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Preview exited, now GA: Expanded Emoji Picker
Description The expanded emoji update brings users the fun and expressiveness they love from other platforms into Teams. It also introduces a far wider range of diversity and representation in our fun content - a necessity for our diverse and widespread user base. These features are just the tip of the iceberg in empowering user expression and we're excited to get this out to users! These are the specific changes: 85 emojis expanded to over 800! Category selector Skin tone selector Shortcode picker Category Examples Skin Tone Selector To select a skin tone please right click on emojis with the dot in the top right corner. Your choice will be saved for that login session. Category Selector Smilies Hand Gestures People Animals Food Travel and places Activities Objects Symbols Shortcode Picker Available today only in desktop pop out chat and meetings. Type parentheses then characters to auto complete available emojis. Flighting status Available today on Desktop and Web. Additional emojis and mobile support coming soon. How to enable Enabled by default for tenants configured with emojis on. Note: If you need information about enabling the public preview itself, see “Enable the public preview for Teams” below. Microsoft 365 workloads and dependencies Product, workload, or area Dependency (Yes/No) If yes, version requirements and other dependencies Exchange No Sharepoint, files No Skype for Business No Outlook add-in No Azure AD No OneDrive No Office No Supported clients and platforms Windows 10 macOS iOS Android Linux Chrome Firefox Safari Edge IE Yes Yes - - Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes - Known issues Dark emojis are less visible in Teams dark theme Some copy/paste scenarios are not fully supported yet Known limitations Skin tone selection is reset between logins Skin tone selection is distinct between platforms Shortcode picker is only available in pop out chats and meetings on desktop Coming to other areas in future updates Enable your Teams client for the public preview First, IT admins need to set an update policy that turns on Show preview features. Learn how at Public preview in Microsoft Teams - Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Docs. Users then choose to join the public preview individually. See Get early access to new Teams features - Office Support (microsoft.com) for instructions. Summary of public preview features For a history of features in the Office and Teams public previews, see Release Notes Current Channel (Preview) - Office release notes | Microsoft Docs. Send us your feedback Got feedback on features in the public preview or other areas of Teams? Let us know straight from Teams via Help > Give feedback. Thank you, Preview Team @ Jason Schumacher Quality & Customer Obsession, Microsoft TeamsNow in public preview: Meeting Reactions
(Note: requires all users in the meeting to be in Public Preview to experience the feature) Description Meeting Reactions available in Public Preview! Frustrated in a virtual meeting when you can’t express yourself? Annoyed that you can’t get a good sense of how people feel about the points you’re making? Use meeting reactions to make your meetings engaging, fun, and more inclusive! The Meeting Reactions feature allows users to choose from four different reaction types – like, love, applause, and laugh. You can click on a reaction to send it to the meeting. Participants in the meeting will see the reaction over your position on the meeting stage, and you'll also see the reaction displayed on your "ME" box at the lower right of your meeting stage. Here’s what it looks like. If content is being shared (such as a Desktop, Window, PPT, or Whiteboard), the reactions will float over the content for a more engaging experience. Here’s what that looks like! Note: Raise Hand is now accessible from the simple flyout menu off of the control bar at the top of your meeting window. There are no changes to the raise hand feature Participants that join meetings on Web will not be able to send or see reactions. Flighting status Started flighting. Rollout estimated to be complete by end of week Dec 11 How to enable This feature is on by default. Note: If you need information about enabling the public preview itself, see “Enable the public preview for Teams” below. Microsoft 365 workloads and dependencies Product, workload, or area Dependency (Yes/No) If yes, version requirements and other dependencies Exchange No Sharepoint, files No Skype for Business No Outlook add-in No Azure AD No OneDrive No Office No Multiwindow Yes Supported clients and platforms Windows 10 macOS iOS Android Linux Chrome Firefox Safari Edge Internet Explorer Yes Yes Yes coming soon Yes coming soon - - - - - - Known issues UI Fit and Finish: You may notice alignment issues, among others, in how reactions are shown on participants on the meeting stage and as a stream over shared content. These will be fixed before GA. Meeting Option: The organizer will be able to turn reactions on and off. When reactions are off, raise hand will still be available as it existed before reactions. This will be available in early January for testing Known limitations Screen-Sharing: The person sharing a Desktop or Window will not see reactions unless they keep the meeting window open Large Meetings with No Content: In large meetings with no content being shared, you will miss the reactions sent by people who are in the +N on your stage. More Reaction Types: We know people want a few more reaction types to broaden the stock emotional range we support. Web Meetings: Reactions are not supported on Web meetings. Support will come in near future. Enable your Teams client for the public preview First, IT admins need to set an update policy that turns on Show preview features. Learn how at Public preview in Microsoft Teams - Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Docs. Users then choose to join the public preview individually. See Get early access to new Teams features - Office Support (microsoft.com) for instructions. Summary of public preview features For a history of features in the Office and Teams public previews, see Release Notes Current Channel (Preview) - Office release notes | Microsoft Docs. Send us your feedback Got feedback on features in the public preview or other areas of Teams? Let us know straight from Teams via Help > Give feedback. Thank you, Preview Team Emily Kirby Quality & Customer Obsession, Microsoft TeamsNow in public preview: View the full chat conversation thread after clicking on search results
