Windows 10: Here is what is new in Microsoft Teams in April 2020

Brink · Apr 30, 2020

As businesses and schools around the world prioritize remote work for the safety and well-being of their employees and students, Microsoft Teams is playing a critical role in helping them stay connected through video meetings, calls, and chats. Today, we are excited to introduce new meetings capabilities, IT administration controls and so much more to further the experience for our customers. Read on to see whatâs new in April.

Whatâs New: IT Admin

Introducing the new Meetings Dashboard

The new Meetings dashboard in the Microsoft Teams admin center helps you ensure users have the best experience possible during meetings and calls by providing you insights into usage, user feedback, network health, meeting details, devices, and more from a single place. Leveraging Power BI capabilities, this interactive dashboard allows you to filter information by dimensions such as day, countries, and platform allowing you quickly identify areas of improvement and drill down to uncover the root cause of poor experiences. And because it built using our industry leading analytics platform, you have ability to join meeting data with other datasets such as faculty directory for student attendance in remote learning.

For customers that may have unique needs or more targeted requirements, we will soon make a call record API generally available to allow customers and partners to export Teams meetings and calls data for further analysis.

The new meetings dashboard is coming to Teams soon.

Improve voice quality with local media optimization for direct routing

Local Media Optimization for Direct Routing improves voice quality by keeping media streams local within the boundaries of corporate networks. It also supports streams between Teams and SBCs even if they are behind corporate firewalls not visible to Microsoft directly. This local streaming improves security and performance for Teams Calling. Learn more here.

These quality improvements are available in product now.

Control profile picture settings on Teams

The Teams web and desktop experiences now recognize the Outlook on the web mailbox policy setting that controls whether users can change their profile pictures. Admins can configure this policy setting to promote a safer work or school environment by preventing inappropriate content from being used in profile pictures.

This policy setting is currently rolling out.

Get insights into Teams app usage in your environment

The New App analytics and reports experience will provide administrators insights into usage of Teams apps in their environment allowing them to manage risk and make informed decisions. Admins will soon be able to see each app in their tenant, their type, and how many users and teams are actively using the app. This is a great complement to our robust capabilities to confidently manage your Teams apps including the app catalog, which allows you to view detailed information about each app in your tenant. Additionally, app policies and settings allows admins to manage permissions, define how apps are displayed in the Teams experience, and control availability of custom apps.

This management experience is coming to Teams soon.

Easily assign a policy to a large group of users

Microsoft Teams offers a robust set of policies to empower administrators with controls to tailor the Teams experience to users. Batch policy assignment allows administrators to streamline the process of assigning policies or policy packages to a large group of users. The New-CsBatchPolicyAssignmentOperation cmdlet lets you submit a batch of users and a policy that you want to assign using one PowerShell command line to perform the action. A batch can contain up to 20,000 users and admins can specify users by their object Id, user principal name (UPN), Session Initiation Protocol address, or email address. Learn more about policy assignment in Teams here.

New Meeting Controls

Read on to learn about new meetings controls we have introduced to make it easier for you and your users to manage your Teams meetings!

Default lobby setting â We changed the default Teams policy to make external users wait in the lobby before joining a Teams meeting to ensure than only the right people are in the meeting. This policy change will only impact those tenants who have not modified the default meetings policy.

Lobby settings for PSTN participants â Any user who schedules a Microsoft Teams meeting will now see a separate setting to control the lobby for Audio Conferencing (PSTN) participants in the Meeting Options page of a given meeting. Additionally, they will also see a new option to control the announcement sound when a PSTN/dial-in participant joins or leaves the meeting.

Whatâs New: Meetings & Calling

Increase in the number of simultaneous videos in Teams meetings

Virtual face to face conversations are the new normal for remote working, and now more than ever itâs important to feel connected with those you are meeting. We are increasing the number of participants who can be viewed simultaneously on the Teams meeting stage from 4 to 9. This new experience optimizes for attendees who have enabled video and places the remaining audio-only participants below the meeting stage. To provide a high audio and video quality experience, the layout will adapt, based on the user bandwidth and alter the number of videos shown to provide the best meeting experience. This feature has started to roll out. If you don't see it yet, please sit tight as it is a staged rollout and can take up to a couple weeks to reach everyone.

Raise Hands

Excuse me! The new âraise handsâ feature in Teams allows meeting attendees to identify that they wish to speak, making it easier to actively participate in large meetings. Everyone will see a visual cue on the attendeeâas well as in the participant list that prioritizes who raised their hand firstâand can give them the room to participate in the conversation at hand. We expect this feature to start rolling out early next week.

Background effects

Keep the focus on youânot whatâs behind you! We are building upon the heavily popular video background blur feature in Teams meetings with background effects. This new feature in Teams allows meetings attendees to customize their video background from a list of pre-selected images. This feature is generally available. We will continue to iterate and enhance this new feature to include the ability for users to upload their own custom images in mid-May.

