Super Simple Microsoft 365 and Teams Update - 2020 06 19

Phew, what a crazy 3 months! Finally had time to have a proper look at recent #Microsoft365 and #MicrosoftTeams updates. Turns out there’s been A LOT! I’ve rounded up a few, not even nearly all, of those updates and introduced them in this update.

Intended audience include end users, trainers and anyone keeping up with the user end of Microsoft 365 and Teams.

New Teams meeting setting - require meeting participants to use the lobby https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=64343 

Office.com home page layout and navigation https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=64019 

Noise Suppression in Microsoft Stream https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/stream/noise-suppression

Feature Update: Teams meeting call and meeting chat size to increase to 300 https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=64225 

New Feature: Poll added to Outlook https://support.office.com/article/create-a-poll-in-outlook-46893563-ab12-4bd0-aff7-26f5a488fea0 

Office 365 Groups will become Microsoft 365 Groups https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-365-blog/office-365-groups-will-become-microsoft-365-groups/ba-p/1303601

Screen recording available in Microsoft Stream https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/stream/portal-create-screen-recording

Contextual search (Ctrl F) is coming to Teams https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=64017

Teams support in the SharePoint Migration Tool https://docs.microsoft.com/sharepointmigration/new-and-improved-features-in-the-sharepoint-migration-tool 

PowerPoint Live Presentations https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/office/present-live-engage-your-audience-with-live-presentations-039aa2cc-67fa-4fb5-9677-46ed8a060c8c?ui=en-us&rs=en-gb&ad=gb

The Planner app in Teams will be renamed with an updated experience powered by Planner and To Do https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/manage-tasks-app

Microsoft Forms collaboration permissions and co-authors https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=62858 

Easily access meeting options from within a Teams meeting in progress https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&featureid=63334%E2%80%99 
 
Download a participant report in a Teams meeting https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&featureid=63351 

Audio playing on presenter device will be shared in the live event https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&featureid=63276 

Screen Share from Chat: The option to start a screen share from a 1:1 or group chat will now be governed by the ScreenSharingMode policy https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&featureid=63193 

Tags in Microsoft Teams https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=57651 

Raise a Virtual Hand in Teams Meetings https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=62755 

Bring Yammer into Teams ‘Communities’ https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2020/04/28/yammer-teams-new-features-microsoft-edge-whats-new-to-microsoft-365-in-april/

COMMSVERSE ONLINE THE ONLINE MICROSOFT TEAMS CONFERENCE 2.00PM JULY 6TH TEAMS ADOPTION - KILL THE TOP 5 OBJECTIONS BEFORE THEY EVEN HAPPEN https://online.commsverse.com/presentations/teams-adoption-kill-the-top-5-objections-before-they-even-happen/