Description Currently, when users search for a chat message in Teams and click on a message result from a chat which is older than 14 days, they are taken to a single-message-view of the chat, rather than the entire chat thread. Current experience – We have addressed this issue. Now whenever users click on a chat message search result, they get dropped into the entire message thread, regardless of the age of the message. New experience – This enhancement is available in message results on the Search result page (SERP) and the contextual search surfaces. Please try out this feature and share your feedback. Flighting status Available in Public Preview How to enable This feature does not need User or IT Admin’s intervention to be enabled. Note : If you need information about enabling the public preview itself, see “Enable your Teams client for the public preview” below. Microsoft 365 workloads and dependencies NA Supported clients and platforms Windows 10 macOS iOS Android Linux Chrome Firefox Safari Edge Internet Explorer Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Known issues NA Known limitations NA Enable your Teams client for the public preview First, IT admins need to set an update policy that turns on Show preview features. Learn how at Public preview in Microsoft Teams - Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Docs. Users then choose to join the public preview individually. See Get early access to new Teams features - Office Support (microsoft.com) for instructions. Send us your feedback Got feedback on features in the public preview or other areas of Teams? Let us know straight from Teams via Help > Give feedback. This is on the bottom left of your client. Thank you, Preview Team, Soumitra Paul Quality & Customer Obsession, Microsoft TeamsNow in public preview: Automatically view up to 49 videos (7x7) in Teams meeting
Description Microsoft Teams Meetings previously supported a maximum of 9 videos (3x3) on the screen by default (in Gallery view). For seeing more than 9 videos, users had to manually select the ‘Large Gallery’ view. With this update, users are now able to automatically see up to 49 videos (7x7) on their screen by default without an explicit action. However, Large Gallery view will continue to exist as an option. The actual number of videos seen by a user in Gallery will depend on: Hardware/device capabilities Internet bandwidth Whether content (like desktop sharing) is shared or not Whether content is popped out in a separate window or not Please note: This enhancement will be supported on devices that meet hardware requirements (CPU, memory etc.). Detailed information regarding hardware requirements will be shared before GA release. Flighting status Available to everyone in Public Preview channel. How to enable Join a meeting or start a call. When users have their camera on, Gallery view is now able to show up to 49 videos (7x7) on supported devices. Note 1: If you need information about enabling the public preview itself, see “Enable the public preview for Teams” below. Note 2: To be able to use this feature, users who want to see up to 49 videos in Gallery need to be in Public Preview. Other users in the meeting are not required to be in Public Preview. Supported clients and platforms Windows macOS iOS Android Linux Google Chrome Firefox Safari Microsoft Edge Internet Explorer Yes Yes Known issues None Known limitations Depending on hardware/device capabilities, when content is shared or content is popped out, significantly less videos will be displayed in the grid. Enable your Teams client for the public preview First, IT admins need to set an update policy that turns on Show preview features. Learn how at Public preview in Microsoft Teams - Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Docs. Users then choose to join the public preview individually. Learn how at Get early access to new Teams features - Office Support (microsoft.com) Send us your feedback Got feedback on features in the public preview or other areas of Teams? Let us know straight from Teams via Help > Give feedback. This is on the bottom left of your client. Thank you, Preview Team, Jan_Steberl Quality & Customer Obsession, Microsoft TeamsNow in public preview: Collaborate in Teams meetings with Excel Live
Description Keep your team on the same page and turn Teams meetings into collaborative workspaces with Excel Live! Empower your group to work together in Excel seamlessly, without moving between screens or windows. Flighting status Currently rolling out to Public Preview. Presenting with Excel Live In a Teams meeting, select Share and scroll down to Excel Live section. Select the Excel workbook you'd like to collaborate in during your meeting. Note: If you can't find the Excel workbook you're looking for, select Open in OneDrive or Browse my computer to see more files. Presenters must have full sharing permissions of a file to present it. Once the workbook is selected the share permission dialog will appear. Click Share to provide access to people invited to the meeting. Notes: If you need information about enabling the public preview itself, see “Enable the public preview for Teams” below. Everyone in the meeting should be in Teams Public Preview channel to see this feature in action. To learn more, check out Preview: Excel Live in Teams meetings (support.microsoft.com) Microsoft 365 workloads and dependencies Team desktop/web support Cloud storage (SharePoint and OneDrive) Office Web Apps Supported clients and platforms Client type (Device) Presenter can start Sharing Edit content View sharing Desktop (Win) Yes Yes Yes Desktop (Mac) Yes Yes Yes Web Yes Yes Yes Mobile/Tablet No No Yes Microsoft Teams Rooms No No No * Web support will work only in Public Preview. Will not be available for GA release. Known limitations Excel Live is only supported for meetings with up to 25 attendees of the same organization Excel Live meeting recordings are audio-only and won't include video of the interactive workbook. Web support to start sharing will work only in Public Preview. Will not be available for GA release. Enable your Teams client for the public preview First, IT admins need to set an update policy that turns on Show preview features. Learn how at Public preview in Microsoft Teams - Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Docs. Users then choose to join Public Preview individually. See Get early access to new Teams features - Office Support (microsoft.com) for instructions. Links to feature announcements and blogs: Announcing Excel Live - Transform Microsoft Teams meetings with real-time collaboration - Microsoft Tech Community To read more about the announcements from MS Inspire, click here. Send us your feedback Got feedback on features in the public preview or other areas of Teams? Let us know straight from Teams via Help > Give feedback, found in the bottom left corner of the Teams window. Alternatively, you can share your feedback from "Give Feedback to Microsoft" in the Excel, found in the bottom right corner of the workbook. Thank you, Preview Team, Emily Kirby Quality & Customer Obsession, Microsoft TeamsNow in public preview: Live Translated Captions in Meetings
