Windows 10: What is new in Microsoft Teams - March round up

Brink · Mar 11, 2019

Microsoft Teams continues to evolve to be the hub for teamwork for workers in all roles and across industries. Additionally, new updates to the Microsoft Graph Lifecycles enables you to automate processes and provide familiar experience to your users. Keep reading to learn more:

Collaborate more efficiently

Work together with up to 5,000 people in the same team

Bring large teams together to collaborate in a single workspace. All new and existing teams can now accommodate up to 5,000 members, double the previous limit. Additionally, the distribution list import has being increased to 3,500 users so you can easily populate the team.

Work with confidence: new features and resources for IT admin

Become an expert in Microsoft Teams with Microsoft Teams Training modules for IT Pros

Need to know how to successfully plan, configure and run Teams to provide the best possible experience to your end users? These training modules will help you develop key skills around Microsoft Teams to accomplish just that. Modules always consist of a video and PowerPoint deck. Learn more here.

Empower workers in all roles and across industries

Microsoft Teams continues to expand to meet the needs of Firstline workers

At the National Retail Federation conference in January, we announced new capabilities in Microsoft Teams to help Firstline Workers achieve more. Now, in a new Mechanics video, watch Keara James and Jeremy Chapman show you the new customizable Teams mobile experience, Shifts, Praise and more. And discover new ways to customize the Teams experience with a new IT configuration policy to create role-based user experiences. Watch the video below to learn more.

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Transform Classroom Time with 13 New Microsoft Teams Features

Microsoft Teams empowers students to find their voice and develop critical social emotional skills, while also giving teachers new capabilities for peer-to-peer professional development. At the Bett 2019 tradeshow in London, we shared some big announcements directly with our favorite people on earth, teachers! We were thrilled to share these updates in 2 episodes of What’s New in Edu: part 1 and part 2. Also, you can check out the latest in Teams for Education in our recap blog here!

Facilitate a smoother transition for users with Unified Presence and Interoperability in Office 365 Government GCC

Customers in the Government Community Cloud (GCC) environment can now provide a better experience to users during the transition from Skype for Business to Microsoft Teams:

Unified Presence aggregates presence states for users (i.e. available, busy or in a call) between Teams and Skype for Business. This ensures that a user has a single presence state regardless of the app and the device they use.

Interoperability enables a user that has been upgraded to Teams-Only mode to continue to communicate via chat with other users in the organization who are still using Skype for Business. This helps users stay productive while the organization transitions from Skype for Business to Teams. Learn more here.

Organize teamwork in your agency with the Planner tab in Teams for Office 365 Government GCC

You can now simplify work management within Teams by adding a Planner tab to a team channel. With this integration, task management and team collaboration can happen in a single place. You can also see all tasks that are assigned to you using the Planner personal app within Teams. To add the planner tab, simply select the add a tab plus "+" sign in a Teams channel and choose Planner. Learn more here.

Organize teamwork with the Planner tab in Teams

Empower healthcare organizations with new capabilities in Teams

At the HIMSS conference in February, we announced new capabilities in Microsoft Teams to address the communication and collaboration challenges faced by healthcare customers. Capabilities include new secure messaging features coming to Teams, like priority notifications and message delegation. In addition, we announced the ability to integrate FHIR-enabled electronic health records (EHR) data with Teams, which will allow clinicians to securely access patient records, chat with other team members, and collaborate in a video meeting around that data. Read more here about the latest announcements.

With electronic health record integration, Teams enables clinicians to use a secure hub for coordinating patient care

Customize your team with 3rd party integrations

Updates to Microsoft Graph Lifecycles

Back in November, we announced the general availability of the Microsoft Graph APIs for Microsoft Teams, allowing our customers to better organize teams and channels, automate Teams lifecycles, and create pre-loaded, familiar experiences for your users. Since that announcement, we’ve been quietly adding additional features for automating team lifecycles. We wanted to recap some of the new features:

New types of teams (preview) – We’ve introduced seven new types of teams you can create through Microsoft Graph, including three types for education, two for retail, and two for healthcare.

Installing apps to teams using application permissions (preview) – We already support installing applications to teams with user delegated permissions; we’re happy to announce that installing apps using application permissions is now available in preview. Application permissions are a great way to install or upgrade an app across all teams in a tenant, and to create new teams from scratch that include apps.

New types of tabs – Microsoft Graph allows you to add tabs to channels. We’ve recently enabled configuring five new types of tabs – Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF, and document libraries.

New ways to send messages:

Replying to channel messages and sending channel messages with subjects and @mentions (preview) – We have a new and improved API for sending channel messages that adds new features like replies, subject lines, and @mentions. The new API is also aligned with the API to read channel messages.

Send them by email using the new (preview).

Use Microsoft Graph to install a bot that sends messages – Application permissions for installing apps to teams makes this more powerful than ever!

Deep links to channels (preview) – We’ve added the to complement webUrl, allowing you to create deep links to your channels and teams.

New superpowers for admins – Global admins and Microsoft Teams service admins can now access teams that they are not a member of, allowing them to create teams, change team settings, add and remove members, and create and delete channels and tabs.

Create teams with a single API call (preview) – You can now create a team with channels, apps, and tabs all in a single API call, making automated team lifecycles easier than ever.

What’s next?

Check out this tutorial to see how to take advantage of the Microsoft Graph APIs in your organization today.

New features available on Teams iOS & Android apps

Personalize your mobile experience in Teams with dark theme

You now have more options to customize your experience in the Teams mobile app with dark theme. You can enable it in the general section of the app settings.

