There have been plenty of new releases within the Microsoft Teams ecosystem in September.
Microsoft Teams have announced updates across webinars, Teams Phone, chat and collaboration, Teams Rooms and devices, frontline workers and verticals, IT admin and security, mobile, platform, and collaborative apps.
September has also seen Microsoft announce that it will retire Teams Live Events and replace it with ‘Town Hall’ and switch Microsoft Teams Direct Routing to the new MSPKI Certification authority. The company’s AI team also accidentally leaked 38 terabytes of Microsoft data, which includes internal Teams messages.
Webinars
With on-demand recording, organisers can now publish video recordings when a webinar has ended and automatically send emails to attendees with a link to watch the video on-demand.
Teams Phone and Mobile
Shared calling lets admins easily enable users to make and receive PSTN calls with a shared phone number and calling plan.
Teams Phone Mobile allows organisations to incorporate mobile calling with Teams. It is currently available in Denmark through Telia and the UK via BT.
SIP Gateway has been made compatible for more analogue devices, including Cisco, Poly, and AudioCodes.
Teams call and meeting details can be removed from iOS mobile device call logs.
Chat and Collaboration
Up to 1,000 standard or shared channels can now be created in new and existing teams, allowing them to have a channel for each project or topic. Private channel support will be available in due course.
Guest access is being extended to enable guests to participate in collaboration experiences in chat, meetings, channels, and teams between Microsoft cloud tenants.
Users can now join meetings hosted in a different Microsoft cloud from their home tenant, without needing to switch tenants.
Video clips have gained the functionality to blur backgrounds, record screens, and record audio-only clips.
Teams Rooms and Devices
The recently certified DTEN Mate (PoE) provides meeting room controls for Microsoft Teams Rooms on Android.
The Aver CAM570 is a PTZ conferencing camera that delivers in-person meeting experiences to remote participants, featuring a 4K camera, AI lens, beamforming technology, three pairs of voice sensors, and two 4K lenses to track speakers.
The Teams-certified Yamaha ADECIA wireless solution for Teams Rooms on Windows offers “the best audio experience” through its auto-detect, auto-setup, auto-tuning, automatic speaker tracking, and the latest DECT technology.
The Poly TC10 has been certified for Microsoft Teams as a Scheduling Panel. It can be used inside the room to control video calls or outside to instantly book meetings.
Frontline Workers and Verticals
Rich text notes have been made available for Planner tasks in Teams and they have also been enabled in task publishing for frontline organisations. Rich text formatting, such as styling, bulleted lists, rich text links, and indentation, can be applied using a toolbar that appears in the task notes field.
