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Version number: 18.1.2.1 Released: November 3, 2022

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• Viewing the Full Chat conversation thread after clicking on search message results: When users search for a chat message in Teams and select a message result, they're taken to a view that contains only the selected message, rather than the entire chat thread. This fix will now land the users on the full chat thread once the message search result is selected, thereby providing full context of the conversation around the message result.
• Integrated CART Captioning in Meetings on Web: Users will now be able to view captions coming from a CART provider (real-time captioning) within the Microsoft Teams meeting on Chrome and Microsoft Edge. Meeting organizers and participants will be able to ask their captioning providers to stream captions to Microsoft Teams.
• Microsoft Teams chat embedded within Dynamics 365: Microsoft Teams chat can now be accessed directly from Dynamics 365, allowing users to continue existing chats, or create new individual or group chats.
• Ability for Teams Admins to manage Teams 3P App subscriptions from within Teams admin center: Ability for the administrators to view and manage in a single place all third-party app subscriptions they’ve purchased from Teams admin center; easily adding more licenses for the purchased subscriptions; cancel, upgrade, and downgrade subscriptions and access invoices.

• Native Apple Silicon Support - Universal Binary Teams Version: Teams now comes as a Universal Binary Mac so it runs natively on both Intel and Apple Silicon based Mac devices.
• Suggested Replies in Group Chat: Suggested Replies are now available in group chats, allowing you to select a quick response when you're mentioned in a group chat or when you're having a 1:1 conversation within a group chat.
• Deploy Teams at Scale for Frontline workers: Your organization may have many teams that you use to drive communication and collaboration among your frontline workforce, who are spread across different stores, locations, and roles. Currently, there isn't an easy solution to deploy, set up, and manage these teams and users at scale. We're building a solution to enable admins to deploy and manage teams at scale.

• Pre-assign Channel members to Breakout Rooms: Ability for an organizer to preassign participants in Channel meetings, explicitly for channel members who aren't invited to the meeting.
• Transcription will be turned on together with Recording if the "Record automatically" meeting option is on: If the meeting organizer has set the "Record automatically" meeting option to on for a meeting, Transcription will be turned on together with Recording when the meeting starts, if transcription is allowed by administrators. This feature will make recording play back experience accessible.
• Teams: External Access Invite Flow for Managed Organizations: When receiving new external 1:1 chats, users will now have the option to accept the chat or block the guest. This feature also provides the ability to Block guests at any point, which revokes access to present and incoming messages.
• Intelligent translation in Teams Mobile: Teams iOS will now prompt you to translate messages that aren't in your set language.
• Join Teams meeting by meeting ID and passcode from Teams rooms on Windows: Users can use Teams room on Windows to join Teams meetings, using meeting ID and passcode. This feature significantly improves meeting-join experience for meetings across tenants or where room isn't invited to the meeting.
• Intelligent translation in Teams Mobile: Teams Android will now prompt you to translate messages that aren't in your language. …

• Share content experience improvement on Teams rooms on Windows: Teams Rooms on Windows is updating the user interface to share HDMI and content camera in the meeting. The new experience provides a better task-completion experience and clarity for in-room users, ensuring that the users can easily share content in the meeting.
• End to end encryption for one-to-one calls in Teams Rooms on Windows: Teams Rooms on Windows can be configured to encrypt all person-to-person (P2P) calls. The callee must also have the encryption setting turned on. When in an encrypted call, both caller and callee can verify encryption key to ensure that the call is encrypted end to end and secure.
• Mute/unmute status icon for Teams Rooms on Windows: To ensure users in the room are aware of the mute state of the room, a mute icon is added to the room video on the front-of-room display.
• Call controls via directly bluetooth connected audio devices: Use device buttons to control a call (answer, end, hold) from Bluetooth audio devices without needing a USB dongle when connected to Windows PC running Teams desktop client. For many headsets and speakerphones, this call-control feature will work without requiring any user action other than pairing the headset with their PC. This feasibility is because the functionality is built upon industry standard HFP protocol which many headsets support currently. In short, if your headset is able to answer or end a cellular call on your mobile, it sh…

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Version number: 18.1.1.1 Released: August 8, 2022

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• Brightspace (D2L) LMS integration with M365.: Microsoft has now partnered with Brightspace (D2L) LMS to deliver more seamless integrated learning experiences. Microsoft Teams Meeting LTI and Classes LTI apps are now available within Brightspace. Teams Classes LTI enables Educators to create a Team for their Brightspace course using the roster information of the course. Teams Meeting LTI empowers educators and students to access, schedule, and manage Teams Meetings within the Brightspace LMS. Learn more about Microsoft 365 LMS LTI integrations
• Open LMS integration with M365: Microsoft has now partnered with Open LMS to deliver more seamless integrated learning experiences. Microsoft Teams Meeting LTI and Classes LTI apps are now available within Open LMS. Teams Classes LTI enables Educators to create a Team for their Open LMS course using the roster information of the course. Teams Meeting LTI empowers educators and students to access, schedule, and manage Teams Meetings within the Brightspace LMS. Learn more

