Now in public preview: Automatic lowering of a user's Raised Hand after speaking
Description To reduce the number of stale raised hands in meetings, we now suggest users to lower their raised hand after we detect they spoke in the meeting. If users don't take any action on the suggestion notification, we'll automatically lower their hand. This should ensure smoother meeting facilitation for organizers and presenters. Flighting status Available to everyone in Public Preview channel. How to enable Users who raise their hand in a Teams meeting and speak in the meeting will see a notification informing them that their hand will automatically be lowered soon. They will be able to choose to keep their hand raised. If the user doesn't take action on the notification, their hand will automatically lower. This should ensure smoother meeting facilitation for organizers and presenters. 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, user needs to be in Public Preview. Other meeting participants are not required to be in Public Preview. Supported clients and platforms Windows macOS iOS Android Linux Google Chrome Firefox Safari Microsoft Edge Yes Yes Known issues None Known limitations Users will not see the notification and their hand will not be automatically lowered if Noise suppression is turned off in their Teams devices settings. Please note that Noise suppression is automatically turned off when your device has high CPU usage in order to preserve resources. 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 Quality & Customer Obsession, Microsoft TeamsNow in public preview: Detailed call history
Description We have updated the previous 1 to 1 call history to now involve richer context and details. Now in Call History, a user can see group calls and all participants involved, calls that were transferred, and calls that were forwarded. Additionally, there has been added a new Timeline section where further details on each call can be seen after clicking on the call record in the history section. In the Timeline, a user will get further context on who answered the call, and the duration and start and end times of the call as well. Flighting status Started flighting. Rollout estimated to be complete by Friday October 15 th 2022. How to enable Detailed Call History is automatically available to every user in public preview. Note 1: If you need information about enabling the public preview itself, see “Enable your Teams client for the public preview” below. Note 2: User needs to be in Public Preview to be able to use this feature. Supported clients and platforms Windows macOS iOS Android Linux Edge Chrome Safari Firefox Yes Yes NA NA NA Yes Yes NA NA Available on desktop and web. Known limitations The feature is scoped to transferred, forwarded, and group calls currently. Merged calls, parked calls, and hold/resume, call queues, and delegate calls are out of scope. 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 Quality & Customer Obsession, Microsoft Teams
Screen Sharing not working in latest version
Hi all, Anyone else, that has problem with screen sharing in the current preview version? My Teams Version: 25007.606.3361.4724 My Clientversion: 49/25010620407 If i share my screen (regardless if full monitor or single app), the other users only see, that I am trying to share something, but never get the content visible. The only users that can see my content shared, are using the preview version as well. I tested it with one normal user and one with preview in the same call. The latter one was able to see the screen, the other one not. I have found a workaround right now: If I am in a call with a normal user, I can share the screen, if we start recording for a few seconds and stop it then. As long as recording has run at least for a few seconds, everyone can see my shared screen. I faced that issue for the first time last week.Now in Public preview & Targeted release: Introducing zooming controls while viewing screenshare
Users in a Teams call or meeting now see new buttons to zoom in, zoom out, and restore the original size of the incoming screen sharing. This will greatly enhance the experience of users viewing screenshare. (Ability to zoom was previously only available using pinch-to-zoom gesture on a trackpad or other shortcuts.) Flighting status Available to everyone in Public Preview channel. How to enable While attending a meeting or call with an incoming screenshare, use buttons to zoom in, zoom out and restore the original size of the screenshare. 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, user needs to be in Public Preview. Other meeting participants are not required to be in Public Preview. Supported clients and platforms Windows macOS iOS Android Linux Google Chrome Firefox Safari Microsoft Edge Yes Yes Yes Yes Known issues None Known limitations This feature is currently not available when watermark (applicable for Teams Premium only) is enabled. Enable your Teams client for the public preview First, IT admins need to set an update policy that turns on Allow public preview. 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 Quality & Customer Obsession, Microsoft TeamsNow in Public preview & Targeted release: Collaborative meeting notes in Teams meetings
