Earlier this month, we reported that Microsoft Teams is adding a new feature in Together Mode to let meeting organizers assign seats to all participants. The company announced yesterday that this update is now available in public preview in the Teams desktop app for macOS and Windows users. Microsoft introduced the Together mode feature in…
Microsoft has unveiled a bunch of Microsoft 365 updates at its annual Inspire partner conference, which just kicked off this morning. Microsoft Teams is also getting several capabilities to make hybrid meetings more engaging, productive & inclusive, and one of the major highlights is a new collaboration feature called Excel Live. As you may recall,…
Microsoft Teams has released some new features for public preview users. The software giant has announced that the Teams desktop app now lets meeting participants pop out shared content into a separate window. According to Microsoft, the ability to pop out shared meeting content (such as PowerPoint Live, Whiteboard, and screen sharing) should be a…
Microsoft has announced that it’s bringing support for Apple M1/M2 processors in its Microsoft Teams app for macOS. The company recently updated its Microsoft 365 roadmap to indicate that the new Teams version is expected to be generally available in September. Currently, the Microsoft Teams desktop app runs as an Intel application on Apple Silicon…
Microsoft Teams is getting an update that will automatically end stale meetings. The new feature will prompt users to end the meeting 10 minutes after it has reached the scheduled end time, and only one participant is left. Currently, Microsoft Teams meetings don’t end until the last attendee leaves the meeting or the presenter clicks…
Microsoft recently announced a new Teams app called Admin, which brings a subset of the most commonly accessed admin settings to Teams in the form of a convenient app! So, let’s take a look! About This Week in IT This week in IT is a weekly podcast hosted by Petri’s Editorial Director Russell Smith. Each…
Microsoft has published a roundup of all the new features and enhancements rolled out to Microsoft Teams in the month of June. The company has made a couple of notable changes, such as new Teams chat integration with Dynamics 365, chat bubbles support on mobile, new policies for IT admins, and so much more. Live…
Microsoft announced a big update for Teams on the web that’s aimed at small and medium businesses. The latest release brings some much-anticipated features that are already available in the desktop versions of Microsoft Teams. First of all, Microsoft has announced that custom backgrounds support is now available for all web users. Microsoft Teams first…
Microsoft first announced plans for a new and faster Teams client last year. But while Windows 11 got a new Chat app that is based on Teams 2.0, enterprise users are stuck with the clunky Electron version. And there’s no sign of even a preview coming any time soon. But earlier this month, Microsoft did…
If you’re having issues with Microsoft 365 services right now, you’re not alone. The Redmond giant has acknowledged that its multiple Microsoft 365 offerings have been hit by another outage this morning, preventing users from accessing their Exchange Online mailboxes. Microsoft confirmed on Twitter that it is actively investigating the problem, and some users should…