Windows 10: #MSIgnite 2020: New inclusive features in Microsoft Teams and more

Brink · Sep 23, 2020

As IT leaders, we have the ability to make the work experience more inclusive of the 1 billion people in the world with disabilities with the technology products and capabilities we choose to make available to our organizations. This week, weâve announced exciting new features that everyoneâincluding people with disabilitiesâcan leverage to be more productive and to make the workplace more inclusive. From Live transcripts, to search to personal wellbeing insights, read on to learn all the ways Teams can help you work more inclusively.

Meetings & Calling & Devices

Chat & Collaboration

Microsoft 365 Announcements

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Meetings & Calling & Devices

Live captions and transcripts with speaker attribution available for 1:1 calls and meetings
With more important calls, meetings and events happening virtually, itâs critical to make sure everyone can understand the discussion and participate easily, including people with disabilities. Live captions and transcripts with speaker attribution can make meetings more inclusive of people who are hard of hearing or deaf, or have learning disabilities like dyslexia and prefer spoken content to be reinforced with text. You can now provide live captions and transcripts with speaker attribution for 1:1 calls, all the way through to interactive meetings of up to 1,000 participants. And when you need to expand the reach of your meeting even further, up to 20,000 participants can view the meeting and live captions to follow along. These features can be enabled via the control bar within the call or meeting window, and will be made available in the coming months. Speaker attribution for live captions in meetings is now Generally Available for Commercial customers.

Live captions with speaker attribution during a Microsoft Teams meeting.

New Together mode scenes
When managing our mental health and wellbeing, itâs important to make sure we feel connected and close to other peopleâwhether family members, local communities or those we collaborate with at work. We commissioned a Harris Poll survey of over 2,000 remote workers in six countries, and nearly 60% of people surveyed reported feeling less connected to their colleagues since they started working remotely more often. In China, this number spiked to 70%. In the past few months weâve introduced new capabilities to make it easier for each of us to more naturally connect with teammates, and to take control of our wellbeing. One of these new capabilities is Together mode, a view in Teams meetings that makes you feel like youâre sitting in the same room with your teammates, and makes it easier to pick up on the non-verbal cues that are so important to natural human interaction and connection. This week we announced new Together mode scenes, coming later this year, including various auditoriums, conference rooms and a coffee shop. Presenters will also be able to select a scene from the gallery as the default scene for all meeting attendees. We hope you can find a Together mode scene that works for you and your team, and that can help your team feel closer together, even when youâre apart.

Read more: What's New in Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Ignite 2020

In case you missed it

Touchless experiences in Microsoft Teams Rooms â Touchless experiences not only make Teams Meetings Rooms safer as we return to physical workplaces, they also make them more inclusive of employees with disabilities. Teams Meeting Room devices and other conference calling devices are typically placed in the middle of large conference room tables, making them difficult if not impossible to access for those with limited reach or strength. With Cortana voice assistance and Room Remote on Microsoft Teams Room devices, people with vision and mobility disabilities can more easily use shared meeting room devices with their voiceâcompletely hands freeâor with their mobile device. These new capabilities build on the flexibility already afforded by proximity join.

Dynamic view â Dynamic view gives you more control over how you see shared content and other participants in a meeting. New controlsâincluding the ability to show shared content and specific participants side-by-sideâlet you personalize the view to suit your preferences and needs. This is particularly important for participants who are deaf and use sign language interpreters to participate in the discussion. With Dynamic View, participants can view shared content and pin their interpreter so they are always in view.

Live Presentations in Teams â Every presenter knows how hard it is to getâand keepâyour audience truly engaged throughout a presentation. With PowerPoint Live, audience members can follow along with the presentation from their personal device, move through slides at their own pace, and enable live subtitles in their preferred language. Not only will Live Presentations help empower participants who are hard of hearing, it will also break language barriers and make sure that everyone in the audience is engaged and included.

Read more about these recent announcements: Reimagining virtual collaboration for the future of work and learning

Chat & Collaboration

Wellbeing and productivity insights coming in Teams
The rise in remote and hybrid work during the ongoing pandemic is pushing people and organizations to work in new ways, introducing challenges as well as opportunities for a new normal. Our research shows four clear challenges: after hours work is on the rise, boundaries between work and home are being eliminated, the rise of virtual collaboration and video meetings has led to a rise in stress levels, and people feel less connected to their colleagues when working remotely. To help us address some of these challenges so we can thrive and build resilience, we're bringing wellbeing and productivity insights to Microsoft Teams. From unwinding with Headspace on your virtual commute to discovering opportunities to prevent burnout, see how new insights for individuals, teams, and organizations can help.