We’re excited to share that Microsoft Teams Public Preview users can now use collaborative meeting notes. Collaborative meeting notes in Teams meetings Microsoft Teams is dedicated to offering features that make meetings more efficient. With Collaborative notes, meeting attendees can work together to create agendas, take notes, and generate action items. Loop components allow you to collaborate right inside a chat message in Microsoft Teams. Using the Collaborative notes Loop component, you can collaborate with others and keep everyone updated as notes as synchronized across all devices. Also note tasks assigned using Collaborative notes are automatically synchronized with To Do and Planner, providing an efficient way to manage tasks and streamline workflows. How it works Schedule a meeting from Teams and include an agenda To add a recurring, standing agenda to all meeting instances while scheduling in Teams, at the bottom of the form, click the Add an agenda everyone can edit option. Join a Teams meeting and collaborate on meeting notes Click the Notes button in the toolbar. In the Meeting notes pane, you can create an agenda in real time, or review the agenda if one has already been provided. You can also take notes and track tasks. When you’re assigned a task during the meeting, you’ll also be sent an email notification and the task is automatically synchronized with Planner and To Do. Follow up after a meeting All your Collaborative notes are Loop components that can easily be shared from your meeting across Microsoft 365 like in Team chats and Outlook. The notes stay in sync as changes are made across apps. This fall, the integration of Loop components with OneNote will enable you to seamlessly incorporate your Collaborative notes into your OneNote notebooks. You’ll have the freedom to continue editing these notes within OneNote, helping you consolidate your meeting notes in a single, centralized notebook. To view your notes, click the filename you want in Teams. You can go to Microsoft 365 and search for the relevant meeting name to view your notes. Review tasks assigned to you All your assigned tasks are available in the Tasks app in Teams, as well as Planner and To Do, providing a consolidated view of your tasks. To view all your tasks or open Collaborative notes, in the Planner or To Do, click the Assigned to me option. Known issues External and guest participants can’t access meeting notes before or during the meeting. If you @mention a user while editing Collaborative notes on Microsoft 365, you’ll need to give access to users using the Share and notify You might see an error message: If you join a meeting with over 100 attendees. If you are an attendee of over 300 meetings that include tasks. NOTE: We have removed the previous Teams meeting notes solution. You can still download your previous wiki notes locally. Participants who didn’t create the notes may need to be granted access by the meeting creator. Known limitations Teams doesn’t support channel meetings, ad hoc Meet Now meetings, and 1:1 calls. Mobile clients are not yet supported—this is coming soon. Please follow the status on the roadmap for item 128652 If the meeting owner is using a mailbox stored on an on-premise Exchange server, Collaborative notes can’t be added to the meeting at the time of scheduling. To add Collaborative notes, the meeting owner will need to first send the meeting invite, and then later add Collaborative notes. Availability To be able to use this feature, users need to be members of the Teams Public Preview and use the Windows, macOS or web (Edge, Chrome) Teams client. Other meeting participants are not required to be members of the Teams Public Preview. To enable your Teams client for the Public Preview, IT admins need to set an update policy that turns on Show preview features. Learn how at Public preview in Microsoft Teams. If the Follow Office Preview option is selected, it automatically enables Teams Public Preview features for any user enrolled in Office Current Channel (Preview). There are no more actions required by the end user. If the Enabled option is selected, the end user must also opt in to Teams public preview in their Teams app to get access to Teams Public Preview features. If the Forced option is selected, it automatically enables Teams Public Preview for the end user. There are no more actions required by the end user. Loop components are on by default if you’re running Teams Public Preview builds. As an IT Admin, you can disable them using this information: Manage Loop experiences (Loop app and Loop components) in SharePoint – SharePoint in Microsoft 365 | Microsoft Learn Feedback We want to hear from you! Click Help > Give feedback to send us your thoughts about this feature. This feedback menu is located in the bottom-left corner of your Teams client.Now in public preview: Ultrasound Howling Detection in Teams Meetings
