Microsoft Teams

Teams – Access to webinar is now limited to 3 concurrent devices

  Until now, participants to Teams webinar were able to access the webinar from unlimited devices.   Because registered participants are were/are able to share with others their registration link, this cause discrepancy in attendees report.   Now, access to webinar can only be done from 3 concurrent devices, meaning if registered attendees share their …

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Teams – Control the deployment of the new Teams desktop client

As you probably know, Microsoft has been developing a new Teams client to provide better performance (more details here https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/new-teams-desktop-admin/). Well, starting September 2023 through December 2023, this new Teams desktop client will be included as part of new and existing Microsoft 365 Apps (Office client). Expected deployment schedule: Business plans September 2023 Enterprise plans …

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Teams – You can now allow registered users to bypass webinar lobby

Today, with Teams Webinar you can not easily identified webinar registered participants from others in the lobby. Good news as now you can automatically let registered users to bypass the webinar lobby. After creating the webinar in Teams, access the meeting options From there you can turn on the options: “Attendees with a registration link …

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Teams – You can now share link to specific chat message

To improve communication and collaboration, you can now share a link to a specific chat message. To do so, access the Chats section from your Teams desktop client (this is not available (yet?) from the web browser or mobile) to locate the chat and message you want to share Then use the ellipsis (…) menu …

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Teams – Administrators can now control activation of Collaborative Annotations in meetings

As you may know, when in a meeting with Teams you can use the collaborative annotations while sharing your screen to allow participants to interact by drawing and taking note on the presenter screen. Well, Teams administrators can now control the activation of this feature using meeting policies. NOTE this is enabled by default If …

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Teams – New meeting type available

With Microsoft Teams you can now create new types of meeting: Meeting: classic meeting type – already existed Webinar: the webinar meeting type – already existed Town Hall: for company/team town hall – new Virtual Appointment – new Controlled-Content – new Live event: already existed This allows you to create meeting corresponding to your need …

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Teams – Explicit recording consent for meeting

Teams administrators can now enable the explicit consent when a meeting is being recorded. This replace the simple recording notification. This setting is off by default. To enable it you need to use Teams PowerShell (available here https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/MicrosoftTeams/). Connect-MicrosoftTeams Set-CsTeamsMeetingPolicy –Identity <meeting policy identity>-ExplicitRecordingConsent “Enabled” When the policy is applied, the Teams meeting window will …

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Teams – You can now set your working location

After letting you set working hours and location using Outlook Web Access (aka OWA, aka Outlook on the Web) (see https://t.co/kijyFgJvv6), you can now do the same with Teams client. To do so, click on your picture on the Teams client and click on Set your work location for today available just right of your …

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Teams – You can now mark all as read Activity Feed

Users can triage their activity feed more efficiently using the new ‘Mark all as read’ feature. With just one click, users can mark all unread activities as read. This currently being deployed with an expected completion by mid-June. To mark all as read Activity Feed, access the Activity using your Windows Teams client and open …

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Teams – You can now block chat access to anonymous participants

As you know, if your Teams administrator has allowed anonymous users to join a meeting, these anonymous participants can use the Teams chat feature to interact with others. Well, this chat access can potentially lead to data exfiltration. To continue allowing anonymous users to join a Teams meeting but lock down the access to the …

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