Description Users are now able to choose the Live Captions in the language they prefer, with the help of Microsoft Cognitive Service Speech Translation Capabilities. This will help users fully participate in meetings where the spoken language may not be their most comfortable language to use. Previously, users were able to select just the spoken language, and the Live Captions appeared in the same language as they selected. You can find more information about Live Captions here. With this new feature, users who turn on Live Captions are able to see options for Live Translated Captions in the “Subtitles” menu. By selecting a translation language, users will see the Translated Captions in the language they selected. List of supported spoken languages: English (US), English (Canada), English (India), English (UK), English (Australia), English (New Zealand), Arabic (Arab Emirates), Arabic (Saudi Arabia), Chinese (Simplified China), Chinese (Traditional, Hong Kong SAR), Chinese (Traditional, Taiwan), Czech (Czechia), Danish (Denmark), Dutch (Belgium), Dutch (Netherlands), French (Canada), French (France), Finnish (Finland), German (Germany), Greek (Greece), Hebrew (Israel), Hindi (India), Hungarian (Hungary), Italian (Italy), Japanese (Japan), Korean (Korea), Norwegian (Norway), Polish (Poland), Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian (Romania), Russian (Russia), Slovak (Slovakia), Spanish (Mexico), Spanish (Spain), Swedish (Sweden), Thai (Thailand), Turkish (Turkey), Ukrainian (Ukraine), Vietnamese (Vietnam) List of supported translation languages: Arabic, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, French (Canada), German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese Please note that some of the languages above will be in preview state when launching. Flighting status Available to everyone in Public Preview channel. How to enable Join a meeting or start a call. Select the “More” icon in the meeting toolbar and press the “Turn on Live Captions” button. Click the three dots in the Live Captions pane at the bottom of the screen and choose the spoken language. You will see live captions in the selected language on the screen. Go to Subtitles menu and select a language to which you want to translate the Live Captions. Note 1: If you need information about enabling the public preview itself, see “Enable the public preview for Teams” below. Note 2: To be able to use this feature, users who want to use Live Translated Captions need to be in Public Preview. Other users are not required to be in Public Preview. Supported clients and platforms Windows macOS iOS Android Linux Google Chrome Firefox Safari Microsoft Edge Internet Explorer Yes Yes Known issues None Known limitations None Enable your Teams client for the public preview First, IT admins need to set an update policy that turns on Show preview features. Learn how at Public preview in Microsoft Teams - Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Docs. Users then choose to join the public preview individually. Learn how at Get early access to new Teams features - Office Support (microsoft.com) Send us your feedback Got feedback on features in the public preview or other areas of Teams? Let us know straight from Teams via Help > Give feedback. This is on the bottom left of your client. Thank you, Preview Team Jan_Steberl Quality & Customer Obsession, Microsoft TeamsNow in public preview: Pre-assign channel members to Breakout Rooms
Description Breakout Rooms for channel meetings feature enables meeting organizers to efficiently pre-assign channel members to Breakout Rooms (both auto and manual) ahead of a channel meeting start. Please note that meetings with Breakout Rooms are limited to 300 participants. If the channel contains more than 300 members, pre-assignment will not be available. Meeting organizers will have the ability to assign participants to Breakout Rooms during the meeting. Flighting status Available to everyone in Public Preview channel. How to enable Meeting organizers can pre-assign channel members to Breakout Rooms of Channels Meetings by accessing the Breakout rooms tab in the Channel Meeting's meeting details and by clicking on Assign participants button. Note 1: If you need information about enabling the public preview itself, see “Enable the public preview for Teams” below. Note 2: To be able to use this feature, meeting organizer needs to be in Public Preview. Other users are not required to be in Public Preview. Supported clients and platforms Windows macOS iOS Android Linux Google Chrome Firefox Safari Microsoft Edge Internet Explorer Yes Yes Known issues None Known limitations You can't create Breakout Rooms if there are more than 300 people in a meeting. Likewise, if you create Breakout Rooms before a meeting, you won't be able to invite more than 300 people. Channel members preassignment also only works for channels with up to 300 members. Enable your Teams client for the public preview First, IT admins need to set an update policy that turns on Show preview features. Learn how at Public preview in Microsoft Teams - Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Docs. Users then choose to join the public preview individually. Learn how at Get early access to new Teams features - Office Support (microsoft.com) Send us your feedback Got feedback on features in the public preview or other areas of Teams? Let us know straight from Teams via Help > Give feedback. This is on the bottom left of your client. Thank you, Jan_Steberl Preview TeamNow in public preview: Get Adobe PDF experience in Teams