Read more: Introducing insights in Teams to power wellbeing and productivity

Wellbeing and productivity insights in Microsoft Teams

Improved search experience
A new search experience in Teams, powered by Microsoft Search and available by the end of 2020, will make finding messages, people and files faster and more intuitive for everyone, including people with disabilities who use assistive technologies like screenreaders. A redesigned search results page provides better context and faster results, with AI-powered relevance based on the people and content you engage with most in Teams, and other Microsoft 365 services. Assistive technology users will be able to use the âControl Fâ shortcut to access the search bar, initiate a search, and bring information right to their fingertips. Itâs everything you love about Search in other Microsoft 365 applications, right in the Teams experience.

Read more: Whatâs new for Microsoft Search â Ignite 2020 Edition

New search experience in Microsoft Teams powered by Microsoft Search.

In case you missed it

Less typing, please! â Whether youâre looking to increase your productivity, or have a mobility or learning disability like dyslexia that makes typing or writing difficult, Cortana in Teams and Suggested replies in the Teams mobile app give you another way to communicate with teammates. Cortana is now Generally Available in the Teams mobile app on iOS and Android to Microsoft 365 Enterprise users in the U.S. in English. Suggested replies are also now Generally Available to Commercial customers.

Read more: Reimagining virtual collaboration for the future of work and learning

Microsoft 365 Announcements

Play My Emails more broadly available â Play My Emails lets you listen and respond to whatâs new in your inbox hands-free using Cortana, giving people with learning disabilities like dyslexia a way to consume written content that doesnât require reading blocks of text. Play my Emails is already available in Outlook for iOS and Android in English in the United States, and will start rolling out in the coming months in English in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and India. With updates this month to Outlook for iOS in English in the United States, users can interact with their inbox via their headphones while their phone is in their pocket, initiate a call with the sender of an email to move the conversation forward in real time, play emails from a specific person, time or topic, and connect multiple eligible accountsâwhether personal or professionalâto the experience.

Voice commands in Outlook MobileâNow you can use your voice to write emails, schedule meetings, and make calls, all from within Outlook mobile. Tap the microphone, and say âEmail Adele that Iâm running lateâ, âSchedule a meeting about Group Meditation with Megan", or âCall Anna on Teamsâ. Outlook will find the relevant person, draft up a message, meeting or provide the option to start a call, and help you be more productive, all with voice. Voice capabilities like these provide people with learning disabilities like dyslexia, another way to write content, that doesnât require typing. It also gives those with mobility disabilities another way to create content on the go.

Briefing Email from Cortana improvements â The Briefing Email is becoming generally available in September for Microsoft 365 Enterprise users with Exchange Online mailboxes in English. And with updates coming by the end of the year, the Briefing email will streamline meeting preparation. Actionable reminders will make it easy to add an agenda or a Teams link for an upcoming meeting if you forget, and to spot if a meeting is missing quorum. Integration with Microsoft To Do will make it seamless to follow up on a suggested task later. Weâre also working on bringing specialized insights for people managers to help boost your teamâs productivity and wellbeing, such as prompts to schedule regular one-on-one time with your direct reports and reminders to follow up on key asks. The Briefing Email gives people with disabilities like memory loss or ADHD, more proactive assistance and tools to stay on top of their important tasks and relationships.

Read more: What's new with Cortana, your personal productivity assistant
Read MVP Jeff Stokesâ story here: What I Learnt While Not Remembering: Technology and its use in Traumatic Brain Injury

A reimagined Microsoft Stream â This week we announced a new vision for Microsoft Streamâto bring intelligent video creation, sharing, and viewing to all parts of Microsoft 365, while empowering users and administrators to manage video just as they would any other file. Part of this new vision is an enhanced playback experience that displays more accurate transcripts with speaker attribution for meeting recordings, among other exciting enhancements. These experiences will be made available over the coming year.

Read more: A new vision for Microsoft Stream

In case you missed it

Dictation with Voice Commands in Word â Whether you are on a short walk to stretch your legs, have a temporary or permanent disability that makes typing or writing difficult, or you just think better out loud, now you can Dictate your content into a Word document, and add formatting through voice commands as you go.

Read more: Microsoft 365 saves you time and effort with transcription and voice commands in Word

Learn more and take action

1. Watch these Microsoft Ignite sessions to learn more about building an inclusive culture with support from Microsoft 365, and to get a closer look at these new inclusive features:

Personal productivity insights in Microsoft 365 â enhancing employee wellbeing

Driving Wellbeing and Inclusion with Microsoft Teams

Empower your Diverse Firstline Workforce with Inclusive Technologies

Sustaining Human Connection in a Virtual World with Technology

2. Complete the âConfigure Microsoft Teams meeting and calling for Inclusionâ training module to learn what you can do to configure Microsoft Teams in a way that maximizes inclusion of your diverse employees.

