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These release notes provide information about new admin features for Microsoft Teams.

December 21, 2020

Supported rate centers and coverage for Calling Plans

A rate center is the industry term for a geographical area that traditionally defines boundaries for local calling, billing rates, and phone number assignment for the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN). Learn more.

December 18, 2020

Updated meeting settings policies for Breakout rooms

Breakout Rooms in Teams are used to split meetings into separate, smaller meeting rooms. This setting controls whether meeting organizers have the option to create and manage Breakout Rooms in meetings they schedule or start. This policy setting affects all meetings, including Meet Now meetings. Learn more.

December 9, 2020

Advisor for Teams with Microsoft 365 Learning Pathways

Microsoft 365 learning pathways is an on-demand learning solution that you can customize to train your users, and increase usage and adoption of Teams in your organization. Use learning pathways together with Advisor for Teams to get your users up and running quickly and drive adoption.

Learning pathways gives you a SharePoint Online site template and the ability to easily build a learning site for your users. You can customize the learning pathways training portal to include training and support content specific to your users' needs. Use the Teams playlists from the Microsoft online catalog and add your own. Learn more.

October 28, 2020

Get started with Teams in healthcare

Microsoft Teams offers a number of features useful for hospitals and other healthcare organizations, including:

• Virtual visits and Electronic Healthcare Record (EHR) integration
• Teams policy packages
• Secure messaging
• Teams templates
• Care coordination and collaboration

This functionality is part of the Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare. Learn more.

October 27, 2020

Teams displays

Microsoft Teams displays are a category of all-in-one dedicated Teams devices that feature an ambient touchscreen and a hands-free experience powered by Cortana. Learn more.

October 22, 2020

Manage Skype for Business settings for your users

You can manage Skype for Business settings for Skype for Business users in your organization in the Microsoft Teams admin center. Go to the Skype for Business tab on the user details page. From here, you can manage external access and meeting settings for individual users. Learn more.

Manage Skype for Business settings for your organization

You can manage Skype for Business features for Skype for Business users in your organization in the Microsoft Teams admin center. Go to Org-wide settings > Skype for Business. From here, you can manage Skype Meeting Broadcast, presence, and mobile notifications. Learn more.

October 16, 2020

Manage shift-based access for Frontline Workers

As an admin, you can configure Teams to show a set of shift-based presence states for the Frontline Workers in your organization to indicate when they are on and off shift. With shift-based access, you can manage access to Teams when Frontline Workers are off shift. For example, you can set Teams to display a message that Frontline Workers must acknowledge before they can use Teams when they're not on a scheduled shift. Learn more.

October 15, 2020

Custom policy packages

This feature is in private preview

Custom policy packages let you bundle your own set of policies for users with similar roles in you organization. Create your own policy packages by adding the policy types and policies that you need. Learn more.

Add an app to a team in the Microsoft Teams admin center

On the Manage apps page of the Microsoft Teams admin center, you can use the Add to team button to install an app to a team. Learn more.

October 1, 2020

Use OneDrive for Business and SharePoint for meeting recordings

Microsoft Teams has a new method for saving meeting recordings. As the first phase of a transition from classic Microsoft Stream to the new Stream, this method stores recordings on Microsoft OneDrive for Business and SharePoint in Microsoft 365 and offers many benefits. Learn more.

Free audio conferencing for small to medium businesses

If you're a small or medium-sized business with up to 300 users and you currently don’t have any Audio Conferencing licenses, you can get Audio Conferencing free for one year. This free offer is available starting October 1, 2020. Learn more.

View app permissions and grant admin consent in the Microsoft Teams admin center

Now in Teams admin center global admins will be able to review and grant consent to Graph API permissions registered in Azure Active Directory, on behalf of the entire tenant for the permissions an app is requesting such as reading information stored in a team or sending an email on behalf of users. Now IT admins will be able to review resource-specific consent (RSC) permissions for the apps within Teams admin center. With that admins will be able to unblock their users for the third-party apps they have already reviewed and approved to use in their organization. Learn more.

