Updates app in Microsoft Teams

[Meenah_Khosraw]

The Microsoft Teams folks recently announced a new out-of-the-box app in Teams in this recent blog post. The Updates app saves time when creating, submitting, and reviewing all updates, check-ins, and reports in the flow of work. 

With productivity in mind, have any of you had a chance to use the Updates app yet? What other apps (Teams or otherwise) do you use to help you manage employee updates, check-ins, and reports? Share them in the comments below! 

[#2]

I'm in the process of setting up several templates to create async daily/weekly check-ins, Shoutouts, etc. in Updates. Using the submissions + Power Automate to publish updates and relevant into to a Teams channel/chats as well.

Feature Request - Would love to see the option to customize the icon used for custom templates.

[#3]

Another issue I've found is that when you create new template or use an existing one, the MS Teams Update name doesn't always sync back to Forms. This makes it a bit of a mess to find which Update form is the one you'd want to handle in Power Automate. As an example... I just created a new Updates template called "Shoutouts 🙌" and in MS Forms, it is called "Teams Updates Template - New form".

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[#4]

@LDLW_ ,

Your feature request is a great suggestion! I recommend heading over to the blog article I linked above and commenting on the blog's comment thread so the author and product team members will see it.

I also recommend providing your suggestion on Feedback for Microsoft Teams. Here's a blog post for the announcement in 2021 that explains it in more detail if you've never used it before. 

Thanks, 

Meenah

Microsoft 365 Community Manager | Tech Community Admin 

[#5]

Please vote at the two feedback listings below, these will help make this usable for a much larger array of business cases:

https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/da898116-41fb-ec11-a81b-6045bd864d4f
https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/02843e0a-dff2-ec11-a81b-000d3a00c008