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New indicator “EA” on avatar for Microsoft Teams Public Preview users
Microsoft Teams Public Preview channel allows customers to easily preview and evaluate pre-release Teams features before they roll out to the rest of their company. There are no program requirements or commitments. This is an opt-in channel controlled via IT admin policy. Users who are in the Public Preview channel of Teams will see "EA" (Early Access) next to their profile picture indicating that they have early access to Teams features in public preview (as shown in the image below). To learn more about Teams Public Preview and how to set/update the preview policy, please refer Public preview in Microsoft Teams - Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Docs To get the latest update on the features in Public Preview, follow or subscribe to this Microsoft Tech Community page. Thank you, Preview Team Quality & Customer Obsession, Microsoft TeamsPreview exited, now GA: PowerPoint Presenter View in Teams
Description Wish you could get some extra help behind the scenes while presenting in a Teams meeting? Check out our new Presenter View! Once you select a PowerPoint file from the Teams Share Tray, Presenter View is opened automatically. You can see the current slide, the slide notes, and a thumbnail strip of all the slides in the deck for easy ad-hoc slide navigation. This view is completely behind the scenes. It’s private to the presenter in control. Your audience can only see your current slide (highlighted in the big red box), or the slide that they choose to navigate to (if audience navigation is not locked by you). If you have a co-presenter for the meeting, when that person clicks “Take Control”, Presenter View will be opened for him or her immediately, while you’ll be switched to the normal audience view without the slide notes and the thumbnail strip. Flighting status Completed, fully available in R3.6. How to enable No setup needed. This is a view private to the presenter in control. Once the feature is available to you, you will see it if sharing a PowerPoint during a Teams meeting. Under Share tray > PowerPoint, choose a file and you will see the slide notes and the thumbnails of all of the slides. Note: If you need information about enabling the public preview itself, see “Enable the public preview for Teams” below. Microsoft 365 workloads and dependencies Product, workload, or area Dependency (Yes/No) If yes, version requirements and other dependencies Exchange No Sharepoint, files No Skype for Business No Outlook add-in No Azure AD No OneDrive No Office No Supported clients and platforms Windows 10 macOS iOS Android Linux Chrome Firefox Safari Edge Internet Explorer Yes Yes - - - - - - - - Known issues Control Bar: if the navigation buttons on the Teams U-bar disappears during your sharing, you'll have to leave the meeting and rejoin. High Contrast theme: Presenter View UI may not update to high contrast mode, if you change Teams theme to High Contrast during an ongoing sharing session. Known limitations Only available in the “new meeting experience” at the moment (Teams Settings > General > Application) Not available in Teams web app yet Enable your Teams client for the public preview First, IT admins need to set an update policy that turns on Show preview features. Learn how at Public preview in Microsoft Teams - Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Docs. Users then choose to join the public preview individually. See Get early access to new Teams features - Office Support (microsoft.com) for instructions. Summary of public preview features For a history of features in the Office and Teams public previews, see Release Notes Current Channel (Preview) - Office release notes | Microsoft Docs. Send us your feedback Got feedback on features in the public preview or other areas of Teams? Let us know straight from Teams via Help > Give feedback. Thank you, Preview Team Emily Kirby Quality & Customer Obsession, Microsoft Teams
Now in public preview: Mac Native Notifications Support
Description We are happy to share Teams now supports MacOS native notifications. Users can choose their preferred means of notifications delivery, either via the Teams built-in or the macOS native OS. With native notifications support Teams inherits OS notifications settings and supports quiet hours, action center triaging and more native features. Flighting status Available to all Preview users with Teams client version 1.4.00.12663 and above OS requirement MacOS 10.15 or later How to enable Teams client settings > Notifications > Notification style Change your notifications style in Teams - Office Support (microsoft.com) Note: If you need information about enabling the public preview itself, see “Enable the public preview for Teams” below. Supported clients and platforms Windows 10 macOS iOS Android Linux Chrome Firefox Safari Edge Internet Explorer Yes. Mac OS 10.15 and later Known issues None If you experience any issues please let us know Help > Give Feedback Known limitations This feature is not supported on macOS 10.14 or lower What you need to do to prepare When