Calling Plans support for Austria, Denmark, Italy, Portugal, Sweden, and Switzerland

We've recently added calling plan support for Austria, Denmark, Italy, Portugal, Sweden, and Switzerland. Learn more.

September 29, 2020

Meeting policy settings

Adding two policy settings for IP audio and IP video in Teams meetings policies: Mode for IP audio and Mode for IP video. You can now set incoming and outgoing IP audio and IP video in Teams meeting policies. Learn more.

September 27, 2020

Simplified notification setting

Users can now manage their notifications settings in a more simplified manner with enhanced functionalities.

September 24, 2020

Teams integration with Android contacts

Call using Teams directly through your Android Phonebook.

September 21, 2020

Manage Microsoft Power Platform apps in the Microsoft Teams admin center

As an admin, you can control whether users can see and install Microsoft Power Platform apps in Built by your colleagues on the Apps page in Teams. You can collectively block or allow all apps created in Power Apps or all apps created in Power Virtual Agents at the org level on the Manage apps page or for specific users using app permission policies. Learn more.

September 19, 2020

Sharing files in Microsoft Teams

In Microsoft Teams, users can share content with other Teams users within and outside their organization. Sharing in Teams is based on the settings configured in SharePoint and OneDrive, so whatever you set up for SharePoint and OneDrive will control sharing in Teams as well. Learn more.

September 16, 2020

New third-party video provider Riverbed

Use Teams live events settings to configure settings for live events that are held in your organization. You can set up a support URL and configure a third-party video distribution provider. These settings apply to all live events that are created in your organization. Riverbed is a new third-party provider. Learn more.

September 15, 2020

Skype for Business Online Connector integrated to Teams PowerShell module

The latest Teams PowerShell public release is integrated with Skype for Business Online Connector, providing a single module for Teams PowerShell management. Learn more.

September 8, 2020

Porting PIN

We added the ability to set up and manage a PIN used for porting or transferring phone numbers. You will provide this PIN to the PSTN service desk when you want to port numbers out to a service provider from Microsoft. Learn more.

September 3, 2020

Custom apps store in Microsoft Teams

Now you can customize the Teams Apps store with your organizational branding by adding your logo, custom backgrounds, and custom text colors to make it more inviting to end users. Learn more.

September 1, 2020

On-demand translation in Android

Inline message translation is a Microsoft Teams feature that lets users translate Teams messages into the language specified by their personal language settings. The translation setting is On by default. Learn more.

August 17, 2020

Group chat size increase

We added the ability to now have 250 participants in a group chat. Learn more.

Manage the Praise app

The Praise app in Microsoft Teams helps users show appreciation to members of their organization or classroom. The Praise app has a selection of badge sets to choose from and provides the option to create your own badges. Praise is designed to help recognize the effort that goes into the wide range of work that Teams users do, from educators to Frontline Workers. Learn more.

Set up Coordinated Meetings with Microsoft Teams Rooms and Surface Hub

If you have one or more Microsoft Teams Rooms devices or Surface Hubs in a meeting room, you can set up Coordinated Meetings. Coordinated Meetings lets you set up your Teams Rooms devices and Surface Hubs so that when you join a meeting on one device, the other devices in the room are also joined to the same meeting. Learn more.

Tagging by shift

With this feature, people are automatically assigned tags that match their schedule and shift group name in the Shifts app in Teams. Learn more.

August 14, 2020

Cortana voice skills in Teams

Cortana voice skills in Teams mobile app help users perform meeting, communication, and collaboration tasks simply using spoken natural language. Users can speak to Cortana by clicking on the microphone button in Teams app and make requests like “Call Megan” or “Send a message to my next meeting” if they need to connect with someone while juggling household chores or walking the dog or generally on the go. Users can join meetings simply by saying “Join my next meeting” or check their calendar by asking “what do I have this morning”. Once in a meeting or a call, they can invoke Cortana from the overflow menu in the meeting stage and perform typical in-meeting tasks like adding people by name or number (“Add Megan to the call”), deck presentation (“present the quarterly review deck”) or navigating slides (“Go to the appendix slide”). Other things that the feature supports are finding and sharing files, search, and navigating within the Teams app (“Open my chat with John, Go to my unread activity, Go to my mentions etc.).

