M365 Changelog: (Updated) Microsoft Teams: Message reactions in right-click menu

MC789611 – Updated May 29, 2024: Microsoft has updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience.

Coming soon: In Microsoft Teams: users will be able to right-click any message and react to it directly from the right-click menu. With this rollout, Microsoft is adding reactions to the right-click menu to give users another way to react to messages. This rollout applies to Teams for the web and Teams for desktop T2.1.

When this will happen:

Public Preview: Microsoft will begin rolling out early June 2024 (previously late April) and expects to complete by mid-June 2024 (previously early May).

General Availability (Worldwide, GCC, GCC High, and DoD): Microsoft will begin rolling out mid-June 2024 (previously mid-May) and expects to complete by late June 2024 (previously late May).

How this will affect your organization:

After this rollout, all messages where the right-click menu was present before rollout will have the new reactions. Before the rollout, users could hover their cursor over the message to choose a reaction, and this option will continue to be available after rollout.

Reactions in the right-click menu:

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What you need to do to prepare:

This rollout will happen automatically by the specified date with no admin action required before the rollout. You may want to notify your users about this change and update any relevant documentation as appropriate.

Microsoft will update this comm before rollout with revised documentation.