Unofficial Microsoft 365 Changelog - Microsoft Teams

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M365 Changelog: Microsoft Teams: Increase in meeting passcodes length for added security – Sep 13, 2024

MC889520 – Given the recent global security threats on online meetings, Microsoft Teams is taking steps to make your meetings more secure. Microsoft is increasing the minimum length of the meeting passcodes from 6 characters to 8 characters. The nature of the passcodes will remain the same, consisting of letters and numbers.  General Availability (Worldwide):...

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M365 Changelog: (Updated) Microsoft Teams: Block a user for your organization – Sep 13, 2024

MC888879 – Updated September 13, 2024: Microsoft has updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. The availability of the delete API (removeallaccessforuser API) does not stop a malicious user from resending a Microsoft Teams message to the same victim. To help prevent that, a block user feature will allow the admin to...

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M365 Changelog: Microsoft Teams apps and Microsoft Copilot extensions: New security and certification information – Sep 13, 2024

MC889528 – By consolidating information from multiple sources in one place, this feature will provide admins responsible for the Microsoft Teams app and Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 extension deployment with comprehensive security and certification information for faster assessment of compliance with tenant security standards. The information will include outcomes from specific Microsoft 365 certification...

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M365 Changelog: Microsoft Teams: Embed support for Teams town hall

MC889534 – As a part of Team’s ongoing effort to enable our customers to create, manage, and run large scale events, end users can now embed Teams town hall in sites they manage. This capability allows town hall attendees to watch the event instance within a particular website. Embed for town hall introduces embeddable support...

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M365 Changelog: (Updated) Microsoft Teams: New expanded gallery view option for minimized meeting window – Sep 11, 2024

MC800496 – Updated September 11, 2024: Microsoft has updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. In Microsoft Teams, a new feature enhances the meeting view that is shown to attendees while the main meeting window is minimized. When participants in a meeting minimize the main meeting window, they can multitask without losing...

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M365 Changelog: (Updated) Microsoft Teams: Meeting participants can choose a breakout room from a list – Sep 11, 2024

MC854652 – Updated September 11, 2024: Microsoft has updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. Coming soon: Microsoft Teams meeting organizers can make the list of breakout rooms visible to all meeting participants and allow them to choose which room to join. Enabling this setting in breakout rooms allows participants to move...

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M365 Changelog: Microsoft Teams: Image viewing improvements in chat – Sep 10, 2024

MC886600 – Microsoft is updating the way multiple images within a chat can be viewed. When this will happen: Microsoft will begin rolling this out in mid-September 2024 and expect to complete by mid-October 2024. How this affects your organization: When there are multiple images within a chat, users will now be able to view...

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M365 Changelog: (Updated) Microsoft Teams: Ability to purchase third-party app subscriptions from Teams Admin Center and Teams app store -Sep 4, 2024

MC794545 – Updated September 4, 2024: Microsoft has updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. Microsoft will soon enable enhanced purchase experience in both the Teams Admin Center and the Teams app store. This improvement will empower administrators and end-users to seamlessly assess the plans offered by an app and secure third-party...

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M365 Changelog: Microsoft Teams admin center: Deploy frontline teams with flexible membership – Sep 4, 2024

MC883199 – Note: If you are not using frontline worker functionality, you can ignore this message. Coming soon in the Microsoft Teams admin center: Admins will be able to deploy location-based frontline teams where team membership is automatically managed, and team owners can also add frontline workers or remove them from teams. This rollout will allow...

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M365 Changelog: (Updated) Microsoft Teams: View attachments to invitations created in Microsoft Outlook – Sep 4, 2024

MC801585 – Updated September 4, 2024: Microsoft has updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. Coming soon in Microsoft Teams: File attachments added to a meeting invitation in Microsoft Outlook for Windows or Outlook for web are now visible for invitees in the calendar in Teams for Desktop and Mac. This message...

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