Microsoft Release Notes

• Meeting ID and passcode to join on Teams Rooms on Windows: IT admins can configure and require a meeting ID and passcode to join a meeting on Teams Rooms on Windows to ensure higher levels of security and privacy. This feature is available for Teams Rooms Pro customers.
• Teams Connect chat enhancements: This feature will make it easier to search guests by name and establish 1:1 or group chats using their phone numbers. It will also make it easier to create a company curated profile that includes information like location, job role, business unit, and even assign an organization manager for external partners.
• Track usage of your frontline teams and apps in the Teams admin center: Track usage across all your frontline teams deployed via DTAS (Deploy Teams at Scale) and frontline apps like Shifts, Tasks, Walkie Talkie in the Teams admin center.
• New Teams is now part of Teams Rooms on Windows: With the new Teams app now being a part of Teams Rooms on Windows, all Teams Rooms devices can utilize available resources to optimize room experience and render intelligent audio and video reliably.
• Single desktop app for all user types: Microsoft Teams on Windows and Mac will support every type of Teams account (work, school, or personal) in a single desktop application.

• Voice isolation: With this feature, you can enjoy clear and uninterrupted calls or meetings, no matter where you are. This feature uses AI to filter out all background noise, including other people's voices. By using your voice profile, this advance noise suppression capability ensures only the user’s voice is transmitted. Whether you are in a busy office, a noisy cafe, or a crowded airport, you can communicate with confidence and clarity. This feature is powered by our advanced deep learning, speech services, and audio processing technology, and it shows our dedication to solving user problems with AI and enhancing audio quality and experience.
• Multi-instance app customization support for Teams apps: If you're an IT admin, this feature will help you gain more control. You can make your supportive Teams apps fit your company brand and make them more useful for your employees. IT admins can create and manage multiple customized app instances, boosting branding, awareness, and user engagement. By overcoming single-instance limitations, this feature drives adaptability for diverse business needs.
• Organizers can select languages for translation in a town hall: This feature lets town hall organizers to select caption languages that are available to the attendees for translation. Currently, the languages are preset for attendees to pick from. But, this feature lets organizers select from six languages (10 languages for Premium).

• Simplified compose experience: With this release, the message compose experience becomes simpler, more scalable, and clearer to use. Everything has a consistent place to be found and aligns with modern compose experiences that exist in many other apps. This experience will be available in both classic and new Teams.
• Voice isolation: With this feature, you can enjoy clear and uninterrupted calls or meetings, no matter where you are. This feature uses AI to filter out all background noise, including other people's voices. By leveraging your voice profile, this advance noise suppression capability ensures only the user’s voice is transmitted. Whether you are in a busy office, a noisy cafe, or a crowded airport, you can communicate with confidence and clarity. This feature is powered by our advanced deep learning, speech services, and audio processing technology, and it shows our dedication to solving user problems with AI and enhancing audio quality and experience. …

Version number: 18.3.3.1 Released: April 9, 2024

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Version number: 17.10.6.1 Released: April 9, 2024

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• Reduced presenter role permissions: This feature introduces a toggle in the Teams admin center to reduce presenter role permissions in untrusted environments, such as EDU, where students assigned as presenters could remove other students from the meeting. The reduced presenter permissions are only reserved for organizers and co-organizers.
• Hide general channel: Similar to other channels, now you'll be able to hide general channels from your teams and have a cleaner left rail.
• Simplified team and channel create: This feature lets you create channels from the teams and channels list. This new experience will promote creation of channels from the + button, in addition to team context menu and manage team> channels page. Users will be able to host channels by selecting the appropriate team. This experience will only be available in the new Teams app.
• Simplified team create: You can now create teams with a shorter and simpler approach! We made it a simpler default experience for users to create teams from scratch, with 80% of users utilizing "create teams from scratch" option. Users will still be able to use the other options of creating team from templates and groups as a secondary view. This experience will only be available in the new Teams app. …

