Teams

Dual-tone multi-frequency (DTMF) for Teams will soon be available for users on Citrix VDI. If your organization is not using Citrix VDI you can disregard this message.

Roaming bandwidth control is a new capability that allows admins to set dynamic bandwidth policies which are based upon the geographic location of users’ Teams clients. This allows admins to set more limited bandwidth controls for when users travel to remote or bandwidth constrained locations, and then relax limitations when they travel to a location …

With this change, when inserting a link of a Yammer conversation in a public community from their canonical (home) network, users with the Yammer Communities app for Microsoft Teams installed will now get a rich preview directly in Teams. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 82243. Microsoft Teams admins can customize the …

The Microsoft Teams admin will soon be able to customize the following properties for the Yammer Communities app in Teams within their tenant: App name App description App icons Accent color Customizing the Communities app is perfect for companies that have given their Yammer network custom branding to fit their corporate identity. This message is …

Within the desktop app in-meeting experience, organizers can choose to lock their meetings to prevent subsequent unwanted join attempts. Users attempting to join a locked meeting by any means (e.g. from web, desktop, mobile, PSTN, and devices) will not be able to do so. There will be a message to say that the meeting is …

The Meeting Reactions feature allows users to react to participants during a meeting. Reactions will be available on Teams Desktop and Teams Mobile apps. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap IDs 65946 and 68905. React during a meeting using emojis that will appear to all participants.

The Microsoft Teams desktop app for macOS will soon allow users to include their computer’s sound when sharing either their desktop or a window on Mac in a meeting. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 67168 and 67169. You can now include your computer’s sound when you share a Desktop or Window …

This new Teams release will expand support and allow calling participants to transfer an ongoing VoIP, PSTN or Group call between Teams devices. Users will be able to transfer a call from one device to another or even add a second device to the same call. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID …

This new slide translation feature in Microsoft Teams (desktop) will enable all meeting attendees to translate presentation content, presented via PowerPoint Live in a Teams meeting, into a language of their choice while in private view. We will not be moving forward with this feature in the DoD environment at this time. We will communicate …

Last year we announced the public preview of Tasks in Teams. At the same time, we also announced the planned three-stage naming sequence for how the app name would appear in Teams. This update reflects the final stage where we shorten Tasks by Planner and To Do to simply Tasks for simplicity, brevity and to …

Speed Dial is coming to iOS and Android and users can now get into a call with their preferred contacts with greater efficiency than before. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 82960. Speed dial is coming to mobile devices. This feature makes your most-used calling contacts easy to access with one tap …

June 2021 update to the Microsoft Teams display including new wallpaper, live captions 1:1 calls, raise hand feature, Outlook contacts, advanced calling features, and DTMF in pre-call screen.

Call Health Panel now provides Teams end-users functionality that helps identify issues during a Teams meeting or a VOIP call. This empowers end-user with the diagnostics to investigate audio, video, content sharing or network-related issues. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 70777.

Chats sent during a Teams meeting will surface on the screens of all meeting participants, making the chat more central to the conversation. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 65948.

We’re making some changes to limit the number of individual recipients allowed for scheduling a Teams meeting from Outlook (Win32 and Win64 client only at this time). We will apply this limit for meetings created with more than 750 recipients in the invite. This limit does not apply to the content of Distribution Lists and …