MC512626 – In April 2022, Microsoft announced the Preview of Enhanced Teams Apps for developers to extend personal apps and message extensions to other parts of Microsoft ecosystem, like Microsoft 365 and Outlook.
Previously, admins in the targeted release program were managing their Enhanced Teams Apps for Outlook via the Teams Admin Center. We’re moving this experience to Integrated Apps on the Microsoft 365 Admin Center. Teams Admin Center will continue to remain the surface for managing apps on Teams clients.
When this will happen:
Users enrolled in the Targeted release program will have access to this feature, starting in mid-February 2023.
This feature will begin rolling out to Standard release customers in late March 2023 and expect to complete by early April 2023.
How this will affect your organization:
In this first release, only global admins can manage Enhanced Teams Apps for Outlook from the Integrated Apps on Microsoft 365 Admin Center. Support for Teams will come in the following months.
All Enhanced Teams Apps will be allowed for Outlook users by default. As an admin, you can control how users install these apps from the store or you can pre-install apps for users to improve productivity.
What are the new tools for Enhanced Teams Apps?
On Integrated Apps in the Microsoft 365 Admin Center, we’re providing new management tools so that:
What does this mean for your organization?
Impact on Teams, once Foo becomes an Enhanced Teams App | Impact on the Microsoft 365 App once Foo becomes an Enhanced Teams App | Impact on Outlook, once Foo becomes an Enhanced Teams App | |
If you had previously blocked the Foo Teams App on Teams Admin Center | Users in your organization cannot download and use Foo on Teams. | Users in your organization can download and use Foo Enhanced Teams App on the Microsoft 365 App. This can be controlled by admins on the Microsoft 365 Admin Center. | Users in your organization can download and use Foo Enhanced Teams App on Outlook. This can be controlled by admins on the Microsoft 365 Admin Center |
If you had previously allowed the Foo Teams App on Teams Admin Center | Users in your organization can download and use the Foo Enhanced Teams App on Teams. | Users in your organization can download and use Foo Enhanced Teams App on the Microsoft 365 App. This can be controlled by admins on the Microsoft 365 Admin Center. | Users in your organization can download and use Foo Enhanced Teams App on Outlook. This can be controlled by admins on the Microsoft 365 Admin Center. |
Now that Foo is an Enhanced Teams App, you can make changes to its availability from Microsoft 365 Admin Center.
Impact on Teams client | Impact on the Microsoft 365 App | Impact on Outlook client | |
If you block Foo Enhanced Teams App on Microsoft 365 Admin Center | No impact. Users in your organization will continue to experience Teams behavior for Foo Enhanced Teams App based on the admin settings in Teams Admin Center. | Users in your organization cannot download the Foo Enhanced Teams App on the Microsoft 365 App, and cannot use any previously installed (by user/admin) Foo enhanced teams app. | Users in your organization cannot download the Foo Enhanced Teams App on Outlook, and cannot use any previously installed (by user/admin) Foo Enhanced Teams App |
If you unblock Foo Enhanced Teams App on Microsoft 365 Admin Center. | No impact. Users in your organization will continue to experience Teams behavior for Foo Enhanced Teams App based on the admin settings in Teams Admin Center. | Users in your organization can download and use Foo Enhanced Teams App on the Microsoft 365 App. Users can use any previously installed (by user/admin) Foo Enhanced Teams App | Users in your organization can download and use Foo Enhanced Teams App on Outlook. Users can use any previously installed (by user/admin) Foo Enhanced Teams App |
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