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smoore6857
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-...
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ritchieF404
Copper Contributor
Jun 05, 2023

smoore6857 

It seems that Microsoft added a new section under the Teams update policy and have automatically set it to "Microsoft controlled". In order to resolve the issue that you are facing, you will have to change that feature to "user controlled" instead.

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bughit
Copper Contributor
Jun 20, 2023

ritchieF404 

 

That does not resolve this issue. The new setting with the "microsoft controlled" option applies to the teams client (app) version, not the public/developer preview.

 

Switching to "classic teams as default" made no difference. And "show teams preview" was already on "users can opt in". 

 

Jan_Steberl Multiple people have reported this, could you pass this to the appropriate team? 

  • Shikha_Varshney's avatar
    Shikha_Varshney
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    Jun 22, 2023

    Hi everyone, we recently rolled out an update to add Teams support for Targeted release customers.

     

    If a user is in Targeted release as well as Teams Public Preview program, then Targeted release will take the precedence which means:
    1. User will not see EA indicator on profile picture for Public Preview.
    2. If the user is in Public Preview with 'Teams update policy -> Allow Public Preview' set to "Enabled", then that user will not have the option to opt in/out of Public Preview from the client.

     

    Here is the announcement post for reference - Introducing Microsoft Teams support for Microsoft 365 Targeted Release commercial cloud customers - Microsoft Community Hub

     

    Please let us know if you still have questions. Thank you for being the early adopters of Teams.

     

    • bughit's avatar
      bughit
      Copper Contributor
      Jun 22, 2023

      Shikha_Varshney 

       

      > If the user is in Public Preview with 'Teams update policy -> Allow Public Preview' set to "Enabled", then that user will not have the option to opt in/out of Public Preview from the client.

       

      There are a couple of issues with that explanation:

       

      1. Why does it show "developer preview" checked, allow you to uncheck it, but then have it come back checked after a reload? If the user is getting the "targeted release" then that's what it should say. And if opting out of targeted is not possible per user (is it?) then it should not let you uncheck it.
      2. For me and at least one other person in this thread, new channel experience is not active, developer preview is checked and public preview is not available but allowed. Per your explanation, we are in the targeted release. So why are targeted release features not active?

       

       

      • Shikha_Varshney's avatar
        Shikha_Varshney
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        Jun 23, 2023

        bughit great questions. Please find answers below.

        1. Seeing "Developer preview" checked under About is a known bug for Targeted release user. Clicking on the developer preview has no effect on experience. This bug will be fixed soon.

        2. We are doing gradual rollout of new channels experience. That's why some of you might not be seeing it.

         

        Hope this clarifies. Thank you!

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