Microsoft Teams will soon group BYOD meeting room participants in the roster for individual identification and meeting intelligence. This feature will be available in Teams for Windows and Mac, with a rollout starting in early October 2024 and completing by late November 2024, depending on the release stage and user domain. No admin action is required before the rollout.
MC892055 – Updated October 3, 2024: Microsoft will not be rolling this out to organizations in GCC High or DoD during the timeline outlined below. Microsoft will communicate via Message center when it’s ready to proceed. Organizations in GCC High and DoD can safely disregard this message. Thank you for your patience.
Coming soon for Microsoft Teams: When users join a Teams meeting with their laptop in bring your own device (BYOD) meeting rooms, they will appear in the In-room participant section of the roster, which enables individual identification and meeting intelligence capabilities. As communicated in MC814577 (Updated) Microsoft Teams: Roster grouping for in-room participants through Proximity Join for Teams Rooms on Windows (July 2024), Microsoft will launch this same experience in September 2024 for joining a nearby meeting with a Microsoft Teams Room and a companion device.
Unique to BYOD meeting rooms, the roster group will be displayed as Meeting space if the connected device is NOT identified in the Teams Pro Management Portal (PMP). If the device is identified in the PMP, the roster group will display the configured meeting room name.
This message applies to Teams for Windows and Mac desktops.
This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 413711.
When this will happen:
Targeted Release: Microsoft will begin rolling out early October 2024 and expects to complete by mid-October 2024.
General Availability (Worldwide): Microsoft will begin rolling out mid-October 2024 and expects to complete by late October 2024.
General Availability (GCC, GCCH, DoD): Microsoft will begin rolling out mid-October 2024 and expects to complete by late November 2024.
How this will affect your organization:
Before this rollout: Users joining a Teams meeting from a BYOD meeting room will be displayed as an individual participant in the Participants roster. Room node treatments will only be applicable to users joining from a Microsoft Teams Room.
After this rollout, this update will be available by default for all users joining a Teams meeting from a BYOD meeting room. After joining, in-room participants will automatically be grouped under the room node on the Participant roster. The two scenarios in which in-room participants can be ungrouped from the room node are:
In both scenarios, room information will be listed below participant name.
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.
Before rollout, Microsoft will update this post with revised documentation.
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