微软 团队 roundup July 2020.
What’s New: Meetings & Calling & 设备
We are continuing to transform the meetings experience in 团队 to include new features, settings, and devices to create a better experience.
New multi-window meeting and calling experiences
We are pleased to share that the rollout of our new multi-window meeting and calling experiences has started. This new experience is the foundation for not only pop-out meetings and calling, but for Together mode and Large gallery views.
New lobby setting in Teams Meeting Options: “only me”
A new lobby setting is coming to 团队 Meeting Options that gives you greater control over who can enter your meeting. We are adding “Only me” as an option to the “Who can bypass lobby?” setting. Once enabled, only the organizer will be able to join the meeting directly. Everyone else, including people from within the same organization, will be sent to the lobby.
Microsoft Teams Rooms, app version 4.5.35.0 now available
The latest Microsoft 团队 Rooms app, 版本 4.5.35.0, is now available through the Windows Store. Some of the most anticipated features enabled through this update include:
- Support for video gallery-only layouts: For meeting room configurations with a single front of room display, you can now switch between viewing the video gallery or presented content. By tapping the layout icon on the 团队 Room console, you can select different views based on their needs. Options include video gallery-only, content-only, or combined video and content.
- Raise hand: During a meeting, you can raise a virtual hand from the center of room console to let people know you want to contribute without interrupting the conversation. 此外, when someone raises their hand, a notification will appear on the center of room console and in the video gallery view.
- Default speaker volume settings: From within the 团队 Rooms settings, device administrators can now set a default volume level for in-room conferencing and system speakers.
- Direct guest join for Cisco Webex meetings and devices: 现在 团队 Rooms and Cisco Webex meeting room devices can connect to each other’s meeting services via embedded web technologies. More details are included below.
- Auto-enrollment and device management from 团队 管理中心: 微软 团队 Rooms have been added to the list of devices that can be managed through the 团队 管理中心.
The full list of updates included in app version 4.5.35.0, is available in the release notes.
Direct Guest Join
Many people work with organizations outside of their own and need to be able to join occasional meetings from other meeting providers. We want you to be able to join these meetings from your Microsoft 团队 Rooms devices. At Ignite 2019, we announced a direct guest join capability that would enable meeting room devices to connect to meeting services from other vendors via embedded web technologies. We are excited to announce Direct Guest Join has reached general availability and is available through the latest Microsoft 团队 Room app, 版本 4.5.35.0.
Through an embedded web experience, you can now use your 团队 Rooms devices to join a Cisco Webex meeting. Leveraging this experience, 你可以使用 团队 Room console to interact with the Cisco Webex app and control in-room audio and video devices. Similarly, the Microsoft 团队 web experience is also available on web-enabled Cisco Webex devices allowing you to join a Microsoft 团队 meeting from a Cisco Webex Room device. While no web experience can offer the same robust feature set as a native 团队 meeting experience on a native 团队 device, this will reduce the friction you experience when trying to join calls from external partners or clients who may not be using the same meeting service. The direct guest join feature will also be enabled for Zoom Meetings in Microsoft 团队 Rooms and 团队 Meetings in Zoom Rooms, and is currently in preview.
For those who have chosen Microsoft 团队 as their communication and collaboration service but are not yet using native 团队 devices, there are Cloud Video Interop (CVI) solutions available. While these solutions do not provide users with the full Microsoft 团队 Room experience, it allows you to join 团队 meetings from your existing devices as you make the transition to native 团队 Room devices. CVI offers are currently available from Bluejeans, Pexip and Poly. At Ignite 2019, we announced Cisco would be joining as our fourth partner, and beginning today, their offer is in preview.
Manage Microsoft Teams Rooms and other Teams devices using enhanced device management capabilities in Teams Admin Center
New device management capabilities in the 团队 管理中心 make it easier to deploy and manage a fleet of devices, with improvements across device set-up, bulk management tasks, and health monitoring. And now you can manage your Microsoft 团队 Room devices in the same place as your collaboration bars and IP phones. Some of the enhancements include the ability to enable auto-updates, new device tagging capabilities, the ability to securely delegate device management access to partners, 还有更多!
