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Microsoft Teams Rooms December update

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Christian Schacht
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Dec 17, 2019

Earlier this year we released content camera support that enables you to share an analog whiteboard into your Teams Meetings to create a more inclusive experience for remote participants. We’re pleased to announce that the content camera is now also available for Surface Pro-based systems (i.e. Logitech Smartdock, Crestron SR & Polycom MSR).

 

In addition to this, a content camera mounting kit for mounting the Logitech Brio content camera is available for purchase. Go to Brio Content Camera Kit on the Office.com Teams Devices showcase which includes all the accessories you need to install the camera (i.e. camera, mount, cabling, USB extenders).

 

Figure 1 Content Camera mount for intelligent capture

 

To provide an easy license model for conference rooms, our Office 365 Meeting Room subscription is also now available to our government customers in Office 365 US Government Community (GCC). The Microsoft Teams Room app now supports the GCC cloud as well.

Microsoft Teams Rooms & Intune best practices

Teams meeting room devices can be enrolled and managed by Intune to provide many of the device management and security capabilities available to endpoints managed by Intune. Find out more here

 

Microsoft Teams Rooms store app 4.3.23.0 is now available

We started releasing Microsoft Teams Room app version 4.3.21.0 earlier this week and the Store app will roll out to every Microsoft Teams Room in the next couple of weeks.

 

This release contains the following features:

 

Settings user interface refresh

We’ve refreshed our Settings UI on devices to reflect the new admin controls we’ve added for meeting room experiences. The new UI gives you a better organized view of your configuration options and adds a new About tab with useful information about device configuration.

 

Figure 2 New Admin Settings UI

 

These changes have no impact on device configuration with an XML file, which will continue to work as before.

 

Auto-accept Proximity-based calls

You can now configure Microsoft Teams Rooms to automatically accept proximity-based meeting joins. This simplifies the join experience and gets users into meetings even faster and, of course, we give admins the option to configure this feature based on their preferences.

 

Figure 3 Admin settings for proximity join

 

Get to Room Controls / OEM extension with ease

We’re bringing the Room Controls button back to the main screen of the Microsoft Teams console so that partner extensions are just one click away.

Figure 4 Room Controls / OEM extension

 

 

Microsoft Teams Rooms and peripheral additions

We have some great new additions for Microsoft Teams Rooms from our partners to give our customers even more choice for their conference rooms.

 

Figure 5 New devices for Microsoft Teams Rooms

 

Yealink MVC300

The right fit for focus rooms and small rooms, with its auto framing camera and Yealink CP900 speakerphone, the MVC300 system delivers a broad and vivid view while making it easier for everyone to be heard.

Figure 6 Yealink MVC300

 

Poly Studio

Combining the audio and video quality you expect from Poly with the simplicity you need for everyday use, Poly Studio is the USB video bar ideal for smaller rooms and huddle spaces. Its plug-and-play functionality works with Microsoft Teams Room and fits any budget.

Figure 7 Poly Studio

 

Yealink CP900

A premium portable USB speakerphone for personal use, in huddle rooms, and on-the-go. Wideband audio, HD voice and six-microphone beam-forming offer a premium full-duplex experience. Yealink’s distraction-free HD audio technology ensures crystal-clear sound. The CP900 speakerphone offers simple plug-and-play USB connections to Microsoft Teams Rooms.

Figure 8 Yealink CP900

 

Sennheiser SP30T

A portable wireless speakerphone for today’s mobile workforce supporting both personal and small to medium sized conferencing for up to 8 people. A choice of Bluetooth or USB-C connectivity gives freedom and flexible connection options. Two long-range, noise and echo cancelling microphones and an ultra-low distortion speaker with clear voice reproduction allow a natural, conversational flow even in challenging environments.

Figure 9 Sennheiser SP30T

 

Yealink UVC30 Room

A premium USB camera designed for focus and small meeting rooms. Offering a sharp image and accurate color reproduction, it rewards you with a vivid face-to-face video meeting experience in ultra HD 4K resolution and high frame rates. A wide field of view ensures every participant can be seen. Based on the facial detection, it supports auto framing feature to accomplish a much more intelligent meeting experience. An included flexible clip gives many options to mount the camera.