• Watermark support for recording playback (Premium): Recording can now be enabled for watermarked meetings. An email ID is displayed as the watermark during the meeting recording playback. Once a meeting has concluded, users can access the recorded content on both web and mobile platforms to watch the recording with watermarking.
• Branded meetings: Join Launcher Screen with brand image and logo support (Premium): The Teams Join Launcher web page will now support the brand logo and brand image upload capability to a custom meeting theme as part of branded meetings.
• Ability to join Teams for work meetings with Teams for Live client and identity (and vice versa): After this release, users with Teams for Live clients will be able to join and participate in Teams for work meetings right from their initial apps and using their initial identities. It's one more step for improving external collaboration. Now we support not only chats with guests but meetings as well.
• Automatic targeting based on roles for frontline: Frontline teams can notify the right set of colleagues on channel posts (for example, notifying colleagues in specific role or department).
• Meeting invite improvements: Meeting invite is the first thing that the user invited to the meeting sees before joining. We're making some design improvements to make sure we have the most important information there and it's better grouped. …

• Specific People Link support for Collaborative Notes: This feature brings improvement to the shareable link type that is created by Collaborative Notes making meetings more effective and secure. The new Collaborative Notes file will generate a Specific People Link (PSL) by default. This link type offers more controlled access than Company Specific Link (CSL). This change also aligns with tenants who have their file-sharing policy set as Specific People. Tenants who previously had Collaborative Notes disabled due to lack of PSL support can now enable and use the feature.
• Set sensitivity labels for meetings from your phone (iOS): This feature enables you to set the sensitivity label for meetings when scheduling from mobile. Admins can set mandatory and default labels, and this will reflect in their mobile apps as well. Enforcement of the label will also be honored on mobile.
• Meeting invite improvements: Meeting invite is the first thing that the user who is invited to the meeting sees before joining. Some design improvements are being made to ensure that the most important information is presented and it's better grouped. …

• Decorate your background (Premium): This feature lets users create more personal and engaging backgrounds by applying advanced effects.
• Extended real-time telemetry retention for up to 7 days (Premium): To facilitate better troubleshooting experience for admins in Teams admin center, real-time telemetry that's available during the meeting will be retained for an extended period of time (up to seven days after meeting is ended) for users with Premium licenses. This will help admins identify and fix quality issues using granular telemetry after the meeting is over for up to seven days.
• Azure protected voicemail on Teams App: Teams users will now have link to their Azure protected voicemails from the Teams App. Users will get notification for the voicemail on their Teams App, and can open the attached link to access the voicemail on the web browser.
• Audio and video flyout in Teams meetings: This feature enables users to efficiently manage their audio and video settings during meetings. These features are easily accessible, allowing users to control their devices and adjust key audio and video features quickly and effortlessly, without needing to navigate through multiple layers of settings. …

• Updated Files app with new OneDrive experience: Files app that is accessed from left side of Teams desktop client is upgraded to use OneDrive app. This brings all the performance improvements and new features of OneDrive app within Teams while bringing updated visuals to existing functionality. For new Teams Desktop client, Files app will also be renamed to OneDrive app.
• Surface Hubs on the new platform are managed as Teams Rooms on Windows devices in the Teams admin center: With Microsoft Surface Hubs transitioning from a specialized platform to Teams Rooms on Windows, admins can now manage them in the Teams admin center as they would manage other Teams Rooms on Windows device. Customers with Teams Rooms Pro license can easily monitor and manage Surface Hub devices in the Teams Rooms Pro Management portal.
• Domain-specific search: Searching content in Teams is faster and more precise than ever before with this feature. You can easily narrow down your search results by clicking on the domain pills in the first row in the search box. You can also search files or group chats by entering a person name. …

• Engagement information in Teams Attendance report: This feature enables organizers to access meeting engagement data in Teams Attendance Report.
• Virtual Appointment desktop joins route to Teams web: This feature allows schedulers to enable the 'have attendees join from a web browser' setting so that attendees joining the virtual appointment on desktop will be routed to the Teams web browser experience. This allows attendees to have access to engagement features including raise hand and live reactions.
• Generate unique join links for external presenters so they can easily join events: When organizers set up events and add external presenters, these presenters will receive unique join links automatically. These links allow them to enter events directly so that the organizers don't need to admit them from the event lobby or manually change their event role during the event.
• Workflows within Channels: Users will be able to configure workflows within their Teams channels. …

