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What’s New in Microsoft Teams | September 2021 30 September 2021 – Microsoft Teams Team Stay up to date with new developments in Teams and across the rest of Office 365 by subscribing to the the newsletter. Welcome to the September edition of What’s new in Microsoft Teams – the monthly post where we keep you updated on all the new features and innovations that we have made available in Teams over the last month. There are so many exciting developments for Teams Phone this month so be sure to check out the announcements from Enterprise Connect 2021. Earlier this month, we also announced new visual collaboration features in Microsoft Whiteboard now available on the web, Teams, and Android. Now on to this month’s feature releases! Meetings Devices Chat & Collaboration Management Frontline Workers Government Each month our Product Marketing Manager Aisha Miller will highlight a few features from the blog for you to see in action. Meetings Present from PowerPoint to Teams Presenting in a meeting used to be as simple as clicking Slide Show in your PowerPoint deck. Now, even though you may not be in the same room as your audience, we believe your flow to present should be as easy and intuitive – clicking the Present in Teams button in PowerPoint is the only step you need to present the deck in your Teams meeting! Available now in PowerPoint web, Windows, Mac, and Microsoft 365 Apps for Business license. Learn more. Teams meetings now available on Apple CarPlay In addition to calling, your Microsoft Teams meetings are now available on Apple CarPlay. You can find a Teams icon on your Apple CarPlay screen. Simply use voice command through Siri to join your next meeting hands-free. You can also [...]

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What’s New in Microsoft Teams | April 2021 30 april 2021 – Microsoft_Teams team Welcome to the April edition of What’s new in Teams – the monthly post where we’re keeping you updated on all the new features and innovation that we have made available in Microsoft Teams. This month we're also excited to announce we’ve launched our new Microsoft Teams Instagram account. Go check it out for fun updates and new ways to engage with the product. Let’s check out all the new features we have delivered this month: Meetings and webinars Devices Chat and Collaboration Management Frontline worker Government Meetings and webinars Breakout room retention and participant reassignment Organizers can now reassign participants even when rooms are opened. Previously, you could only reassign when rooms were closed. Breakout room assignments also now persist over multiple sessions. These features are useful for efficiently managing discussions and ensuring the right participants are in each breakout. Learn more Invite-only meeting options A new meeting setting is now available in Teams meeting options that automatically sends those who were not originally invited by the organizer to the lobby. For example, if an invitee forwards a meeting invitation to a colleague, when that person tries to join, they’ll be directed to wait in the lobby until the host selects to admit them. This helps prevent those uninvited from joining the meeting. Learn more Polls in Teams meetings has advanced capabilities for expanded options, intelligent suggestions and analytics Attendees and guest attendees on mobile devices can now participate in Polls in Teams meetings. Also, discover intelligent poll suggestions to prepare relevant poll questions quickly and analyze responses to take swift action post-meeting. Learn More Enhanced meeting creation and expiration policies For added security and compliance, Teams meetings and [...]

Tips to keep your classroom secure with Microsoft Teams 4 april 2021 – Microsoft_Teams_team As we approach the retirement of Skype for Business Online, we want to take a moment to appreciate the efforts organizations are making to complete their transitions to Teams prior to July 31, 2021, as well as those who have already upgraded to Teams. Thank you! If you still have Skype for Business Online users, keep working your upgrade plan. Regardless of the technical and change management dynamics with your upgrade, you can accomplish so much over the next three months. What to expect as Skype for Business Online retires? Skype for Business Online will be fully functional through July 31, 2021 to allow customers time to transition users to Teams or to an instance of Skype for Business Server. Here are some other details you should know about the Skype for Business Online service retirement: Services that integrate with Skype for Business Online will not be supported beyond the July 31, 2021 retirement. This includes support for third-party audio conferencing providers (ACP), Skype for Business Online Cloud Connector Edition (CCE), hybrid voice configurations, and Skype Meeting Broadcast. Customers will not be able to move online users out of Teams Only mode after retirement. Coexistence modes enable customers to operate Skype for Business Server/Teams side-by-side experiences until they are ready to move users to Teams Only. Users can be moved directly from Skype for Business Server to Teams Only after configuring Skype for Business hybrid with Microsoft 365 or Office 365. Microsoft-assisted upgrades to Teams In the coming weeks, we’ll begin scheduling Microsoft-assisted upgrades to Teams for Skype for Business Online customers with cloud-only or hybrid deployments. Assisted upgrades help with last-mile technical steps of the transition to Teams. Customers will be notified through the [...]

