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Enhancements to Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows: Breakout Rooms and Zoom Controls

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With technology continually evolving, Microsoft Teams continues to keep pace, ensuring it remains a leading collaborative tool for organizations worldwide. This article explores the latest updates to Microsoft Teams Rooms on Windows: the integration of breakout room support, customizable Together Mode scenes, and enhanced zooming controls during screen shares. These updates are designed to foster better communication and collaboration, making meetings more dynamic, engaging, and user-friendly. Breakout Room Support: A New Level of Meeting Experience Starting from mid-June and with completion expected by late July, Microsoft is rolling out a new feature for Teams Rooms on Windows that allows participants to be a part of breakout rooms. The breakout room capability enables participants to be moved in and out of the main meeting under the control of a meeting organizer. When a meeting organizer enables the 'Automatically move people to rooms' setting, participants will be notified

Microsoft Teams: Enhancing Meeting Accessibility and Security

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Microsoft Teams is set to roll out two significant updates aimed at enhancing the accessibility and security of Teams meetings. These updates are designed to provide more flexibility for users joining meetings and to bolster the security of chat access during meetings. Join Teams Meetings from Non-Teams Devices Microsoft Teams is introducing a feature that will allow meeting participants to join from non-Teams applications or devices. This feature is dependent on your guest join settings when you send a Microsoft Teams meeting invite. Participants joining through this method will be classified as guests, and all guest settings applied by your organization will apply to these participants. This feature offers the benefit of allowing users, associates, and customers to join Teams meetings from non-Teams devices through certified Cloud Video Interop (CVI) providers. If your settings allow guests to join your Teams meetings through a browser, your guests will also be able to join through s

Boost Your Collaboration with Microsoft Teams: New Features to Set Work Hours and Location

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Navigating the hybrid work landscape just got easier with Microsoft Teams' latest enhancements – the ability to set your work hours and location. As an integral tool in the modern professional's toolkit, Microsoft Teams continues to innovate, making team collaboration more flexible and efficient than ever. This blog post will delve into these updates and explain how they're about to revolutionize your work-life integration. Optimizing Your Schedule with Microsoft Teams Microsoft Teams has always been a vital tool for managing and sharing your work schedule. Now, with the introduction of work hours and location features, you can share even more details about your work preferences and availability. Whether you're working remotely or in the office, or if your work hours vary day to day, these new features will cater to your specific needs. Changing your location for the day is as simple as clicking on your profile in the top right corner of the Teams window. This flexibili

Microsoft Teams' Bookings App to Transform into a Virtual Appointments Powerhouse

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Microsoft is taking another step forward in its commitment to enhancing user experience with the upcoming update to the Microsoft Teams Bookings app. This evolution will ensure feature parity across all entry points, bringing a unified experience to users. Say hello to the Virtual Appointments app – a solution that's set to redefine how businesses schedule and manage their customer engagements. A Unified Solution for Virtual Appointments The Virtual Appointments app, a seamless end-to-end solution for business-to-customer meetings, is poised to revolutionize the way you manage your virtual appointments on Microsoft Teams. Integrating Bookings schedules, analytics, and management options in one central hub, this app offers an unmatched user experience that is consistent across all endpoints. What's New with the Virtual Appointments App? The Virtual Appointments app introduces a host of advanced meeting features, including real-time meeting state updates, rich analytics for track

Microsoft Teams Rooms: Deploying the New Home Screen and Custom Backgrounds

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Microsoft Teams consistently pushes the boundaries of innovation, and with its most recent update, Teams Rooms on Windows app 4.17, an array of new and enhanced features are being introduced. These include a refreshed home screen experience and an upgraded custom background feature. The new default home screen, first introduced as an 'opt-in' feature in version 4.16, incorporates a modern UI/UX update and will become the default experience with the 4.17 app version's release this June. This update is designed to provide a streamlined and intuitive user experience for Teams Rooms on Windows users. In addition to the home screen update, Microsoft has amped up the custom background feature for Teams Rooms Pro users. This feature allows IT administrators to specify up to three background images, and determine which image is displayed on the main room display, extended room display, and room console. Deploying these enhancements requires certain inputs. For instance, the images

Microsoft Teams Expands Group Policy Assignment: What It Means for Your Organization

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In Microsoft ongoing commitment to meet the evolving needs of organizations, Microsoft is now extending group policy assignment support to additional policy types via the Teams PowerShell Module (TPM). This update is set to roll out by late May 2023 for all Microsoft Teams commercial licenses. What does this mean for your organization? This article will explain the benefits and the steps to take to prepare for these changes​ 1 ​. The Benefits of Expanded Group Policy Assignment As organizations expand, their requirements become increasingly nuanced and multifaceted. The "one size fits all" approach to policy management is no longer tenable. Hence, Microsoft's move to extend group policy assignment to additional policy types is a step in the right direction. With this capability, your organization will be able to create new groups in Microsoft 365 admin center or use existing groups to assign custom policies for various policy types in Teams PowerShell Module. This means y