Cortana in Teams meets the same enterprise-level privacy, security, and compliance promises for Cortana enterprise services, as reflected in the Online Services Terms (OST). Learn more.

Teams Devices Administrator

Users with this role can manage Teams certified devices from the Teams admin center. They can check details of each device including the account that is signed in, and the make and model of the device. They can change the settings on the device, update the software, and restart devices remotely. Learn more.

August 12, 2020

Lists app in Teams

Teams users can now directly manage, create, and maintain their lists using the Lists app tab. The Lists app works on all Teams clients and enables collaboration and communication around list items. Learn more.

August 6, 2020

Approve custom apps

Approve custom apps submitted through the Teams App Submission API. Learn more.

August 3, 2020

Purchase services for Teams third-party apps in the Microsoft Teams admin center

Teams apps are free to install and some may require purchasing service subscriptions to experience the app's full functionality and scope. These service subscriptions are called Software as a Service (SaaS) offers, which are available for purchase through AppSource and now through the Microsoft Teams admin center. Learn more.

Publish a custom app submitted through the Teams App Submission API

Developers can use the Teams App Submission API to submit custom apps directly to the Microsoft Teams admin center for admins to review and approve. Learn more.

July 29, 2020

Enhanced Manageability using Device Tagging functionality

Weebly Release Notes: New Features And Apps From July 2019

As part of enhanced manageability, we are releasing Device Tagging functionality. It will enable IT admins to group-specific set of devices with user-generated Tags and perform actions on the same. Learn more.

View-only in meetings

View-only allows for up to 20,000 listen-only participants to join a meeting in which the organizer has a license for the Advanced Communications add-on SKU.1 This is a preview or early release feature. Learn more.

July 28, 2020

Create your own Teams template

You can now use templates from the Admin console to create your own Teams template or create a Teams template from existing templates. Learn more.

July 20, 2020

Admins can control outgoing webhooks at the user level

Admins can control outgoing webhooks at the user level by allowing or blocking the Outgoing Webhooks app in app permission policies. Learn more.

July 17, 2020

NDI-out for Teams meetings

We added the ability to enable NDI-Out to a Teams meeting. NDI-Out allows for the audio and video of a meeting to be utilized by video production tools. Learn more.

July 15, 2020

Enable suggested replies

Turn this setting on to enable suggested replies for chat messages. Learn more.

July 9, 2020

Voicemail support in call queues

We added support for call queues to use a shared voicemail box. Learn more.

July 8, 2020

Policy packaging batch assignment

We made it possible to use PowerShell to batch assign a Policy Package for user and groups. Learn more.

July 7, 2020

Sensitivity labels for Teams

Sensitivity labels allow Teams admins to regulate access to sensitive organizational content created during collaboration within teams. Learn more.

July 2, 2020

Suggested replies

We added the ability for Teams users to have a suggested reply to their conversations. These suggestions will appear at the bottom of a chat message if they are enabled. They make replying to messages quick and easy! Learn more.

Transferring incoming calls

We added the ability for auto attendants and call queue incoming calls to be transferred to an external PSTN phone number. Learn more.

June 30, 2020

Install apps on behalf of others

You choose which apps are installed by default for users when they start Teams. Learn more.

Screen sharing on behalf of others

Many IT Admins have complained that they can't have their employees screen share from chat when they disable the AllowPrivateCalling policy. This feature work has decoupled the ability to start a screens hare from chat from the AllowPrivateCalling policy, but it still blocks users from adding audio/video to the screen share session if their AllowPrivateCalling policy is disabled.

