Microsoft announces changes to the Teams policy for biometric user profiles. The policy will be activated globally from January 2025. Teams administrators should note the communicated changes.
App Setup Policies in Teams now support the pinning of meeting apps. Currently, only a few Teams apps support the option for meeting extensions.
Teams has started to automatically hide inactive channels. Employees can disable the process in the Teams Client.
Microsoft provides a Loop app for Teams. The app is still at an early stage of development.
Employees with a Teams Premium license will be able to use a Queues app for Teams Telephony in the future. The new service plan has been added to the license.
Following the information about the end of Connectors in Microsoft 365 Groups, Microsoft has updated the schedule for Teams channels.
According to Microsoft Support, the SharePoint News Connector in Teams has been deprecated. The end of all connectors in Outlook, Microsoft 365 Groups and Teams has now been communicated.
Teams for Windows and Mac finally supports moving the toolbar during a screen share.
Tag Management in Teams supports guests since January, but the option to configure Tag settings is now missing in the new Teams.
Town Halls in Teams will soon support real-time live translated captions in six languages, even without a Teams Premium license.
Microsoft is removing Webinar Classic Registration in Teams Meeting at the end of June. From July, employees will have to plan a webinar when requesting registration.
The options in a Teams meeting used to be a long list. Microsoft is changing the list to a grouped view.
In April, Microsoft introduced two new licenses and rolled back a change made in February.
As of April 1, Teams is no longer included in newly ordered Enterprise licenses. The change now affects all organizations worldwide.
Members in a Teams group chat can change the profile picture of the chat.
In Teams, the options for Emojis, GIFs, and Stickers have been combined in a new picker.
The text editor in Teams for chats and conversations has been redesigned for the first time since the introduction of Teams.
The General channel can now be hidden in a Team.
Employees should use a current Teams client by the end of March 2024.