Currently in Microsoft Teams, when multiple users are in a Teams meeting in the same room, a feedback loop is created, causing an echo. With this update, if multiple users are participating with laptops from the same location, Teams will notify the user that another Teams device has been detected nearby and is already included with audio in the current meeting. Teams will automatically mute the microphone and speakers of the person that joined when a user joins with audio on. Flighting status Available to everyone in Public Preview channel. How to enable When a user attempts to join a meeting where other participants are already physically present in the same room, they will receive a notification upon joining. The notification will inform them that multiple individuals are already present in the meeting and that the speaker and microphone switch will be automatically turned off to prevent any audio echo. However, the user has the freedom to manually turn the switch back on at any time they desire. 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, user needs to be in Public Preview. Other meeting participants are not required to be in Public Preview. Supported clients and platforms Windows macOS iOS Android Linux Google Chrome Firefox Safari Microsoft Edge 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 Quality & Customer Obsession, Microsoft TeamsNow in public preview: Speaker view in Teams meetings
Description Microsoft Teams is introducing a new feature: Speaker view. This option can be selected from the view switcher within meetings, allowing users to effortlessly track the current active speaker. Speaker view is particularly effective in scenarios with a limited number of key speakers and a large audience, such as town halls, trainings, or lectures - especially from the student's perspective. The Speaker View offers several enhancements, including: Easy tracking of the active speaker: The view includes a primary area on the stage to focus on key participants in the meeting. Better visual clarity: The active speaker's video is rendered at a higher resolution. Equal representation for audio and video participants: All attendees are equally represented in the meeting, regardless of whether their video is enabled or disabled. Inclusive by default: This view utilizes 16:9 tiles, providing ample space to fully display hand gestures and body language. Predictable experience: The use of 16:9 tiles and consistent placement of audio and video participants on the same stage ensures a fluid experience. Users toggling their videos on or off do not cause the entire stage to be re-rendered. The main area designated for the active speaker is also utilized for shared content, enabling seamless transitions during presentations. Flighting status Available to everyone in Public Preview channel. How to enable Users can select this new view “Speaker view” from the view switcher in meeting toolbar. This view is not set as a default view. 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, user needs to be in Public Preview. Other meeting participants are not required to be in Public Preview. Supported clients and platforms Windows macOS iOS Android Linux Google Chrome Firefox Safari Microsoft Edge Yes Yes 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 Quality & Customer Obsession, Microsoft Teams[Released to GA] Now in public preview: Language Interpretation
Description Language interpretation will allow interpreters to convert what the speaker says into another language in real time without disrupting the original flow of delivery of the speaker. This will allow more inclusive meetings, where participants who may not speak the same language can fully collaborate with each other. Flighting status Available now for everyone in Public Preview. This feature has been released. Please see this link for more details: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams-blog/language-interpretation-is-now-generally-available-ga-in/ba-p/3628382 How to enable Schedule interpreters when creating a new meeting Organizer creates a new meeting. Organizer adds their interpreters to the invite list on the meeting creation form. In Meeting Options, the Organizer toggles “Enable language interpretation” ON, selects the interpreter they’ve invited, and then assigns the interpreters to a language pair. Note: Today, the interpretation option is available in the meeting options after the meeting has been created/saved. Once saved, open the meeting options in a browser and add/edit interpreters there. We are working on improving this create flow so you can edit interpreters directly on meeting page before saving. This updated experience will be out in preview soon. Participant experience listening to interpreters during a meeting Meeting Participant selects a language channel to listen to during a meeting that has interpretation enabled. After selecting a language to listen to, participants should hear the interpreter at a louder volume than the main speaker. Participants switch between language channels and listening to the main speaker. Interpreter experience When interpreters join a meeting, they should be able to immediately start interpreting for the meeting. Interpreters should hear the main speaker. 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 - - - - - - - - Known issues and limitations In this iteration of the feature, Organizers can only schedule interpreters unidirectionally for a language pair (e.g. interpreters can only be assigned to the English to Spanish direction. There will need to be a second interpreter to handle the Spanish to English direction). Irish/Gaeilge is currently under development and will be available before public release Interpreters cannot be external users, this is being worked on Currently, the interpreters must be selected before the meeting begins. This is being worked on. 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 Teams public previews, see Microsoft Teams Public Preview - Microsoft Tech Community 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 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 Teams
