What are the new features of Microsoft Teams?

Microsoft Teams has recently announced rolling out new features for better collaboration. Teams are committed to reimagine virtual collaboration for the future of work and learning. Teams feature like meeting controls, larger gallery, Meeting notes, together mode, and many others are being rolled out.

We’ll take a look in a while.

But first, you’ll have to turn it on

In your Microsoft Teams desktop app, select a profile pic. Then Go to Settings > General.

Turn on new meeting experience and Restart the app.

New Meeting and Calling Experience in Microsoft Teams

• Microsoft Teams group video call

There are a few new meeting controls on the top of the meeting screen. They are available for access at all times and do not become a hurdle in the way of content sharing.

• Larger Gallery

With this feature, you’ll be able to see 49 videos streaming all at once. The minimum number of attendees needed for this view is 10.

• Together Mode

With this mode one, you’ll feel like all of the attendants in a meeting are in the same place. It is a fun way to interact and make you feel you and your meeting attendants are together in a meeting room. Minimum 5 participants are needed in a meeting in Together mode.

• Meeting Notes

Now you can easily take meeting notes right from within Microsoft Teams. You can either take notes from a meeting notes tab or open a side panel that opens alongside the meeting screen.

The Microsoft Teams has remarkably been an important element in online collaboration. Businesses also opt for other remote collaboration services like Remote Desktop Services, Work Folders, and Windows Virtual Desktop services.

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1. Walkie Talkie

With common digital business communications features like chat, video calls, voice notes, Microsoft Teams portal is soon to launch a feature titled Walkie Talkie. This push-to-talk feature implements a traditional walkie-talkie experience over the cloud resulting in a smooth and clear voice result at both ends. At the time of this writing, the feature is in Preview mode and is expected to become a part of the official Teams app in the first half of 2020.

2. Streamline Task Management

The new Teams portal features different levels of Teams collaboration. For better task management, Tasks targeting, publishing and reporting is coming to Teams which allows leadership to delegate tasks lists to relevant locations and be able to track progress. The shift workers will always have a task to do after they finish off the current task in line.

3. The introduction of “Shifts”

For shift workers, this is the basic feature that can manage their tasks well in time. Team’s users can easily plan, and create Shift schedules. As a response, employees can make shift change requests that can be catered. All in real time through their mobile phones. With Time Clock feature, managers can geofence a specific location and use to make sure if the employees are at their worksite or not.

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4. Workforce Management System Integration

Teams provide the flexibility to companies to integrate their workforce management systems into Teams via a set of Graph APIs. So, for customers using third party Workforce Management Systems, such as JDA for scheduling and Kronos, direct integration into Teams has now become easy with Shifts Graph APIs and SDK.

5. Latest Teams controls beneficial for first line workers

A few other latest controls include Off-Shift Access controls, SMS sign-in; Shared device sign-out, Delegated user management and many others are also in preview mode and will be out in 2020 for a better digital business communications experience.

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Many customers have been most interested in the cut-over deadline to make sure they transit in time and perform necessary steps for Skype for Business upgrade. Microsoft has answered to that and if you are following the recent news on “Skype shutting down”, the deadline is: July 31, 2021.

However, till that time, business can still use Skype for Business Online and continue to add users till the deadline approaches. After that the option to select Skype for Business Online will be diminished and all O365 customers will automatically be on boarded into Teams.

Microsoft Teams feature similarity to Skype for business Online

Microsoft has assured in repeated blogs that Teams will incorporate all features of Skype for business Online. However, in another earlier blogpost from Microsoft, it is revealed that there are a few more enhanced features incorporated in Teams like:

• Dynamic 911: This feature makes use of user’s current calling location and route it to a Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) call center that is operated by local government.
• Contact Center Integration and Compliance Recording: Teams will be equipped with contact-center capabilities and Microsoft is working on it with different certified partners.
• Teams and Skype Consumer Interoperability: This one is very important. While the hype on the news about “Skype Shutting Down” was created, Microsoft offered a good transition path for Skype for business online customers and has nurtured Interop between Teams and Skype Consumer for using chat and calling. This option will be available in the Q1 of 2020.
• Shorter Retention Periods: this provides the feature of limiting channel and chat retention periods to as small as 1 day! Plus, if data is deleted, it is removed from every permanent storage location.

In order to help users with Moving to Teams from Skype for Business Online, FastTrack onboarding assistance is provided which is a full-fledge training on how to migrate your communication from Skype for business to Microsoft Teams to ease the Skype4B upgrade process.

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Experts from Microsoft present three basic tips as a guide to collaborate within teams in Teams and SharePoint:

• Flow SharePoint news and headlines into Teams

Going through your SharePoint news feed and headlines in Teams looks all so familiar.  Once you are able to do that, every article that you publish automatically appears in your Teams. You can see the page title, a brief description, its thumbnail, mentioned author and publish date of the content. This way, you increase the reach of your cloud business to enhance business teamwork.

• Develop a business app where there is a separate tab of SharePoint team site home page in Microsoft Teams:

Organizations can add organization news site as a tab in. this way, your marketing group can even manage and share the news portal. This is where your organizational news can circulate and even the consumers can benefit from it. Here you can highlight company-wide events, product launches, external news, new HR guidelines and much more.

• Create lists in SharePoint and recheck it in Teams

Microsoft SharePoint lists are the core of tracking things in workflows. Lists provide a deep rooted view of everyone who views and interact with the content. Lists keep information up-to-date. A SharePoint list can be added as a Tab in Teams to keep the teamwork alive. Once you add your essential lists there, you can stay in control of the lists while staying in Teams along with navigating views and filter columns on list items necessary to your cloud business.

The combo of SharePoint and Teams together provides a cool business teamwork experience across the whole of the organization.

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