Background Blur for iOS

Keep the focus on you and not whatâs behind you on your mobile device! We are excited to bring this frequently utilized feature from the desktop to your iPhones and iPads. Now available.

Live captions in iOS and Android

Whether hard of hearing, have different levels of language proficiency, or are connecting from a loud location, live captions allows meeting participants to follow along and read what is said during Teams meetings. Live captions is now available on iOS and Android mobile devices in English.

Microsoft 365 Live Event Limit Increases

To help customers meet rapidly changing communication needs, Microsoft 365 live events will temporarily raise default limits until July 1, 2020 for live events hosted in Teams, Stream, and Yammer. The following increases will begin rolling out next week:

Attendee limit: events can support up to 20,000 attendees

Concurrent events:  50 events can be hosted simultaneously across a tenant

Event duration:  event length has been increased to 16 hours per broadcast

Additionally, we recently announced support for up to 100,000 event attendees partnership with the Live Events Assistance Program. 

Share system audio in Teams live events

With share system audio in live events, your attendees will hear the audio of the content that you are sharing on your screen. This feature works just like share system audio in Teams meetings, and is great for sharing audio and video experiences with your attendees. This feature is only available for presenter and producers in a live event joining from the Windows desktop Teams client.

End the meeting for all participants

Meeting organizers are now able to end the meeting for everybody, so that all participants are made to exit the meeting. Within the meeting control bar, only meeting organizers will see an item that says "end meeting.â A great example of a relevant scenario is in education: teachers need to ensure that students leave the meeting once class is over to ensure their safety.

1:1 Call Recording

Now you can easily record your 1:1 calls in Teams just as you already can for meetings. Simply select the option to record and call participants will be notified on their screen that a recording has begun! Learn more here.

Whatâs New: Chat & Collaboration

The Yammer app for Microsoft Teams is now available!

The new Yammer App for Microsoft Teams brings a fully interactive Yammer experience into the hub for teamwork, helping you stay connected to whatâs happening across your organization, and engage and connect with your communities directly within Microsoft Teams. Watch live events, share announcements, pin conversations, and mark best answers just as you would in Yammer. No more toggling between apps or confusion about where to chat â simply add and pin the Yammer app to the navigation rail and start discovering communities, knowledge, and conversations right alongside your projects, chat, and meetings. Itâs Yammerâ in Teams. Learn more here.

Acknowledge exceptional efforts and mindset

Despite challenging times and situations, people across organizations are going above and beyond to help our communities. To show appreciation of their efforts, weâve released three new badges (courage, optimism and inclusive) in Praise, to celebrate those who are truly making a difference. Start using these badges today.

Channel cross-post editing

Do you need to updated information that you posted across multiple channels? Channel cross posting now supports editing a message after it has been posted. Additionally, you can add or remove channels to reach a wider audience or have a focused conversation.

Whatâs New: Developers

Additional Power Automate triggers for Teams

Streamline routine tasks in Microsoft Teams with two new Power Automate triggers. Trigger actions when a new teammate joins - whether that's creating a welcome message or sharing onboarding materials. Users will also be able to create custom message actions with the "for a selected message" trigger. Users can build flows directly in Teams using these new triggers, even if they trigger actions outside of Teams.

Whatâs New: Teams for Education

Teams meetings for remote learning

Despite school closures, educators can still connect with and support students by using Microsoft Teams meetings for class sessions, office hours, and more. Here is the latest guidance on how to maximize learning and keep students safe in Teams meetings.

Get the latest on which Teams meetings features to use now and what is coming soon from this webinar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-La0cigkqg&feature=youtu.be.

Set up a Microsoft Teams meeting for your online classroom directly from within Canvas, Blackboard, Schoology, and other LMSs. Learn how with this guidance.

Keep students safe in Teams meetings with these helpful guidelines.

Live events for A1 faculty licenses

Starting early May, Microsoft Teams live events host capabilities will be available to education users with a Microsoft Office 365 A1 faculty license, at no extra cost. That means users with A1 faculty licenses, which is free to accredited educational institutions, can host and broadcast live events. In early May, live events will be automatically enabled for users with an A1 faculty license and automatically disabled on July 1, 2020.

Here is a technical overview and how-to guide to learn more about Microsoft Teams live events.

Whatâs New: Government

Private Channels now available in GCC

Limit which team members can see the conversation and content within a particular channel. You can right-size channel participation and exposure without having to create discrete teams to limit visibility. Private channels in GCCH and DoD are coming soon.