3. Find more Microsoft 365 Inclusive Workplace resources
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Source: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/...0/ba-p/1699915

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Brink · Sep 23, 2020

#MSIgnite 2020: What is New in Microsoft Teams

Today at Ignite, we are announcing a ton of new capabilities to help people stay connected, collaborate, and build solutions in Teams. Here’s what’s new in:

Meetings

Meeting room experiences

Calling

Chat and collaboration

Microsoft 365 integrations

Firstline Workers

Healthcare

Security and compliance

Management

Power Platform and custom development

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Read more: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/...0/ba-p/1665600

Tenforo · Sep 23, 2020

What is new in Microsoft Teams Platform at Microsoft Build 2020

Today at Build, we’re excited to show you all the new features and capabilities that’ll enhance and streamline the end-to-end app development experience for developers and provide an engaging experience with end users.

Streamlining app development

Having the right set of tools and workflows available for building apps is important to our developers. We’re excited to announce some new tools, updates and capabilities to streamline app development.

Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code extension (preview)

With the new Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code extensions, you can use the power of these tools to build your Teams app quickly, with a simple interface that enables you to:

Build project scaffolding

Configure features

Create app package manifest and setup hosting

Validate app package

Start app publishing process (for yourself, to your organization’s catalog, or to the Teams app store)

Available in public preview.

New Power Platform + Teams enhancements

We’re excited to introduce several new features enhancing the Power Platform + Teams integrations that are either available or coming soon. These features enable you to build low-code/no-code experiences with custom apps, workflows, bots, and dashboards for your team and customers.

Simplified Power Apps and Power Virtual Agents Add to Teams button, streamlining the addition of custom solutions to the Teams app store.

Enhanced workflow automation with Power Automate + Teams with new triggers and actions built specifically for Teams to unlock custom message extensions, allow for automated @mentioning, and provide a customized bot experience. New business process scenario templates will also be rolled out to jump start automation development.

Improved Power BI sharing to Teams with a new Share to Teams button in Power BI to easily share Power BI reports. You’ll also be able to copy individual charts in a Power BI report to a Teams conversation and have the chat include a rich thumbnail preview of the chart, as well as an adaptive card allowing users to take actions on that chart.

Low-code bots brought to Teams, with Power Virtual Agents, making it easier to create and manage low-code chatbots for Teams, to provide a streamlined experience for end users.

App Studio Update (v1.4.0)

App Studio for Microsoft Teams makes it easy to start creating or integrating your own Teams apps by streamlining the creation of the manifest and package for your app. With the latest update (v1.4.0), we’ve built some enhancements, including:

Support for app manifest schema 1.6.

An Advanced section in app details to easily support advanced features.

An app package validation tool to run tests that extend outside the basic schema validation. This is great for those looking to publish to Partner Center for pre-validation or having issues sideloading their app.

Better error handling via a bot framework connection with user guidance on how to perform the same actions in the bot framework web portal.

24 new granular permissions for the Teams Microsoft Graph APIs

These new APIs are available on the Microsoft Graph v1.0 endpoint and will give you more flexibility and granularity for app data access authorization. With granular permissions, developers and admins can now narrow the app’s access and scope to a specific team’s set of data, as opposed to all team data.

Mobile device capability for apps

Coming soon this year, you’ll be able to extend your app’s capabilities by connecting to native mobile device features, such as camera, location, and microphone. Seamlessly enable scenarios, such as having your bot support and manage expense reporting utilizing the mobile device’s camera.

New Microsoft Graph APIs in beta for subscribing to notifications for new app messages – in beta

Using the Microsoft Graph API, we’ve provided you some new APIs in beta that will provide you the ability to create subscriptions for different event types, such as new/edited/deleted messages, replies, reactions, as well as to all or specific channels and chat threads – allowing your apps to refresh when new content is available. These are great for development of data loss prevention (DLP) and safety apps. For more information about these subscription APIs that are in beta, see Create subscription (beta).

Activity feed notifications for apps – coming soon to beta

The new activity feed notifications via the Microsoft Graph API gives you a new and simpler way to send app notifications to users across devices. You’ll enjoy the ability to customize and control the notification experience – everything from the notification structure, to what is surfaced to the user after they click the notification.

New Microsoft Graph APIs in v1.0 – coming soon

We have some new Microsoft Graph APIs for Teams coming to the v1.0 endpoint that you’ll be able to explore soon.

Send channel messages API allows you to send channel messages and replies as well as include attachments.

primaryChannel API allows you to access to data without making assumptions about naming.

filesFolder API allows you to find the SharePoint folder for a channel without assuming the folder has the same name as the channel.

Shifts API enables a scheduling module in Teams to enable you to integrate existing or custom workforce management systems for scenarios such as auto-approvals for shift requests.