New Options to Enable and Manage Microsoft Teams Rooms devices
We’re delivering more ways to enable great room experiences with 团队 devices: 微软 团队 Rooms Standard and Microsoft 团队 Rooms Premium.
Microsoft Teams Rooms Standard
The Microsoft 团队 Rooms Standard offering, formerly known as the Meeting Room SKU, enables inclusive and collaborative meeting room experiences across 团队 Rooms, collaboration bars and Surface Hub. 微软 团队 Rooms Standard provides the necessary licenses for Microsoft 团队, Skype for Business Online, and Intune management. Furthermore, the offering enables Phone System, necessary for PSTN integration, and Audio Conferencing, where available. As part of this offering, customers have access to the newly enhanced device management experience through 团队 管理中心 allowing them to manage devices themselves or delegate access to a partner who can manage devices on their behalf.
Microsoft Teams Rooms Premium
微软 团队 Rooms Premium includes all the licenses that come with Microsoft 团队 Rooms Standard while providing additional value through a cloud-based remote management service. This service enables customers to shift the operational responsibility of managing and monitoring 团队 Rooms devices to Microsoft. 微软 团队 Rooms Premium provides 24/7 management and monitoring of room operating systems and software, surfacing insights and alerts, and taking remote action on behalf of the customer as permitted. Today’s offering is just the beginning, and we look forward to expanding with additional premium experiences in the future.
What’s New: Chat & Collaboration
We have added new chat and collaboration capabilities to keep everyone connected. Check out the new capabilities below.
Contextual Search
Find information faster with contextual search in Microsoft 团队. You will have the ability to search for content in a specific channel or chat by pressing CTRL + F. Search results will only contain messages and files found in the selected chat or channel. This feature is generally available.
New file sharing experience
We’re rolling out a new, consistent file sharing and access control experience in 团队 users already know from other 微软 365 apps, 包括 云端硬盘, 前景, and Office. Soon, when you go to share a file from within 团队, you’ll have the option to create sharing links that provide access to anyone, people within your organization, people with existing access, or specific people, including those in a private or group chat.
Stay connected to your Yammer Communities while in the Microsoft Teams mobile apps
Engage your employees with company-wide announcements and live events that they can access anywhere. Stay connected to what’s happening in your communities, share knowledge across teams and departments, and crowdsource solutions and best practices at the edges of the organization. Starting 7/21, users with the Communities app installed in the 团队 web or desktop clients will also see the Communities app in mobile. Admins pinning the app for their users will now also see the app appear in mobile.
Channel info pane
Selecting the “Channel information” icon in the channel header will display summary information related to that channel including the description, a list of recent contributors and members, as well as system messages.
Filtering out system messages from the General channel
We are removing system messages from the General channel. Information about who is a member of the team can be found in the Member List or in the information pane of the channel.
What’s New: IT Admin
We continue to enhance our management capabilities to address IT admins evolving needs and make work more efficient. In addition to the new device management capabilities in 团队 admin Center, here is what is rolling out this month.
Enabling App configuration in Team Admin center
We are adding the capability to configure your applications from the same 团队 管理中心 portal, without the need to jump between portals to the application store to perform the changes. This new manageability experience enables you to configure App specific settings that will streamline your management task and enable simple customization of apps to the organization needs. App configuration is now available in 团队 管理中心 为了 团队 and Microsoft Apps.
Advisor for Teams
Advisor for 团队 is a new onboarding tool coming to help you plan the best possible 团队 deployment in your organization and is now generally available. It offers recommended plans and a collaboration space for the deployment team to streamline the roll out of all the 团队 workloads, including messaging, meetings and calling and Skype for business upgrade workloads. We have learned that organizations who use this tool might be able to increase their deployment velocity by up to 300%.
