Welcome to the June 2023 version of What’s New in Teams! Following a month of nice bulletins from Microsoft Build 2023, we aren’t slowing down by bringing you 45 new options for the month of June.
We have an excellent line-up of latest options to announce. My private favorites are Spatial Audio in Teams Meetings which spatializes the voices of attendees throughout the visible assembly stage within the gallery view to provide you a sense of being within the room and the Mark all Messages as Read to clear my notifications. And each month we add new units that licensed and able to use for Teams. Find units which might be licensed for Teams for every type of areas and makes use of at aka.ms/teamsdevices.
Please examine all of the updates and let me know your ideas! I’ll do my greatest to reply and reply questions as they arrive up.
Frontline Workers and Vertical Solutions
Meetings
Spatial Audio in Teams Meetings
Microsoft Teams is happy to announce an upgraded audio expertise in conferences: Spatial audio. Spatial audio brings a next-generation immersive soundscape to Teams conferences when utilizing both a wired stereo headset or built-in stereo audio system. This new audio expertise spatializes the voices of attendees throughout the visible assembly stage within the Gallery view. This helps make conversations extra pure, growing the sense of audio presence, and making the dialog simpler to observe when a number of persons are talking collectively.
There are 3 ways to show spatial audio on:
1) Before you be a part of a gathering: Select a wired stereo headset or built-in stereo audio system on the assembly pre-join display. You can discover this setting below Device Settings -> Speaker, and activate the Spatial audio toggle
2) During the assembly: Select More > Settings > Device settings, after which choose a wired stereo headset or built-in stereo audio system below Speakers within the Device settings pane and activate the Spatial audio toggle.
3) Anytime: Select Settings and extra > Settings > Devices, after which activate the Spatial audio toggle.
For extra info on this function, click on right here.
Together mode enhancements in Teams Meetings
We are bringing new usability enhancements to Together Mode. While Together mode is lively now you can 1) see the identify labels that assist standing icons, reminiscent of microphone, lively speaker, highlight, or pin inside the assembly 2) see raised arms and reactions inside the view 3) have your personal video within the gallery eliminated, so duplication of the self-preview is prevented.
This makes Together Mode extra inclusive and simpler to grasp what is occurring within the assembly.
To expertise the enhancements go to View -> Together mode throughout their assembly.
For extra info on this function, click on right here.
Customize captions in Teams conferences
The new Caption Settings pane permits for higher discovery and simpler navigation. You have the power to customise the dimensions and coloration of their font in addition to the peak and place of the caption window with the choice to scroll to evaluation captions of what has been stated, as much as one minute in the past.
When in a gathering with captions turned on, click on the :gear: Settings button within the captions field on the backside of the display, after which click on Caption settings to get to the brand new captions settings pane.
For extra info on this function, click on right here.
Teams Phone
Management of exterior name routing settings in Teams admin heart
Administrators will be capable to assist reduce distractions for customers of their group, by having the ability to set totally different routing settings for PSTN calls and VoIP calls from federated Teams customers in Teams admin heart. They could have the choice to both enable all incoming calls, redirect calls to voicemail, or redirect calls as per person’s unanswered settings.
Chat and collaboration
Marks all as learn in your exercise feed
Scrolling by means of your exercise feed and discovering a number of notifications and unread messages out of your chat, channels or conferences after being out of the workplace could be overwhelming and take up area if not related. By marking all objects in your exercise feed as learn all of sudden, you’ll not must mark every merchandise one by one, saving time by specializing in the conversations that matter.
Compact chat record
A brand new chat density setting will allow you to condense their chat record and have extra chats displayed on the display. This will enable you to shortly scan and prioritize which chat they wish to concentrate on first.
Work location in Teams
Teams offers you the flexibleness to simply change the situation for that day, with out impacting the remainder of your week. For instance, after just a few hours within the workplace, you determine to complete up your make money working from home. To change your location from Teams, do the next: Simply click on in your profile image, view your account settings and alter your work location for that day. Update your location from any gadget and anybody utilizing the Scheduling Assistant in Outlook to schedule a gathering will be capable to simply see your up to date location.
