Microsoft Teams Meeting

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 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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Teams – You can now enable spatial audio in meetings

When joining a Teams meeting you now can enable spatial audio to allow a more immersive experience; especially when you are using device supporting spatial audio, like in a meeting room. This new audio experience spatializes the voices of attendees across the visual meeting stage in the Gallery view. This helps make conversations more natural, …

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Teams – New video effect: Snapchat lenses

UPDATED added a way to block the use of Snapchat – see end of the post I personally find this should not be on Teams (for Work) but here it is: you can now use Snapchat lenses during a Teams meeting. A collection of 20+ of the most popular Snapchat Lenses are now available. To …

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Teams – You can now use an avatar in meetings (preview)

You know that when you join a Teams meeting you can turn on your camera. Well, there is time you may not want to turn on the camera, in this case when you join the meeting a generic ‘picture’ with your initials is displayed. To make things better, you can now use an avatar instead …

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Teams – You can now block the download of Teams meeting recording from SharePoint or OneDrive (preview)

As you know, Teams meeting recordings are saved either in the corresponding SharePoint site or organizer’s OneDrive. These recordings are made available few minutes after the meeting recording ended and now also have an expiration time (default 120 days). Well, you can now block the download of these recordings. Users will have access to the …

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Teams – You can now set video effects from the Join meeting window

When in a Teams meeting, you already know that you can apply effects – such as background – when you have your camera on. Well, you can now do the same directly from the Join meeting. When enabling our camera when joining the meeting, just click on the Video effects to open the effects settings …

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Teams – Presenter window improvements during screen sharing

The presenter window experience in Teams has always been a little bit problematic during screen sharing. Presenters were not always able to easily interact with the audience (hand raised for example) or quickly manage its own settings (mute, camera, stop sharing….). Well, good news a new and improved presenter window experience is coming. Currently being …

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