Microsoft Information Protection sensitivity labels in Teams
We are excited to announce the general availability of sensitivity labels for 团队, 共享点 sites, 和 微软 365 Groups. You can now associate a sensitivity label with policies related to privacy, external user membership, and unmanaged device access. With users constantly creating and sharing sensitive data in 团队 and on 共享点 sites, this capability allows for holistically securing sensitive content whether it is in a file or in a chat by managing access to these containers. Along with manual and auto-labeling of documents on 共享点 和 团队, sensitivity labels helps you scale your data protection program to meet the proliferation of data and the challenge of secure collaboration while working remotely.
Teams Communication Compliance
Back in February we announced the general availability of Communication Compliance – we are now announcing improvements, including improved remediation actions through 团队. In this release, you have the ability to remove 团队 messages, 团队 chat support for on-premises mailboxes, and the ability to automatically add all of user’s 团队 memberships when creating policies.
What’s New: 开发商 & Platform
We are announcing new features to the 团队 platform to continue to provide a rich canvas for developers to build, engage, and transform workflows.
创造, manage, and deploy Power Platform apps and chatbots seamlessly – powered by Dataflex
We are excited to announce new capabilities that will make it even easier for customers to create, deploy and manage apps and chatbots directly within Microsoft 团队, at no additional cost for select 微软 365 和 办公室 365 users. With Microsoft Dataflex – a built in relational database for 团队 – makers can build, deploy, and manage these apps using Power Apps and chatbots using Power Virtual Agents to simplify and digitize their everyday work. This powerful combination of tools expands on the promise of 团队 being a hub for collaboration and business processes.
New Power BI app for Teams
Organizations are looking for new ways to leverage their data and take action based on insights. The new 电力商业智能 app for 团队 enables you to access reports and dashboards in 团队 to easily find insight in context and collaborate. This app also helps you make data-driven decisions at scale with confidence and provides new ways to connect insight to action through sample reports, automation, and easy sharing functionality.
New meetings extensibility points for Teams apps
At Inspire, we announced new meetings extensibility points that will enable developers to 扩张 这 团队 meeting experience. With this new capability, developers will be able to build apps or integrate their existing ones within the meeting surface and provide a richer collaboration experiences for users across the entire meeting lifecycle – covering events and actions from before, during, and after a meeting. These new extensibility points will be available soon for developer preview.
Single-Sign On (单点登录) support for Teams tabs with Azure Active Directory
团队 tabs support for single sign-on (单点登录) with Azure 活动目录 is now generally available for both desktop and mobile! Developers can now build their apps to sign-in their users using the same account they are using to sign into Microsoft 团队 – giving users a more enjoyable and frustration-free sign-on experience.
Microsoft Teams Toolkit for Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code
At Build, we unveiled the Microsoft 团队 Toolkits for Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code, which provide developers everything they need to jump start their 团队 app development journey. From code through publish, these toolkits provide a frictionless and enjoyable experience building 团队 apps.
Teams Graph APIs updates
POST / 团队 应用程序编程接口 now available in the Microsoft Graph v1.0 endpoint. New team membership 应用程序编程接口 is coming soon in preview, allowing developers to list members, add and remove members, and change members’ roles. Lastly, granular permissions for proactive messaging available is now in preview., which will allow apps to install only itself and provide developers more convenient APIs for retrieving the chat thread ID for bots to use.
User attribution for bot messages
We’re pleased to announce that user attribution for bot messages is now generally available! In scenarios where a bot sends messages on behalf of a user, attributing the message to that user can help with engagement and showcase a more natural interaction flow. This also helps condense the card design and provides a cleaner interface. Learn how to configure this capability here.
Access and manage Visio files in Microsoft Teams with tabs
Visio tabs in 团队 allow team members to quickly access content in a dedicated space within a channel or in a chat. With the new Visio as a tab feature, you can create a tab from any Visio file (new or existing) 在 团队 with a single click. Adding a tab in 团队 is now available to all 团队 users. 然而, editing is only available for those with a Visio Plan 1 or Plan 2 subscription.