Seamless end-to-end app lifecycle experience

Building an app is just the beginning of the journey for app developers. A smooth process with business decision makers and IT admins is an essential part of that journey. We’re excited to announce that, coming soon, developers and admins will enjoy a streamlined custom app submission process and enhanced app management capabilities within the Teams Admin Center – providing a connected experience through the development, publishing and end user discovery process.

Streamlined app submission workflows

You will soon be able to submit Teams apps through any of these clients and trusted sources (App Studio, Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, Power Apps, SharePoint Framework) via our App Submission Microsoft Graph API – streamlining the process of submitting apps directly to the Teams Admin Center for IT admins to review and approve.

New app management capabilities within the Teams Admin Center

Microsoft Teams provides a robust set of controls to help administrators confidently enable and manage apps in their Teams environment. We’re excited to announce several new capabilities that will soon be added to our existing controls to manage Teams apps.

The new Manage Apps view in the Microsoft Teams Admin Center will show all apps in your tenants – including app certification, approval status, and licensing status.

A new third party subscription purchase experience will enable IT admins to view and purchase subscriptions associated with the 3rd party Teams apps. Admins can purchase licenses and later pin the app to targeted employees right from within the Teams Admin Portal.

IT admins can improve app discoverability and adoption by creating custom templates for users to choose from when creating a team. Templates can include pre-defined channels, tabs, and apps so users can hit the ground running in Teams. By packaging relevant apps inside templates, IT admins can effectively surface them to the right members of the organization. Templates in Teams will be available in the next few months.

Admins will be able to grant consent to Microsoft Graph API permissions on behalf of the entire tenant for the permissions an app is requesting, such as reading information stored in a team or sending an email on behalf of users. They will also be able to see granular permissions and provide resource-specific consent with the ability to install an app to a specific team.

Drive a deeper user engagement

Take advantage of Azure Active Directory Single Sign-On (SSO) to eliminate need for re-signing into Teams apps

End users will soon be able to enjoy the benefits of Azure Active Directory Single Sign-On (SSO) for supported Teams apps on both desktop and mobile. After they’re signed into Teams, users won’t have to sign in again on apps that integrate with single sign-on for both desktop and mobile. Developers will also enjoy a simplified authentication process through a single API call. We’ll roll out with tabs in general availability soon, followed by bots later this year.

Azure Active Directory Conditional Access – coming soon

This capability will enable end users to run apps and tabs even if their IT admin has set up conditional access policies requiring the use of a trusted device. Website tabs on Windows that use Azure AD will automatically sign you in and support device-specific conditional access policies.

Resource-Specific Consent (RSC) – coming soon to preview

This capability will empower Team owners to install an app for their specific team and restrict the app’s scope and access to data to only that one team. This allows team owners to make decisions versus needing the global IT admin to provision access.

Experience attempting to access an app without RSC to having RSC enabled

Pop-out apps, channel tabs, and chat tabs – coming later this year

Coming soon this year, end users will be able to ‘pop-out’ personal apps and tabs* (channels and chats). Users will be able to open separate windows for their apps so they can work while easily accessing their team chats to continue to collaborate. Simply right-click on an app to see the option to pop out or visit a tab and find the pop-out icon in the top right.

*Not all tabs supported at time of launch

More powerful cards inside bots and connectors in Teams

Develop a richer and more customizable experience using Adaptive Cards 1.2 in Teams on desktop and mobile. Highly requested features such as @mentions support within cards, allow the ability to direct a user’s attention to cards that are relevant to them – providing you an enhanced notification and engagement capability for your app. RichText Blocks allow you greater flexibility in designing the look and feel of the cards. These are available in general availability and ready for you to explore today.

@mentions in cards image for desktop and mobile

Rich Text Blocks

Messaging actions for mobile – coming soon

We are excited to announce that message action support for mobile will be coming soon to preview. Message actions can be triggered directly from a message and can be used to enable scenarios such as creating tasks or work items following a discussion within a chat or channel.

Personal apps available on mobile – coming soon for preview

Personal apps are Teams applications focusing on interactions with a single user, such as 1:1 Conversational bots or personal tabs. These types of apps are already available for desktop and web and will be available for mobile – coming soon for preview.

Thank you

We hope you that you’ve enjoyed learning about all of the new features and capabilities from the Microsoft Teams platform. Please enjoy your time at Build and come join us at our many online sessions to learn more about what’s new in the Teams Platform.

Happy coding!
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Ma. Lau · Sep 23, 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.

Windows 10: #MSIgnite 2020: New inclusive features in Microsoft Teams and more

#MSIgnite 2020: New inclusive features in Microsoft Teams and more

#MSIgnite 2020: New inclusive features in Microsoft Teams and more

#MSIgnite 2020: New inclusive features in Microsoft Teams and more

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