Description Now, you can make the Adobe Acrobat Teams app as the default PDF handler in Teams. Once done, all PDF files from the chat, channel, and files app will open directly in the Acrobat app within Teams. Your tenant users do not need any Adobe Acrobat subscription, or an Adobe ID to view the PDFs, view bookmarks, search a PDF, or comment and annotate PDFs. However, to Create, Organize, Combine, or Export a PDF, the tenant users will need an Adobe Acrobat subscription and an Adobe ID. Flighting status Available in public preview. How to enable To set Acrobat as default PDF handler, follow these steps: Setup the Acrobat app to work in the tenant. Log in to Teams admin center. In the left panel, go to Teams app > Manage apps. Search for the Acrobat app, then click the app to go to the app details page. All apps are by default allowed; hence, no action is needed. If a preexisting admin setting, an app permission policy, or an org-wide app setting has blocked the app, make sure the app is allowed. On the Permissions tab, select Review permission requested by the app, then click Accept to grant consent. To know more about app consent, click here. Make the Acrobat app available on users’ Teams client Log in to Teams admin center. In the left panel, go to Teams app > Setup policies. Select Global (Org-wide default) and then select Edit. Under Installed apps, select Add apps. Search Acrobat app, add it and save the policy. To know more about app install policies, click here. While the app can be set up to work on both TAC and MAC, this policy can only be set up on TAC as of now. Hence, we recommend admins use TAC to deploy seamlessly. Note 1: If you need information about enabling the public preview itself, see “Enable the public preview for Teams” below. Supported clients and platforms Windows 10 macOS iOS Android Linux Chrome Firefox Safari Edge Internet Explorer Yes Yes - - - Yes Yes Yes Yes - How does this feature impact the existing experience? All PDF files will directly open in Acrobat app instead of native Teams viewer. Known issues If a tenant has SharePoint file handler setup for PDF files, the PDF files on Channel files tab will open as per Sharepoint file handler end point instead of Acrobat app. Known limitations PDFs on assignment app will continue to open in Teams viewer When user pins a PDF file on channel, the PDF will be opened in native Teams viewer. Enable your Teams client for the public preview First, IT admins need to set an update policy that turns on Show preview features. Learn how at Public preview in Microsoft Teams - Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Docs. Users then choose to join the public preview individually. See Get early access to new Teams features - Office Support (microsoft.com) for instructions. Send us your feedback Got feedback on features in the public preview or other areas of Teams? Let us know straight from Teams via Help > Give feedback. This is on the bottom left of your client. Thank you, Preview Team, Soumitra Paul Quality & Customer Obsession, Microsoft TeamsNow in public preview: Assign Seats in Together Mode
Description Teams meeting organizer now has the option to assign seats in Together Mode for all participants in a meeting. Meeting organizer can assign seats to meeting invitees and all the participants currently in the meeting by dragging the user to the preferred seat. Once assigned, organizer can apply the newly created layout and everyone in the meeting will see the participants organized by the seating assignment. Flighting status Available to everyone in Public Preview channel. How to enable Teams meeting organizer will see an option to assign seats to participants while turning on Together Mode or later from the scene selection dialog box following these steps: Join a Teams Meeting as a meeting organizer. Click on "View" -> "Together Mode" to enable Together Mode. The first time when enabling Together Mode in a meeting, a window will pop up, allowing you to select scenes and make other Together Mode configurations. (When you want to adjust already existing seating, go to "View" -> "Together Mode" -> "Change scene") Click on "Assign Seats" Try to assign users to an empty seat and click "Assign". Users will be placed in the selected seats. Note 1: If you need information about enabling the public preview itself, see “Enable the public preview for Teams” below. Note 2: To be able to use this feature, meeting organizer needs to be in Public Preview. Other users are not required to be in Public Preview. Supported clients and platforms Windows macOS iOS Android Linux Google Chrome Firefox Safari Microsoft Edge Internet Explorer Yes Yes Known issues None Known limitations None Enable your Teams client for the public preview First, IT admins need to set an update policy that turns on Show preview features. Learn how at Public preview in Microsoft Teams - Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Docs. Users then choose to join the public preview individually. Learn how at Get early access to new Teams features - Office Support (microsoft.com) Send us your feedback Got feedback on features in the public preview or other areas of Teams? Let us know straight from Teams via Help > Give feedback. This is on the bottom left of your client. Thank you, Preview Team Jan_Steberl Quality & Customer Obsession, Microsoft TeamsNow in public preview: Cameo in PowerPoint Live in Teams
Description With Cameo in PowerPoint Live, users will be able to integrate the presenter’s Teams camera feed into PowerPoint presentation and customize how and where they want to appear on slides. Cameo supports all personalization properties like any other Office graphical object such as those offered by Pictures, Gifs and Shapes. This includes layering Cameo between content, adding motion effects such as morph, changing styles and shapes. Flighting status Available to everyone in Public Preview channel. How to enable To test the Cameo feature with Teams, you will need a presentation containing a Cameo placeholder. To prepare this PowerPoint presentation yourself, you will need the Office Insider version of PowerPoint. To present PowerPoint slides with a Cameo placeholder in Teams: Join a Teams meeting from a Teams desktop client (Windows or Mac) as a presenter. Click on Share Tray to select/load a presentation with Cameo object already inserted & personalized in the PowerPoint slide. Once Cameo is detected on a slide in PowerPoint Live, we will auto-switch to the enhanced presentation experience with Cameo. On a Cameo slide, your Teams camera feed will auto-appear fully embedded & customized within the PowerPoint Live slides. You can switch to other presenter modes or just show slides at any point from the Teams top menu items as shown below. Note: Your camera should be 'on' before auto-switching to cameo mode to work in PowerPoint Live. If the camera is turned on later while presenting the deck or auto-switching doesn't get happen, the user has the option to manually switch to Cameo from the 'layout' dropdown as shown in below image. Cameo mode selection in the dropdown will only be available if a PowerPoint Live deck being presented already has Cameo object inserted in the slide. To create decks with cameo objects, refer here - Presenting with cameo (microsoft.com) In addition, the power of Cameo will allow real-time camera setting changes in Teams too, such