What’s New: Firstline Workers
Time clock now available on Web and Desktop
现在, employees will be able to clock in and out of Shifts directly from web or desktop with Time clock along with the existing mobile experience This provides a hybrid clock in and clock out experience so Firstline Workers can start their shift from wherever their work is, whether remote or at the job location, all with the geo-fencing capabilities. If you already have Time Clock enabled – simply go to the Shifts App in Microsoft 团队 and get started!
New policy packages for Firstline Worker and Managers
Firstline Worker and Firstline Manager policy packages for 团队 provide IT administrators with pre-defined policies and policy settings tailored for their entire Firstline Workforce. Policy packages simplify, centralize, and help provide consistency when managing policies for Firstline Workers and managers across your organization. These new policy packages will be available by default in the IT 管理中心 and in 电源外壳.
Search for Shifts activities in Teams Shifts Audit Logs
Audit logs for Shifts, now generally available, provides IT admins a unified view and search functionality to help monitor and keep track of activities. Staying on top of employees clocking in and out and making edits to shifts is critical to ensuring smooth and compliant operations.
What’s New: Teams for Education
微软 团队 for Education continues to evolve to meet the changing needs of institutions and educators. 现在, there are more ways for educators to control their online classrooms and for IT Admins to support new team creation.
Student Lobby
To prevent uninvited students in class, Student Lobby, which keeps students in a lobby until invited in by the educator, is now available.
School Data Sync (SDS) team creation is back on
Admins can now (once again) automatically bulk-create both M365 Group and class teams for their educators. This helps to save educators time and makes a new team “locked” and inaccessible by students until educators unlock the team.
What’s New: Teams for US Government
We are here to support US Government clouds. Here are the new capabilities for GCC customers.
Microsoft Teams meeting attendee limit increases to 300 participants for GCC, GCC-High, and DoD
To help customers meet rapidly changing communication and meeting needs, we are increasing the maximum number of participants allowed in a 团队 meeting to 300.
Increase in the number of simultaneous videos in Teams meetings for GCC High and DoD customers
We are increasing the number of participants who can be viewed simultaneously on the 团队 meeting stage from 4 到 9. This new experience optimizes for attendees who have enabled video and places the remaining audio-only participants below the meeting stage. To provide a high audio and video quality experience, the layout logic will consider user bandwidth and alter the number of videos shown to provide the best meeting experience.
Raise Hands for GCC, GCC High, and DoD
The raise hands feature allows meeting attendees to identify that they wish to speak by toggling the hand icon in the meeting control bar, making it easier to actively participate in meetings. Raise hands will be available for both PC, 苹果, and web-based clients to start, with mobile applications quickly following.
PSTN participant phone numbers are masked from external users for GCC
For those with Audio Conferencing enabled for their 团队 meetings, we will mask the PSTN participant’s phone number to users who have joined from outside of your organization.
Multi-Window Chat for GCC, GCC High, and DoD
You will be able to pop out individual 团队 chat conversations into a separate window, to help them streamline their workflow and more easily move between ongoing conversations.
Priority Notifications in Gov Clouds
Share urgent messages and time-sensitive information more effectively with 团队. Priority notifications alert a recipient of an urgent message on their mobile and desktop devices until a response is received, every two minutes for up to 20 minutes. IT Admins can manage this feature as part of messaging policies in 团队.
New channel files tab for GCC, GCC-High, and DoD
We are rolling out the new channel files tab experience to the government clouds. This upgrade brings in more than 10 new features, including different 共享点 view, ability to view metadata, sync, row/column formatting etc.
Channel info pane for GCC
Selecting the “Channel info” icon in the channel header will display summary information related to that channel including the description, a list of recent contributors and members, as well as system messages.
