Last month saw lots of product releases, improvements, and newsworthy moments within the Microsoft Teams ecosystem.
Microsoft Teams announced updates relating to chat and collaboration, meetings, Teams Rooms and devices, Teams Phone, webinars and town halls, mobile, collaborative applications, frontline workers, and virtual appointments.
Towards the end of February, Microsoft announced it is extending the lifetime of the Teams Classic app to give users more time to switch over to the new Teams app.
The team collaboration hub also introduced video clips and new presenter tools to Teams.
Teams Chat and Collaboration
Microsoft released an enhanced version of the Copilot App, previously called Microsoft 365 Chat, for users with a Copilot for Microsoft 365 license.
The new app includes better prompts with user-related details, such as files, meetings, and co-workers, the ability to view your Copilot Chat history, and access to a prompts library through Copilot Lab.
You can now remove items from your activity feed, allowing you to focus on priority notifcations.
Activity management over what appears in your activity feed has been made possible from the activity card. Settings for the sound, display, and more can be changed by clicking on the ellipsis from an activity card and then selecting notification settings.
Teams Meetings
A new layout for content sharing in Together mode shows video participants when content is being presented or shared. Participants will be displayed on the same horizontal background beneath the shared content to help create a visual link between them.
Teams Rooms and Devices
Users can take advantage of end-to-end encrypted meetings and sensitivity labels for Teams Rooms on Android as part of the latest update to Teams Premium advanced meeting protections.
The new Teams Rooms calendar on Android displays your schedule for today and tomorrow.
Meeting views can be customised for Teams Rooms on Android, allowing users to change the layout of the front of room display.
Windows and Android users with any Teams license can use room remote on their Windows PC to manage rooms. This capability was previously available on mobile devices.
The 2024 Update 1 Release has delivered improvements to Teams Rooms on Android, which include design updates, extra meeting layout control options, and greater meeting security.
IT administrators can disable or modify the daily maintenance restart window from device settings. Teams Rooms on Android devices are programmed by default to restart between 2am and 3am if it is not being used.
Newly certified devices for Teams Rooms include the AudioCodes RXV 81B10 and the Teams Biamp Devio SCX, alongside the latest personal devices comprising the Yealink BH70 Bluetooth headset, EPOS IMPACT 700 headset, and the Teams EPOS IPMACT 860T double-sided headset.