June 29, 2020

Walkie Talkie app in Microsoft Teams

Instant voice communication using push-to-talk. Learn more.

June 25, 2020

Teams filter option

We added a new filter option in the command bar so you can set specific parameters when searching for specific teams.

Users widgets

We added a new User summary widget that's available when you're adding teams and channels.

June 21, 2020

Sign in restrictions for Android and iOS users

If user isn't signed in to their Microsoft 365 account anywhere else, they'll be asked to provide single-factor or multi-factor authentication (SFA or MFA), depending on what your organization has configured for mobile sign-in policies. Learn more.

June 15, 2020

Monitor shifts with audit logs

You can search the audit log to view Shifts activity in your organization. Learn more.

June 11, 2020

Call queues - Presence-based routing

When turned off, calls will be routed to agents who have opted in to receive calls, regardless of their presence state. When turned on, opted-in agents will receive calls only when their presence state is Available. Learn more.

June 10, 2020

Call queues - Longest-idle routing

When you choose this, incoming calls will be routed to call agents who haven't answered an incoming call for the longest period of time. Learn more.

June 1, 2020

Raise hand in meetings

Users can now raise a virtual hand in a meeting! Other participants will see your raised hand next to your name in the meeting stage and next to your name in the roster. Learn more.

May 15, 2020

Add more people to a chat

We made it possible to now add up to 350 people to a single chat thread.

May 5, 2020

Easily access meeting options from within a Teams meeting in progress

We're making it easier for meeting organizers to quickly and easily change their presenter and lobby settings once a Teams meeting starts by providing an easy to access link directly in the participants pane. This new functionality will be present for both scheduled and “Meet now” meetings.

Download a participant report in a Teams meeting

Meeting organizers, especially teachers, often need to know who joined their Teams meetings. Soon you will be able to download a participant report, found in the roster view that includes join and leave times for participants. Available in the roster view, meeting organizers can download the report that includes those users who joined while the organizer was present. This feature is only available within the meeting while the meeting is active. Available on desktop (Windows and Mac) and the web. Learn more.

April 26, 2020

Include system audio in live events

Presenters and producers in live events can now include system audio when sharing a desktop or window screen during the live event. This will allow your users to hear any audio part of the content you are sharing.

April 24, 2020

Weebly Release Notes: New Features And Apps From July 2018

Team and channel analytics

In addition to team analytics, now you can also view channel level metrics and insights. We've also enhanced the time period to 90 days so you can analyze data for longer periods. Apart from that, this release also includes new metrics and charts around the count of posts, replies, and meetings for a team or channel. Learn more.

April 20, 2020

Enable organizers to change lobby settings for dial-in participants

This setting controls whether people who dial in by phone join the meeting directly or wait in the lobby regardless of the Automatically admit people setting.

Weebly Release Notes: New Features And Apps From July 4th

April 8, 2020

Customize meeting video backgrounds

When you are meeting with video, you now have the choice of different static background images to use. This will let you show this image and not the actual background of where you are sitting. Learn more.

April 1, 2020

Teams for RealWear

Microsoft Teams client for RealWear enables Frontline Workers using RealWear's ruggedized head-mounted wearables to operate Teams 100 percent hands-free and seek remote assistance from experts using Teams video calling. Learn more.

March 31, 2020

Tag, you're it

Create tags and assign people to them so you can @mention a group, role, department, etc. Team owners, try it out for yourselves. Go to a team, select More options > Manage tags. Learn more.

March 30, 2020

Policy-based recording for Teams calls and meetings

This feature enables automatic policy-based recordings of Teams calls and meetings via Microsoft-certified software vendors.

March 25, 2020

Manage your Collaboration Bar devices in Microsoft Teams

As an admin, you want to manage all your Collaboration Bar devices from Microsoft Teams admin center. You can view inventory of devices, take specific actions on the devices and give commands remotely to all the devices.