as changing background, camera source or auto-switching presenter’s live camera feed during ‘take control’ in PowerPoint Live mode. Note 1: If you need information about enabling the public preview itself, see “Enable the public preview for Teams” below. Note 2: To be able to use this feature, presenters and attendees need to be in Public Preview. To create Cameo objects, you need to use supported version of PowerPoint. Supported clients and platforms Windows macOS iOS Android Linux Google Chrome Firefox Safari Microsoft Edge Internet Explorer Yes Yes Known issues None Known limitations Cameo in PowerPoint Live will not be shown in the recording, web or mobile clients. Enable your Teams client for the public preview First, IT admins need to set an update policy that turns on Show preview features. Learn how at Public preview in Microsoft Teams - Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Docs. Users then choose to join the public preview individually. Learn how at Get early access to new Teams features - Office Support (microsoft.com) Summary of public preview features For a history of features in the Office and Teams public previews, see Release Notes Current Channel (Preview) - Office release notes | Microsoft Docs. Send us your feedback Got feedback on features in the public preview or other areas of Teams? Let us know straight from Teams via Help > Give feedback. This is on the bottom left of the your client. Thank you, Preview Team, Jan_Steberl Quality & Customer Obsession, Microsoft TeamsROLLED BACK from public preview: Usability improvements to in-meeting notifications
Description Microsoft Teams is updating the user experience for how in-meeting notifications are displayed. Notifications will now be consistent in design and show up in a consistent position (top center of the meeting stage) as bubbles stacked on top of each other. This will avoid overlaps and give the users a cleaner visual experience. In addition, users can also snooze repeat notifications like chat bubbles. This will reduce the end users' confusion and irritation with the notifications. Flighting status Available to everyone in Public Preview channel. We have identified a regression and rolled back this feature from public preview, sorry about the inconvenience. How to enable This experience will be enabled automatically during meetings. Thanks to this update, there will be less distractions and easier ways to understand what is happening during meetings (e.g. recording started). Users will be able to see several in-meeting notifications, like Raised hands 5 minutes left in scheduled meeting time Waiting in the lobby You microphone is muted Transcription and recording started Note 1: If you need information about enabling the public preview itself, see “Enable the public preview for Teams” below. Note 2: To be able to use this feature, users need to be in Public Preview. Users in the same meeting not in Public Preview will not see improved in-meeting notifications. Supported clients and platforms Windows macOS iOS Android Linux Google Chrome Firefox Safari Microsoft Edge Internet Explorer Yes Yes Known issues None Known limitations None Enable your Teams client for the public preview First, IT admins need to set an update policy that turns on Show preview features. Learn how at Public preview in Microsoft Teams - Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Docs. Users then choose to join the public preview individually. Learn how at Get early access to new Teams features - Office Support (microsoft.com) Send us your feedback Got feedback on features in the public preview or other areas of Teams? Let us know straight from Teams via Help > Give feedback. This is on the bottom left of your client. Thank you, Preview Team, Jan_Steberl Quality & Customer Obsession, Microsoft TeamsNow in public preview: Pop out shared content into a separate window
Description Microsoft Teams now supports the ability to pop out shared content (shared screen, PowerPoint Live and Whiteboard) into a separate window while in meetings. Flighting status Available to everyone in Public Preview channel. How to enable To pop out content from meeting stage and use more monitors/screens during meetings: Join a Teams meeting from a Teams desktop client (Windows or Mac) as an attendee or presenter . When content (shared screen, PowerPoint Live or Whiteboard) is shared by another presenter in the meeting, click the "Pop out" button in the meeting toolbar to pop out the content into a separate window. You can pop in the window with shared content by closing it (by pressing "X" button). When the presenter stops sharing content, you can also click on "Dismiss" button which appears below a message in the pop out window informing you that content sharing has ended. Note 1: If you need information about enabling the public preview itself, see “Enable the public preview for Teams” below. Note 2: To be able to use this feature, users need to be in Public Preview. Users not in Public Preview will not be able to pop out shared content into a separate window. Windows macOS iOS Android Linux Google Chrome Firefox Safari Microsoft Edge Internet Explorer Yes Yes Known issues None Known limitations Majority of modern devices with medium and high-end hardware will support popping out content into a shared window while in meetings. As Microsoft continues to fine tune the experience, there may be more support in the future for other types of devices with less performant hardware. Also, we will list the specific supported hardware configuration at GA. Enable your Teams client for the public preview First, IT admins need to set an update policy that turns on Show preview features. Learn how at Public preview in Microsoft Teams - Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Docs. Users then choose to join the public preview individually. Learn how at Get early access to new Teams features - Office Support (microsoft.com) Send us your feedback Got feedback on features in the public preview or other areas of Teams? Let us know straight from Teams via Help > Give feedback. This is on the bottom left of the your client. Thank you, Preview Team, Jan_Steberl Quality & Customer Obsession, Microsoft TeamsNow in public preview: Disabling auto provisioning of Wiki with new channel creation