• Disable chat write access for anonymous or unauthenticated users: IT admins can now disable chat write access at the policy level for nonfederated users and unauthenticated users who join Teams meetings through a link that must be used in conjunction with disabled meeting chat policy to provide additional security against data exfiltration.
• Microsoft Teams Connect shared channels: Workplace collaboration has become increasingly digital and cloud based. In our interconnected world, we need to collaborate with people beyond our own organization—communicating with partners, following up with suppliers, and reaching out to customers. Through Microsoft Teams, you can securely collaborate with external stakeholders. With Teams Connect, we're making it easier to collaborate with those inside and outside your organization, helping your extended team work effectively and efficiently across organization boundaries. With shared channels, multiple organizations can work together in a shared space. Have conversations, schedule a meeting, share, and coauthor files, and collaborate on apps, without ever switching tenants.

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Version number: 17.10.1.1 Released: June 30, 2022

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• Support of Transcription for Teams for Citrix on Virtual Desktop Infrastructure: Users on virtual machines can use transcription once the feature is available. After a meeting, the transcript file is automatically saved in the chat tab for that meeting.
• Music on Hold for Voice over IP Calls: This feature ensures that music can be played when a Voice over IP call is placed on hold.
• Support of Transcription for Teams for Azure Virtual Desktop on Virtual Desktop Infrastructure: Users on Virtual machines can use transcription once the feature is available. After a meeting, the transcript file is automatically saved in the chat tab for that meeting.
• Web Browser Join: Join Virtual Appointments from your web browser on any device.
• Room capacity warning (based on Teams Room on Android people counting supported cameras): When Teams panels are deployed in a room with Teams Rooms that support people counting, Teams panels can display a warning message when the room is at or over capacity to inform people in the hallway that the room is full. Teams Rooms on Android will display a warning message on the front of room display when the room is over capacity.

• Export a Teams list from the Teams admin center: Administrators can export a Teams list as a CSV file from the Teams admin center.
• Chat filter for non-meeting chats: There will be a new chat filter within the Chat app which filters out meeting chats and chats with bots. It filters in one on one and group chats with people.
• Search in Teams admin center: Admins can search for users, teams, pages, and settings using a common search box in the Teams admin center.
• Roaming bandwidth control: A new roaming policy to provide specific settings from other policies which need to be rendered dynamically based upon the location of the Teams client. Initially two settings from the TeamsMeetingPolicy will be included: AllowIPVideo and MediaBitRateKb.

• Calendar Show As in meetings: Using Show As, organizers can set free-busy statuses for a meeting and schedule OOF meetings from Teams. Along with this, private meeting functionality is also enabled which allows users to hide meeting details from other users when their calendar is shared.
• Mandatory Comments for Approvals App in Teams: Teams Admins and Approval Template creators can enable mandatory comments for when an approver responds to a request.
• Apps in channel meetings: Ability for EDU users to use apps like Forms and Sli.do to improve engagement.
• Dynamic Emergency Calling for Work From Home for VDI - Citrix: This feature enables users on Virtual Machine to validate the address that will be communicated to emergency responders in the event that an emergency call is placed by an individual working from home.
• Auto-answer with video for iOS devices: This feature brings the ability for iOS devices to automatically answer incoming meeting nudges with or without their video on. The feature availability to the end user is controlled through AutoAnswerwithVideo PowerShell policy.
• Dynamic Emergency Calling for Work From Home for VDI on Azure Virtual Desktop: This feature enables users on Azure Virtual Desktop on VDI to make an emergency call while working from home. It will allow users to validate (and if necessary, edit) the address that will be communicated to emergency responders. …

• Pin your own video in Teams meetings: Currently, users can pin video feeds to increase the size of the desired video on their own screen. Now, we have expanded the ability for users to pin their own video on the stage as well. This way, users can also see their own video in the increased size on their screen.
• Local time available added to people profile: You can now know the local time of the people you collaborate with.
• Career Coach - Job market trends: Faculty and staff license holders will now be able to view location-based job market trends within Career Coach. This experience is powered by LinkedIn workforce hiring data.

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Version number: 17.9.1.1 Released: February 17, 2022

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Version number: 18.0.1.1 Released: February 15, 2022

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