Teams Rooms and Devices
Custom background enhancements for Teams Rooms on Windows
Now clients can customise the backgrounds in a Teams Room to make their group’s model and tradition shine by means of. Admins have the flexibleness to set totally different photographs on the front-of-room shows and console and add as much as 3 photographs specifying which works to the left or proper room show and console. Higher decision photographs (minimal of 1280×800 on console and 1920×1080 on shows) in PNG, JPG, JPEG, and BMP codecs are supported. This function is on the market solely with the Teams Rooms Pro license. Click right here to Learn extra about setting personalized backgrounds for Teams Rooms on Windows.
View Together mode for everybody on Teams Rooms for Windows
Previously, solely people may select to see assembly individuals in Together mode from their very own perspective. Now, assembly organizers and presenters can choose Together mode for all of the individuals and choose a structure to suit the assembly sort, making conferences extra inclusive and enjoyable for all.
Default assembly structure controls for Microsoft Teams Rooms on Android
IT admins can now select between Content solely and Content + gallery because the default assembly structure when content material sharing begins. Teams Rooms Standard, Premium, and Pro service clients moreover have Front row as one in every of their default structure choices.
Teams Button enhancements in your conferences
A devoted Teams button on peripheral units licensed for Microsoft Teams makes it quick and easy to hitch a Teams name or assembly. Press as soon as for the pre-join display and press a second time to hitch the decision or assembly.
Once began, in case you’ve navigated away from the decision or assembly stage to reference one other window, press the Teams button to immediately carry the decision or assembly stage to the foreground once more.
Lenovo ThinkSmart Core with Lenovo IP Controller Kit for Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows
Add smarter collaboration know-how to assembly rooms of all sizes. Ideal for areas that have already got A/V know-how, the modular equipment consists of ThinkSmart Core, a strong laptop powered by eleventh Gen Intel® Core™ vPro™ processors licensed for Microsoft Teams, a ten.1-inch touchscreen controller, distant IT manageability, skilled deployment assist, and extra. Learn extra right here.
Yealink MVC860-C5 Bundle for Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows
Designed for medium and huge rooms, the Yealink MVC860 Microsoft Teams Rooms system is a bundled video resolution with UVC86 4K dual-eye monitoring digital camera, MCore mini-PC, and MTouch II contact panel. You may choose VCM34/VCM38/CPW90 array microphones and MSpeakerII Soundbar to work with MVC860. Learn extra in regards to the Yealink MVC860 resolution.
Cisco Room Kit Pro for Teams Rooms on Android
As a part of the complete lineup of units for Microsoft Teams Rooms, the Cisco Room Kit Pro bundle consists of Cisco Codec Pro assembly room codec, the Cisco Room Navigator for Table contact panel, the Cisco Quad Camera, and the Cisco Table Microphone. This bundle, licensed for Teams, is a good resolution for giant Teams Rooms. Learn extra about Cisco units for Microsoft Teams Rooms.
Cisco Desk Pro on Teams Rooms on Android
The Cisco Desk Pro, newly licensed for Microsoft Teams, is good for shared workspaces or huddle room environments. The Desk Pro is an all-in-one premium collaboration and productiveness gadget that includes a 27-inch 4K show, 71-degree HD digital camera, superior sound system, and superior noise-canceling microphone array. Learn extra about Cisco Desk Pro that’s licensed for Teams Rooms on Android.
Poly Studio X52 and TC 10 for Microsoft Teams Rooms on Android
The Poly Studio X52 video bar, licensed for Teams, maximizes the digital assembly expertise in mid-sized assembly areas. New Poly DirectorAI sensible digital camera know-how gives automated digital camera framing modes like group, speaker, and folks framing. The 4K, 20MP digital camera ensures clear visibility of each participant, reaching even the farthest corners of the convention room with none picture distortion. Updates to the AI-driven software program for group and speaker framing capabilities embody the brand new Poly DirectorAI Perimeter function and different audio enhancements. Learn extra in regards to the Studio X52 and accompanying TC10 Console.