Advisor for Teams in now available in GCC as a preview

Found in the Microsoft Teams admin center, Advisor for Teams assists IT admins in planning a successful Teams deployment for their organization, offering recommended plans and a collaboration space for the deployment team to streamline the roll out of all the Teams workloads, including messaging, meetings and calling workloads. This feature is currently in public preview.
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Ma. Lau · Apr 30, 2020

New Teams

Hi,

With regard to your concern, you can add a new team on Cortana by following the steps below:

Click Cortana or the circle icon.

Click the Notebook icon, scroll down and click Sports.

Click Add a team and start typing the name of a team.

Select the results.

Note: If the the team does not show up in the list you cannot add it to the Notebook. We suggest that you send a feedback using Windows Feedback hub so we can take note of this feature for future updates.

Your reply is most important for us to ensure we assist you accordingly.

Brink · Apr 30, 2020

What is New in Microsoft Teams in April 2019

In case you missed it… here is a round of up of what’s new with Microsoft Teams in the past month.

Microsoft Teams on Surface Hub

Microsoft Whiteboard is available in Teams in commercial preview
Microsoft Whiteboard in Teams meetings empowers meeting attendees from the same tenant to participate in the conversation regardless of the device you use or where you are. Whether joining from the meeting room or remotely, you can start a new board in the Teams meeting (currently supported on desktop, web and Surface Hub – coming soon to mobile). The board is automatically shared with meeting attendees. Users can ink together in real-time on the board.  On Surface Hub, users can launch the native Whiteboard app to enable an even richer collaboration experience with features such as sticky notes, images, and gridlines.  To enable Whiteboard in Teams meetings on Surface Hub, please turn on feature here.

Switch cameras automatically
Microsoft Teams on Surface Hub now supports switching cameras automatically. The camera will use motion and face detection to focus on who’s talking.

Introducing Praise
Who’s awesome? You’re awesome.

Introducing Praise, the new way to show your appreciation and encourage each other at work. Send in a 1:1 chat or post it to a channel for the entire team. Select *** below the compose box, then select Praise at the top. Choose what kind of badge you wish to send and personalize your acknowledgment with a message. When you send it, we'll @mention them in the message to make sure they don't miss it. Learn more here.

Request to add others to teams
Now you can request on behalf of someone else to join a private team. Teams can be created as either private, where admins control membership, or public, where anyone in the organization is welcome to join. Right-click on a team name, and select Add member. Search for people by name or email. Team owners will get a notification that they have a new request, and people you've added will get a notification once they've been added to the team.

Org-wide teams now have larger size limits
Org-wide teams have higher size limits, so they can have up to 5000 members in a team. Admins, feel free to add away! Create that big team you've always wanted. Learn more on our admin help page.

Show and hide teams to stay organized
We are making it easier for you keep an uncluttered teams list. What used to be Favorite and Remove from favorites is now Show and Hide. Choose which teams and channels you want to show in your teams list and hide the rest. You'll still get notified when @mentioned, they just won't clutter your teams list.

To try it out, go to a team or channel name in your teams list and select More options ***> Hide. Want to get a team back in your list? Scroll to the bottom and open the Hidden teams list.

Work with confidence: new features and resources for IT admins

Microsoft Teams PowerShell Module General Availability
We are excited to announce the general availability of the Microsoft Teams PowerShell module. This PowerShell module allows you to manage the lifecycle of teams within your organization. For more detail and guidance, see our recent blog post.

Make Teams available to all users at your organization

We have made it easier than ever to get started on Teams, with the Microsoft Teams Commercial Cloud Trial!
How does this trial work? Users who have an AAD Commercial domain or an Office 365 license that does not include Teams, can still use Teams with their work email address. The Microsoft Teams Commercial Cloud Trial is a fully functional version of Microsoft Teams valid for one- year per tenant The trial is applicable even if the user does not have Microsoft Teams license and can include up to 500,000 users per tenant, with 2 GB of SharePoint Online storage per user.

How does a user sign up for this trial? Eligible users can sign up for the trial offer by logging into Teams here. Simply enter your organization’s credentials/email and you’ll be automatically routed into the trial experience.

How do I manage this? Office 365 admins have several ways to monitor and control Microsoft Teams Commercial Cloud Trials in their organization: they can disable the use of trials, convert trials into assigned licenses, and upgrade to an Office 365 SKU with Microsoft Teams. As of May 2019, we are making it easier to manage all end-user initiated Teams trials. All of the Teams trials started by company users will be owned and controlled by the billing admin of the tenant, making it easy to manage and consistent with the other Microsoft 365 offers. Any existing Teams Trial licenses will be migrated to this new license when the associated users log into Teams in near future. Once this support is rolled out, users will be migrated automatically the next time they log into Teams. No admin actions are required. Learn more about Commercial Cloud Trial management.

Let us know what you think!

