recap” tab will replace it. For meetings that don’t have a “Recap” tab, users can continue to access the recording and transcript from the “Recording & Transcription” tab.

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Now get Real Time Calendar Notifications in Teams

You can now get the Calendar Notifications in Teams from the Activity Feed.

  • You will get calendar notifications in the Activity Feed for the below scenarios: 
  • Meeting invite (including channel meetings you are explicitly invited to)
  • Meeting updates
  • Meeting cancellations
  • Meeting forwards (as an organizer)
  • When you get a calendar notification, you will see an unread notification in the Activity Feed pane or at the bell icon.
  • When you click on a notification, you will see the details of the meeting/event in the right pane.
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    Microsoft Teams Connect chat – Extended Directory

    Microsoft Teams is now introducing enhancements on top of Teams Connect for chats. With the Teams Connect chat extended directory, IT admins can create an external directory of known external collaborators using their phone numbers. Once created, it will be easier for users in the tenant to:

    • Search external users by name and establish 1:1 or group chats with them.
    • View a company curated profile that includes information like a user’s location, job role, or business unit and even assign an organization manager for these external partners.

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    Microsoft Teams: Walkie Talkie Support for Multiple Channels

    Walkie Talkie, a push-to-talk experience that enables clear and secure voice communication over the cloud, enables teams to communicate instantly on a channel. Through this new functionality, users can now join up to 5 channels in multi-channel mode, easily switch between these preselected channels to listen to incoming transmission or initiate PTT transmissions.

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    Microsoft Teams: Ability to duplicate an existing town hall for simplified event creation

    Organizers can schedule a new webinar by duplicating information from an existing scheduled one. This includes duplicating information such as details, presenters, theming, and more. The organizer can also edit and update the information as needed for the new event.

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