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Brass Contributor

May 23, 2023

User's 'Switch to Public Preview' gone

The option for user to switch to/from Public Preview in the ...->About->Public Preview is gone. Users still have the 'EA' icon and in About they have 'Developer Preview' selected (which cannot be de-...

Teams Public Preview

bughit

Copper Contributor

Jun 23, 2023

Shikha_Varshney

Thanks for the clarification.

I'd like to request that you allow public preview for targeted. My impression is that public preview is a earlier preview channel than targeted (it could get things not yet in targeted). Furthermore, as you explained the targeted rollout is gradual so a targeted user is not even guaranteed to see what's been announced for targeted, whereas switching to public preview would give you everything announced for it (that's certainly the case with the new channel experience).

Your current policy essentially blocks previewing teams features. If it were possible to take a specific user out of targeted, then they could public preview, but AFAICT targeted is a tenant wide setting.

So the bottom line, to maximize teams preview abilities we either need to be able to enable public preview for targeted or to be able to take a user out of targeted so public preview can be enabled.

Shikha_Varshney

Microsoft

Jun 27, 2023

bughit Thank you for your questions.

1. Both Public preview and Targeted release provide early access to Teams features. New channels experience was gradually rolled out to both the programs. Most of the other features should be available to users in both the programs at the time of announcement.

Here is how you can decide on the best early access option for Teams

If you want consistent early access experiences across Microsoft 365 services, use Targeted release
If you want consistent early access experiences across Microsoft 365 apps, use Current Channel (Preview) and set the Teams Admin Center (or PowerShell) Public Preview policy to “Follow Office Preview”
If you want early access only for Teams, use Teams Public Preview
If you want in-depth engagement with the Teams product group under NDA (with associated program participation requirements), join Teams Private Preview (Technology Adoption Program). Note: this program is currently at capacity.

2. You can set Targeted release for everyone in your tenant as well as specific users. Here is the doc for details.

Hope this helps. Thank you!