Description We're making some changes to Wiki experience in Teams- channels. At present whenever a new private or standard channel is created then a Wiki is automatically provisioned for the channel and added as a tab in channels. Going forward, we're not going to provision wiki by default when a new private or standard channel is created. Users can add new wikis as tabs in channels as and when needed, there is no impact on existing wikis that are already available. Flighting status Available in public preview How to enable This config change is available to everyone. How does this feature impact the existing experience? There is no experience change for existing wiki and users can add wiki as a new tab in channels. Known issues NA Known limitations NA Enable your Teams client for the public preview First, IT admins need to set an update policy that turns on Show preview features. Learn how at Public preview in Microsoft Teams - Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Docs. Users then choose to join the public preview individually. See Get early access to new Teams features - Office Support (microsoft.com) for instructions. Send us your feedback Got feedback on features in the public preview or other areas of Teams? Let us know straight from Teams via Help > Give feedback. This is on the bottom left of the your client. Thank you, Preview Team, Soumitra Paul Quality & Customer Obsession, Microsoft TeamsNow in public preview: Speaker Coach in Microsoft Teams Meetings
Description Bring your best self into every meeting with Speaker Coach, your own private, personalized meeting coach. Speaker Coach provides private, personalized feedback on your speaking skills in both real-time as well as post-meeting, in a summary. Flighting status Available 100% in Public Preview channel. How to enable Turn on Speaker Coach within your meeting. While you are in a meeting, you can turn on Speaker Coach. There are two ways to enable Speaker Coach: Clicking on the overflow menu (…) Select the overflow menu (…) button within your meeting call. Click on “Turn on Speaker Coach” By sharing content via PowerPoint Live Click on the share tray icon within your meeting. Select a PowerPoint presentation you want to display. Once your PowerPoint view has loaded, select the Speaker Coach button underneath your main slide. Once Speaker Coach is enabled, speak as you normally would during your meeting to see what kind of feedback, we have for you. Post meeting Speaker Coach report Once you are done with your meeting you can access your post meeting Speaker Coach report by Clicking on the notification that you received after your meeting ended Clicking on the chat from the meeting where you used Speaker Coach. There will be a tab called "Speaker Coach" in that chat will take you to your Speaker Coach report. Enable Speaker Coach for all your meetings. You can automatically turn on Speaker Coach for all your meetings in the Speaker Coach report from a previous meeting. On your report there will be a toggle (top right area) to "Automatically start Speaker Coach in meetings". Toggle the setting on to turn on Speaker Coach for all your meetings on that device. Known limitation: This setting is on a per machine basis and is reset on sign-out. Note: If you need information about enabling the public preview itself, see “Enable the public preview for Teams” below. Supported clients and platforms Windows 10 macOS iOS Android Linux Chrome Firefox Safari Edge Internet Explorer Yes Yes - - - - - - - - Privacy Note: The notification during the meeting is private to the user and not visible to anyone else. It is not included in the meeting recording if the user or anyone in the meeting started recording. The summary report after the meeting is also private and visible only to the user and not accessible by others within Microsoft, including your IT administrators. Known limitations Currently only the English language is supported. The Teams app language must be set to English, as well. Speaker coach is not supported for channel meetings or when starting a meeting using the "Meet now" option. If a user has disabled transcription’s speaker attribution in settings, they won’t be able to use speaker coach. Enable your Teams client for the public preview First, IT admins need to set an update policy that turns on Show preview features. Learn how at Public preview in Microsoft Teams - Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Docs. Users then choose to join the public preview individually. See Get early access to new Teams features - Office Support (microsoft.com) for instructions. Send us your feedback Got feedback on features in the public preview or other areas of Teams? Let us know straight from Teams via Help > Give feedback. Thank you, Preview Team, Emily Kirby Quality & Customer Obsession, Microsoft TeamsNow in public preview: Collaborative Annotation
Description Annotation—powered by Microsoft Whiteboard—helps you collaborate on things, like a design or presentation, while sharing your screen in a Teams meeting. Flighting status Started flighting. Available to everyone in public preview by June 3, 2022. How to enable Turn on and use annotation While you're sharing your full screen in a meeting, select Start annotation in the meeting controls at the upper-middle area of your screen. The red outline around the shared screen will turn blue and all participants will see the Microsoft Whiteboard toolset at the top of the shared screen. Everyone in the meeting can begin annotating right away, and the red pen tool is selected by default. To begin annotating, choose one of the tools in the Whiteboard toolset--like Sticky notes--and start typing or drawing on the screen. Note: You can take screenshots during the meeting if you’d like to reference the annotated content later. The ability to screenshot annotation for Mac is coming soon. Annotation settings Collaborative cursors show the names of every participant in the meeting by default. Anyone in the meeting can turn them off. To turn them off: Select Settings Turn off the toggle next to Collaborative cursors. Turn off annotation As the presenter, you can turn off annotation for all participants by selecting Stop annotation in the meeting controls at the upper-middle area of your screen. Note: If you need information about enabling the public preview itself, see “Enable the public preview for Teams” below. Microsoft 365 workloads and dependencies Product, workload, or area Dependency (Yes/No) If yes, version requirements and other dependencies Exchange No --- Sharepoint, files No --- Skype for Business No --- Outlook add-in No --- Azure AD No --- OneDrive No --- Office --- Whiteboard Yes Whiteboard required to be enabled (default) + + For whiteboard to be enabled, please ensure -IsWBFluidEnabled is set to $true from Set-SPOTenant cmdlet https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/sharepoint-online/set-spotenant?view=sharepoint-ps Supported clients and platforms Windows 10 macOS iOS Android Linux Chrome Firefox Safari Edge Internet Explorer Yes Yes * Web users can view and