this feature is shipped the default setting is Teams built-in. So, the user would not experience any change in their toast notifications when the feature becomes available. Only when the users change their notification style setting would they be able to experience the macOS native notifications functionality. This is a user level setting available per user. This setting is respected across all macOS desktop clients (supported versions) the user is logged into Enable your Teams client for the public preview First, IT admins need to set an update policy that turns on Show preview features. Learn how at Public preview in Microsoft Teams - Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Docs. Users then choose to join the public preview individually. See Get early access to new Teams features - Office Support (microsoft.com) for instructions. Summary of public preview features For a history of features in the Office and Teams public previews, see Release Notes Current Channel (Preview) - Office release notes | Microsoft Docs. Send us your feedback Got feedback on features in the public preview or other areas of Teams? Let us know directly from Teams client via Help > Give feedback. Thank you, Preview Team, Tushar Pathak Quality & Customer Obsession, Microsoft TeamsNow in public preview: Future of wiki and Notes in Teams
Description We are announcing that Wiki's will be retired from Teams starting January 2024. We are offering note taking capabilities within Teams channels using the included OneNote notebook provided for each team. With this release, users have an option to export their wiki content to OneNote notebooks in Teams standard channel. After exporting users can go to the Notes tab to collaborate using OneNote in channels while Wiki is read only after export. Why are we moving to a new note taking experience? This new functionality provides an improved note taking experience over Wiki. Some of the improvements are: Easy collaboration across the team View all channel notes in a team in one place organized within single notebook Rich editing with typing, ink annotations, highlighting, file attachments, etc. Easy recall & search for channel notes within OneNote Plan to enable OneNote Notes in Teams channel and retire Wiki Users now have the option to export their Wiki content to OneNote Notebooks or they can continue to read/write their existing Wiki. Post export users can continue to collaborate in Notes tab in channels and have a copy of older Wiki content available for reference. When Wikis are exported each page in Wiki will appear as a page in OneNote Notebook section. Users can’t create new Wikis in new channel experience; for note taking we suggest using OneNote. For new channels Notes will be available as default tab soon. For now, user can create Notes tab manually using add a tab option. We request you to try out the new Wiki export experience and share your feedback. How to try out the experience In Teams, go to whatever channel has the wiki you want to export. In the Wiki tab, select Get details > Export to Notes > Finish. Go to the Notes tab to access your content. Read more about the change here - Export a wiki to a OneNote notebook - Microsoft Support Flighting status Available in public preview How to enable This config change is available to everyone. Supported clients and platforms Windows macOS iOS Android Linux Chrome Firefox Safari Edge Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes How does this feature impact the existing experience? Users can continue to access their Wiki as is, no change in existing content until general availability when Wiki content will retire. Known issues None Known limitations Post export users may see some formatting change and dark mode is not supported Export is only supported from standard channels, from Private channels user need to manually copy & move content. Enable your Teams client for the public preview First, IT admins need to set an update policy that turns on Show preview features. Learn how at Public preview in Microsoft Teams - Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Docs. Users then choose to join the public preview individually. See Get early access to new Teams features - Office Support (microsoft.com) for instructions. Send us your feedback Got feedback on features in the public preview or other areas of Teams? Let us know straight from Teams via Help > Give feedback. This is on the bottom left of the your client. Thank you, Preview Team Quality & Customer Obsession, Microsoft TeamsNow in public preview: Fluent Emojis
Description Microsoft is releasing the new Fluent Emojis update, refreshing 1800+ emojis. The new emojis bring a modern and delightful new version of the emojis we use every day. Whether for work, school, or life, the new emojis will bring the power of fun and play into every message or reaction! Users will see a new take on most of the previous Teams emojis, along with some new picks! All skintone-enabled emojis will continue to have 6 skintone options. These are the specific changes: Emojis in chat and channels messaging will update to the new Fluent style, along with delightful animations for applicable emojis Reactions in chat, channels, and live meeting reactions will update to the new Fluent style For more background on the Fluent Emojis, feel free to read this blog post from our Fluent Design team! An Emoji For Your Thoughts. Microsoft’s new emojis | by Microsoft Design | Microsoft Design | Medium Screenshots Fluent emojs in the new emoji picker: A preview of many of the new emojis: Flighting status Available now on Desktop, Web, Mobile, and Meetings. How to enable Enabled by default for all tenants. Note: If you need information about enabling the public preview itself, see “Enable the public preview for Teams” below. Supported clients and platforms Windows 10 macOS iOS Android Linux Chrome Firefox Safari Edge Internet Explorer Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Known issues Some emojis may blend in with certain backgrounds or Teams theming (ex. Ghost on light mode or Spades on dark mode). Known limitations N/A Enable your Teams client for the public preview First, IT admins need to set an update policy that turns on Show preview features. Learn how at Public preview in Microsoft Teams - Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Docs. Users then choose to join the public preview individually. See Get early access to new Teams features - Office Support (microsoft.com) for instructions. Summary of public preview features For a history of features in the Office and Teams public previews, see Release Notes Current Channel (Preview) - Office release notes | Microsoft Docs. Send us your feedback Got feedback on features in the public preview or other areas of Teams? Let us know straight from Teams via Help > Give feedback. Thank you, Preview Team, Jason_Schumacher Quality & Customer Obsession, Microsoft TeamsNow in Public preview & Targeted release: Animated backgrounds in Teams meetings
The animated backgrounds feature in Teams meetings allows you to replace an existing background with a dynamic animation for a more immersive virtual environment. It offers various options to enhance meeting experiences with creativity and personalization based on what you want. Currently, only pre-defined backgrounds from Microsoft are supported. Flighting status Available to everyone in Public Preview channel. How to enable Before a meeting starts, on the pre-join screen, select Effects and Avatars > Video effects and select a new animated background, identified by the small video icon in the bottom-left corner of the preview picture. During a meeting, you can select an animated background by clicking More > Effects and Avatars > Select an background. Note 1: If you need information about enabling the public preview itself, see “Enable the public preview for Teams” below. Note 2: To be able to use this feature, user needs to be in Public Preview. Other meeting participants are not required to be in Public Preview. Supported clients and platforms Windows macOS iOS Android Linux Google Chrome Firefox Safari Microsoft Edge Yes Yes Known issues None Known limitations Animated backgrounds are not available on low-end devices and require at least 8 GB RAM, CPU with 4 logical processors. Only pre-defined backgrounds from Microsoft are currently supported. Using video filters may slow down background animation, if your machine has a high workload. Enable your Teams client for the public preview First, IT admins need to set an update policy that turns on Allow public preview. Learn how at Public preview in Microsoft Teams - Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Docs. Users then choose to join the public preview individually. Learn how at Get early access to new Teams features - Office Support (microsoft.com) Send us your feedback Got feedback on features in the public preview or other areas of Teams? Let us know straight from Teams via Help > Give feedback. This is on the bottom left of your client. Thank you, Preview Team Quality & Customer Obsession, Microsoft TeamsNow in public preview: Speaker Coach in Microsoft Teams Meetings
Description Bring your best self into every meeting with Speaker Coach, your own private, personalized meeting coach. Speaker Coach provides private, personalized feedback on your speaking skills in both real-time as well as post-meeting, in a summary. Flighting status Available 100% in Public Preview channel. How to enable Turn on Speaker Coach within your meeting. While you are in a meeting, you can turn on Speaker Coach. There are two ways to enable Speaker Coach: Clicking on the overflow menu (…) Select the overflow menu (…) button within your meeting call. Click on “Turn on Speaker Coach” By sharing content via PowerPoint Live Click on the share tray icon within your meeting. Select a PowerPoint presentation you want to display. Once your PowerPoint view has loaded, select the Speaker Coach button underneath your main slide. Once Speaker Coach is enabled, speak as you normally would during your meeting to see what kind of feedback, we have for you. Post meeting Speaker Coach report Once you are done with your meeting you can access your post meeting Speaker Coach report by Clicking on the notification that you received after your meeting ended Clicking on the chat from the meeting where you used Speaker Coach. There will be a tab called "Speaker Coach" in that chat will take you to your Speaker Coach report. Enable Speaker Coach for all your meetings. You can automatically turn on Speaker Coach for all your meetings in the Speaker Coach report from a previous meeting. On your report there will be a toggle (top right area) to "Automatically start Speaker Coach in meetings". Toggle the setting on to turn on Speaker Coach for all your meetings on that device. Known limitation: This setting is on a per machine basis and is reset on sign-out. Note: If you need information about enabling the public preview itself, see “Enable the public preview for Teams” below. Supported clients and platforms Windows 10 macOS iOS Android Linux Chrome Firefox Safari Edge Internet Explorer Yes Yes - - - - - - - - Privacy Note: The notification during the meeting is private to the user and not visible to anyone else. It is not included in the meeting recording if the user or anyone in the meeting started recording. The summary report after the meeting is also private and visible only to the user and not accessible by others within Microsoft, including your IT administrators. Known limitations Currently only the English language is supported. The Teams app language must be set to English, as well. Speaker coach is not supported for channel meetings or when starting a meeting using the "Meet now" option. If a user has disabled transcription’s speaker attribution in settings, they won’t be able to use speaker coach. Enable your Teams client for the public preview First, IT admins need to set an update policy that turns on Show preview features. Learn how at Public preview in Microsoft Teams - Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Docs. Users then choose to join the public preview individually. See Get early access to new Teams features - Office Support (microsoft.com) for instructions. Send us your feedback Got feedback on features in the public preview or other areas of Teams? Let us know straight from Teams via Help > Give feedback. Thank you, Preview Team, Emily Kirby Quality & Customer Obsession, Microsoft TeamsNow in Teams Public Preview: Default file open setting for office files
Feature description The Teams desktop and web apps for Windows and Mac now enable users to configure the default app used to open Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files that have been shared in Microsoft Teams. Users can configure Teams to open the file directly in Teams (default), open in the web browser, or open in the Word, Excel, or PowerPoint desktop apps. Prior to this feature rollout, clicking a PowerPoint, Word, or Excel file shared in Teams would open the file in Teams. Users could then select the option to open the file in the browser or Office desktop app. Alternatively, users could select More options (...) > Open and then select the target app in which they want to view/edit the Office file. Note: While it was not previously possible to change the default, this menu now offers an entry point for users to change the default app used to open Office files. Screenshot showing the options for opening an Excel spreadsheet from the Teams desktop app Screenshot showing the 'Change default' options to configure which app is used to open Office files Flighting status Available to all starting now. How to enable your client for Preview Step 1: IT admins – read instructions here https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/MicrosoftTeams/public-preview-doc-updates Step 2: Users – read instructions here Feature release notes Feature should be mentioned here before posting - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/officeupdates/current-channel-preview How to enable the feature The ability to change the default app used to open Office files is available to all users by default. There are no admin controls or policies to disable this feature. Users can navigate to Teams Settings > General and scroll down to the Files section. The dropdown menu can be used to select the default app to open Office files: Teams (default) Desktop app Browser Screenshot of Teams general settings with the option for setting default Office file app highlighted Note: The option to choose 'Desktop app' is only available when using the Teams desktop app for Windows or macOS and only applies to that device. The Teams web app only shows options for 'Teams' and 'Browser'. O365 workload, Microsoft products dependency Workload, product etc Dependency (Yes/No) If yes, please share version requirement and any other dependency requirements Office build Yes To open a file in the Office desktop apps, users must install and activate version 16 or higher of PowerPoint/Word/Excel. Clients supported - Known issues NA Known limitations To open a file in the Office desktop apps, users must install and activate version 16 or higher of PowerPoint/Word/Excel. How to provide feedback If you run into any issues report them via your Teams client -- Help (bottom left) -- Give feedback Thank you, Preview Team @Soumitra Paul Quality & Customer Obsession, Microsoft Teams