Share a video WITH AUDIO on a Mac using Microsoft Teams 4 april 2021 – Zachary Cavanell Need to share a video with AUDIO during a Microsoft Teams meeting? What used to only be possible in Windows, is now also possible in MacOS! In this work from home tip, Jeremy Chapman, from the Microsoft 365 team, will show you how to “Include Computer Sound” while sharing your desktop or app windows using a Mac or PC. At the time of release, this is a Public Preview feature in Microsoft Teams for MacOS, so we’ll also show how to get that enabled if you don’t see the options demonstrated. QUICK LINKS: 00:34 — Demo in Teams to Include Computer Sound 01:40 — Demo of Including Computer Sound after sharing desktop 02:20 — What to do if you don’t see the Include Computer Sound options 02:56 — Enabling Preview Features in the Teams Admin Center 03:21 — Closing remarks Link References: Find more shows in our work from home series at https://aka.ms/WFHmechanics Unfamiliar with Microsoft Mechanics? We are Microsoft’s official video series for IT. You can watch and share valuable content and demos of current and upcoming tech from the people who build it at Microsoft. Subscribe to our YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/MicrosoftMechanicsSeries?sub_confirmation=1 Join us on the Microsoft Tech Community: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-mechanics-blog/bg-p/MicrosoftMechanicsBlog Watch or listen via podcast here: https://microsoftmechanics.libsyn.com/website Keep getting this insider knowledge, join us on social: Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MSFTMechanics Follow us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/microsoft-mechanics/ Follow us on Facebook: https://facebook.com/microsoftmechanics/ Video Transcript: Need to share a video with AUDIO during a Microsoft Teams meeting? Well, what used to only be possible in Windows is now also possible in MacOS. What I’ll show you today is currently in Public Preview, but depending on when you’re watching this, there is a pretty good chance you’ll see the [...]

Microsoft Teams is veel meer dan alleen maar een vergadertool. Het is namelijk ook hét platform waarbinnen iedereen zijn dagelijkse werkzaamheden kan uitvoeren: Microsoft Teams als digitale werkplek!

Discover intelligence, insights, and more for Polls in Microsoft Teams Meetings 3 March 2021 – Melinda_Hu From our initial release of Polls in Teams Meetings until now, engaging our colleagues, students, or guests in virtual meetings has continued to be a top challenge and priority. Having listened to your experiences with using polls in meetings, we recognize how critical it is to run meetings smoothly end-to-end, all the while maintaining engagement for all your audience members. Today, we want to share how Microsoft Forms is improving Polls in Teams Meetings to bring you closer to this seamless, engaged meeting experience. With expanded access to this polling experience and the open-text poll, you can be assured that all attendees can be heard. Furthermore, with Forms’ intelligence and data insights, you can minimize the time it takes to create polls, and thereafter take action on the information your polls collected. Leverage Intelligent Poll Suggestions While preparing for your meeting in the “Polls” tab of your meeting, you will soon discover poll suggestions. Forms intelligence can suggest poll questions that might be useful for your particular meeting. It can also suggest multiple-choice answer options based on your typed poll question. Thus, with a few clicks, you can add the polls you need, reducing the time you spend preparing polls. These intelligence features will begin rollout in late March or early April. Launch Open-Text Polls Rolling out at the end of April*, you can ask open-ended questions to your attendees. Without the limitation of multiple choice, you can hear more directly from your attendees. Once submitted, their answers are visualized in a word cloud, where words that are mentioned more often in the responses appear larger. given the context and nuance it can provide, can serve as helpful starting points [...]

The past year has been unpredictable, but that doesn’t mean remote and hybrid learning have to be. With reliable and secure technology, students can connect with teachers and classmates, work on assignments, and access important educational resources from anywhere.