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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

Enhancing Microsoft Teams Meetings and Webinars: Usability Improvements and New Lobby Policies

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  Microsoft Teams is continuously evolving to provide better experiences for its users. In this post, we will discuss two major updates that have been rolled out to Microsoft Teams: usability improvements to Together Mode in Teams meetings and new lobby policies for webinars. These changes aim to make virtual meetings and webinars more inclusive, easier to understand, and secure. Together Mode Usability Improvements in Teams Meetings Microsoft has introduced new usability improvements to Together Mode in Microsoft Teams to enhance the meeting experience. These updates include: Name Labels: Participants in Together Mode will now have name labels attached to their videos, making it easier to identify each participant. Status Icons: Name labels will also support status icons that indicate microphone, active speaker, spotlight, or pin within the meeting. Self-Preview Removal: Your own video in the gallery will now be removed while Together Mode is active to avoid duplication of the self-pr