annotate but cannot start annotations when sharing their screen ** iOS and Android users can only participate in an annotation session started by another presenter Supported scenarios across Teams client endpoints Client type (Device) User can share content & start Annotations Viewer can see Annotations Viewer can annotate on shared content Desktop (Win) Yes Yes Yes Desktop (Mac) No (ETA July 2022) Yes Yes Web No Yes Yes Mobile/Tablet No Yes Yes MTR-w N/A Yes No MTR-W with touch N/A Yes Yes MTR-A No No No Surface Hub No Yes Yes Known issues Public Preview release does not have the ability to save annotated content in-app. You can take screenshots during the meeting if you’d like to reference the annotated content later. The ability to screenshot annotation for Mac is coming soon. Recording doesn’t capture annotated data. You cannot use annotation in window sharing (only available in desktop sharing) If you don’t see the option to use annotation in a meeting, you may have "Disable GPU hardware acceleration" enabled. In a future version of this feature, we will be removing this limitation. For now, please use the steps: In the upper-right corner of Teams, select Settings and more > Settings > General. Under Application, uncheck the box next to Disable GPU hardware acceleration (requires restarting Teams). Enable your Teams client for the public preview First, IT admins need to set an update policy that turns on Show preview features. Learn how at Public preview in Microsoft Teams - Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Docs. Users then choose to join the public preview individually. See Get early access to new Teams features - Office Support (microsoft.com) for instructions. Send us your feedback Got feedback on features in the public preview or other areas of Teams? Let us know straight from Teams via Help > Give feedback. Thank you, Preview Team, Emily Kirby Quality & Customer Obsession, Microsoft TeamsNow in public preview: Chat with Yourself
Description Teams will now support Chat with Self, a way to send yourself messages, images, files and do everything you can in a regular chat. A Chat with Self is a space that’s just for you. You can try out new features within the confines of a safe sandbox, send notes to yourself, share content with yourself to be able to access it easier across your different devices, and more. This feature will show up automatically in a user’s pinned chat lists, and they can choose to keep it there or remove it. If they choose to remove it, the chat will just live in the chat list. If the user wants to find it again, they can click on New chat, type in their own name, and start chatting with themselves again. The user can also go to their own people card and start a chat from there. The content in the self chat is searchable through the search bar at the top of the chat list, however, the user cannot (yet) search for themselves in that search box. Desktop Android: User can search for themselves in the To: line when starting a new chat User sees empty state of a new chat with themselves explaining the feature User can send themselves messages and try out new features User sees themselves in the chat list and in the pinned list (can unpin if they want) User can also access chat with self from their own people card by tapping the leftmost chat icon User can share things with themselves from their device for easier access later iOS: User can search for themselves in the To: line when starting a new chat User sees empty state of a new chat with themselves explaining the feature User can send themselves messages and try out new features User sees themselves in the chat list and in the pinned list (can unpin if they want) User can also access chat with self from their own people card by tapping the leftmost chat icon User can share things with themselves from their device for easier access later Flighting status Available to everyone in Public Preview and mobile apps. How to enable Enabled by default for all tenants. Note: If you need information about enabling the public preview itself, see “Enable the public preview for Teams” below. Supported clients and platforms Windows 10 macOS iOS Android Linux Chrome Firefox Safari Edge Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Known issues None Known limitations The content in the self chat is searchable through the search bar at the top of the chat list, however, the user cannot (yet) search for themselves in that search box. Tenant policies for chat history retention apply to this feature Enable your Teams client for the public preview First, IT admins need to set an update policy that turns on Show preview features. Learn how at Public preview in Microsoft Teams - Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Docs. Users then choose to join the public preview individually. See Get early access to new Teams features - Office Support (microsoft.com) for instructions. Summary of public preview features For a history of features in the Office and Teams public previews, see Release Notes Current Channel (Preview) - Office release notes | Microsoft Docs. Send us your feedback Got feedback on features in the public preview or other areas of Teams? Let us know straight from Teams via Help > Give feedback. Thank you, Preview Team, Jason_Schumacher Quality & Customer Obsession, Microsoft TeamsNow in public preview: Custom download location for files in Teams
Description Currently all file downloads from Teams go to the “Downloads” folder and there is no mechanism to change it. With this new feature users will be able to choose their preferred download location for downloading files in Teams or specify a download location for each download. To enable this there is a new setting introduced under “Files” settings which would allow the users to change the default download location to their preferred download location. Note: These settings will only apply to the files downloaded post the setting is done and will not impact any files downloaded in the past. How to enable The new settings are under Files (Settings -> Files) which by default will be selected as “Downloads” folder (Mac/Windows). User can change this to any preferred location. Additionally, there is a toggle, which if enabled will prompt user to select location for each download. Click on ‘Settings – Inside settings select ‘Files’ to see the 2 settings to define the download location Supported clients and platforms Windows 10 macOS iOS Android Linux Chrome Firefox Safari Edge Internet Explorer Yes Yes - - - - - - - - How does this feature impact the existing experience? NA Known issues NA Known limitations These settings are not applicable for Teams Web (i.e. Teams accessed via a web browser). Enable your Teams client for the public preview First, IT admins need to set an update policy that turns on Show preview features. Learn how at Public preview in Microsoft Teams - Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Docs. Users then choose to join the public preview individually. See Get early access to new Teams features - Office Support (microsoft.com) for instructions. Send us your feedback Got feedback on features in the public preview or other areas of Teams? Let us know straight from Teams via Help > Give feedback. This is on the bottom left of the your client. Thank you, Preview Team, Soumitra Paul Quality & Customer Obsession, Microsoft TeamsIn public preview: Meeting co-organizer