Poly G7500 with Shure Microflex Large Room Bundle for Microsoft Teams Rooms on Android
The Poly G7500 and the Shure Microflex® microphone system massive room bundle, with the Shure P300 Digital Signal Processor (DSP), have been collectively licensed for Teams Rooms on Android. This licensed bundle means clients can have full confidence that the Poly and Shure resolution for giant assembly rooms offers the absolute best expertise delivering enhanced communication and productiveness for organizations. Learn extra in regards to the Poly G7500 conferencing resolution and Shure’s microphone techniques.
Biamp Vidi 250 digital camera
The Vidi 250, licensed for Microsoft Teams, is a wide-angle 4K, digital Pan/Tilt/Zoom with 5x zoom digital camera designed to be used with video conferencing techniques. Intended for huddle rooms or small-to-medium conferencing rooms, the Vidi 250 has a 120-degree area of view, permitting everybody within the room to be seen. The Vidi 250 makes use of auto-framing know-how to determine assembly individuals and modify the main focus and zoom to maintain individuals in view. Optional mounting equipment enable placement on a wide range of surfaces and places. Learn extra about this digital camera from Biamp.
Vaddio RoboSHOT 30E-M HD PTZ digital camera licensed for Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows
Elevate your Microsoft Teams Rooms expertise with the RoboSHOT 30E-M PTZ Camera, licensed for Microsoft Teams. It gives 30x zoom, customized preset controls, clean and silent Pan/Tilt/Zoom, and beautiful picture high quality. Its 70.2-degree horizontal area of view captures the whole room, whereas the Exmor R CMOS sensor and cutting-edge picture processing ship sharp 1080p/60 video. Wide dynamic vary and coloration adjustment choices optimize picture high quality for any lighting. Customizable presets allow simple switching between views of the room to reinforce collaboration. It’s good for giant assembly rooms. With USB 3.0, the Vaddio Deployment Tool and web-based controls to assist distant administration, it’s simple to deploy and handle. Learn extra in regards to the RoboSHOT 30E-M HD Pan/Tilt/Zoom digital camera.
Poly Voyager Surround 80 UC Headset
The new UC empowers staff to focus and sound their greatest with immersive wealthy audio and adaptive ANC. It is the primary boomless headset licensed for Microsoft Teams that achieves the ‘open office’ badge on account of its excellent efficiency in noisy environments. The Bluetooth enterprise headset gives a glossy design for full consolation, that includes tender ear cushions and an adjustable headband for an ultralight match. You can keep in command with as much as 21 hours of discuss time, handy on-ear controls, and sensible sensors for computerized name answering. Learn extra in regards to the licensed for Teams Voyager Surround 80 headset.
SIP Gateway now helps Edge sequence IP Phones from Poly
Poly is on the rising record of OEMs for which we offer IP telephone assist for SIP gateway. Poly units within the Edge sequence, together with a wide range of Trio, VVX and Rove sequence units, are actually appropriate and can auto-reboot to put in the related firmware. Newly appropriate units from the Poly Edge sequence embody: E100, E220, E300, E320, E350, E400, E450, E500 and E550.
Lenovo ThinkSmart View Plus Teams Display
Lenovo ThinkSmart View Plus is the most recent standalone Microsoft Teams Display gadget. With a 27-inch multitouch show, premium audio and video, and built-in computing, the Lenovo ThinkSmart View Plus was designed to extend productiveness, flexibility, and collaboration. Learn extra about Lenovo ThinkSmart View Plus.
Find units which might be licensed for Teams for every type of areas and makes use of at aka.ms/teamsdevices.
Frontline Workers and Vertical Solutions
Frontline staff utilizing shared Android units can use Outlook, Edge, Viva Engage, and Power Apps
Microsoft’s shared gadget mode permits frontline staff to simply authenticate by mechanically signing customers out and in of all of the apps which have enabled this function. We are asserting the final availability of Outlook, Edge, Viva Engage (beforehand Yammer), and Power Apps on shared Android units, becoming a member of the portfolio of apps together with, Microsoft Teams and Managed Home Screen. Learn extra.
