Microsoft Teams: Simplified team creation

Today, users go through multiple steps, selecting between options while creating teams. However, most users are inclined towards setting up their team from scratch and as private. Hence, we defaulted to a simpler experience, yet giving users the rich options of creating a team from a template or group and selecting privacy/sensitivity of the team. It is a simple by default, power on demand experience.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Dec 12, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Affected Teams behavior in Chrome due to privacy sandboxing

Starting in January, Chrome will begin gradually rolling out privacy sandboxing in the web to 1% of their users, with general rollout happening in late 2024. This will impact some Teams experiences in Chrome. The recommendation is to use the Teams desktop client if you are part of the rollout cohort.

When this will happen:

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Microsoft Teams: Discover feed for channels

Users can access a personalized feed based on important updates in the channels they are a part of.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Dec 11, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Microsoft Teams: Live meeting status

Teams calendar on mobile devices displays the live status of a meeting with avatars of the
participants who are in the call, whether the meeting is being recorded and the duration of the meeting.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Dec 11, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Microsoft Teams: Archive channels

For a paused or completed project where owners want to preserve channel content, but no longer want to keep the channel active, they can archive channels now!

Archiving channels will be available for Teams users. You, as a channel owner or administrator can archive a channel you own. By archiving the channel, it will not be available in your and channel members teams and channels list anymore and no more actions will be allowed on the channel like messaging, reacting, commenting, editing etc. In case, you want, you can unarchive the channel as well, by going to manage teams > channels. Team members can hoist the channel in their left rail even after archival.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Dec 8, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Microsoft Teams: New Admin policy for enabling/disabling tenant users to join externally hosted meetings

As an admin, you can control which meetings your org users can attend – only internally hosted meetings or externally hosted meetings as well. This can help your org to meet compliance needs and strengthen controls around Teams meetings.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Dec 7, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Microsoft Teams: Simplified channel creation

We added the option to create a channel directly from the + button in the Teams app, making it easier for the user to create a channel.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Dec 7, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Microsoft Teams: Support PowerPoint Live and Whiteboard for Watermark meeting (Premium)

Watermark enabled Microsoft Teams meetings will now support PowerPoint Live and Whiteboard to also be watermarked.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Dec 7, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Intelligent Meeting Recap for scheduled channel meetings (Premium)

Intelligent Meeting Recap is now available for scheduled channel meetings, and channel meeting users can now browse the recording by speakers and topics, as well as access AI-generated meeting notes, action Items, and @mentions for scheduled meetings.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Dec 7, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 in Teams Chat list

The Copilot for Microsoft 365 app is available in the Teams Apps Store for Copilot licensed users. This update will make the Copilot app visible in the Teams Chat list for easy access.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Dec 6, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments