3×3 for Microsoft Teams is Now Available

The collaboration giant also recently announced a slew of other updates

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Published: May 26, 2020

Ian Taylor Editor

Ian Taylor

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Microsoft Teams users can now view up to nine participant faces on a Teams call with the team collaboration app’s latest update. The increase in the number of simultaneous videos shown in Teams meetings comes as remote meetings rise in demand. Microsoft’s increased the number of participants you can see on a Teams call by five. It previously allowed four participants to appear on the screen.

According to Microsoft, the new experience optimizes for attendees using video by placing the remaining audio-only participants below the meeting stage. “To provide a high audio and video quality experience, the layout adapts based on the user bandwidth and alters the number of videos shown to provide the best meeting experience,” the company wrote in a recent blog post.

From Microsoft Teams to Fluid Framework, there’s a lot more updates and new features coming soon to Microsoft 365, here they are. Microsoft recently held Build, its annual developer conference. This is the first time the event’s been held online, a direct response to the COVID-19 pandemic. There, the company announced soon, when you create a new team in Microsoft Teams, you can choose from a variety of customizable templates.

Users can select from event management and crisis response, as well as niche-specific templates, like a hospital ward and banking. Each template comes with pre-defined channels, apps, and guidance. Admins can soon create new custom templates for existing teams, too.

Microsoft also announced enhancements to its ‘Power Platform,’ which lets companies integrate Teams at scale. Users can select the bot they want to use and click ‘Add to Teams.’ Power Virtual Agents freshly supports single sign-on (SSO), too, meaning they’ll no longer have to reauthenticate when using Teams for the first time. Developers and admins can add custom applications from Power Apps to Teams with a single click of the Add to Teams button.

Organizations can schedule, manage, and conduct business-to-consumer virtual appointments through the new Bookings app integration in Microsoft Teams. And Power BI today supports the ability to share reports and specific charts in reports, to Teams with the new Share to Teams button. Teams users can now broadcast events and create studio productions from a virtual stage in Teams. The new feature offers a more advanced set of production options for both public and private, customized, high-scale broadcasts.

Updates in capabilities to the Shifts app lets users integrate with other external workforce management tools, including custom workforce management systems. Power Automate actions enable developers to take information from Shifts and create custom workflows with other apps or to perform operations at scale.

The first Fluid Framework integrations in Microsoft 365, come soon to Outlook and Office.com and will enable you to collaborate on dynamic content. Users can create connected components they want to share simultaneously and seamlessly across apps, including tables, charts, and task lists, which they can insert into Outlook.

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First introduced at Ignite 2019, Project Cortex will soon make its debut in general availability. “The new service applies artificial intelligence (AI) and the Microsoft Graph to create a knowledge network that connects content in Microsoft 365. It connects with external sources, too, so users can organize content and expertise across systems and teams.” Finally, the new Outlook for the web will help users compose emails via text prediction.

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