Figure 10 Yealink UVC30 Room

 

Let´s get started today and modernize your meeting rooms and check out our certified bundles at office.com/teamsdevices

- Christian Schacht, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Microsoft Teams Rooms

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  • Ilya Bukshteyn's avatar
    Ilya Bukshteyn
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    Dec 19, 2019
    Running the MTR app on a PC would be a great way to create horrible experiences. Our goal is for every meeting to start in seconds instead of minutes, and that approach is a great way to not meet that goal. So no we will not do this. You can connect any USB audio and video device to MTR, we just can't guarantee the audio / video quality if these are not Certified devices. As we have already announced, MTR will be able to join Zoom and WebEx meetings in H1CY20, via the "direct guest join" feature based on web technologies, and we expect to add other online meeting services as well later in CY20.
  • Ilya Bukshteyn's avatar
    Ilya Bukshteyn
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    Jan 08, 2020
    Actually seems we do have a bug with our app window(s) resizing (basically the app entering a window resizing / positioning loop) on the front of room displays, after the display(s) / monitors go to sleep and then wake up again, which could look like flickering / disappearing images. We are working urgently on an app update with a fix for this, but the update will need to go through our validation rings so will likely not be generally available until next week. On behalf of the MTR team, I apologize for this and the other bugs in the Dec update. We understand the importance of meeting room systems and strive for a very high quality bar with our MTR app updates, and we will reviewing our validation processes to make sure we meet that bar in future updates.
  • Christian Schacht's avatar
    Christian Schacht
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    Jan 10, 2020

    Hello everyone,

    4.3.33.0 is rolling out right now, to address issues mentioned above in the comments, this includes:


    1. Window resizing loop (causes FoR displays to look like they are flickering)
    2. Remove Cortana status in settings (since Cortana is is not released yet on Teams Rooms)
    3. Disable 3rd party meeting join on calendar (since this is not available yet)

  • Ulf Lundqvist's avatar
    Ulf Lundqvist
    Iron Contributor
    Dec 17, 2019

    Would appreciate releasing / unleashing content camera feature for normal users, without Teams Rooms Systems. 

  • James Arber's avatar
    James Arber
    MVP
    Dec 18, 2019

    Travel1005 

    Great updates. When will I be able to deploy on Surface Pro 7 without the 3rd party requirement for docks like Logitech Smartdock, Crestron SR & Polycom MSR? Would love to roll out to more rooms.

    I don't think you will ever see that. One of the key things for MTR's is that "single tap meeting join experience" to give the users a great meeting experience. Having deployed heaps of meeting solutions I can say one thing you really don't want is things for users to unplug or mess with because they will.

     

    What about the solutions coming these days centred around a NUC from Logi/Creston etc. They can be had pretty cheap and are simple to secure.

    I did a review of one over here. https://youtu.be/qZbCZJE0HVU

     

  • johnwaldron's avatar
    johnwaldron
    Brass Contributor
    Jan 08, 2020

    Is anyone else experiencing video display flickering since the latest app update?

    We have some systems that have been installed for quite sometime suddenly not working properly.

    The display is flickering, picture disappearing and reapearing throughout meetings as if the HDMI output cable of the MTR is being unplugged and replugged rapidly over and over.

    Reboot of MTR solves issue for only a brief period of time before it begins malfunctioning again.

  • James Vaughan's avatar
    James Vaughan
    MVP
    Jan 31, 2020

    Unearthwhile I do not know the specifics of the issue you are having, I do have some suggestions that might help you troubleshoot it a little bit.

     

    1.   Its important to know that the devices in the MTR lineup currently do not have CEC control on them.  Its just not there on the device which means it will not be able to send the signal needed to the display.
    2.   CEC control is tricky even when it is there.  There are so many manufacturers that interpret CEC in some strange ways.  As an example, the signal OFF on CEC can mean a few different things.  It could mean standby which would put the display into a state that could be turned back on, or for example there is a manufacturer that uses CEC OFF to power down every single aspect of the display including the 5v line for CEC meaning there is no way to turn it back on.
    3.   For MTR, many displays (mostly commercial) will have what is termed in the menus as a PC setting for power.  This would be that when it sees a signal (The MTR computer is on) it will turn the display on and when the display doesn't see a signal or video sync, the display automatically goes to a standby state and shuts off the backlight.  On many residential displays (bought from Best Buy) this setting does not exist and you may need something outside of the display settings itself.  There are hidden menus in some displays (usually you get into them through a sequence of keys on the remote control) and you might find a setting there, but not too many have this setting unless you are using a commercial display.
    4.  You can use something from Crestron (full disclosure, this is the company I currently work for) that will introduce CEC into the signal and take that video sync and inject CEC onto the wire to turn the display off and on.  If you need part numbers, let me know, but all Crestron dealers can help with this.

    As far as not waking up using the remote, it sounds like you should contact Logitech or the disti where you purchased it from and hopefully they can help if its reproducible.  There is a nightly restart of the units and that might have something to do with it if your video signal chain or cable has an issue with no sync on startup.  (just a guess)