Microsoft Teams

The new Microsoft Teams 2.0 client that Microsoft made available in public preview in late March will become the default app for Windows users later this year. Anupam Pattnaik, the Product Lead for Teams 2.0 detailed the company’s plans in the first episode of UnplugIT, our new IT pro podcast hosted by Microsoft veteran Stephen…

Microsoft has unveiled a range of new updates for its Microsoft 365 ecosystem at its annual Build developer conference. The company announced that Microsoft Mesh, a new mixed reality (MR) platform, is available in private preview starting today. Microsoft Mesh is a new Azure-powered service that was first announced in March 2021. It enables remote…

Microsoft is working on a new Collaborative Stageview feature for Microsoft Teams. The company has announced on the Microsoft 365 admin center that this update will allow meeting participants to pop out app content into a separate window. “With Collaborative Stageview, app content opens in a new Teams window where users can engage with content…

Microsoft has announced some improvements coming to the search experience in Microsoft Teams chats and channels. The company highlighted a new search pane on the sidebar to let users easily find messages, files, and URLs shared within a particular chat or channel. Currently, the Microsoft Teams desktop app provides a search bar located in the…

Polly has teamed up with video technology provider Pexip to launch new cloud-based and on-premises communications services. The new offerings are designed to meet the business communication and privacy needs of the public, government, and private customers. Specifically, Poly has integrated Pexip’s technology into its products to provide three communication solutions. These include Poly PrivateConnect…

Microsoft is planning to make web links in Microsoft Outlook and Teams to open by default in its Edge browser. The company is giving IT admins a 30 days notice that this change will be gradually rolled out in Outlook for Windows for all business customers. Microsoft first announced the web link behavior change for…

Microsoft published a detailed roundup of all the new features added to Microsoft Teams in April 2023. This time around, the company highlighted improvements to meetings, webinars, management capabilities, Teams Rooms devices, and much more. Let’s dive in! Meetings features Starting with meetings, Microsoft has released a new feature that will automatically lower a participant’s…

Microsoft has partnered with Stripe, PayPal, and GoDaddy to launch a new Payments app for Microsoft Teams. The app allows small businesses in the US and Canada to accept payments for webinars, one-on-one sessions, classes, appointments, and events within Teams meetings. “We have partnered with leading players in the payments space to combine the core…

Microsoft has decided to unbundle Microsoft Teams with its Office software. According to a report from the Financial Times, this move could potentially help to avoid an formal antitrust investigation by EU regulators. Slack lodged an anticompetition complaint against Microsoft with the European Commission (EC) back in July 2020. The company argued that Microsoft “illegally”…

Microsoft Teams has introduced support for user-managed call queue and auto-attendant greetings. The long-awaited calling feature lets IT admins designate authorized users to manage greetings and announcements for their respective call queues and auto attendant directly within Microsoft Teams. In Microsoft Teams, the call queues feature is a waiting area that allows incoming calls to…