Microsoft Release Notes

• Custom Backgrounds: Microsoft provided and user uploaded custom backgrounds are now available on iOS. Learn more.
• Anonymous users can present: When hosting a Teams live event, we added the ability for an anonymous user to join a Live Event and so that they can also present during the event. Learn more.

• Custom (LOB) tabs are available for DoD customers: Now DoD customers can upload and deploy their own custom (LOB) Teams apps.

• Policy package assignment to groups in PowerShell: Streamline assignment of policy package with group assignment in PowerShell. Group assignment empowers admins to assign a policy package to a group instead of individual users.
• Out-of-Office: Set up a message to let others know you're not working or on vacation so you're not available to reply when they send a chat message. Your out-of-office status will also sync with Automatic Replies that are found in your Outlook calendar.

• Custom policy packages: Manage and streamline your policy assignment with custom policy packages. This feature empowers admins to configure their own set of policy packages tailored to users in their organization.

Add video filter mode: Add the background video filter mode to the Teams admin center. So the admin can change the mode from Teams admin center and PowerShell on both sides. Learn more.

• Share to Teams from Outlook: Share to Teams from Outlook allows you to send a copy of email messages or conversations, including attachments, into Teams chats and channels. Find the Share to Teams option in the Outlook ribbon or the action menu for an email. Share to Teams supports Outlook on the web, Outlook for Windows, and the new Outlook for Mac Preview. Learn more.

• Customize apps in Teams (preview): Microsoft Teams provides app customization to enhance the Teams experience. The admin can customize or rebrand the app properties based on the organizational needs using the Teams admin center Manage apps page. Learn more.

• Remote provisioning and sign-in for Teams Android devices: IT admins can remotely provision and sign in to a Teams Android device. To provision a device remotely, the admin needs to upload the MAC IDs of the devices being provisioned and create a verification code. The entire process can be completed remotely from the Teams admin center. Learn more.

• Enable live transcripts in Teams: This is a per-user policy and applies during a meeting. This setting gives the control to a user to turn on or turn off live captions during the meeting that they're attending. Learn more.

• Additional GoLocal support in Teams live events: Support for South Africa, South Korea, Switzerland, France, Germany, and Brazil has been added to Live events. Learn more.

• Custom (LOB) tabs are available for DoD customers: Now DoD customers can upload and deploy their own custom (LOB) Teams apps.

• Meeting reactions policy: Meeting reactions are Off by default. Turning off reactions for a user doesn't mean that a user can't use reactions in meetings they schedule. The meeting organizer can still turn on reactions from the meeting option page, regardless of the default setting. Learn more.

• View-only meeting experience: Microsoft Teams allows up to 10,000 attendees to join a Teams meeting. After the capacity of the main meeting has been reached, extra attendees will join with a view-only experience. Learn more.

• Virtual visits with Teams - Integration into EHR: We've updated the interface for Microsoft Teams Electronic Health Record (EHR) Connector, and connector that makes it easy for clinicians to launch a virtual patient visit or consultation with another provider in Teams directly from the EHR system. Learn more.

• Firstline Workers are now called Frontline Workers: We've changed the title of Firstline Workers to Frontline Workers.

• Offline documentation: Teams keeps running even when you're offline or running in low-bandwidth conditions. Teams saves all your unsent messages for existing chats (for up to 24 hours) and sends them as soon as you're back online. Learn more.