Microsoft Release Notes

• Teams Approvals app availability: The Approvals app is available as a personal app for all Microsoft Teams users. The Approvals app provides a simple way to bring auditing, compliance, accountability, and workflows to both structured and unstructured Approvals in Teams. Learn more.

• Set up Microsoft Teams meeting add-on for Google Workspace: The Microsoft Teams meeting add-on for Google Workspace must be enabled by a Teams admin before tenant users can access the app. Learn more.

• Calendar sharing: We added the ability to add a channel to a calendar tab.

• Supported rate centers and coverage for Calling Plans: A rate center is the industry term for a geographical area that traditionally defines boundaries for local calling, billing rates, and phone number assignment for the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN). Learn more.

• Updated meeting settings policies for Breakout rooms: Breakout Rooms in Teams are used to split meetings into separate, smaller meeting rooms. This setting controls whether meeting organizers have the option to create and manage Breakout Rooms in meetings they schedule or start. This policy setting affects all meetings, including Meet Now meetings. Learn more.

• **Get started with Teams in healthcare:**Microsoft Teams offers many features useful for hospitals and other healthcare organizations, including:
  • Virtual visits and Electronic Healthcare Record (EHR) integration
  • Teams policy packages
  • Secure messaging
  • Teams templates
  • Care coordination and collaboration

This functionality is part of the Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare. Learn more.

• Teams displays: Microsoft Teams displays are a category of all-in-one dedicated Teams devices that feature an ambient touchscreen. Learn more.

• Manage shift-based access for Frontline Workers: As an admin, you can configure Teams to show a set of shift-based presence states for the Frontline Workers in your organization to indicate when they're on and off shift. With shift-based access, you can manage access to Teams when Frontline Workers are off shift. For example, you can set Teams to display a message that Frontline Workers must acknowledge before they can use Teams when they're not on a scheduled shift. Learn more.

• **Custom policy packages:**This feature is in private preview Custom policy packages let you bundle your own set of policies for users with similar roles in your organization. Create your own policy packages by adding the policy types and policies that you need. Learn more.
• Add an app to a team in the Microsoft Teams admin center: On the Manage apps page of the Microsoft Teams admin center, you can use the Add to team button to install an app to a team. Learn more.

• Meeting policy settings: Adding two policy settings for IP audio and IP video in Teams meetings policies: Mode for IP audio and Mode for IP video. You can now set incoming and outgoing IP audio and IP video in Teams meeting policies. Learn more.

• Simplified notification setting: Users can now manage their notifications settings in a more simplified manner with enhanced functionalities.

• Teams integration with Android contacts: Call using Teams directly through your Android Phonebook.

• Manage Microsoft Power Platform apps in the Microsoft Teams admin center: As an admin, you can control whether users can see and install Microsoft Power Platform apps in Built by your colleagues on the Apps page in Teams. You can collectively block or allow all apps created in Power Apps or all apps created in Power Virtual Agents at the org level on the Manage apps page or for specific users using app permission policies. Learn more.

• Sharing files in Microsoft Teams: In Microsoft Teams, users can share content with other Teams users within and outside their organization. Sharing in Teams is based on the settings configured in SharePoint and OneDrive, so whatever you set up for SharePoint and OneDrive will control sharing in Teams as well. Learn more.

• New third-party video provider Riverbed: Use Teams live events settings to configure settings for live events that are held in your organization. You can set up a support URL and configure a third-party video distribution provider. These settings apply to all live events that are created in your organization. Riverbed is a new third-party provider. Learn more.

• Skype for Business Online Connector integrated to Teams PowerShell module: The latest Teams PowerShell public release is integrated with Skype for Business Online Connector, providing a single module for Teams PowerShell management. Learn more.

• Porting PIN: We added the ability to set up and manage a PIN used for porting or transferring phone numbers. You'll provide this PIN to the PSTN service desk when you want to port numbers out to a service provider from Microsoft. Learn more.