Today, users can see Outlook contacts created with their Entra ID (AAD) account in Teams, but contacts created in Teams are not available in Outlook. To provide a consistent experience we are making changes to allow Teams contacts, created with a user’s Entra ID (AAD) account, to be visible in Outlook as well.
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This feature enables Microsoft Teams (free) users, those using a personal Microsoft Account, to directly join Teams for work meetings from within the client and stay connected even after the meeting has ended. This feature similarly also enables Microsoft Teams (work or school) users to join the Microsoft Teams (free) meetings directly from within the client. These users are no longer prompted to join via a browser and treated as meeting guests (anonymous).
We are introducing grouping within Meeting Options to improve organizers’ and co-organizers’ ease of understanding selections.
Admins will gain the ability to standardize Shifts settings (open shifts, swap shifts requests, offer shifts requests, time off requests and time clock), identify schedule owners, and create scheduling groups uniformly for all frontline teams at the tenant level.
Admins will be able to set up their frontline operational hierarchy to map their organization’s structure of frontline teams/locations to a hierarchy in the Teams Admin Center. Admins can also define attributes for their teams that range from department information to brand information. The operational hierarchy coupled with this added metadata will enable numerous frontline apps
and experiences in the future like task publishing and additional frontline capabilities that are coming soon.
Intelligent recap will support meetings with only transcript enabled, and without recording enabled. In the case when only transcript is enabled for a meeting, the features from intelligent recap that users can access are AI-generated meeting notes, AI-generated tasks, and name
mentions.
The Audio and Video Flyout is designed to make it easier and more efficient for users to manage their audio and video settings during Teams meetings. Users can easily toggle features on and off with visual indicators for both audio and video settings, eliminating the need to navigate deep into the settings menu to make adjustments.
This feature, available in the new Teams experience on Windows, enables you to mute and unmute your audio by clicking the mic icon in Windows taskbar. To control your mic during the meeting from the taskbar, do the following: select the mic icon on your taskbar or press Windows logo key + Alt + K to mute or unmute.
We are introducing guest setting option in Tag management settings.
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Microsoft graph API for SMS notifications in Virtual Appointments allows developers to programmatically send confirmation, update, reminder and cancellation SMS notifications to customers. The API support for SMS notifications is currently available in the United States and notifications can be sent to US phone numbers.
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