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Microsoft Teams Rooms on Android | August 2021 Updates

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SandhyaRao
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Aug 11, 2021

We recently announced update 2A for Microsoft Teams Rooms on Android which is now available in the Teams Admin Center (TAC). Here, we will go into detail on the robust feature set in update 2A (and update 2). We highly recommend customers update to 2A, which is the latest version of Microsoft Teams Rooms on Android, to get the optimal experience.

 

Introducing room remote

Room remote is a new experience on the Teams mobile app allowing users to control Teams Rooms devices and select functionality from their personal mobile phone. Use room remote in your Teams app on your mobile phone to turn room cameras and microphones on or off, adjust volume, change the content layout and more.

 

New remote provisioning and sign-in experience
Once a Teams Room device is installed and powered on, IT Admins can complete the sign-in and provisioning process remotely from the Teams Admin Center.

 

Support for sharing via HDMI ingest
Now select Teams Rooms support screen sharing through an HDMI connection. Sharing starts automatically, but users can also control projection functionality through a new button located on the home screen of the touch console.

Auto answer for Meet Now
Teams Rooms can now be set to automatically answer a “Meet Now” call. This allows the Teams Room to be pulled into an ad hoc call without requiring the user to interact with the device to accept the call.

 

1080p resolution for outgoing video
Select Teams Rooms are now capable of transmitting 1080p resolution. Performance of this feature can vary depending on bandwidth and other conditions of the room and remote participants.


Additional features with this build include extending live captions to 1:1 calls, having the ability as a presenter or organizer to lock meetings by navigating to the ‘more’ menu, and hiding meeting titles in the calendar on certain Teams Rooms on Android devices.

 

 

We are thrilled to introduce these features to Microsoft Teams Rooms on Android. Click here for a full list of features and updates.

 

Updated Aug 11, 2021
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  • Paul_Renting's avatar
    Paul_Renting
    Copper Contributor
    Aug 12, 2021

    Sorry for the double post, but I only just saw the August blog, which we install during our rollout. Since it's more relevant here, I will post it here as well (posted it on the april blog before):

    Just finished installing the Yealink A30 with CPT18 and VCH51, with the latest (august) update. And I must say it's fantastic, we already liked the MTRoA in March when we starting testing, but this latest release really makes allot of further improvements.

    However 1 feature is still "dumb". One or the reasons we chose the Yealink over the Poly, is the dual screen (that and the privacy shutters, which people love). However content is always displayed on screen 2 (HDMI2) instead of Screen 1 (HDMI1), which means that you can no longer interact with the content (/whiteboard) on the touchscreen on the main screen (HDMI1) which is the touchscreen in our case (Dell C55xxQT). So we have to chose every meeting to do a meeting with passive content (and connect HDMI2, with the benefit of split screens), or interacting / whiteboarding in which we can't connect the second screen.

  • jfrobs's avatar
    jfrobs
    Brass Contributor
    Aug 12, 2021

    Auto answer for Meet Now

     

    I hope this feature will avoid having a sign on the TV to accept to enter the meeting when joining a meeting from your PC with the "Sound of the room" feature in Teams (proximity feature).

    I had this recently when I joined an invitation from a Microsoft Teams tenant external to mine.

    I had to cancel and join again to get it to work without asking me for permission on the HDX polycom bar.

    Moreover, since I don't have a touch screen but a TC8, I couldn't click to accept...not easy,

     

  • John Moore's avatar
    John Moore
    MVP
    Aug 12, 2021

    Room Remote is great when you sit just out of reach of an MTR console and you don't want to crawl over the table on camera to mute the room...not that that's happened to me multiple times since we started hybrid work... 🙃

  • Michael Tressler's avatar
    Michael Tressler
    Former Employee
    Aug 12, 2021

    ganeshwaghmode Teams Rooms on Android only runs on certified hardware, as can be seen here - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-teams/across-devices/devices/category/teams-rooms/20?filterIds=182&page=1

     

    There is no APK that is distributed out side of this certified-hardware ecosystem. As such, you will not find it in the Play store and there is no app link to be found. That is why the article mentioned that you will find it on Teams admin center as that is how it gets distributed.

  • ganeshwaghmode's avatar
    ganeshwaghmode
    Copper Contributor
    Aug 12, 2021

    Micbou Yes the article is not about the teams rooms for android but I was searching for the Android APK to setup the teams rooms for android but not found any steps and app link anywhere.

  • jfrobs's avatar
    jfrobs
    Brass Contributor
    Aug 12, 2021

    This is obviously not yet available...maybe in a few hours ?

     

     

  • ganeshwaghmode's avatar
    ganeshwaghmode
    Copper Contributor
    Aug 12, 2021

    How to download the Teams Rooms for Android? No app is there on Play Store. Also not found any link on Microsoft teams page or any article.