Personalize your Teams mobile experience with dark theme

Make conversations and chats more personal with voice messages

You can now communicate with others using voice messages in private chat and channel conversations. From your mobile device, open a conversation, tap and hold the mic in the bottom right corner of your screen and start recording. Record up to 15 minutes, then tap Send to deliver your audio message.

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. 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.

— Christopher Bryan, Product Marketing Manager Microsoft Teams
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Source: What's new in Microsoft Teams – March round up - Microsoft Tech Community - 363427

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Ma. Lau · Mar 11, 2019

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 · Mar 11, 2019

What is new in Microsoft Teams - February round up

We continue to bring new functionality to Microsoft Teams to help people do their best work. New Firstline capabilities empower your workers to be more productive, while new usage reports provide you insights on how people are using Teams in your organization. Read on to learn about everything that is new in February.

Communicate more effectively

Enabling effective communication across your organization requires giving people an environment where physical and virtual elements come together to deliver a seamless experience. We are introducing Microsoft Teams Rooms and Teams-Only mode to help you simplify and better integrate communication capabilities.

Transform your meetings with Microsoft Teams Rooms

We are rebranding Skype room systems as Microsoft Teams Rooms. From scheduling to managing a meeting, enjoy a seamless experience with Microsoft Teams Rooms. We are also adding new capabilities such as proximity detection, which streamlines the process of adding a room that is nearby and available to your existing meeting. Find out more here.

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Transform every meeting with Microsoft Teams Rooms

Simplify how users communicate with Teams-Only Mode

Organizations now have more options in their journey to transition from Skype for Business to Teams with Teams-Only Mode. In this mode, Teams becomes the primary communication and collaboration tool for end users. From the Microsoft Teams and Skype for Business Admin center, administrators can easily upgrade specific users or their entire tenant. Found out more about this and other communications capabilities here.

Work with confidence: new features for IT admin

To foster teamwork across your organization, you need visibility into how people are using the tools you are providing. Additionally, you need to deliver tailored workspaces that meet your user needs in a repeatable and scalable way. You can now take advantage of the following Teams features to help you better support your organization:

Understand how your organization collaborates with new usage reports

Are your users taking full advantage of Microsoft Teams? You can now leverage the new analytics and reporting experience to get insights around key areas such as Teams usage, user activity and device usage. This information can help you track adoption of Teams and identify opportunities for change management efforts to improve teamwork across the organization. Learn more here.

Get Insights about how your organization uses Microsoft Teams

Replicate your best Team's experience with Team Templates

Teams Templates let admins quickly pre-define a team’s channel, install apps, pin tabs, and more so you can focus on collaboration rather than spend time setting up. Found a team setup that works best for a type of project or workstyle in your organization? You will now be able to easily create new teams based on best practices and lessons learned by leveraging a new REST endpoint as part of the Microsoft Graph API.

Industry-based templates

We're also pleased to introduce Teams based template types, which are special templates that Microsoft created for specific industries. This initial launch will include:

Education templates such as Class, Staff, and PLC teams

Retail templates such as Store and Manager Collaboration teams

Healthcare templates such as Ward and Hospital teams

Developers will also be able to extend these base templates to better fit their organizations workflows by leveraging the APIs found here .

Learn more about what you can achieve with Teams templates here.

Empower workers in all roles and across industries

People have different workstyles across industries, roles, and functions. Microsoft teams is committed to help every type of worker to their best with capabilities that meet their unique needs:

Enable your Firstline Workers to achieve more with Microsoft Teams
Improve the productivity of your Firstline Workforce with capabilities designed to meet their unique workstyle. The Shifts functionality in Teams simplifies the process of planning and creating schedules by offering key capabilities to both managers and workers. You will also be able to integrate your workforce management system with Teams soon by leveraging a Graph API. Additionally, we are empowering Firstline Workers with key mobile features such as location sharing, record and share audio messages, and smart camera. The mobile experience is customizable to provide workers and IT the ability to choose the most relevant capabilities for their work. Find out more about here.

Customize your team with Bots and 3rd party integrations

Build more powerful bots with the Preview Release of .Net Teams Bot Builder v4 SDK

Enable your bots to become more impactful by leveraging key capabilities such as fetching a list of channels in a team, creating a 1:1 chat with a specific users, or accepting messages only from specific tenants. Learn more here.

Monthly Spotlight - Apps in Teams: Karmabot , MindMeister, and More!

We are constantly adding new and improved apps to our Teams experience and plan on highlighting a few of our apps that have been making major waves to further enable collaboration.

Karmabot helps you motivate your team leveraging the power of machine learning and natural language. Learn more here.

Improve Employee productivity with Karmabot

MindMeister enables you to brainstorm ideas and visualize project plans alongside your team members. The new update allows you to view your entire dashboard directly from teams. Find out more here.

Organize your ideas with MindMeister

The Connector for Jira server helps you stay on top of development issues by notifying you when an issue is created or updated. This notification includes critical details such as a summary of the issue, priority, and assignee. Find out more here.

Stay on top of issues with the Connector for Jira Server

The new Atlassian’s Confluence Cloud experience facilitates access to your documentation with the ability to open a confluence page in a Teams tab and creating Confluence child pages directly from Teams. Find out more here.

Access your information faster with the new Confluence cloud experience

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. 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.

— Christopher Bryan, Product Marketing Manager Microsoft Teams
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Brink · Mar 11, 2019

Microsoft Teams global availability event on March 14th 2017

On Tuesday, March 14th 8:30 AM PT, we will celebrate the global availability of Microsoft Teams, the chat-based workspace in Office 365.

Please join us for an online event to mark the occasion. Microsoft Corporate Vice President Kirk Koenigsbauer and a special guest will share perspectives on teamwork, what’s new in Microsoft Teams and talk about how customers are using Office 365 to collaborate and deliver great results.
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