Walkie Talkie Auto Connect
To assist frontline staff onboard, Auto Connect can be typically obtainable beginning July in order that when customers open Walkie Talkie, they’ll mechanically be a part of the final related, default single channel or the channel set by the person.
IT Admin and Security
Teams Security
Microsoft Defender for Office 365 will present safety and enhanced safety operations (SecOps) expertise for Microsoft Teams. These safety capabilities will embody computerized remediation of malicious entities and assist for finish person reporting. In addition, Microsoft Teams particular assault insights can be included within the unified investigation and response expertise within the Microsoft 365 Defender portal, for an optimized SecOps expertise.
New widget for unspent Azure consumption dedication
New widget within the Microsoft Teams admin heart (TAC) helps admins shortly view unspent Microsoft Azure consumption dedication (MACC) that they will apply when making buy of Teams apps which might be Azure profit eligible. It will solely be obtainable to organizations which have an current MACC settlement with Microsoft.
Mobile
Attach cloud recordsdata in chat and channel from groups cellular
Introducing the power to add recordsdata from OneDrive from Teams Mobile chat and channel. Also, view Recent recordsdata and connect most used recordsdata upfront from the Recent part.
Updated companion mode for Android conferences
This function permits you to add your Android gadget to an ongoing assembly, making it simple to speak, react, share, and extra.
Platform
Collaborative Stageview
With Collaborative Stageview, app content material opens in a brand new Teams window the place you may interact with content material and chat with different workforce members, side-by-side. Collab Stage permits you to share hyperlinks and collaborate on content material, proper from inside Teams.
Export API Support for Teams Control Messages
Control Messages are system generated messages on Teams shopper when an exercise or occasion happens. For instance, User A was added User B to a chat and shared all chat historical past. Export API, a compliance archiving resolution for Teams, goes past person generated Teams message and offers assist to archive Teams management messages. As a part of this launch, Export API will assist member add and member take away messages within the context of Teams, chats, and channels.
Search enhancements in Teams App Store
Improvements to go looking on Teams App Store, making it simpler so that you can uncover apps they wish to set up with the assist for added key phrases specified within the app description, app identify, writer identify and extra app metadata.
Share App to Channel or Chat
This function permits you to share 1P or 3P apps with different customers of their Teams chats and channels.
Allow assembly apps to point out an indicator on their icon to sign new exercise
This function allows assembly purposes to show an indicator on their icon, encouraging customers to take part in new in-app actions throughout a gathering. The software has the choice to point out the indicator to chose attendees or to all individuals.
Webinars and Events
Expanding as much as 10,000 customers in Distribution Lists for foyer coverage in Teams assembly
Until just lately, in case you modified your foyer coverage in a Teams Meeting to “Invited Users Only” and invited a Distribution List (DL), solely the primary 1,000 customers of that DL can be acknowledged and let by means of the foyer. All different customers, part of the DL was not acknowledged and was positioned within the foyer. With this replace, as much as 10,000 customers of that given DL can be acknowledged and let by means of the foyer if the foyer coverage is ready to “Invited Users Only.”
Government
These options at the moment obtainable to Microsoft’s business clients in multi-tenant cloud environments are actually rolling out to clients within the US Government Community Cloud (GCC), US Government Community Cloud High (GCC-High), and/or the United States Department of Defense (DoD).
GCC-H assist for Microsoft Teams Rooms on Android
We are excited to announce that Teams Rooms on Android and Teams Admin Center functionalities are actually supported for GCC-H clients who’ve a Teams Rooms Pro license.
Microsoft Teams: Virtual Appointments app for GCC
Microsoft Teams: Virtual Appointments app obtainable for for GCC.
Manage Surface Hubs as Teams units from Teams admin heart (GCCH)
Admins can handle the end-to-end lifecycle of their Surface Hubs as Teams units from Teams admin heart, obtainable in GCC High.