Description Organizers will now be able to share control by assigning the new "Co-organizer" role to people they invite. Co-organizers will have almost all of the capabilities of the organizer, including management of Meeting Options. Meeting organizers can assign the co-organizer meeting role to up to 10 people they invite to a meeting. Co-organizers will be granted most of the capabilities of the organizer in the meeting, including being able to access & modify the meeting options for the meeting. Flighting status 100% in public preview How to enable Meeting organizers can manage the co-organizer meeting role via a new "Choose co-organizers" meeting option: To qualify for the co-organizer role, an invitee must be using an account that is on the same tenant, or using a Guest account on the same tenant as the organizer’s account. Co-organizers will be displayed as additional organizers in the meeting's participants list, and they will have most of the capabilities of an organizer in the meeting. Co-organizers can do the following: Access and change meeting options Bypass the lobby Admit people from the lobby during a meeting Lock the meeting Present content Change another participant’s meeting role End the meeting for all Co-organizers cannot do the following: View & download attendance reports Manage the meeting recording Edit the meeting invitation Remove or change the Organizer's role Are there any other changes associated with this new feature? The “Only me” selection for the “Who can present?” meeting option has been updated to reflect that this will apply to “Only me and co-organizers”. And the “Only me” selection for the “Who can bypass the lobby?” meeting option has been updated to reflect that this will apply to “Only me and co-organizers.” Note: If you need information about enabling the public preview itself, see “Enable the public preview for Teams” below. Supported clients and Windows 10 macOS iOS Android Linux Chrome Firefox Safari Edge Internet Explorer Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Known issues The text field for 'Choose co-organizers" meeting option has an intermittent issue on mobile. If it is difficult to assign the role via the meeting options page on your mobile device, please try updating the meeting using desktop or web The "Download Attendance Report" link may still be visible for co-organizers in the "..." button's menu from the Participants list during a meeting. This is non-functional. If a co-organizer clicks it, no report is available. Known limitations 1. Co-organizers cannot yet access or download attendance reports. 2. While co-organizers can view meeting recordings, they do not yet have full parity with the organizer's recording management capabilities. 3. Only the meeting organizer can create breakout rooms before a meeting via the “Breakout Rooms” tab at the top of the meeting details page in Teams Calendar. Enable your Teams client for the public preview First, IT admins need to set an update policy that turns on Show preview features. Learn how at Public preview in Microsoft Teams - Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Docs. Users then choose to join the public preview individually. See Get early access to new Teams features - Office Support (microsoft.com) for instructions. Summary of public preview features For a history of features in the Office and Teams public previews, see Release Notes Current Channel (Preview) - Office release notes | Microsoft Docs. Send us your feedback Got feedback on features in the public preview or other areas of Teams? Let us know straight from Teams via Help > Give feedback. Thank you, Preview Team, Emily Kirby Quality & Customer Obsession, Microsoft TeamsNow in public preview: Attendance Report for Breakout Rooms
Description This breakout rooms feature enables meeting organizers to view and download the attendance report for each breakout room in its main meeting's attendance report. The report includes the participants’ names, email, join and leave time, time in meeting and role, and the breakout room’s start and end time, average meeting duration and average attendance time. The organizer can download the breakout rooms attendance report as a CSV file. Main Meeting Attendance Dashboard view: Breakout Room’s Attendance Report: Note: The Meeting Recap still offers an older version of Attendance Report. We have a feature improvement to correct this. We suggest using the Attendance tab in the Teams Calendar invite for the newest downloadable Flighting status Available to everyone now in public preview. Supported clients and platforms Windows 10 macOS iOS Android Linux Chrome Firefox Safari Edge Internet Explorer Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Known limitations If in a breakout room, no one chatted during the meeting, the organizer has no entry point to see the breakout room's attendance report for itself (though integrated in its main meeting's attendance report). Co-organizer cannot manage attendance reports. For more information, please see: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams-public-preview/now-in-public-preview-meeting-co-organizer/m-p/3083621#M615 Enable your Teams client for the public preview First, IT admins need to set an update policy that turns on Show preview features. Learn how at Public preview in Microsoft Teams - Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Docs. Users then choose to join the public preview individually. See Get early access to new Teams features - Office Support (microsoft.com) for instructions. Summary of public preview features For a history of features in the Office and Teams public previews, see Release Notes Current Channel (Preview) - Office release notes | Microsoft Docs. Send us your feedback Got feedback on features in the public preview or other areas of Teams? Let us know straight from Teams via Help > Give feedback. Thank you, Preview Team, Emily Kirby Quality & Customer Obsession, Microsoft Teams
