New user analytics extended to Microsoft Outlook, Teams, and Office in the Search

We are excited to announce that Microsoft Search Analytics reports in the Search & Intelligence Admin Center have been updated with improved user analytics! We have expanded coverage to almost all search applications, including Outlook, Teams, and Windows Search! Other improvements provide deeper insights and filtering capabilities for search adoption across search applications and user segments like geography, department, and occupation. The goal is to give you a good insight into adoption of search and to identify adoption gaps for specific search applications, geographies, or departments.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 177894.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Nov 10, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Microsoft Teams: New settings available for your frontline manager in Shifts app

We are thrilled to announce exciting product enhancements on our Shifts settings page design to empower your organization through frontline managers to decide what capabilities their team can leverage from Shifts.  

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Originally posted by Microsoft Nov 10, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Microsoft Teams: Collaborative Notes in Channel Meetings

Collaborative Notes will replace Wiki-based Channel Meeting Notes. Collaborative Notes in channel meetings allow attendees to co-create and collaborate on their meeting agenda, notes, and action items.

Since Collaborative Notes are a Loop component, it is always in sync regardless of how many places they live in. Assigned Tasks in Collaborative Notes automatically sync with To Do and Planner.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Nov 9, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Microsoft Teams: Redirect incoming call directly to voicemail from incoming call notification

Allows users to easily redirect an incoming call to voicemail without having to accept or reject the call when receiving calls on a Teams certified phone device.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Nov 8, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Co-organizer experience updates in Teams Webinars and Townhalls

Scheduling, setting up, and managing an event is not a simple task. Which is why we allow co-organizer to be added to the event so they can work alongside or on behalf of the organizer. So far co-organizers were able to set up event theming, manage registration, meeting options, view reports and more but were not able to edit event details like title, date/time, description, event group; nor publish or cancel event. Now they can! Co-organizer can edit event details, publish, and cancel the event like the organizer can. So once the co-organizer is added they will have full parity of experience as organizer and control/manage/edit event. 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 168524

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Originally posted by Microsoft Nov 8, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Microsoft Teams: Improved View Switcher for Teams Rooms on Android

The latest version of Teams Rooms on Android Update 3 (2023) includes improved view switcher and front of room display controls.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 159128

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Originally posted by Microsoft Nov 7, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Microsoft Teams Who bot to be retired

The Who bot within Teams was designed to help you find information about anyone in your organization. As we are working to improve the functionality delivered in this feature and provide a better user experience the current version of the Who bot will be retired. This functionality will transition to Microsoft Copilot in the future.

When this will happen:

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Originally posted by Microsoft Nov 7, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Microsoft Teams Shared Device License on Mobile App for Android

We wanted to share an update on the previous Message center post (MC662254) we sent around support for Teams Shared Device License on Android Mobile. We are glad to announce that support for Teams Shared Device License on Android Mobile is generally available now on Teams mobile version >= 2023143401. Only Calling and Walkie Talkie apps are supported when the Android mobile application is signed into an account with Teams Shared Device license. To access other apps on Teams Android mobile including chats and channels, please assign eligible licenses to the account and remove the Teams Shared Device License. 

For more information, please visit Set up an Android mobile phone as a common area phone.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Nov 7, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Custom Backgrounds for Announcement Posts in Channels

Microsoft Teams users will soon be able to create custom backgrounds for their Announcement posts with the generative AI power of Microsoft Designer. For organizations with Teams Premium, users will have access to DALL-E, a text to image generator, which they can use for their backgrounds. This release of Custom Backgrounds for Announcement Posts will be rolling out across Microsoft Teams Desktop and Web for Channels 2.0 in English – US markets only. In line with current announcement behavior, Mobile will only support the consumption of custom backgrounds. Feature is disabled for EDU tenants while the team implements a policy setting. 

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 183785

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Originally posted by Microsoft Nov 7, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Microsoft Teams: Files App Updating to OneDrive App Experience in Teams

The Files app accessed from the left side of the Teams desktop client will be updated with the new OneDrive app experience, bringing performance improvements, more views, and the latest features of OneDrive to both classic and new Teams. All existing features of the Files app will also be available via this new OneDrive app experience. For more details, please visit the blog page.

As part of this change, Files app on left side of the new Teams desktop client will also become OneDrive app. There is no change in the name of Files app in either classic Teams desktop client or Teams mobile client.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Nov 6, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments