What’s new in Microsoft Teams – the Enterprise Connect feature round up

Christian Schacht 

Thanks for taking the time to reply to my rant.  I just joined a meeting and see there is a new option below the meeting join window that says "Other join options" and allows of "Audio Off".  This is GREAT to have the option now!!! Not in a very obvious space (should be in the box above it), so not sure how that got through UX Design, but at least we can try to train to it with our Tips and Tricks emails.  So how about have the option to Call me back right there too!!  Why is call me back hidden underneath the "i" icon which most people in our internal training sessions assume means "information" and don't remember that the cal me feature is hidden there.  Put it right up front at the start of a meeting.  (I see from your screen shot there is a phone option there that I don't have, and you are on a dog food version since your left icons say Calendar and mine still says meeting... so maybe this is coming?)

P.S.  Why doesn't the Teams group have release notes for these new features.  These things like Audio Off just show up and we have to try and find them to know what is changing and what is enhancing.  That Audio Off is very new.. No one on our Teams deployment project has ever seen that before until you mentioned it and I went looking for it today

I did hear the announcement that video was going to 9 feeds and 3x3.  That doesn't excite me, it actually disappoints me, because it means someone has decided the 9 video feeds is good enough (IT ISN'T!!!) And it also means that higher numbers of video feeds is probably not coming in the near future.  My users who know and love Zoom are not going to accept this solution. The video feed limitation is the #1 issue impacting our ability to adopt TEAMS as our single collaboration and meeting solution.  And I am not alone.. I see this issue in every Teams forum I am in where people complain about the Video feed limitations compared to the competition. Does Teams have some codex limitation where more than 9 just can't be supported?  Please tell me there is hope for higher than 9 video feeds in the near future!!!

I live and work right in Seattle, I am at Microsoft Lincoln center all the time.  If there is someone from Zoom who wants to come to our downtown Seattle office and see how companies actually collaborate when they don't have the resources to buy Teams rooms for every meeting space, contact me and we can setup an end user experience engagement. (A typical meeting at our company.  6 people in the same room all joined video, 2 people remote and two on a phone. 11 video feeds in Zoom ((lots more than 11 supported)))