Microsoft Teams: Third-party chat and meeting keyboard shortcut support

Users familiar with keyboard shortcuts from third-party chat and meeting applications can use those same shortcuts in Microsoft Teams. To enable this, go to the Settings and more button in the upper right, access the keyboard shortcuts dialog, and select a communication or meeting layout. This allows users to apply the shortcuts they are used to from other applications.

This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 472913.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Jan 30, 2025 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Microsoft Teams: Facilitator agent real-time notes in meetings

The Facilitator agent in Microsoft 365 takes real-time notes during your meetings, allowing everyone to co-author and collaborate seamlessly. This frees everyone up to focus and engage deeply in meetings. To enable real-time notes in meetings, users can toggle the ‘AI-generated notes’ setting on when scheduling the meeting in the Teams calendar or toggle it on during the meeting through the Notes button in the toolbar. To access the real-time notes, select Notes in the toolbar to open the notes pane where everyone can see live notes being generated every few minutes as the conversation happens. The notes are organized by topics and follow-up tasks.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Jan 30, 2025 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Microsoft Teams: Monitor Teams client updates in Teams Admin center

IT Administrators can now monitor Teams client version update adoption and access detailed adoption information. This feature enables administrators to proactively understand version adoption, assess version health, and access granular details about devices and users who are on the latest client versions. Additionally, it provides visibility on recency of client versions. Administrators can now proactively view insights and address issues preventing users from automatically updating to the latest and most secure version of the Teams client.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Jan 29, 2025 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Microsoft Teams: New microphone volume indicator for users

Coming soon for Microsoft Teams: A new Mic volume indicator on the user bar in Teams meetings. This feature will provide users with real-time visual feedback on their audio levels in the meeting, eliminating the need to ask, “Can you hear me?” This feature is designed to minimize interruptions as well as enhance user confidence and meeting effectiveness.

This feature applies to Teams on Windows desktop and Mac desktop.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Jan 28, 2025 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Microsoft Teams: Ad-hoc individual desk booking in Teams

Before this rollout, the Microsoft Teams bookable desk capabilities supported booking at a desk pool level (also known as workspaces in Microsoft Exchange). After this rollout, users can book individual desks when they plug in to a shared desk peripheral. This rollout will also support other scenarios for individual desks, such as confirming a reservation if a user has booked in advance and notifying a user that a space is reserved for someone else.

This feature is available for Teams desktop on Windows and Mac and requires a Teams Premium license. 

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Originally posted by Microsoft Jan 28, 2025 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Microsoft Teams: Policy to disable in-product messages relating to periodic What’s New and Conferences updates

Some in-product messages in Microsoft Teams can now be controlled with the New-CsTeamsUpdateManagementPolicy command. Using this control, tenant admins can limit in-product messages relating to periodic What’s New and Conferences updates.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Jan 28, 2025 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Microsoft Teams: Teams client health dashboards in Teams Admin Center

IT Administrators can view and monitor the health of Teams desktop clients on both Windows and Mac platforms. This feature offers comprehensive admin actionable insights into client health metrics, including client crashes and launch failures. Administrators are equipped with detailed information on issues, insights, and mitigation tools to promptly and effectively address any potential client health problems.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Jan 28, 2025 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Microsoft Teams: Introducing the SCO Setting in Walkie Talkie app for Enhanced Battery Life on older Bluetooth headsets

This feature introduces SCO (Synchronous Connection-Oriented) user setting in the Walkie Talkie app. This feature is designed to manage the Bluetooth headset connection to optimize battery life. When a Bluetooth headset is connected to the Walkie Talkie app, the SCO setting controls whether the microphone remains constantly connected or disconnects after a period of inactivity.

This helps in reducing battery drain by allowing the headset to disconnect when not in use and reconnect when needed. The user control feature allows users to set a timeout period after which the Bluetooth headset will automatically disconnect if there is no activity.

While the SCO setting is turned on, users may experience a slight delay in transmission as the headset reconnects. However, once the headset is reconnected, users will hear a sound indicating that they can start transmitting on the app. This brief delay is a small trade-off for the substantial battery savings on older Bluetooth headsets.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Jan 24, 2025 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Microsoft Teams: Ability to separate out the Townhall attendee invites

This backend change will now address the ‘separation of attendee’ invites from the events crew. This feature allows the organizers of Townhalls to maintain separate invites for attendees.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Jan 23, 2025 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Microsoft Teams: Wired headset support for Walkie Talkie on iOS.

This feature adds the wired support to Walkie Talkie on iOS. It adds support for both specialized PTT headsets and generic headsets.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Jan 23, 2025 Uncategorized 0 Comments