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AlexB
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Feb 15, 2020
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What is the best way to test beta features on Teams?

I have a test tenant where I try all things in preparation for deployments in production and I was hoping I could enrol the tenant into beta program or something like that to test earlier releases of...
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  • ChrisWebbTech's avatar
    ChrisWebbTech
    Feb 16, 2020
    Dev preview doesn't really give you much for Teams features, it's more for dev's and early API's. You can't really do the scenario your looking for since Teams doesn't follow the same path as 'targeted release' etc. like SharePoint and OneDrive do. There is no option for users to be set to test features early only whole tenants, and those are limited to TAP and other special program not available for public consumption.

    Wish I had a better answer but that's about all we have right now. Hopefully they come up with something in the future, but for now best we can do is watch Twitter / roadmap / Tech Community for release updates and blogs.
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LinusCansby
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Feb 15, 2020

Hi,

 

Microsoft have a TAP (Technology Adoption Program) for Microsoft Teams that you can apply to join. 

 

I guess that a test tenant won't qualify since they want real usage from real users.

https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=v4j5cvGGr0GRqy180BHbR1UzUQTEgHVPtD9W5uih2OlUMThJV1lXNTZST1lBSUZTSUNPNURaM04xWi4u

 

Qualifications:

  1. Active NDA with Microsoft, not expiring in next 3 months. Please confirm with your Microsoft account team.
  2. Active Microsoft Teams usage in your production tenant
  3. Organization size > 50 users

Requirements:

  1. IT Director/CIO level executive to sponsor ~4 hours per week of IT admins' time for Teams TAP
  2. Provision up to 5 IT admins in Teams TAP ring and mobile pre-release store apps.
  3. Provision your production tenant (all users in the company) in TAP users Ring.
  4. Participate and sign-off minimum 2 major validations within a quarter (to continue TAP participation in the next quarter)
  5. Triage incoming bugs (Report a Problem in Teams) from your users
  6. Active participant in the TAP100 community
  7. Respond to surveys, participate in feedback sessions
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AlexB
Iron Contributor
Feb 16, 2020

LinusCansby it seems a fair bit of commitment then, I was hoping just a casual "let's see how it goes" scenario. Thanks for the detailed explanation, much appreciated 

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