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Microsoft Teams new calling and meeting experience
tassenza Here you go (partial copy from Message center).
Updated July 7, 2020: To ensure the best possible experience for our users, we are delaying some of our deployments to reduce the amount of change flowing into the services.Please see the updated roll-out timeline belowWe are pleased to announce that we will be enabling users to be able to view meetings and calls in separate windows along with the other recently announced features.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&featureid=57294
This will roll-out OFF by default and users will have the ability to turn on the new experience via the user setting: General > Turn on new meetings and calling experiences.
Note: In the future we will enable this functionality by default, but we want to provide users extra time to become familiar with having meetings open in their own separate window. As we move forward we will provide more details via Message center.
Steps for Users to turn on the new experience:
Step 1: Click on Avatar on top right of Teams and click Settings.
Step 2: Check the Turn on new calling an meetings experiences check box and then restart the Teams client.
Note: To provide additional transparency we expect the new experiences to be enabled with the following timeline. This is subject to change and we will provide appropriate notice for each phase through Message Center as we approach July and August.
- June – New experiences are available and users can enable through settings.
- July – Experiences are enabled by default and users can disable through settings.
- August – Experiences are enabled by default and user controls are no longer available.
ChrisWebbTech Well, It's July 10 and still nothing. No guidance as to when it will be available or why it was delayed.
tassenza Here you go (partial copy from Message center).
We are pleased to announce that we will be enabling users to be able to view meetings and calls in separate windows along with the other recently announced features.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&featureid=57294
This will roll-out OFF by default and users will have the ability to turn on the new experience via the user setting: General > Turn on new meetings and calling experiences.
Note: In the future we will enable this functionality by default, but we want to provide users extra time to become familiar with having meetings open in their own separate window. As we move forward we will provide more details via Message center.
Steps for Users to turn on the new experience:
Step 1: Click on Avatar on top right of Teams and click Settings.
Step 2: Check the Turn on new calling an meetings experiences check box and then restart the Teams client.
Note: To provide additional transparency we expect the new experiences to be enabled with the following timeline. This is subject to change and we will provide appropriate notice for each phase through Message Center as we approach July and August.
- June – New experiences are available and users can enable through settings.
- July – Experiences are enabled by default and users can disable through settings.
- August – Experiences are enabled by default and user controls are no longer available.
ChristianBergstrom How do i turn OFF this new pop out new meeting experience permanently so I don't have to select it every time I open teams and restart the teams app. Not a function I like or want to use
- It’s now the default and will be completely forced with no option to use the old one in the next few months. I’d suggest a uservoice for being able to keep the old one but pretty sure the idea is to get rid of the legacy experience.
SCCMGUYCMH I'm afraid this is going to be the new default (this month) and there's nothing you can do about the change.
- New experiences are available and users can enable through settings. - Complete
- Experiences are enabled by default and users can disable through settings. - Late September (previously August)
- Experiences are enabled by default and user controls are no longer available. - October (previously September)
ChristianBergstrom According to the timeline listed in your reply, everyone should have the ability to turn on the new experience now. I do not have that checkbox and I am still in the old experience. I lead MS Teams trainings for my organization and most of the users are reporting their experience is updated and question why their controls and other features look different than mine. Is there something I am missing that is preventing me from having the option to enable the new experience. I have checked for updates, uninstalled and reinstalled Teams and it is still not there. Attached is an image of my settings options.
mgwalton Hello Mary! You should have them as well. Sometimes it's necessary sign out and back in manually (top right corner) to trigger a refresh of new settings. In case that doesn't work you can reset your Teams desktop app by typing %appdata%\Microsoft\Teams (via Start) and delete all content in the Teams folder.
Let me know how it goes!
ChristianBergstrom Thank you for those tips. Still not able to turn on the new experience and tried a meeting and still not seeing the changes. The only issue I ran into was in deleting all content in the Teams folder. Even though I signed out and quit Teams altogether before deleting content, It would not delete the meeting-addin folder as it said it was in use. I don't know if that may be why your suggestion didn't work.
ChristianBergstrom I'm running ---- You have Microsoft Teams Version 1.3.00.13565 (64-bit). It was last updated on 6/2/20.
So was this deployed or not? I do not see it in my settings...
Updated July 7, 2020: To ensure the best possible experience for our users, we are delaying some of our deployments to reduce the amount of change flowing into the services. -TA What are you delaying?
- June – New experiences are available and users can enable through settings. - I can not, this setting does not exist
- July – Experiences are enabled by default and users can disable through settings. this setting does not exist for me.
- August – Experiences are enabled by default and user controls are no longer available.
See attached
- It just appeared in mine.
tassenza Hey, it seems as if you missed this part.
"This is subject to change and we will provide appropriate notice for each phase through Message Center as we approach July and August."
All we can do is stay tuned for more info. As Steven pointed out, they can obviously not GA release something that hasn't passed the necessary quality assurances.
- And as I said. Take release dates with a grain of salt and treat as they release it then at earliest for some and expect a few month for GA. Just how it’s been and I don’t expect it to change anytime soon.
