Hide your own video in Teams meetings
A common request in Teams meetings is that users want to turn of the selfview, so you only see the other participants in the meeting. This will now be possible with an update that...
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Manage breakout rooms before meeting starts and assign room managers
In Public Preview it is now possible to manage breakout rooms when you setup the meeting, you don’t have to wait for the meeting to start to assign users to rooms etc. Microsoft also...
Additional languages for captions and transcription
In Teams you can activate “Live Captions” in your meeting so you can read what people say in the meeting. Live captions are only live and not saved anywhere. You can also activate transcription...
Teams Meeting – Switch between content and video
When the new meeting interface was introduced it was no longer possible to switch between video and the shared content. So when someone shared content you could in the old meeting view just click...
New updates for breakout rooms
Teams breakout rooms was released a couple of months ago and there been many requests for more features and settings for breakout rooms. Here is a summary of what is coming. In Message Center...
Start Teams Meet Now from Outlook
You can now start an ad-hoc “Meet now” meeting from your Outlook client. In your Outlook calendar tab, you should see the Meet now button. When you click that button a new meeting will...
New meeting options for managing large Teams meetings
When you schedule a Teams meeting in Outlook with more that 40 participants or 10 distribution lists you will get an notification that reminds you to set meeting options. In the meeting options you...
Microsoft Teams new calling and meeting experience
Microsoft announced in the Office 365 message center (MC212453) that they are rolling out a new calling and meeting experience in June. This is related to the Roadmap item 57294. The new meeting experience...
Custom backgrounds
A new feature rolled out that allows users to replace their background with an image instead. This is like the background blur but with a picture instead of a blurred background. Like with background...
Using Teams calendar
I noticed some questions about the calendar in Teams so now after I’ve tested the new enhanced scheduling experience I decided to write some about the calendar in Teams. In some documentations the Calendar...