Try the new features and provide feedback using the feedback link in the lower left corner of Microsoft Teams. And take a look at the Microsoft 365 roadmap for the latest updates. If you have suggestions on how to make Teams better, please submit your idea via User Voice or vote for existing ideas to help us prioritize the requests. We read every piece of feedback that we receive to make sure that Microsoft Teams meets your needs.

— Marissa Salazar, Product Marketing Manager, Microsoft Teams
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Brink · Apr 30, 2020

What is New in Microsoft Teams in April 2019

In case you missed it… here is a round of up of what’s new with Microsoft Teams in the past month.

Microsoft Teams on Surface Hub

Microsoft Whiteboard is available in Teams in commercial preview
Microsoft Whiteboard in Teams meetings empowers meeting attendees from the same tenant to participate in the conversation regardless of the device you use or where you are. Whether joining from the meeting room or remotely, you can start a new board in the Teams meeting (currently supported on desktop, web and Surface Hub – coming soon to mobile). The board is automatically shared with meeting attendees. Users can ink together in real-time on the board.  On Surface Hub, users can launch the native Whiteboard app to enable an even richer collaboration experience with features such as sticky notes, images, and gridlines.  To enable Whiteboard in Teams meetings on Surface Hub, please turn on feature here.

Switch cameras automatically
Microsoft Teams on Surface Hub now supports switching cameras automatically. The camera will use motion and face detection to focus on who’s talking.

Introducing Praise
Who’s awesome? You’re awesome.

Introducing Praise, the new way to show your appreciation and encourage each other at work. Send in a 1:1 chat or post it to a channel for the entire team. Select *** below the compose box, then select Praise at the top. Choose what kind of badge you wish to send and personalize your acknowledgment with a message. When you send it, we'll @mention them in the message to make sure they don't miss it. Learn more here.

Request to add others to teams
Now you can request on behalf of someone else to join a private team. Teams can be created as either private, where admins control membership, or public, where anyone in the organization is welcome to join. Right-click on a team name, and select Add member. Search for people by name or email. Team owners will get a notification that they have a new request, and people you've added will get a notification once they've been added to the team.

Org-wide teams now have larger size limits
Org-wide teams have higher size limits, so they can have up to 5000 members in a team. Admins, feel free to add away! Create that big team you've always wanted. Learn more on our admin help page.

Show and hide teams to stay organized
We are making it easier for you keep an uncluttered teams list. What used to be Favorite and Remove from favorites is now Show and Hide. Choose which teams and channels you want to show in your teams list and hide the rest. You'll still get notified when @mentioned, they just won't clutter your teams list.

To try it out, go to a team or channel name in your teams list and select More options ***> Hide. Want to get a team back in your list? Scroll to the bottom and open the Hidden teams list.

Work with confidence: new features and resources for IT admins

Microsoft Teams PowerShell Module General Availability
We are excited to announce the general availability of the Microsoft Teams PowerShell module. This PowerShell module allows you to manage the lifecycle of teams within your organization. For more detail and guidance, see our recent blog post.

Make Teams available to all users at your organization

We have made it easier than ever to get started on Teams, with the Microsoft Teams Commercial Cloud Trial!
How does this trial work? Users who have an AAD Commercial domain or an Office 365 license that does not include Teams, can still use Teams with their work email address. The Microsoft Teams Commercial Cloud Trial is a fully functional version of Microsoft Teams valid for one- year per tenant The trial is applicable even if the user does not have Microsoft Teams license and can include up to 500,000 users per tenant, with 2 GB of SharePoint Online storage per user.

How does a user sign up for this trial? Eligible users can sign up for the trial offer by logging into Teams here. Simply enter your organization’s credentials/email and you’ll be automatically routed into the trial experience.

How do I manage this? Office 365 admins have several ways to monitor and control Microsoft Teams Commercial Cloud Trials in their organization: they can disable the use of trials, convert trials into assigned licenses, and upgrade to an Office 365 SKU with Microsoft Teams. As of May 2019, we are making it easier to manage all end-user initiated Teams trials. All of the Teams trials started by company users will be owned and controlled by the billing admin of the tenant, making it easy to manage and consistent with the other Microsoft 365 offers. Any existing Teams Trial licenses will be migrated to this new license when the associated users log into Teams in near future. Once this support is rolled out, users will be migrated automatically the next time they log into Teams. No admin actions are required. Learn more about Commercial Cloud Trial management.

Let us know what you think!

Try the new features and provide feedback using the feedback link in the lower left corner of Microsoft Teams. And take a look at the Microsoft 365 roadmap for the latest updates. If you have suggestions on how to make Teams better, please submit your idea via User Voice or vote for existing ideas to help us prioritize the requests. We read every piece of feedback that we receive to make sure that Microsoft Teams meets your needs.

— Marissa Salazar, Product Marketing Manager, Microsoft Teams
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Source: What's New in Microsoft Teams | April 2019 - Microsoft Tech Community - 502025

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