• Automatic updates for Teams app on android-based Teams devices: Android-based Teams devices will receive automatic updates of the Teams app without the need for manual intervention. Administrators can manage the automatic updates by organizing devices into update phases or pausing the rollout temporarily, if needed, from Teams admin center.
• Controlled Content Meeting 1P Template: We're launching a template that's useful for meetings with external participants. The template comes with a preset set of defaults for meeting options. The purpose of these templates is to provide tight control over:
• lobby bypass
• who can present
• allowing chat in lobby/in-meeting
• who can record in meeting To organize a meeting using this 1P template, one needs a T-Pre license.
• Customization for Watermark (Premium): Teams meeting organizers now have the flexibility to choose between a Single watermark or a repeated watermark. The Single watermark displays the viewer's email on top of the shared content and/or video feed in a clean and unobtrusive manner. When the Single watermark option is enabled via Meeting options, the watermark is enforced for all meeting attendees.
• Workflows app: Users will be able to manage all their Teams workflows (powered by Power Automate) within the Teams Workflow app. Users will also be able to create new workflows through the Message Extension along with Message Actions. …

• Collaborative notes on Teams mobile: This feature allows meeting attendees to cocreate and collaborate on their meeting agenda, notes, and action items. Since Collaborative notes are a Loop component, it's always in sync regardless of how many places they live in. Also, the assigned tasks in Collaborative notes automatically sync with ToDo & Planner.
• Town halls: Set up and host large scale events across an organization with the familiar Teams app you use for webinars and meetings. Town hall capabilities include a new meeting template, capacity for up to 10K attendees, third-party eCDN support, green room, manage what attendees see, moderated Q&A, RTMP-in, live translated captions, and more.
• Transcript access post meetings through Graph API: This feature is built for 3 P apps to access a meeting's transcript once the meeting is over.
• Ratings and reviews for Teams Apps: Users can now view and provide ratings and review for apps they install on Teams.

Version number: 18.3.2.1 Released: October 10, 2023

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Version number: 17.10.5.1 Released: October 10, 2023

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• Proactive monitoring of meeting quality using Real-time telemetry (Premium): Proactive monitoring capability for admins in the Teams admin center (TAC) helps identify audio, video, and app sharing related quality issues while the meeting is in progress. Admins can define the desired monitoring parameters in TAC, which they'll be notified for investigation of users with poor meeting quality. This monitoring is based on real-time meeting quality telemetry data available in TAC.
• Teams Shared Device License support for Android mobile: Teams Shared Device License is now supported on the Teams Android mobile providing a shared identity experience for frontline workers with basic & advanced calling, Walkie Talkie & people search features.
• Admin Policy for Collaborative Annotations: This new admin policy lets you control Collaborative Annotations for user, group, or entire organization.

• 1000 channels per team: This feature allows users to now create up to 1,000 channels per team, which allows you to have the channels you need organized in one team.
• Intelligent camera support on Teams Rooms on Windows: IntelliFrame enables multi-stream video, face recognition of in-room participants, active speaker recognition, attributed voice-based transcription, and panoramic video on Front-of-room (180-degree view) and Center-of-room (360-degree view) cameras, taking Teams Rooms on Windows cameras to the next level of intelligence. IntelliFrame is available only with the Microsoft Teams Rooms Pro license.
• Face enrollment on Teams Desktop to support recognition in Teams Rooms on Windows: To support face recognition in Teams Rooms on Windows, the desktop client offers enrollment to enable face recognition and video labels. This feature is available for Microsoft Teams Rooms Pro license customers. Admins will need to set Teams policies to enable the feature.
• Cloud IntelliFrame for Teams Meeting Rooms on Windows: Cloud IntelliFrame makes non-AI cameras smarter. With Cloud IntelliFrame, participants in the room appear similar to remote attendees, creating an immersive and engaging experience for everyone. Whether it's work from home or in the office, participants can see every facial expression and cue, as if they were there in person. This feature is available only with the Microsoft Teams Rooms Pro license.

• Teacher-led announcements for parents: The Parents App inside Teams will now allow educators to send broadcast messages (announcements) to all the parents of a class.
• Scoped search for Viva Connections in Teams: The search experience for Teams apps is being updated to enable the use of search box in Teams to start a search within the used app. With this change, users of the Viva Connections app in Teams will start searching within the Viva Connections app by default, making it easier for users to access the tenant wide search experience that Viva Connections provides. This change will first come to the current version of Teams and will be coming to the "New Microsoft Teams App" in the coming months.
• Unified user experience for Bookings app in Teams: The Bookings app in Teams is moving to the new Virtual Appointments app and users will see a unified Bookings app experience across all the entry points. Users will be able to access features targeted for virtual appointments scenarios with the new Virtual Appointments app.