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Communities in Teams (free) on Windows 11 | January 2023

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Feb 06, 2023

Communities in Teams: available on Windows 11 PCs

 

In December, we launched communities in Microsoft Teams (free) on iOS and Android phones – a new experience for people to work together, connect, share, and collaborate. Whether your community is a networking group, sports team, event planning committee, or parent-teacher association, this new set of features gives your community a space to stay connected before, during, and after gatherings. While you can't create or join a community on Desktop (yet), you can now interact with those communities you have already joined on mobile using the Teams desktop app on Windows 11 PCs.

 

Note: This (early beta) release on Desktop has a limited set of features, but more features are coming soon.

 

Share information and keep your community groups in sync

In addition to everything you can already do in Microsoft Teams on Windows 11 PCs – including video calls and meetings, chats and sharing files – you can now participate in with the community groups that you've already joined on the Teams mobile app.

 

With this initial community experience on Windows 11, you’ll be able to:

 

Easily post messages to everyone in the group

Join online events in a community

Share and store documents dedicated to group activity

Learn more

 

Coming soon

Over the next few months, we are going to bring the best communities experience to Microsoft Teams on desktop, including ways to get started by creating your own community, joining a community, as well as organizing events.

Published Feb 06, 2023
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  • Hey Istag93 ,

     

    we would like to understand your scenarios in more detail and will be reaching out via private messages.

     

    Miikka (Teams PM)

  • Istag93's avatar
    Istag93
    Copper Contributor

    Hi, will you be bringing back the option to call within a communities group without having to setup an event?

     

    Also will there be an option to organise files uploaded in folder format like we could do in the previous free version?

     

    I hope you develop this new communities free version further because it does have potential but its currently very limited in comparison to the previous retired free version.

     

    Thanks

     

  • Uuuups, sorry…I havn‘t yet recognised the difference between share and send to teams Community Hub, forget my last request.

  • The Files option within my „SSC-Hallenbau“ Community HUB works as expected:

     But in my two other Communities the „files“ view didn’t show the attached files summary.

  • We do not have a schedule to share at this point.  I will update you as soon as we have more details to share. 

  • Ota_atsumi's avatar
    Ota_atsumi
    Copper Contributor

    When will the new feature of subcommunities/channels be available?
    Our team has no choice but to migrate from Microsoft Teams (Classic) to new Teams but with this limited feature it is very difficult to prepare upcoming migration 😞

  • Thanks for being a Teams user and sharing your valuable feedback. Our team is working on a notion of subcommunities/channels to help with organization of communication.

     

    -Mabel

    Teams (Free) Product Manager

  • Joshua Pak's avatar
    Joshua Pak
    Copper Contributor

    Will there be a notion of sub-communities or channels in the future?
    This new free version of Teams is very limited compared to the Classic Free Teams which is being retired which is quite upsetting.